Posted on 12/21/2013 2:50:19 PM PST by JerseyanExile
TechCrunch has learned about noted technology investor Tim Draper’s plan to split California into six separate states, including a Northern California slice appropriately named “Silicon Valley.”
Draper shared his vision with TechCrunch tonight. He says he’s submitting a polished version to the state’s Attorney General in the form of a ballot proposition proposal within the next 48 hours. “Six Californias” already has a campaign website up and is eager for an army of volunteers.
We’ve pasted the full ballot initiative below, along with the redrawn map of California. Essentially, the idea is to section off California into six horizontal slices, with Silicon Valley getting its own region stretching from the Sierras to the Bay Area beaches.
Southern California would also get its own slice of isolationist glory, with the new state “West California” consisting of Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, among other areas.
In an email, Draper tells me there are five key reasons he’s pushing the initiative:
“1. It is about time California was properly represented with Senators in Washington. Now our number of Senators per person will be about average.
2. Competition is good, monopolies are bad. This initiative encourages more competition and less monopolistic power. Like all competitive systems, costs will be lower and service will be better.
3. Each new state can start fresh. From a new crowd sourced state flower to a more relevant constitution.
4. Decisions can be more relevant to the population. The regulations in one new state are not appropriate for another.
5. Individuals can move between states more freely.”
(Excerpt) Read more at techcrunch.com ...
And the part containing Hollyweird will be known by the same name except the "GR" will be dropped. Actually California is properly represented in the U.S. Senate. It has two Senators just like every other state.
On the other hand Texas should absorb Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas.
Two states, east CA and west CA...Just draw a line north and south, about 25 miles in from the coast.
Or just make LA, and SF connected by a thin strip north and south...
Good, the section I live in (filled with lots of Conservatives) has most of the water.
Message to the Bay Area and L.A. people:
As soon as this is done the price of water will go up exponentially to account for all of the grief you have given us over the years. Don’t like it? Get used to drinking salt water.
Silly-ass as this idea is, I can go along with a gag.
I see one new state that’ll be so poor it would make Mississippi look like Switzerland the moment it was created.
Sounds like subsidiarity to me.
5. Individuals can move between states more freely.
Yeah, that’s a real problem that needs a solution like this.
I like it!!!
won’t ever happen
silicon valley pays much of californias bills and subsidizes less affluent areas.
That’s what I would say except instead of 25 miles, make it 50 miles with a deviation eastward south of Woodland, north of Stockton, so Sacramento can be in Western California.
That’s a country, not a State (as we understand the term). I don’t disagree, in the long term, though.
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