Posted on 11/10/2016 3:49:02 PM PST by TigerClaws
Two days after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, two Portlanders have submitted a petition for a 2018 ballot initiative to have Oregon secede from the United States.
On Thursday morning, Jennifer Rollins, a lawyer, and Christian Trejbal, a writer, filed the Oregon Secession Act.
"Oregonian values are no longer the values held by the rest of the United States," Trejbal said over the phone Thursday.
Those values? "Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness," Trejbal said, "plus equality."
"Obviously," he said, the ballot proposal "came about partially in response to the election results on Tuesday."
"But," he added, "it's been developing over time."
Two days after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, two Portlanders have submitted a petition for a 2018 ballot initiative to have Oregon secede from the United States.
On Thursday morning, Jennifer Rollins, a lawyer, and Christian Trejbal, a writer, filed the Oregon Secession Act.
"Oregonian values are no longer the values held by the rest of the United States," Trejbal said over the phone Thursday.
Those values? "Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness," Trejbal said, "plus equality."
"Obviously," he said, the ballot proposal "came about partially in response to the election results on Tuesday."
"But," he added, "it's been developing over time."
I’d heard that Oregon was in play.
So it’s mostly red like the rest of the country.
Go on. Do it.
Let the tiny parts that vote yes go.
Surround them with enough firepower to turn them into ash if they invite one foreign army near them.
I’m amazed at the Californians who leave that state because of the high taxes, crappy roads, overrun with illegals...
move to other states...
and bring their terrible politics with them!
Similar to the Muslims. They want the hell out of the crap holes they create. But bring the ideology with them that created the crap hole.
Texas wants to leave and all the libs freak out and say they can;t....
Oregon wants to leave, I say... See Ya!
I will be in Oregon in two weeks. Maybe I can register to vote while I am there. They just mail in their ballots anyway
I truly wish the left coast would secede...
We would lose of those libtard congressman and voters...
house, Senate WH would be conservative for a long time...
Good, take California & Washington with you. We will build a wall to control your entry into our country.
I personally wish both CA and OR would leave us in peace and liberty!!!! Most INTOLERANT morons on the globe.
The radical crazies trying to stir up sentiment about secession need to be put straight jackets and hauled off to the mental asylums where they belong!
Take the whole West Coast, join it up with New England and the Middle Atlantic states and call it some crazy name (Che Guevaraland perhaps). Then wall it all off from the rest of us forever.
Talk about reactionary.
As long as they remember they won’t be getting any more gubment handouts.
A new country named Cow (CA, OR, WA).
Be care what you wish for, lefties.
Detroit is bankrupt. Chicago bankrupt.
Los Angeles and New York. Sure they’d go down the tubes fast.
Sounds brilliant.
Two nut jobs file a petition and the writeup makes it sound like Oregon leaving. Being the center of attention; a hallmark of liberals.
Excellent comment
These loonie lefty nutters have gone right off the boil
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