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‘Crackpot Plan’ To Split California Into Six States Shoots For 2016 Ballot
Breitbart ^ | 6-23-14 | by ROBERT WILDE

Posted on 06/23/2014 1:51:31 PM PDT by kingattax

A petition drive to divide California into six separate states was active on Saturday and Sunday in Los Angeles, aimed at getting the plan on the ballot in 2016.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Timothy Draper, a venture capitalist from Menlo Park, is spearheading the current effort and has injected $2 million dollars into the project so far.

The optimistic Draper argues that a truncated California will dissolve bureaucratic gridlock in Sacramento and will be more conducive for business. Draper told the Times back in April that "California has become the worst managed state in the country… It just is too big and too ungovernable."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: democratscandals; howtostealanelection; powergrab; sixcalifornias; stolensenate
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To: Puppage

In my best Oprah voice:

“And YOU get a bullet train! And YOU get a bullet Train! and YOU....”


41 posted on 06/23/2014 2:32:07 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: kingattax

Six Cali’s no way. We only need two- East California and West California. The east would be red, the west would be blue.


42 posted on 06/23/2014 2:32:21 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: DAC21

I would be quite happy to fire the Sacramento Tyrants.


43 posted on 06/23/2014 2:32:37 PM PDT by TheDon (Californians are losing their right to keep and bear firearms one firearm at a time.)
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To: drpix
Soon enough it will all be Mexico/Aztlan!

You know, apart from Texas, Arizona and a couple other states, I'm not sure I'd mind a map that looks like that.

Would LOVE to see CA and NM Liberals forced to live as citizens of Mexico ...
44 posted on 06/23/2014 2:32:59 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: DAC21

All of this is academic nonsense.. but for the sake of argument I find it hard to believe that liberals (that run California) would allow a split to occur that gives pubs half or more of the new states. Maybe their gerrymandering work is not complete yet. :-)


45 posted on 06/23/2014 2:33:13 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: kingattax
California is a shi! hole of communists Democrats in the most populace areas. The rest of the State have more conservative thinkers. But the split is crazy. Like America, California will be a ghost of a State and damn poor. Any real conservative American will just get the hell out of the State.
46 posted on 06/23/2014 2:35:57 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: kingattax

Based on the distribution shown, it sounds like a grand idea. I’d like to see Ohio broken into three states, and Illinois into two. PA should be three. NY should be at least two. VA should be two, also.

The added Congressional headcount would add to the Electoral Vote count, and the new distribution would better represent areas currently under-represented in presidential elections.

This is NOT a bad thing.


47 posted on 06/23/2014 2:39:27 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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To: Logical me

california has become a de facto suburb of tijuana.


48 posted on 06/23/2014 2:40:40 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: Jim Robinson

I say make every county is the US a state and thus create 3144 states, 6288 US Senators and 9432 Congressmen.

They would be paralyzed and could do nothing.


49 posted on 06/23/2014 2:41:19 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: kingattax

This could be offset by turning New England into one state. New England is a lost cause so let’s reduce the number of Democrat senators from 11.5 to 2 (Ayotte is a democrat in any conservative state).


50 posted on 06/23/2014 2:41:27 PM PDT by PTBAA
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To: cripplecreek

We don’t need ten more Diane Feinsteins or Barbara Boxers.


51 posted on 06/23/2014 2:42:40 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war,and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: PubliusMM

please repeat after me :

ANYTHING a loony lefty proposes is never ever ever a good thing. there is always a hidden hook in the worm and being smarter than a fish i will never ever ever forget that.

thank you.


52 posted on 06/23/2014 2:46:11 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: DJ Taylor

lol I couldn’t agree more.


53 posted on 06/23/2014 2:47:07 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: PTBAA

i would prefer to trade new england to canada for their western provinces.


54 posted on 06/23/2014 2:50:44 PM PDT by kingattax (a real American would rather die on his feet than live on his knees.)
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To: kingattax

3 states might be okay .. but I’m not for 6 at all.


55 posted on 06/23/2014 3:02:40 PM PDT by CyberAnt (True the Vote: MY AMERICA, "... I'm terrified it's slipping away.")
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To: kingattax

It might help if you identified the major cities in each section.

The sections that get SF and LA will have a possible advantage.

That’s why it should be North, South and Central. More than enough.


56 posted on 06/23/2014 3:04:44 PM PDT by CyberAnt (True the Vote: MY AMERICA, "... I'm terrified it's slipping away.")
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To: ken5050

Would all be Democrat from this way of divvying it up?


57 posted on 06/23/2014 3:07:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: DAC21; xzins; Jim Robinson
On second thought the yellow area would break Dead Zone, so it would be about a 6/6 split in Senators.

Exactly. I'm all for this. I would have the opportunity to have 2 Republican senators and a fiscally responsible state government.

California has 1/10 of the population of the country and 1/50th of the Senators. Not everyone in California is a liberal. FWIW, California has more conservatives living in it than most of the red states (outside of Texas) combined.

58 posted on 06/23/2014 3:08:53 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: kingattax

Remember, children:
“As California goes, so goes the nation!”

I support the reapportionment plan.
Keep the Dem’s in certain areas, outnumbered by the Libertarians!


59 posted on 06/23/2014 3:53:19 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: kingattax

What happens if the farmers in the central valley cut off LA’s water?


60 posted on 06/23/2014 3:59:42 PM PDT by running_dog_lackey
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