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Radical plan to split California into three states earns spot on November ballot
California's 168-year run as a single entity, hugging the continent's edge for hundreds of miles and sprawling east across mountains and desert, could come to an end next year — as a controversial plan to split the Golden State into three new jurisdictions qualified Tuesday for the Nov. 6 ballot.
If a majority of voters who cast ballots agree, a long and contentious process would begin for three separate states to take the place of California, with one primarily centered around Los Angeles and the other two divvying up the counties to the north and south. Completion of the radical plan — far from certain, given its many hurdles at judicial, state and federal levels — would make history.
It would be the first division of an existing U.S. state since the creation of West Virginia in 1863.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @09:56AM (11 children)
If this passes it will be a loss for everybody except the lawyers, a needless waste of time and energy at the local, state and national levels.
Trump will be for it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:09AM (2 children)
The only way you could be for this proposal is if you're a hard-core Republican.
They see the Golden State as being a permanently Democratic state--which it is.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:28AM
Yes, everyone knows [mercurynews.com]
In other news, over One Million have left Venezuela for Colombia in the last 15 months [reuters.com] and Venezuela now has it's first Polio case in 30 years. [cnn.com] Perhaps the border wall should be built on the US side of California for when socialist libtards finally "Venezuela" their own state?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:17PM
That's the message here. Extreme wealth wants to pay less tax, and hive off the poor somewhere else.
Which ever part the rich get to keep will be a huge gated community. The poor will only be allowed in to clean everyone's pools.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:19AM (5 children)
How is Putin responsible for the leftist policies and impending bankruptcy of metropolitan areas?
(Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:41AM (1 child)
You could ask the same for Trump: how is Putin responsible for a conman and his performances? But yet he's leading the Free in their Land at the moment. Putin is not really pro- anything, he's just anti- according any opportunity. Breaking up California to pieces would be clealy welcomed as anything that harms others (read: not Putin).
People who are unable to create value are also unable to perceive/believe that some others can. Therefore for them the world is a zero-sum game where one's gain is inevitably another's loss. Therefore any loss for other players can range from no impact to them up to pure net gain.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @12:50PM
You've got this wrong. Sociopaths and socialists know others can create wealth additionally they understand their personal entitlement can only be met by depriving others.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:09PM (2 children)
His country abandoned communism and it's doing better; our local communists will never forgive. Imagine if the locals got the bad idea that leftism here is also a bad idea? Therefore guess who's the boogyman behind everything bad... Rained this morning? Goddamn Russians. Lost a game of Yahtzee? Goddamn Putin. Back when the Russians were commies, the Russians were our best friends, according to the same media people... Now that they voted for the "wrong" type of leader, they must be destroyed.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @03:44PM
Heh, gotta love how you crazies start foaming at the mouth over "leftism" every chance you get. I feel a bit sorry for you though, constantly living in fear and hatred.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:24PM
Why are you still pretending US politics has a left?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @04:50PM (1 child)
Russia has been backing the CA secessionist movement for years now. So yes, of course, Trump would be in favor of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @06:01PM
California is in need of a shakeup. Between SF, LA and San Diego the representation of the common man outside of those regions is being overpowered by the voting capabilities of those cities. By reassessing the state into political/legislative regions that more proportionally represent the common man of the geography, it will help enable the smaller, poorer, and less advantaged regions of the state to enact laws, budgets, and public policies that better match their needs. Furthermore, it will help reduce the acceptable amount of spawn from the cancers that are the big cities, if the little guys know what is smart for them. There is only so much land you can trade for housing tracts and water utilities before the agriculture industry in California collapses, and we may already be past that point.