Thank you, but the real credit for the initiative perspective overstepping the state legislature goes to CRA leadership.
My only contributions to this proposal were tinkering with the unusual split, finding where the split would best occur and presenting it for consideration to the CRA and other groups and individuals.
Except for a single negative response a few weeks ago, all other responses have been encouraging and supportive. Some have posed very strong questions that should be posed before a real effort is solidified.
If the voters did approve an initiative splitting the state, and through some fluke interpretation of the law, the state legislature were given final say on the issue, and disapproved it, it might well create such resentment among voters that a host of state legislators would be removed from office in a simultaneous statewide recall efforts and replaced with advocates for splitting the state.
There are some major hurdles yet to be overcome before the initiative can become a reality.
The fact that such a thing could be proposed and have serious support would be earth shaking on its own, not just to the state but to what's left or our "country". The leftists have always operated on the assumption that the rest of us will simply go along with their mad ride into hell because, well, we had no place to go and no way to escape them.
Something like this would show the world that we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it: we want the world that we want, not the world they are trying to jam down our throats.
I'm all for it.