Posted on 07/08/2013 12:43:18 PM PDT by beaversmom
Officials with several Colorado counties interested in forming a 51st state scheduled a public meeting for Monday afternoon.
The meeting is being held at the Akron Fairgrounds at 551 East Second Street at 2 p.m. The public can attend the meeting, but will not have the opportunity to participate.
Weld County Commissioners told the Greeley Tribune they will also meet with leaders from counties in western Nebraska and Kansas, which have expressed interest in joining the effort.
Officials planned to consider how the boundaries of such a state would look and whether it's feasible, Weld County Commissioner Doug Rademacher told the Tribune.
When they announced their proposal earlier this month, Weld commissioners said they felt agriculture and oil and gas are under attack in the State Legislature, and the needs of rural Colorado counties are being ignored.
Rademacher told the Tribune if the proposal makes it to the November ballot, he expects voters to approve the creation of a new state by at least a 60 percent margin.
In spite of support for the idea, Rademacher said he doesn't expect it to actually happen.
Under guidelines in the U.S. Constitution, North Colorado would have to get the consent of the Colorado General Assembly and the U.S. Congress to move forward with forming its own state.
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I think that creating a new state requires serious,widespread support...including from the entire US Congress.
Yeah its not gonna happen. For one thing they’ve got to have enough population to get the same representation in DC as the rest of us.
Sweet, two more conservative senate seats!
Maybe we should turn each conservative congressional district into a state.
I mean wyoming has one rep and two senators, why not have 100 more states and effectively steamroll the senate!
This is interesting. If it gets traction, we’ll see California split up.
The Philippines Should Become The 51st State
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1349175/posts
If they go forward at all and it comes to a popular vote, they can count on me. I live in Douglas county but I’d vote to let them leave the State ASAP. They are correct. Denver metro sucks up all the monies that should be going to outer lying counties, but Denver has the majority of the population. Cities do that to states, such as New York City screws New York State. There should be a Constitutional limit on population density and voting.
Thanks for the ping, beaversmom.
They need approximately another 600,000 people give or take a few to get representation in DC.
I'm not sure that that's an issue...at least not a *Constitutional* issue.Each state is entitled to two US Senators and at least one Representative.The lack of support,I suspect,would come from the Party that would likely be *hurt* by the new state's existence,as well as the state legislature of the states that support that Party (California,Rat Party...Idaho,Republican Party for example).
“In spite of support for the idea, Rademacher said he doesn’t expect it to actually happen.”
In Florida we had the “Conch Rebellion.”
http://www.conchrepublic.com/history.htm
In 1982 the Florida Keys seceded from the union. (It was a bunch of new-age hippies.) The US immediately retaliated with a blocade and stopped traffic and water from reaching the keys. The rebellion quickly died.
I think it was in the late ‘60’s that California was forming committees to investigate secession. Californians paid much more in taxes than they got back and decided they could go it alone. What killed it was they decided that for 4 million dollars they could give everybody health insurance. The first year they spent about 20 million and the next year it doubled. (People were flying in from Mexico in their private planes for free medical treatment.) California went, essentially, bankrupt. A quick search didn’t find this data but I remember it as it happened.
Colorado can’t do this as they’re a tax cash cow that, apparently, doesn’t require any maintenance. The milkers will never let them go.
They need approximately another 600,000 people give or take a few to get representation in DC.
I think the bordering states would be willing to donate a few counties to bring them up to that number!
think about delaware ... 2 senators, 1 representative. if we can get two more conservative senators, that would be great. actually, if we could get a total of two legitimately conservative senators (cruz is the only one i can think of), that would be great.
They're about halfway there.
The smallest population state is Wyoming, which had a population of 563,626 according to the 2010 census. The same census said the seven counties in NE Colorado (Weld, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma) had a total population of 322,126 -- with Weld County accounting to over 78% of the total.
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The smallest population state is Wyoming, which had a population of 563,626 according to the 2010 census. The same census said the seven counties in NE Colorado (Weld, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma) had a total population of 322,126 — with Weld County accounting to over 78% of the total.
The Nebraska panhandle would probably love to team up with them that would add I think about 100K and maybe siome of maybe utah as well...
Utah's over on the other side of Colorado. Wyoming doesn't have any population too spare, so it would be up to the Nebraska panhandle and Western Kansas to make up the deficit.
There's a whole lotta nuthin' out there...
When they announced their proposal earlier this month, Weld commissioners said they felt agriculture and oil and gas are under attack in the State Legislature, and the needs of rural Colorado counties are being ignored.
The legislature and governor have been too busy thinking up leftist extremist so-called "gun control" schemes.
A congressional district represents a certain number of people. (approximately 700,000 people) Weld county has approximately 250,000 people and giving them two senators and a representative would give them far greater representation than the rest of the country.
Even if they could pull it off, it would lead to every liberal county in the country trying to do the same.
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