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Ballot Measure to Split California Into Three States Will Appear on the November 2018 Ballot

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 14 2018, @09:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the Calexit-will-return-in-Avengers-4 dept.

takyon writes:

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.

Also at CNN and The Hill.

Previously: Proposal to Divide California Into Three States Could Land on the November Ballot

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:09AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:09AM (#692812)

    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.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @11:28AM (#692816)

    They see the Golden State as being a permanently Democratic state--which it is.

    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

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday June 14 2018, @10:17PM (#693209)

    “Three states will get us better infrastructure, better education and lower taxes,” Tim Draper, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who sponsored the ballot measure,

    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.