Posted on 05/22/2024 3:26:06 PM PDT by Libloather
Thirteen fed-up counties in liberal Oregon have voted in support of measures to start negotiations to secede from the state and join conservative Idaho.
Crook County became the latest to approve the 'Greater Idaho Measure' following a vote on Tuesday.
The proposal seeks to move the Oregon border 200 miles to the west, meaning that 14 counties and several partial counties would fall under Idaho state lines.
Organizers behind the Greater Idaho movement say east Oregonians are being alienated by the state's progressive policies which they blame for high crime rates.
They claim a move to Idaho would allow residents to take advantage of lower taxation and provide better representation and governance.
'The Oregon/Idaho line was established 163 years ago and is now outdated,' the movement's website states.
'It makes no sense in its current location because it doesn't match the location of the cultural divide in Oregon.
'We want an economy that is not held back by Oregon regulations and taxes, including environmental regulations.
'We’ll still have federal and Idaho regulations, and that’s plenty. Idaho knows how to respect rural counties and their livelihoods.'
Measure 7-86, as it was known, passed by 53 percent in Crook County in the latest boost to the Greater Idaho campaign.
However, the vote is not legislatively binding and just means residents are in favor of informing state and federal representatives that they support negotiations to annex part of Oregon.
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as much as the liberals like to rave about how progressive and tolerant and non biased they are, they always, always move to white areas with conservative govt....they don’t live what the preach...
that’s our pubs....always being so nice and polite and ASKING to be free....in the meantime, the power in the white house is sending troops to shoot an opponent at his home and its all ho hum, what’s new.
The states have submitted hundreds of A5 applications to Congress.
Congress will never call a convention.
There is too much money to lose.
I’m not sure if an East West line from Augusta is where the state line should be. Northern York County, North of Sanford is a Republican area of Maine.
Many States were cut down when they joined. Look at how many of the original 13 were shaped on their western borders.
Where did West Virginia come from? If the South never truly was its own country (as Lincoln and other Northerners claimed), then what was the legality behind splitting VA in half?
Well yes - Don’t say anything mean, it will just turn off independent voters.
You don’t want to turn off independent voters, do you? Why do you want to kill Grandma, anyway?
Vote for Biden, or you hate children.
You....don’t...hate....children.....Do you?
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