Posted on 01/27/2017 1:53:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
California has granted a pro-secession group 180 days to gather enough signatures to get their Calexit initiative on the ballot. From the Hill:
The California secretary of state’s office announced that the group could begin collecting signatures on Thursday.
The group needs 585,407 signatures from registered voters over the next 180 days to qualify for the ballot.
The mechanism here is not very straightforward. If the Yes California Independence Campaign can gather the needed signatures in time, that would put an initiative on the ballot next year. That initiative, if passed, would change portions of the California constitution and set up a California nationhood election in 2019. From the LA Times:
If the measure gets on the ballot and gains approval by a majority of voters, it would repeal clauses in the California Constitution stating that the state is an “inseparable part of the United States” and that the U.S. Constitution is the “supreme law of the land,” according to the title and summary prepared by the state attorney general’s office.
The measure would place another question on the ballot in 2019, asking whether California should become a separate country. If at least half of registered voters participate in that vote, with at least 55% of those voting to approve, the results would be treated as California’s declaration of independence.
If all of this sounds very fringe, keep in mind that a recent poll found 32% of Californians supported the idea of secession. So, at the very least, there should be millions of people willing to sign a petition to put this on the ballot next year. Given that this movement was accelerated by the election of Donald Trump its success or failure will probably depend on how President Trump is doing next year or, more precisely, how Democrats judge he is doing. Given the hair-on-fire response to his first week in office there’s not much reason to suppose things will settle down.
With recounts and faithless electors and protests unable to change the country’s course, angry progressives could decide secession is the only remaining path for ‘the resistance’ to take. Plus, the idea of declaring independence from Trump and ‘fly-over’ America might prove irresistible. Based on the polling, it already has for many on the left coast.
They will need it. The initiative requires at least half of registered voters to vote on secession and at least 55% of those voters must vote for secession. The Mexican Invaders, fictitious voters, and the dead voters will be needed for the secession initiative to pass.
https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/Title%20and%20Summary%20%2816-0011%29.pdf?
It would be a good excuse to go in clean house and start with the reconstruction process. Clean the voting up, send millions back across the border ect. Put in a puppet regime of Trump supporters. Many in their legislation were put there with illegals voting. They are not a legit state now.
THe ownership and supply of Ft. Sumter SC & SC attacking the fort were the opening shots of the Civil War. LEt the blue areas of CA seced and the red parts stay. THe will starve and thirst to death,
Where do I sign to let county by county (in California) exit? So long or is it adios m’fckers?
As a CA resident, my first inclination is to sign the petition in an Operation Chaos sense. Tell me if I’m wrong.
May be we should put a hold on that wall, what?
LOL - thanks for sharing. Nice thing about Florida is nothing's so crazy it can't happen here...
THAT DRider is one great idea... I'll sign.
Better yet - we can tell them they can only leave IF they pay for the Wall... Two birds with one stone...
Where can I sign up for Calexit...we need to put a navy in Lake Tahoe to keep illegals from swimming to the USA....
I think their end game would be to qualify for foreign aid. HA! Good luck with that. I hope they succeed, the entertainment would be TRUMPtastic! Mexifornia-the drug cartels would swarm over Beverly Hills overnite!
Before we sign the papers they’ll have to agree to accept all illegals living in the United States as citizen for their ‘new’ country.
we keep San Diego area. need pacific port
next, get 5 or 6 New England states to secede to Canada and the Senate belongs to America again.
I’d like to keep the good parts of the state, carve out a “West Virginia”.
I’d like to keep San Diego as well, as long as it undergoes “reconstruction”.
Might be able to carve out the non-moonbat parts of Orange County as well. Anything that went 55% or more for Hillary should secede. Probably give some of the border towns in Imperial County to Baja California Norte.
Better yet, apply the constitutional remedy, 14th Sect 3. All the government officials supporting this just resigned and banned themselves from future office unless pardoned by 2/3 of both US House and Senate! That includes any judges that try to rule in their favor, even US Supremes. Very efficient. pres Lincoln would approve as his biggest thing, even bigger than abolition, was to preserve the Union.
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