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  • UPDATED: Siskiyou County supervisors vote to pursue seceding from state (California)

    09/05/2013 12:47:49 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 2 replies
    The Redding Record-Searchlight ^ | September 3, 2013 | Sean Longoria
    YREKA — The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 this afternoon to pursue seceding from California. More than 100 people packed the supervisors' chambers late this morning for a discussion on whether the county should issue a declaration that it wants to secede from the state. Nearly all those in attendance appeared to be for the move. Among those in attendance was Erin Ryan, field representative for Rep. Doug LaMalfa. She said that she and other LaMalfa staff members supported the effort to secede, but she did not know LaMalfa's thoughts on it. Board Chair Ed Valenzuela was the...
  • Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!

    04/30/2013 7:00:36 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 221 replies
    The Daily Beast ^ | April 30, 2013 | Lee Siegel
    Let’s face it—on nearly every important issue, from gun control to immigration to gay marriage, red states are holding America back. Lee Siegel on why the South should get the hell out of the union. Let’s not be fooled by all the bipartisan rhetoric that has been streaming out of the GOP since Romney’s self-destruction. Hundreds of thousands of petitioners in a handful of red states still want to secede? Well, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. A solid block of Southern states continues to refuse to expand Medicaid, thus squashing one of the linchpins of...