I have dreamed of splitting up my home state of California for years now. Ain't gonna happen. But it is a nice dream. Now it turns out Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone has gone public with pretty much the same dream. I was first alerted to this by Robert J. Lopez blogging at LATimes.com.
Uh, wouldn't that be... Baja California?
And it would allow the rest of the state to go ahead and neuter marriage licensing again and become even more of a Big Labor Leftist Nanny State Utopia.
What, no Orange?
We should have a part-time unicameral legislature.
There are many reasons why this won't happen. Too many people don't even understand why we have state governments, other than to give more politicians jobs. The Senate is not going to want to seat to more Senators who are likely to be Republicans. Too many people have built their careers on the status quo. The Leftists in Los Angeles and San Francisco love being able to control the people in the rest of the state - and their money.
But my dream would involve letting the Counties of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the coastal counties and any contiguous counties that want to stick with those counties stay together. The rest of the counties should annex to Oregon, Nevada, or Arizona. That way, the Senate would not need to add any members. Or, there had been recent talk of carving out a liberal state out of part of Arizona. Let them do that if a new conservative California state can be formed
It is ridiculous for Orange County to have to suffer being in the same state as San Francisco. I'm sure there are people in San Francisco who feel the same way, in reverse.
See my previous messages on splitting California on the old blog.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone is proposing that about a dozen counties break away from California to form the new "State of South California."
Uh, wouldn't that be... Baja California?
The split, Stone said Thursday, would allow officials in the new state to concentrate on securing borders, balancing budgets, improving schools and creating a vibrant economy.
And it would allow the rest of the state to go ahead and neuter marriage licensing again and become even more of a Big Labor Leftist Nanny State Utopia.
Stone suggested that Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, San Bernardino, Kings, Kern, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono counties band together to form the new state.
What, no Orange?
Among the things the new state should consider, he said, are having a part-time Legislature, shifting more power to local governments and adopting a reasonable sales tax.
We should have a part-time unicameral legislature.
There are many reasons why this won't happen. Too many people don't even understand why we have state governments, other than to give more politicians jobs. The Senate is not going to want to seat to more Senators who are likely to be Republicans. Too many people have built their careers on the status quo. The Leftists in Los Angeles and San Francisco love being able to control the people in the rest of the state - and their money.
But my dream would involve letting the Counties of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the coastal counties and any contiguous counties that want to stick with those counties stay together. The rest of the counties should annex to Oregon, Nevada, or Arizona. That way, the Senate would not need to add any members. Or, there had been recent talk of carving out a liberal state out of part of Arizona. Let them do that if a new conservative California state can be formed
It is ridiculous for Orange County to have to suffer being in the same state as San Francisco. I'm sure there are people in San Francisco who feel the same way, in reverse.
See my previous messages on splitting California on the old blog.
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