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posted by mrpg on Friday April 13 2018, @11:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the divide-et-impera dept.

Third time's the charm:

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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @12:42AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @12:42AM (#666696)

    Jerry Brown is a fucking lunatic and the majority of middle class tax payers know this. I'm not linking his policies, when late '70s ridicule from the left will do. [google.com] Yes, gen X covered this. [youtube.com]

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by ilPapa on Saturday April 14 2018, @01:34AM (1 child)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Saturday April 14 2018, @01:34AM (#666726) Journal

    Jerry Brown is a fucking lunatic and the majority of middle class tax payers know this.

    Jerry Brown has a 65% approval rating here in California. He's more popular than Arnold, more popular than Ronald Reagan.

    He's over 60% with the "middle-class", too. People in California love him. He's really popular here.

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    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday April 14 2018, @03:47AM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Saturday April 14 2018, @03:47AM (#666774) Homepage Journal

      California is a disaster. I proclaimed it a MAJOR DISASTER. Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown pardoned 5 criminal illegal aliens whose crimes include (1) Kidnapping and Robbery (2) Badly beating wife and threatening a crime with intent to terrorize (3) Dealing drugs. Is this really what the great people of California want? @FoxNews [twitter.com]