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Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State
Tech Crunch ^ | 12/20/2013 | Gregory Ferenstein

Posted on 12/21/2013 2:50:19 PM PST by JerseyanExile

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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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: california; sixcalifornias; statehood; timdraper
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To: gfbtbb
The north can be called “Grassland”.

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.

41 posted on 12/21/2013 5:21:31 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: PubliusMM
Same applies to a number of other states. Ohio (my state) should be three, PA should be at least two (probably three), NY should be two, and on and on.

On the other hand Texas should absorb Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas.

42 posted on 12/21/2013 5:34:16 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: JerseyanExile
All these tourist got it wrong..

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...

43 posted on 12/21/2013 5:37:32 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: JerseyanExile

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.


44 posted on 12/21/2013 5:50:03 PM PST by anonsquared
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To: JerseyanExile

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.


45 posted on 12/21/2013 6:05:47 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: JerseyanExile

Sounds like subsidiarity to me.


46 posted on 12/21/2013 6:43:20 PM PST by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: JerseyanExile

5. Individuals can move between states more freely.

Yeah, that’s a real problem that needs a solution like this.


47 posted on 12/21/2013 8:41:08 PM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

I like it!!!


48 posted on 12/21/2013 8:44:21 PM PST by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: JerseyanExile

won’t ever happen
silicon valley pays much of californias bills and subsidizes less affluent areas.


49 posted on 12/22/2013 4:14:56 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: dragnet2

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.


50 posted on 12/22/2013 8:02:15 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: fella

That’s a country, not a State (as we understand the term). I don’t disagree, in the long term, though.

Happy New Year! Be safe and stay FRee.


51 posted on 12/31/2013 8:25:57 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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