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Could California be split up into 6 states?
Billionaire Wants To Break Up California Into 6 States.
http://sourcefed.com/billionaire-wan...into-6-states/ Silicon Valley enthusiast, and venture capitalist Tom Draper is known for backing incredible companies such as Hotmail, Tesla Motors, and Skype. Now he’s backing a new proposal: Breaking up California into 6 separate states. Draper feels a large state such as California would be better served by smaller governments. Roger Salazar, a spokesmen for the campaign stated: “It’s important because it will help us create a more responsive, more innovative and more local government, and that ultimately will end up being better for all of Californians. The idea … is to create six states with responsive local governments – states that are more representative and accountable to their constituents.” The campaign has gathered over 800,000 signatures needed to place the measure onto the November 2016 ballot, but opponents say that it has little chance making it past both the voters and Congress. Steven Maviglio, a Democratic political strategist who has formed the group OneCalifornia with GOP strategist Joe Rodota to fight Draper’s plan stated: “This is a colossal and divisive waste of time, energy, and money that will hurt the California brand. It has zero chance of passage. But what it does is scare investment away… at a time when the Governor is leading us to an economic comeback.” Draper’s plan splits the world’s eighth-largest economy along geographic lines creating the states. Silicon Valley would include the valley along with the San Francisco Bay Area, Jefferson would encompass the northernmost region, North California would encompass the state capital of Sacramento, while South California would be made up of San Diego and the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles. Los Angeles would be part of a state called West California. Central California would take Fresno, Bakersfield, and Stockton and would also be the largest of the six. |
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07-16-2014, 02:50 PM | #137 |
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Sure there is. It's called 75 Degree weather on a lake tied up to a ton of other boats enjoying sights of God's handy work.
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07-16-2014, 02:52 PM | #139 |
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With the top up?
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07-16-2014, 03:21 PM | #142 |
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Not from 6:00am to 9:00am, or 3:00pm to 7:00pm, it isn't!
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07-16-2014, 03:29 PM | #143 |
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About 5 minutes from Downtown, so Central SD.
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07-16-2014, 03:31 PM | #146 |
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Pretty much.
Same with San Diego. We can go take a 45 minute drive (still within the county) and play in the snow during the winter. At select times obviously. It doesn't snow very often, but we do get snow. Nothing like what the rest of the country gets of course. I use to go up to Big Bear once a year back when i was a teen. Really nice up there.
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Hillcrest is Hillcrest, not Downtown. The fact that that area stands out in your head says more about you than it does me.
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lol i was just ****ing around. u said 5 minutes from downtown. that could mean a lot of places. i lived in pb and mb for 2 years after college
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Im probably going to end up moving way out east closer to where I work.
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07-16-2014, 03:58 PM | #150 |
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Good idea! Let's see if those commies in LA can support themselves without the rest of the state. If so fine. It still frees everyone else in that state.
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