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Showing posts with label Calexit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Calexit. Show all posts

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Maybe Trump Should Treat California Like Those Countries Who Did Not Support Him In The UN!

After Cali Promotes Secession, They’re Faced With Biggest Threat Yet

Cali "Secessionists" Now Begging for Help
 
BY BENJAMIN ARIE 
DECEMBER 27, 2017 AT 12:25PM
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It’s been said that “pride comes before a fall”… but it might come before winter, too.
Not long after the presidential election, liberal Californians voiced their displeasure with the result using the only mature course of action: They threatened to secede.
It may seem far-fetched, but the “Calexit” movement to leave the United States as a protest against President Donald Trump has picked up a surprising amount of steam, along with similar plans to split the large state into several different territories.
The “leave America” crowd may have been shortsighted, however. California has faced a rash of wildfires that have embarrassingly forced the state to request assistance from the Trump-run federal government — and the area could face an even more serious threat this winter.
According to The Los Angeles Times, a very dry and hot winter season could mean disastrous droughts.
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“California’s dismally dry autumn paints a bleak outlook for the state’s rainy season, unless the weather this winter makes a big about-face,” the newspaper reported.
“Essentially in California, especially Southern California, we’re reliant on a pretty small number of precipitation events to … bring most of the water,” stated UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain. “And it’s easy to miss out on just a couple of events and have a dry year.”
That dry spell has already wreaked havoc on the state by dramatically increasing the wildfire risk.
“This October and November were the hottest in 122 years of record keeping for the region,” the Times reported.
“The dry conditions are partly to blame for the worst fire season on record in California. Low humidity and lack of rain coupled with high winds fueled destructive wildfires from Mendocino down to San Diego this fall.”
As those flames raged throughout California, several of Trump’s opponents were forced to eat crow and all but beg the president for federal help.
“I respectfully request you declare a major disaster in the state of California as a result of the devastating wildfires burning in Southern California for weeks,” Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown wrote to Trump last week, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.
“(T)his incident is of such severity and magnitude that an effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments and supplemental federal assistance is necessary,” the left-leaning governor continued.
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Two other Democrats — both extremely critical of Trump — also sent a joint letter asking the president and the federal government to intervene.
“This year’s wildfire season in California has been nothing short of catastrophic,” wrote Sens. Kamala Harris and Dianne Feinstein.
Admitting that your state can’t handle an emergency is not exactly a glowing endorsement for the California secession movement.
In fact, the same governor who is now begging Trump to send in the cavalry claimed that he felt threatened by the United States of America just a year ago.
“We’d have to build a wall around California to defend ourselves from the rest of this country,” Brown said last year of the prospect of a Trump election win, according to Politico.
Now he can’t wait for “the rest of the country” to come to his aid — and if the winter is as dry as experts predict, even more federal assistance might be needed soon. Life comes at you fast, Jerry.
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Will CalExit?


Supporter Of California Secession Movement: ‘Our Values Are Different’ Than The United States

"...we disregard what the United States thinks ..."By Randy DeSoto
on August 2, 2017 at 11:36am

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A leader for the CalExit movement told Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson that California is not part of the United States and it’s time to formalize that reality.
“This is California. We’re not the United States. Our values are different,” said Shankar Singram, vice president of the California Freedom Coalition. “We’re fundamentally different in how we act and speak and think about the world globally. Whether it has to do with war, the climate, the environment. We’re just a different state.”
He added, “We are going to do things that are beneficial for our state, and we disregard what the United States thinks or even their laws,” pointing to sanctuary cities and marijuana laws as examples where California is currently defying the feds.

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As reported by Western Journalism, Californians may soon get the opportunity to vote to secede. The state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, issued an official ballot measure title last week allowing CalExit supporters to start gathering the 585,000 signatures needed to place the matter before California voters in 2018.
“The initiative [titled ‘California Autonomy From Federal Government’] would form a commission to recommend avenues for California to pursue its independence and delete part of the state constitution that says it is an inseparable part of the U.S. The measure would also instruct the governor and California congressional delegation to negotiate more autonomy for the state,” according to the Associated Press.
“You’re breaking up the United States, that’s your goal.” Carlson said to Singram.

“We’re still here. We’re still trading with each other, communicating with each other. Families are still going to see each other. It’s not as if we’re moving millions of miles away,” Singram said.
Carlson pointed out that even if Californians vote for independence, it does not have the unilateral authority to leave the country. It must be approved by the other states through the amendment process.
“It’s not actually up to California. It’s up to the rest of the states whether California can really leave the union, and this could quite easily turn into conflict,” said the Fox News host. “It did in the 1860s when South Carolina tried it.”

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Singram believes the other states would likely be happy to see California go.
“Do the rest of the states really love California? From what I’ve been hearing, we’re snowflakes and we’re hippies. We’re in huge debt crisis,” Singram said.
Marcus Ruiz Evans, a spokesman for the CalExit initiative, said in January that Donald Trump’s election has greatly fueled his group’s cause, which dates back more than two years.
“If California votes were taken away, Trump won the popular election,” said Evans. “So what kind of people elect a man like that? The answer: not Californians.”
“So we’re basically here to tell people that ‘I know that California officials are telling you that they’re going to protect you, but in fact in federalism, the federal government, overrules state law,” he added. “There is going to be a limit to what they can do.”
Evans told reporters the Supreme Court has already recognized the right of states to secede in Texas v. White (1869), though the justices actually held states do not have the right to secede unilaterally.
His group, Yes California, has 20,000 followers on Twitter and over 40,000 likes on Facebook.
Both Evans and Singram argue that California, as the 5th largest economy in the world, will do just fine on its own.
At $2.6 trillion, the Golden State’s economy dwarfs the GDP’s of its sister states. Its closest rival is Texas with a GDP of approximately $1.6 trillion.
California also has the largest population by far of any state with 39 million (or 12 percent of the United States), with Texas second at 28 million, followed by Florida and New York, each with approximately 20 million.
CalExit supporters have 180 days to collect the required 585,000 signatures for the measure to appear on the ballot in 2018.
What do you think?
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

Is Calexit The Latest Brexit?


Break away from the USA? The effort to cleave California faces its own split



If there’s one thing Jed Wheeler and Marcus Ruiz Evans agree on, it’s that things in California need to change.
The state sends too much money to Washington, they say, and is both politically and culturally out of step with a country that lacks its openness and vitality.
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“We can solve our own problems and don’t need to wait on a government 3,000 miles away,” said Wheeler, echoing Evans’ suggestion that Democratic-leaning California would be far better off going it alone as a separate country.
They sharply disagree, though, on the matter of how and precisely when California should seek a divorce from the other 49 states.


Evans is pushing a ballot measure that would put the question of secession before voters in 2018, believing the time has never been so ripe to form a breakaway nation. Wheeler is working to create a pro-secession political party, looking a dozen or more years down the road when its candidates hold office, and fears that a premature vote would undermine the effort.
In short, the effort to cleave California faces a crackup of its own.
At least four proposals are floating about to reshape the state in some fashion, including two that would split up California along different axes. All work at cross-purposes, and the result is varied degrees of hostility among proponents; none of the plans seems likely to reach fruition anytime soon, if ever.
That is something they have in common.


Since 1849, when the state was remade in a rush of greed and ambition, there have been more than 200 efforts to split apart, pull away or otherwise reimagine the vast empire known as California. Not one has succeeded.
The latest, most conspicuous attempt, a proposed ballot initiative fueled by anti-Trump sentiments and titillated national media coverage (those wacky Californians!) seems destined to fall short of qualifying for the ballot, barring a sudden change in fortune.
Supporters of the measure, led by Evans, have until July 25 to collect nearly 600,000 valid signatures to place an independence measure before voters in November 2018. The group, which received the go-ahead to collect signatures at the end of January, has yet to reach a quarter of that number, according to the California secretary of state’s office.


The group has also not reported raising any campaign contributions, according to the secretary’s office, which oversees elections.
Evans, 40, a former government affairs consultant now working full-time on the “Calexit” campaign, insisted a robust signature-gathering process was underway, engaging thousands of volunteers in 82 chapters across the state. However, the precise number collected was unknown, he said, because of the loose structure of his pro-secession group, Yes California.
“Some are mailing them in. Some are holding them. Some are taking them directly to their county registrar of voters,” he said. Asked to assess the odds of making the ballot, Evans responded, “Good. I won’t say great.”
The effort, uphill from the start, has not been helped, he said, by reports linking the Calexit movement to Russia, which Evans called preposterous and unfair. The co-leader of Yes California is Louis Marinelli, a former San Diego-area Assembly candidate now teaching English in Russia, where, among promotional activities, he appeared last fall at a Kremlin-backed pro-secession conference in Moscow.
“It has definitely been damaging to us getting big donors and hurting our ability to bring on new members because of clouding the issue without accurately reporting all the facts,” Evans said, citing the organization’s 44,000 “likes” on Facebook as just one example.
Nor, he said, was it beneficial when Nigel Farage, a leading proponent of Britain’s exit from the European Union and prominent Trump supporter, recently flitted into California to talk up a vague plan to split the state down the middle, creating a coastal “West California” and interior “East California.”
“They’re trying to confuse people,” Evans huffed. “Classic Trump.”
It seems Evans and his pro-secession movement might have found an ally in Wheeler and others working to form a political party dedicated to achieving state independence. Many tenets of the left-leaning California National Party — the state needs to keep more of the money it sends to Washington and establish home-grown policies on issues such as immigration and healthcare — echo those propounded by Yes California.
The nascent party has taken no official position on the 2018 secession drive. But Wheeler, the party’s vice chairman, believes the initiative would lose, damaging the independence movement. Better, he said, to elect sympathetic lawmakers under the National Party banner who could then work to bring about California’s eventual departure.
“We’re trying to be very pragmatic and realistic where we are as a movement,” said Wheeler, 36, who works for a digital media company in San Francisco.
While “the idea of having a ballot initiative is seductive and appeals to a lot of people,” he said, “you can’t harvest the crop without the work of planting the seeds, then tilling the soil and all that stuff first.”
In California’s far north, a determined group of dissenters have done that labor for decades — so far to no avail.
Efforts have been underway since before World War II to break off more than a dozen rural counties and combine them with a chunk of southern Oregon to form Jefferson, the nation’s 51st state.
The impetus is the same that drives backers of secession: the notion of a far-off government (in this case, Sacramento) ignoring local sentiments and a sense of being outnumbered and outvoted by a population whose social and political views are at odds with the prevailing (in this instance, conservative) culture. The proposed flag — a pair of Xs, or double cross — captures the animating sentiment.
“We really don’t have fair representation,” said Terry Rapoza, 67, a leader of the Jefferson movement in Shasta County, where he sells T-shirts and other souvenir clothing in Redding.
He cited recent passage of a 10-year, $52-billion road repair and transportation bill; the hike in gas taxes, he said, will have much less impact in urban California than in rural stretches, where people might drive 20 miles to the grocery store, or a dozen miles to pick up their mail.
But he has little use for secession, which strikes him as bizarre — would the new California nation have its own nuclear arsenal and U.N. representative, he wonders — and fruitless in ending the urban-rural divide he blames for persistently short-changing his part of the state.
There’s something wrong and even vaguely un-American, he suggested, about trying to break the country apart. “We want to add a star to the flag,” Rapoza said. “Not take one off.”
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