Posted on 03/31/2017 5:33:29 PM PDT by Trump20162020
California’s secession movement, CalExit, gained momentum immediately following Donald Trump’s victory in November, but it seems to have already fizzled out.
“Yes California,” the leading political action committee fighting for California’s independence from the union, capitalized on the shift in public opinion after Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton overwhelmingly carried the state on Election Day. Last January, for example, the campaign committee submitted a proposal to Secretary of State Alex Padilla, allowing it to collect the signatures necessary to create a ballot-box measure for the November 2018 election. The proposal, intended to repeal the provision in California’s Constitution that describes the state’s relationship to the union, must receive 585,407 signatures by July 25 in order to qualify for the ballot.
According to a Berkeley IGS Poll published on Monday, nearly 70 percent of Californians say they will oppose the CalExit provisions if it makes it onto the 2018 ballot.
According to the Berkeley IGS Poll, 53 percent of Californians would rather have their state leaders compromise with Trump than oppose him — especially “if it risks negative consequences and losses in federal funding.”
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We should back CalExit. That’s 55 permanent Den electoral votes they’d lose. When they beg their way back into the U.S., make them a territory with no voting rights.
Libs from other states may move there. Keep them out of the U.S. as well.
Trump should hire another 10,000 ICE agents and turn them loose. Make CA want to exit. Their economy would collapse and people would see what a liberal hell hole things are when Dems run the show.
I see nothing but good here for our side.
What if the rest of fhe nation wants to kick your illegal-loving, libtard ass out, Cali?
The other 49 have also been thinking about how much better our lives would be without you, ever since you started mouthing off.
Secession is silly to even contemplate because it would never happen. I do think splitting up California is slightly less unlikely. Overall, it makes me very sad for our republic. The experiment of a more perfect union has been diminished by the very forces the Founding Fathers warned us about. This country can’t possibly survive the way it is going.
Nearly 70% of Americans outside of California support the secession of California.
Must be the 70% living on government freebies.
South Carolina’s example may have diminished their enthusiasm slightly.
Doesn’t matter as long as Governor Moonbeam wants to be President Moonbeam.
I’ll take a bet against that! Lemme know.
What state you in?
If that’s accurate, then 70% of the country are flat out ignorant.
If they seceded they would just have to sneak over the border again.
Translation, we can’t this Ponzi scheme going without taxpayers from the other 49 States to keep the charade going.
Moonbeam will be 79 in a week, I can’t imagine anyone would want to elect him President in 2020 (not to mention his actual policies).
So what. It matters not what the majority wants. Only what the left wants matters!
can we throw them out anyway?
Only 70%! CA has a real problem if it stays on this trajectory.
And none of those have ever walked Gettysburg, Vicksburg, or Shiloh and let their imaginations run wild!
I live in California and would love to see us become a territory and lose statehood status. that is what would happen if California insisted in trying to leave the union. there is no way that California leaves the union.
Gov poll.
Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom in front in top-two primary with 28%. Republican John Cox second with 18%, former LA Mayor Tony Villar (D) third with 11%, State Treasuer John Chiang (D) 8%.
Newsom’s ex, Fox News’ Kimberly guilfoyle, whom I’m not sure if he’s still supposed to be a liberal, says he will win.
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