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This weekend comes word that two of the masterminds behind the United Kingdom’s ongoing divorce from the European Union, Nigel Farage and Arron Banks. The duo just returned from the United States, where they reportedly helped raise a million bucks for one of the Calexit campaigns floating around — a scheme that would split the state into two eastern and western regions.
Farage and Banks are known as the Bad Boys of Brexit, and for good reason. As the controversial leader of the UK Independence Party, or Ukip for short, the one-time broadcaster Farage stirred up the anti-immigration pot in England among the white British working class. Banks, who co-founded the Leave.EU group, angered many when he claimed that Britain’s UK membership is “like having a first class ticket on the Titanic.’’ He also got into hot water with his controversial move to commission a poll after the murder of British politician Jo Cox, asking respondents whether the crime would have an impact on public opinion.
Now the Bad Boys have brought their shtick to California, according to a report in the Daily Mail which says the pair are helping exit backers trying to pit the eastern, more rural side of California against the western ‘coastal elite’ liberals in Los Angeles and San Francisco. The plan would be to create a Republican stronghold in the new state cleaved off California’s eastern flank, thus giving the GOP two more senators and electoral college votes for a 2020 presidential election.
Mercury News continues:
Meanwhile, a second Calexit campaign is underway. It’s called Yes California and it would see the state seceding from America entirely. If that initiative successfully finds a place on the ballot, a Yes vote would repeal clauses in the California Constitution stating “California is an inseparable part of the United States and that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land, ‘’ according to a statement from California’s Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office said.
[Ed note: corrected typo in this story's last paragraph and expanded same to include the entire paragraph from which it was extracted. --martyb]
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:01AM (1 child)
As pure power politics, either plan should be ok by me. If CA is split Team Red picks up two Senators and half of the State has a chance of survival without the worst of the lunatics. Win, Win. If CA leaves as a unit it is still good. Somebody did a detailed breakdown of how the House would reset, remember it is fixed by law at 435 members so they would instantly rebalance the 53 strong CA delegation. The article ended with a summary infographic of the US with CA pulled off. CA painted red with Hammer and Sickle and the rest with a Confederate Stars and Bars motif. Take 55 EV from the Dem total and they could forget electing a POTUS until the party positions totally reset over time.
But I'm an asshole. Had Rick Perry pulled Texas out in protest of Obama's lawlessness we all know the tanks would have been ordered in. If CA wants out I say we improve LA and San Fran with a new March to the Sea style urban renewal and tell em to sit down, shut up and enjoy their turn at a hundred years plus of Reconstruction. What is it with Democrats and secession? Didn't they learn their lesson in the 1860s?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @07:45AM
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But I'm an asshole.
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