Posted on 09/05/2013 12:47:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
YREKA — The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 this afternoon to pursue seceding from California.
More than 100 people packed the supervisors' chambers late this morning for a discussion on whether the county should issue a declaration that it wants to secede from the state. Nearly all those in attendance appeared to be for the move.
Among those in attendance was Erin Ryan, field representative for Rep. Doug LaMalfa. She said that she and other LaMalfa staff members supported the effort to secede, but she did not know LaMalfa's thoughts on it.
Board Chair Ed Valenzuela was the sole vote against the declaration today. He said he was elected to solve problems within the system....
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I read the comments at the linked site. It reminded me why I left CA a decade ago. Those people really do live in an alternate universe.
It will never happen, if only because there would be two more conservative Republican Senators.
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