Posted on 11/22/2016 8:04:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In 2018, the issue of whether California should secede from the union could come to a head.
Yes California Independence Campaign, a fringe political group that calls for the state to become an independent nation, filed a proposed ballot measure with the Attorney General's Office on November 21, The Sacramento Bee reports.
If it garners the half a million signatures required to appear on the 2018 gubernatorial ballot, the measure would strike language from the state constitution that would help clear a path to secession.
Still, a state holds no right to secede under federal law. Californians would need to pass an amendment to the US Constitution, which requires the blessings of the other 49 states.
The measure would also survey voters on whether a "Calexit" is something that interests them. If a clear majority declares their support for a Brexit-style departure, the state would hold a special election in March 2019 asking voters again if they want California to secede.
In a recent interview with Business Insider, Louis Marinelli, president of Yes California, described the plans as a "double opt-in" process.
Far-fetched as it may sound, Calexit started gathering steam as Californians came to terms with a Donald Trump presidency on November 9. The campaign became a nationwide social media trend in a matter of hours, but has since fizzled.
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Conservatives and Libertarians should welcome this!!! California as it is now will not survive intact. Soon after secession it will almost certainly break into several smaller “states” or countries. Some of those will want to re incorporate themselves back into the U.S. I’m almost certain that the ones that will want back in will be the ones where there are more conservative residents! We should try everything we can to push the looney Left to succeed in this plan! It would be a once and life time opportunity. California is going to become a failed state and it must be allowed to do so on it’s own for the rest of the U.S. to finally open their eyes and see! If we don’t allow them to do so they will sink the rest of the U.S.A. as they have already done by turning all the states east and north of them into Blue and Purple States!! I’m hoping we conservatives and libertarians see this for the opportunity that it is!!!
Bye-Bye and AMF!
Only a California idiot would vote to leave. But wouldn’t it be funny if all those illegal aliens they’ve registered voted them out of the US and into Mexico
Both DiFi and Boxer have been notorious for never delivering a ‘decent’ return of California federal tax revenue to the state for programs or agendas like some states ..
Babs never pulled anywhere near the same amount back here for this state’s citizenry, legal or otherwise.. less than 80% is my guestimate of late..
We all know how DiFi and hubby have profited quite nicely for years off gubamint titts, meanwhile she was little better than BaBS in RoI tax revenue-wise.
Why bother with a fantasy.
I for one would not be participating in any “March to the Sea” to keep California in the Union. I will not take up arms to keep any state in a Union it’s people have chosen to leave. Let them go.
please do0- there will never be another democrat president if they do-
Northern and inland CA will remain, but the lunatics are welcome to take the urban coastal shitholes they’ve created and go for good. Adios, muchachos! (Get used to that Spanish, y’all, because it will be your lengua nueva.)
Conservatives need to sop repeating the lie that California takes more than it gives in federal dollars. It’s simply not true. It makes us no different than the liberals who live in bbbkes with their own “facts.” The truth is numbers from 2013 14 show california paying in $369B and receiving $343B.
If CA did secede I have not doubt that without the restraint of the Republicans in congress those billions managed on their own would quickly become an upside down disaster just like CA state budget is now.
Let them leave. The U.S. will then move all their military bases to a country that is part of the U.S. Kalifornica can defend themselves when/if they are stupid enough to bail.
I’ll be on one of those borders with a rifle if we’re ever able to successfully pass the turd that CA has become (and I say this as a man who had planned to move to CA ~20 years ago).
BYE!
By the way, their new Republic symbol should be a pussy......................cat.
I hope they take all the “nuts, fruits and flakes”, including all of the Hollywood “entertainment” crowd with them.
Like a thousand lawyers marching into the sea, it’s a good start!
Fallout New Vegas fan? I thought the bear on that flag had two heads though?
No. They should be made to pay it off in order to leave. You can’t run up a tab, decide not to pay and then wave goodbye.
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