Posted on 07/03/2011 7:45:59 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
County Supervisor Proposes 51st State Cut Out of Southern California
Published July 03, 2011 | FoxNews.com
A Riverside County, Calif., official is reportedly proposing cutting out 13 counties in Southern California and seceding from the rest of the state.
Supervisor Jeff Stone is presenting his proposal to the county's Board of Supervisors on July 12, the Press Enterprise newspaper reports. He is arguing that the recent budget passed by the California Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown is basically a raid on local budgets to cover profligate spending.
"We have a state Legislature that has gone wild. They just don't care. Their goal was to get a balanced budget so they could continue to get a paycheck," Stone is quoted by the newspaper as saying. "There is only one solution: A serious secession from the liberal arm of the state of California. I know the state of California can do better."
Brown's office scoffed at the idea.
"A secessionist movement? What is this, 1860?" Brown spokesman Gil Duran reportedly said.
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If that happened, I might consider a move to So Cal
The conservative area of Cal..... Maybe Obummer had the vision to see this happening with his 57 state comment.
We hear these kinds of proposals every once in awhile here in California. They go nowhere. Besides, if SoCal divorces from NoCal, it won’t be any more conservative. It will be just a Mexican territory.
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State;
Good riddance so long as they include San Francisco
I live in Tulare County and would love to see this happen. I vote in every election even though I am usually in the minority. It would be wonderful to be able to vote and have it mean something and to live in a State not completely sold out to the public employee unions. Wish it could happen
You do know you left off the last half of that, right?
They can be created if the legislature of the state agrees.
The 13 counties this dude is talking about comprise all of Southern California, including Los Angeles County, which dominates the state already during elections. Making SoCal a state would not make it more conservative. And NoCal is already dominated by the Bay area and Sacramento. No conservative gain there either.
...nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Your quote made it sound like it can't be done, but it clearly can.
Not LA county. From the article:
The counties included would be Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Kings, Kern, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono, which account for 13 million California residents.
So what will that do, give us two more Democrat Senators? No thanks.
Wrong, it would be a conservative state.
Hey! What about us Northern Californians? We want in. Slice a corridor up here. The Libs will never give up the coast so just slice a little umbilical cord up here to Sutter and Colusa Counties.
They have been talking about this for years and years and years; however they wanted to divide into 3 states; Northern, Central and Southern.
Unless Lincoln is the president and needs another state to add northern votes to assist him in trashing the constitution. Check out West Virginia.
I've seen articles posted where CA residents in Northern CA wanted to split the state in two. Never anything from the southern part. So this should please everyone.
And, if this gains traction and somehow goes through then we in IL can plan to kick Chicago and Cook County out of IL. As that's the only way we out in what's called the 'Collar Counties' and the rest of IL can get real representation. Chicago & Cook County has so many dam State Senators and Reps that they 'rule' all of Illinois right out of 'City Hall'(1).
Or better yet .... Cook County and Chicago inside it can be annexed by Indiana. The borders adjoin so that would be easy. Then let's see how Chicago l& Cook County likes being run from Indianapolis!
(1)Chicago City Hall and the Cook County Building are both in One Big Building that they share. It's split right down the middle. City Hall is on the West Side facing LaSalle Street and the 'Cook County' part is on the East entered from Clark Street.
51st? I thought we already had 57 states...
Wouldn’t work. The dude is trying to cherry pick counties around L.A. Kind of like the gerrymandering games pols play at redistricting time. Proposal is a none starter, as all these proposals are. Just makes this dude seem either stupid or just not serious.
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