Chris “Badger” Thomas RIGHT WING TRIBUNE–
An initiative to divide California into three states has received enough signatures to qualify it for the November ballot, the California secretary of state’s office confirmed Tuesday, Fox News reports.
The three-states campaign, dubbed “Cal-3,” submitted more than 600,000 signatures.
Tim Draper, a billionaire Silicon Valley venture capital investor, sponsored the ballot measure to divide America’s most populous state into three jurisdictions, the Mercury News of San Jose, Calif., reported.
— California would be made up of six mainly coastal counties, including Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
— Northern California would include 40 counties from Santa Cruz to the Oregon border, including San Francisco and Sacramento, the state’s current capital.
— Southern California would comprise 12 counties, including Fresno, Kern, Orange and San Diego counties.
“California government has rotted,” Draper told the Mercury News last month. “We need to empower our population to improve their government.”
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Venture capitalist Tim Draper, who pushed for a six-state proposal, now has a three-state proposal called “CAL3,”.
“California government has rotted. We need to empower our population to improve their government.”
If the proposal passes, the Bay Area, along with counties north of Merced, would be considered as Northern California. Along the coast, from Monterey to Los Angeles, would be California and the counties to the east would be Southern California.
The population of each new state would range from 13.9 million people in Southern California, 13.3 million in Northern California and 12.3 million in California. The three new states would still be among the top ten most populous in the country.
If it passes, it all has to be approved by Congress, who not be eager to further share their own power by creating four new U.S. senators for the West Coast.
Not to mention California’s water rights, state pensions, prisons and education funding. Figuring all this out takes time and money, and so would setting up three new governments.
Analysts from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics predict that the new California and Northern California would be Democratic-leaning, while Southern California would be a swing state.
Chris “Badger” Thomas is a Veteran who served our country as an Army Combat Medic.
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