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Posted on 01/16/2023 3:33:35 PM PST by Twotone
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Senate Joint Memorial 2, also known as the Greater Idaho bill, was introduced on the floor of the Oregon legislature by Republican state Senator Dennis Linthicum of Klamath Falls on Jan. 10.
The bill requests “discussion between Oregon and Idaho governments regarding relocation of Oregon and Idaho border,” according to the bill text.
Voters in 11 eastern Oregon counties have already approved ballot measures indicating their support for joining the State of Idaho.
“Eastern Oregon is culturally, politically, economically much more similar to Idaho than it is to western Oregon,” said Matt McCaw, a Grater Idaho Movement spokesperson. “Our movement is about self-determination and matching people to government that they want and that matches their values. In Oregon, we’ve had this urban-rural divide for a very long time.”
McCaw said the divide has caused political tension because the west side of the state “dominates state government and it dictates policy.”
“Our proposal is to take that border between Oregon and Idaho, which was set almost 200 years ago in a very different time when there was only 50,000 people in the state of Oregon…it made sense then, it doesn’t make sense now to have that border there because that’s not where the cultural divide is,” McCaw stated.
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Stop discussing, stop forming committees and just do it already. What next, do some studies?
Just declare you are now part of Idaho and Idaho declare the parts of Oregon are now there’s.
Let’s them tell you no
Four states were carved out of the original 13 (Kentucky, Tennessee, Maine and West Virginia), and I think there was a trivial modification of the Arkansas/Oklahoma state line at one point. There may have been one or more other attempts at a change that fell through (I think there was a proposal at one point to detach the El Paso area and attach it to New Mexico), but I wouldn’t give the current effort much chance of success.
If this happens, one adult son and his working adult kids might, probably, be moving there.
Some plans include the top part of California and that might be where they could end up.
Pittsburgh could be isolated in the rest of the "T" and get treated like the rest of us have been treated for too long.
Without Philadephia, they couldn't win statewide and help elect imbeciles like Uncle Fester and morons like Casey, Jr.
Maybe our states have gotten too big to function without an electoral college of some kind at the state level. Or it's time to split off, like these Oregonians (and Californians. and Washingtonians) want to do.
Hope this happens. NW Oregon is such a mess.
Id love to see something similar here in Washington state. E.G. A large fence put around King Co (seattle) so the rest of us can get on with life.
“Maybe our states have gotten too big to function without an electoral college of some kind at the state level.”
We had that! The Supreme Court ruled “No can do”. See “one man one vote” or somesuch. Long time ago, about 1972.
The idea of course is to prevent large population centers from utterly dominating the rest of the state.
Reynolds v. Sims, 1964
Illinois and Wisconsin nearly went to war over where the border would be drawn.
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Sorry. It was Ohio and Michigan.
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Michigan was compensated with a larger Upper Peninsula--the added territory turned out to be very rich in natural resources.
Congress will have to approve it at the end of the day.
This attempt to dissolve certain arrangements peacefully rather than shooting at each other can be an example to the states.
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The number of senators wouldnt change. But the demons would lose a seat in the House and the Pubs would gain one. The demons would never let it happen.
The dems would lose their slaves, and their ability to lord their wishes over people not interested in them. NO WAY they give this up.
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