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发帖数: 4150 | 1 SACRAMENTO — With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of
Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps
to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood. CBS Sacramento reports
they don't want to leave the United States, just California.
"Well, it's been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you
name it, and we're rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and
standpoint in California," said founder Robert Paul Preston.
The state of New California would incorporate most of the state's rural
counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of
California.
"There's something wrong when you have a rural county such as this one, and
you go down to Orange County which is mostly urban, and it has the same set
of problems, and it happens because of how the state is being governed and
taxed," Preston said.
Cal-exit? Meet the movement for California secession
But unlike other separation movements in the past, the state of New
California wants to do things by the book, citing Article 4, Section 3 of
the U.S. Constitution and working with the state legislature to get it done,
similar to the way West Virginia was formed.
"Yes. We have to demonstrate that we can govern ourselves before we are
allowed to govern," said founder Tom Reed.
And despite obstacles, doubters, and obvious long odds, the group stands
united in their statehood dream.
The group is organized with committees and a council of county
representatives, but say it will take 10 to 18 months before they are ready
to fully engage with the state legislature.
This is not the first effort to split up California. In 2014, Silicon Valley
venture capitalist Tim Draper submitted signatures to put a measure that
would split California in six separate states. | O**l
发帖数: 12923 | 2 不错能砍掉多少CA的议员？
独立了 猪党20年内没机会赢总统了 | h***e
发帖数: 2823 | 3 独立后剪掉55张铁票，民主党就可以宣布永久在野了 | y****8
发帖数: 702 | 4 这个主意不错，不然共和党的选民在加州这种地方真的会被猪党欺负S. |
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