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CA: Washington and Sacramento -- Capitals occupied by adverse forces
Sac Bee ^ | 6/8/03 | Dan Walters

Posted on 06/08/2003 8:06:14 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/12/2004 5:51:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Had gold not been discovered in California, its admission as a state would have been delayed for many years, perhaps decades. Thus, when California gave up its brief status as an independent nation and joined the United States, it was separated by thousands of miles of mostly unpopulated wilderness from what was then the center of American finance and culture.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: adverse; calgov2002; capitals; forces; occupied; sacramento; washington

1 posted on 06/08/2003 8:06:15 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Like 2 ships in the night,, headed on a collision course with reality. Ping
2 posted on 06/08/2003 8:07:01 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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The Captain of one of the ship's appears to be taking on manure and on the edge of slipping beneath the waves in the manure pond of Stinkymento.


3 posted on 06/08/2003 8:08:52 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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To: NormsRevenge
Then the vision of an independent California is taking on a new emphasis - the US should vote as a whole to expel California from the Union and voting representation in the US Congress, and allow it to be treated much as Puerto Rico - as a commonwealth.

California ain't READY to join the Union on any other basis.
4 posted on 06/08/2003 8:23:49 AM PDT by alloysteel
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The Captain of one of the ship's appears to be taking on manure and on the edge of slipping beneath the waves in the manure pond of Stinkymento.

I like that!

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5 posted on 06/08/2003 10:26:42 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
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