Posted on 01/25/2025 5:40:43 AM PST by DFG
A California ballot initiative proposing that the state become its own country and secede from the United States has been filed and cleared for signature gathering.
If the measure makes it onto the November 2028 ballot, it would ask voters: “Should California leave the United States and become a free and independent country?” local news outlet KCRA3 reported on Friday.
The guidelines would require 50 percent of registered voters to participate and a “yes” vote from 55 percent of voters, which would indicate “a vote of no confidence in the United States of America,” according to the report. The measure would further show that the “will of the people of California” is to become a country.
“According to the initiative’s language, it would not change California’s current government or relationship with the U.S. However, it would create a commission to report on California’s viability as an independent country,” the report states. “The initiative estimates one-time election-related costs, and forming a commission on national sovereignty and independence would cost $10 million. It estimates that operating the commission would take another $2 million in annual state costs.”
The circulation deadline is July 22, and the initiative requires 546,651 valid signatures.
“Legally seceding the country would require a constitutional amendment, which would require the approval of Congress and 38 states,” the report notes.
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Lets hurry up and leave
They can then deal with their owned ash heaps
Democrats could never get the Presidency again.
if they did leave the entire state would become Mexico in 5 years.
Be still my beating heart...
Trade it to Denmark for Greenland.
So long as California allows each county the option to secede from the state (ie many of the inland counties and counties north of Oakland would leave), I am perfectly willing to allow the coastal strip to depart in peace. Same goes for Washington State, Oregon and any other state.
I’m good with that. It will ensure GOP control of the government for a hundred years.
Withhold all Fed funds to California until this is resolved. You want to go it alone, lets see if you can.
I'm encouraging all liberal Californians to vote yes. With Los Angeles County alone gone, conservatives are assured the next national many elections. AND we can assign Newsom and the California Democrats their "fair share" of the national debt!
Best to move the Robinsons and some Cal Freepers out first.
American Gaza is what it would become. China would love it!
No more so than Mexico. But it isn’t going to happen, anyway. Although we can wish....
Can anybody sign it or do you have to be a homeless Californian?
Since CA has no voter ID, maybe we can help the intiative along, with some Freep votes. A little ballot harvesting of our own.....
Lol!! CA you want to live under the clueless and ineffectual leaders you elect? Go right ahead!
Been down this road before need to start hanging California democratsat the state capitol en mass
Been down this road before need to start hanging California democratsat the state capitol en mass
Where can I sign?
There is precedent.
They vote to secede.
The U.S. governments says you cannot do so.
They attempt to take over U.S. military installations.
The U.S. military conquers and occupies the state. The leaders who pushed secession are barred from holding office.
A new regime is put in place, with changes in voting laws required by Constitutional Amendment.
So, there are positive sides to such a development.
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