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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: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Wednesday November 23 2016, @07:29PM
I'm willing to send a crack team of geologist to the San Andres fault with the mission to speed up the secession and plunge California into the Pacific.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 23 2016, @08:04PM
Don't you do this - remember Murphy's Law! When "The Big One" hits, everything east of the San Andreas will slide into the Atlantic instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 24 2016, @04:13AM
My turn to put a damper on this terrible joke once again.
The San Andreas fault is a slip-strike fault.
The movement is horizontal--not vertical.
The motion of the Pacific Plate is sending coastal California northward toward the coast of Alaska.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Thursday November 24 2016, @04:50AM
So you mean to tell me that not only will California be sent to the great white north, but we will crush those fools at Microsoft headquarters in the process? Why haven't we funded this years ago?
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base