Interesting trivia is that we would have been the 22 largest city in the US at the time.
The reason the movement started in the first place was because the City Charter was rewritten by State Supreme Court mandate to have proportional representation. Under the original City Charter (Where the city of Richmond) which joined all 5 Burroughs gave equal representation for each one. Basically we got screwed from 20% say in governing the city to less than 5% say. Things have gone down hill ever since.
Interesting; thanks!
Here in Long Island, there has been a quiet movement to SECEDE from the State of New York to form the 51st state of the United States ( bringing Obama’s dream of 57 states closer to reality ).
It has quite some support, especially from the more well to do folks living here.
There are already ways of helping out those who are suffering locally.
And they need a lot of it, trust me.