Posted on 07/23/2014 7:06:45 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
Posted: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 12:11 am
By Andrew Creasey/ acreasey@appealdemocrat.com
Sutter County is now an official supporter of the movement to secede from California and create a new state called Jefferson.
The Board of Supervisors unanimously adopted a resolution on Tuesday supporting a declaration and petition to the Legislature to redress a lack of representation and for the possible formation of a new, separate state.
The resolution also reserved the right to place the issue to a vote of Sutter County citizens at a future election.
As in past supervisor meetings when the issue was on the agenda, the supervisor's chamber was packed with State of Jefferson supporters, many of whom addressed the board and expressed the same sentiment — that the rural areas of California are under-represented by a Legislature stocked with politicians from urban areas.
The resolution cites abuses of Sutter County by the state, including the imposition of certain taxes and fees, the state's disregard of payment-in-lieu-of-taxes funds owed to many rural counties, excessive environmental regulation that "has crippled our industry, delayed important public projects and greatly increased costs," and disregard of the county's historic water rights, among others.
(Excerpt) Read more at appeal-democrat.com ...
I’m guessing that if this happens Barbara Boxer isn’t going to move there to run for the new Senate position, right?
LOL. Now THAT’S a sure bet.
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