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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, Informative) by khallow on Saturday April 14 2018, @12:05PM (2 children)
Nothing before that sentence or after was relevant to that assertion. This is what actual bad faith rhetoric looks like.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @06:20PM (1 child)
You mistake humor for bad faith rhetoric. No surprise, being a bot you have a really hard time parsing language that doesn't fit the heuristic patterns you were programmed with.
Obviously you weren't created with Asimov's 3 laws or you wouldn't be capable of spreading harmful bullshit.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 15 2018, @06:37AM
What's humorous about it? I grant it could be a bad faith argument masquerading as humor. We see that a lot here.