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."
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And how many Democrat US senators would that create?
Because America needs 10 more senators.
exactly
makes sense if it can be divided equally into conservative and left wing areas.
It also creats a better barrier state.
Don't the rest of the states have to ratify this?
Gridlock?
Enough to make them a permanent majority in the US Senate. Otherwise nobody would give this a second thought. Sandy Fluke might make it back to Wash DC sooner than I thought....
I wouldn’t give them anymore senators but I wouldn’t mind seeing their electoral college votes split. The demos might lose a few electoral votes.
No, actually it's just too liberal, too pandering to illegals, too taxing on businesses, etc., etc.......
No, since we dont actually follow the Constitution and laws anymore.
this guy spent “2 million” of his own money (supposedly) for a stupid reason like “gridlock” ?
Based on a quick look at his proposed borders, without crunching the election return numbers, I think this would create three blue states, one red state and two purple states.
“And how many Democrat US senators would that create?”
Having lived all 55 of my years in California I have some insite. The Orange, Red and Blue areas of the map would most likely break Republican. The yellow area would be a toss up and the Green + Purple areas Dead Zones.
Wish we had gridlock. It’d sure as hell be better than one party rule.
I am not so sure. 2 become 12 senators, 10 additional. Of those the Orange, Red and Blue areas might be GOP and the Purple would be Purple... Only thing is the Los Angeles and Orange county line would be a state line, which would make things interesting as I live two blocks on the LA side of that state line and it runs between two houses.
amen, Jim
No, but the California legislature and the U.S. Congress would both have to ratify it. (U.S. Constitution, Article IV, section 3).
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