Posted on 03/26/2017 2:18:20 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Nigel Farage and Leave backer Arron Banks just returned from a trip to California
They helped raise $1million for a 'Calexit', which would split California in two
The appear to be pitting the eastern, more rural side of California against the western 'coastal elite' liberals in Los Angeles and San Francisco
The eastern part of California would more likely vote Republican, giving the party two more senators and electoral college votes for a 2020 election
The Western side of the state would likely continue to vote Democrat
The goal is to hold a referendum during the US midterm elections in 2018
The 'Bad Boys of Brexit' who led the campaign to break Britain away from the European Union have taken on a new exit challenge: splitting California into two states.
Former UKip leader Nigel Farage and Leave backer Arron Banks have just returned from the United States, where they helped raise $1million (£800,000) for a 'Calexit' campaign, which would split California into two eastern and western regions.
There are several 'Calexit' campaigns competing for a referendum in the United States, with one aiming to remove the state from America entirely as a response to President Donald Trump being elected last year.
Farage and Banks, who led the 'Leave.EU' campaign, appear to be pitting the eastern, more rural side of California against the western 'coastal elite' liberals in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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What about the military bases in San Diego County?
Absent a 9.6 earthquake in LA or San Francisco, it will never happen
Restrict handing welfare and disability out and the state will be full of working people again.
When I visited Sacramento a few years ago and told people there I was from the Eastern side of the Sierra, they too thought I lived in Nevada. They didn't realize that a really big slice of it is in California.
No, we don’t. Let liberal CA become its own nation and we keep the new state of Jefferson.
It would be more productive and more doable to break up the 9th Circuit.
How would we know? We haven’t tried anything to swing them back in over 30 years.
Think about that.
The Left has spewed for 30 years in a vacuum.
Who here, other than YOU, wouldn't be opposed to California seceding from the United States? Considering that California gave 55 electoral votes to Clinton as well as over 8,700,000 popular votes, you should be ecstatic over the possibility of them seceding from the United States.......I certainly am.
I lived in Cali. Trust me you aren’t going to move San Fran and LA right... they have no interest in it and are all the way down the rabbit hole.
Nope, Sir Drake claims California for England on Jun 17, 1579. ...
I’m just waiting to watch these efforts.
The picking off of Los Angeles is a lot more ripe than folks think.
When Blacks and Latinos step up and rail at the L. A. City council concerning sanctuary status, something is up.
We should be networking with those folks, and helping them to turn those areas back to our column.
Reagan’s last run at the presidency in 1984, was essentially that last time anyone promoted Conservative values in California, from the national stage.
In state, the news media blacks out all but very little of the Conservative message when we run a Conservative for office.
It’s like having a new car in a room in La Brea, and never telling the public about it.
It can be the best care ever devised, and available for sale, but if the word doesn’t get out, none of them will sell.
This is the Republican GOPe and in state policy for over 30 years.
Keep Conservatism locked in a room, when it comes to in state media and supporting our candidates with money.
GOPe presidential contenders come to the state to raise tens of millions of dollars, and leave the state with it to spend elsewhere.
Californians deserve better.
Say goodbye to America’s breadbasket. It would be worse than Russia losing Ukraine.
While we're at it we should return the land that makes up the District of Columbia to Maryland and consolidate all of suburban Boston into a single state.
So you’d like to give away 10% of our populace, and roughly 10% of our national GNP?
California has the biggest GNP West of the Mississippi, coming in at roughly 1.5 times that of Texas, the nearest competitor. (It’s been a while since I looked it up, but I believe that was the general range)
What other states would you like to get rid of?
New York would be a good one.
Pretty soon you’ve just lopped off 30-50% of our GNP and populace.
The tax base is reduced by that much. How does that affect our ability to pay down the national debt or field a competitive military?
California has all our warm water ports to service our Pacific Fleet. And if you think California needs to go, that means Oregon and Washington would go too. They’re Leftist now also.
There, no Pacific fleet.
Hawaii would be gone in short order.
So what do we do, only continue with an Atlantic fleet in the future?
What happens when Russia or China swing deals with the former U. S. Western states? Do we then go to war with California and the other states to prevent it?
Do we simply allow foreign nations to develop bases on our Western flank?
This is not as easy as just lopping off states you don’t like.
It affects this nation much more negatively than putting up with an errant state does.
We need to work on bringing these states back into the Conservative camp.
Folks, we lost them. We can get them back.
Why is it that we tell folks we have the best possible system of government, and then feel that it can’t compete with the other form of governance?
It can. It just needs to be presented to people.
As a party, we have abandoned that for three decades.
What about the military bases in San Diego County?>>. by the map it looks like orange county and it’s beaches/ports are included in the eastern half. That looks like it would include edwards and the carrier navy bases in san diego.
That’s why we had Blacks and Hispanics at city hall reading the riot act to the city council for sanctuary issues.
Look folks, there are issues that divide us as a people, but there are also wedges we can use to turn things around.
If you lived in the state, you saw how much Republican support Conservatives got in the state. NONE.
No wonder we have a problem.
Why is it that we tell folks we have the best possible system of government, and then feel that it can’t compete with the other form of governance?
It can. It just needs to be presented to people.
As a party, we have abandoned that for three decades.>>>> our republic only works with principles of rule of law (property and life protected) and morality. without those republican governments cannot exits. California has neither.
Yep, I certainly would!!!!!
Don't forget, what they produce they also consume.........There's not a damn thing California provides to the U.S. that can't be grown elsewhere..........
As far as energy production, they offer absolutely nothing to the rest of the country. In fact, they're struggling just to supply their own needs.............
this is a really bad idea and the brits should not be interfering with US politics like this.
So did Del Norte.
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