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Secessionists Formally Launch Quest for California's Independence

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:25PM   
from the you-can-go-your-own-way-♩♫♩♫ dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Supporters of a plan for California to secede from the union took their first formal step Monday morning, submitting a proposed ballot measure to the state attorney general's office in the hopes of a statewide vote as soon as 2018.

Marcus Ruiz Evans, the vice president and co-founder of Yes California, said his group had been planning to wait for a later election, but the presidential election of Donald Trump sped up the timeline.

"We're doing it now because of all of the overwhelming attention," Evans said.

The Yes California group has been around for more than two years, Evans said. It is based around California taxpayers paying more money to the federal government than the state receives in spending, that Californians are culturally different from the rest of the country, and that national media and organizations routinely criticize Californians for being out of step with the rest of the U.S. 

Could California go it alone?

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• Re:I'm confused about what I should think about th (Score: 3, Interesting) by meustrus on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:53PM

  by meustrus (4961) on Wednesday November 23 2016, @05:53PM (#431970)

  Somehow I doubt we will get an honest admission that it is only OK when city people do it.

  Fixed that for you. Because while it may fall along the same lines much of the time, we all know what the divide really is.

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  If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?

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