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A California technology billionaire said on Thursday that his longtime and perhaps quixotic effort to partition the Golden State into multiple new states could soon be put before voters.
Venture capitalist Tim Draper said he had gathered about 600,000 signatures on a petition to put his proposal to divide California on the November ballot, more than the 366,000 needed to qualify. It is his third attempt to get voters to weigh in on his call to break up the most populous U.S. state.
Draper, who in 2014 and 2016 failed in his efforts to win approval for a ballot initiative to divide the state into six parts, said in a news release Thursday that he planned to file the signatures with election officials next week.
[...] To go into effect, California would first have to certify the signatures that Draper has gathered, and then voters in November would need to pass the measure. After that, the U.S. Congress would have to approve it.
Also at The Mercury News and SFGate.
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(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday April 13 2018, @11:57PM (3 children)
As a Sandy Eggin I applaud anything that gets me away from the Frisco/LA braintrust.
Then again, when I add up the pluses and minuses of both parties, both parties get a No Vote. They both suck 90% of the time, I'm stuck with figuring which 10% I'm willing to hold my nose for.
Of course I'm against DEI. Donald, Eric, and Ivanka.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @12:59AM
A bus will do that for you. Just head east until they check your skin color against a Pantone swatch.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Saturday April 14 2018, @01:19AM (1 child)
Not sure what you are seeing, but SF , and everything north would gladly see the LA area back to Mexico, and the people in LA barely acknowledge the rest of the world even exists. The further north you go in California the more pronounced the disgust for Southern Cali becomes.
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 3, Touché) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 14 2018, @04:58AM
Patience patience... San Andreas will take care of everything.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..