AS CALIFORNIA CONSIDERS DIVIDING INTO 3 STATES, COULD ILLINOIS CONSIDER DIVIDING, TOO?
SPRINGFIELD - Because enough California voters signed onto a proposal that would create three separate states with California's current borders, what they're calling "Cal 3" will be on the General Election ballot for consideration in November.
"The California state government isn't too big to fail, because it is already failing its citizens in so many crucial ways," Citizens for Cal 3 campaign spokeswoman Peggy Grande said Tuesday. "The reality is that for an overmatched, overstretched and overwrought state-government structure, it is too big to succeed. Californians deserve a better future."
Under the "Cal 3" proposal, each state would have about 12.3 million to 13.9 million people: "California" would include six counties: Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey and San Benito counties. "Southern California" would include 12 counties: San Diego, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, Mono, Madera, Inyo, Tulare, Fresno, Kings, Kern and Imperial counties. "Northern California" would include 40 counties including the San Francisco Bay Area and the remaining counties north of Sacramento.
California is different from Illinois, in that voter-led referendum there can have an effect on public policy, whereas in Illinois, all referendum are advisory only.
But the California proposal brings to mind a resolution introduced in the Illinois General Assembly just before the end of session by GOP State Reps. Reginald Phillips - Brad Halbrook and Joe Sosnowski, who voiced their dismay with Chicago politics, its weight on the state's finances and the city's radical Leftist views on major social issues.
Democrat leadership in the Illinois House did not move the resolution out of Rules Committee before the end of session.
I think it would be great,toss in parts of NW Indiana and SE Wisconsin and it would have the distinction of being the largest welfare receiving state in our Union. Heck you can even make Rahm the king of this whole too
ReplyDeleteI am curious whether breaking up Cali into three separate states would allow the 30 percent or more of Californians who vote Republican to have some say in how their "state" is governed? Also would it create in effect say two liberal Democrat states but one conservative Republican state? If so that could have enormous consequences in future Presidential contests.
ReplyDeleteState Electoral College and a State Bank just like North Dakota would solve a lot of problems Rauner and Ives both wouldn't bring them up. Rauner will lose Republican stoners voting for Pritzker to legalize Marijuana!
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