Look what I get to vote on this year.
A billionaire with money to waste has gotten a ballot initiative to qualify for the next election, to separate California into three states.
Anyone with sense in their head knows that this will never happen. It's actually been tried before. Not once. Not ten times. Not even a hundred times. There have been at least 220 efforts to hack California up into smaller states, with at least five just since 2000.
This billionaire actually tried to get a proposal on the ballot in 2016 to break the state up into six separate states. This time he had the law proposal written so that it changes a statute, instead of a constitutional provision, so it required a lot less signatures to get on the ballot. Second, it is written so that the state does not have to give consent, it's written
so that the consent of the people is implied if it passes, so it would go directly to Congress which is required to approve such a thing.
As far as I can research, nearly all of the "break California up" proposals are started by Republicans and usually businessmen. It's so contradictory when you think that Conservatives are always railing against big government, less government is better, or no government, and yet instead of one Governor they think three would be better? Instead of two Senators they'd like to have 4 more? It makes no sense.
If it passed I guess I might be living in Lo-Cal.
Or Medi-Cal.
One of the most complicated things in California that would cause the most trouble ever
if this really happened would be the hugely intricate and labyrinthine laws regarding the
water rights in this state. I can't imagine.
And just like another so-called bilillionaire you might know, he has his own college: Draper University.
The State Republican party at their recent convention even said NO to this.
The only poll that was done about this was asked once before it was confirmed as a ballot proposition.
72% said NO.
18% said YES.
10% were undecided or just don't like to answer polls.