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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:01PM
I was always amused that Colorado and California had the same voter referendum on taxes, and while Colorado managed a high degree of fiscal restraint, California...
And then the Californians moved to Colorado.
Fuck me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:28PM
There has been a growing number of Cali refugees for years in Texas, too.
(Score: 3, Informative) by mendax on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:19PM
These are the Californians we WANT to leave the state. You have to be insane to actually want to live in Texas. Horrible weather, worse political climate, lots of bad and corrupt bubba sheriffs to hassle you. Please, stay away from California. We don't want you back when Texas implodes.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @09:28AM
Hah? Horrible weather? Fuck you mean? Whatever else you say about it, Texas is pretty nice on the weather front.