LF: 'Six Californias' plan may make 2016 ballot (leaving Cali without going anywhere)

Title: 'Six Californias' plan may make 2016 ballot (leaving Cali without going anywhere)
Source: USA TODAY
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/ ... draper/12661161/?csp=fbfanpage
Published: Jul 21, 2015
Author: Laura Mandaro
Post Date: 2015-07-21 20:42:17 by Hondo68
Keywords: Movin on up, finally got a, piece of the pie
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Comments: 22

USA Today Network Laura Mandaro, USA TODAY Network

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this report misspelled the name of venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

SAN FRANCISCO — A plan backed by venture capitalist Tim Draper to split California into six states has gained enough signatures to make the November 2016 ballot, the plan's backers say.

A Twitter account belonging to the nonprofit Six Californias tweeted on Monday that "#SixCalifornias will be submitting signatures in Sacramento tomorrow for placement on the November 2016 ballot. Stay tuned for coverage!"

On Tuesday, Draper told USA Today the campaign had garnered 1.3 million signatures, well over the approximately 808,000 needed.

Draper is a founding member of the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, known for its investments in successful growth ventures such as Hotmail, Baidu, Tesla Motors and Skype. Recently, Draper won the federal government's auction of bitcoins once owned by online drugs portal Silk Road. He's championed the political break-up of the state for over a year, but it's taken until recently for the plan to gain some momentum.

A movement to split California into six states gained enough traction to land on the 2016 ballot. Other states have also tried, unsuccessfully, to split up. Find out which ones on USA NOW.

Draper and other supporters of the break-up argue that the state's 38 million people would be better served by smaller governments and elected officials who would be able to work more closely with their constituents.

"If we have six Californias and we in effect dissolve the one we've got, those six allow us a new start," Draper says in a video posted on the Six Californias website. Each state, which would have its own capital and legislature, would be able to write its own constitution.

Jefferson: The northern part of the state, including Humboldt and Mendocino counties.
North California: The wine country counties of Sonoma and Napa, as well as the Sierra Nevada region.
Silicon Valley: Including San Francisco, San Jose and most of what's considered the San Francisco Bay Area.
Central California: The vast central valley farm region, including Tulare and Fresno counties.
West California: Including Santa Barbara and Los Angeles.
South California: Including what's called the Inland Empire of San Bernadino and Riverside, plus San Diego.

The plan has met with resistance from California's Democratic majority, and a Field Poll found 59% of Californians surveyed were against the plan, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Democratic strategist Steven Maviglio didn't mince words criticizing the plan. He tweeted Monday:

But interest in the plan has been strong enough to send Draper and his campaigners to Sacramento — for now, the one and only capital of California.

A proposal backed by nonprofit organization Six Californias to divide California into six states has received enough signatures to make the November 2016 ballot, but others say it's not a practical plan.

Breaking up California would free certain areas from domination from the nuttiness and the dingbat governers such as Brown that more degenerate areas inflict upon the remainder of the state.

They may encounter a few trubs getting the other states in Congress to go along with giving the land of fruits and nuts 10 more senators.

I'm sure the requirement of extra office space and desks in the Capital building will be the real deal killer.

And after 25 years of kookifornian influence, instead of one libtard state, we'll have six more.

You wanna escape the madness of libtard, over taxed and over regulated shithole kookifornia?.... MOVE TO ANOTHER STATE.

You can't fix libtarism by staying and funding it, even if you break it up in 7 parts. You'll only beat libtardism by BANKRUPTING IT... and you will do that if every tax paying non libtard moves from kookifornia and leaves behind just illegals, welfare and criminals. The most left of the workers won't be able to sustain such an economy... but they are right now, with heavy deficits, with your help. BY STAYING.

The problem with the idea of letting California implode financially is this: The Ruling Class will not let it happen.

And the US still has a large pool of taxpayers who's pockets can be picked to bail California out.

Like, Greece, if kookifornia gets bailed out, then so be it. It will need re-bailing quicker each time a bandaid is applied instead of fixing the gushing wound. It still doesn't make the idea of all of Americas fed up working class all relocating to 3 or 4 states... and from their can break away from the Libtard madness, in a bigger, more intelligent move then breaking up a libtard shithole in 6 parts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/us/with-surplus-in-hand-california-eyes-debt.html?_r=0

Ever since he came into office, Gov. Jerry Brown has promised to address what he has long called the state’s “wall of debt” built up over years. And now that the nation’s most populous state is looking at a multibillion-dollar surplus, Mr. Brown, in a $155 billion state budget proposal submitted on Thursday, is pledging to make good on that promise.

Your bullshit is the same skewed playing with numbers the Feds to with unemployment stats. Wake the fuck up and smell your libtard coffee.

Kookifornia is actually 443 BILLION in debt... aside from all the budget gimmicks that you libtards actually fall for.

"According to Governor Brown’s 2014-15 proposed budget, California’s Wall of Debt amounts to $26.2 billion and largely includes short-term debts incurred since 2007-08. These debts include postponed payments to schools, community colleges, and California’s Medicaid program (Medi-Cal). Among these debts are the “deferral of state payroll costs from June to July,” an accounting gimmick that appears to reduce the year’s overall payroll costs by delaying and pushing those payments into the next fiscal year. Another opaque budget approach included temporarily shifting money from dedicated funding pools called Special Funds to pay for other areas of the budget. Ultimately, such accounting gimmicks obscure a government’s true financial condition and undermine fiscal transparency by limiting the public’s ability to fairly and accurately evaluate the state’s budgetary and fiscal health. For example, the state has repeatedly resorted to borrowing from internal pools of money to “balance the budget.” On paper and in reality, this type of gimmick misrepresents actual costs to citizens, the media, departments, and policymakers."

Slap yourself. That shithole overspent over the last 75 years.... and they'll never reach ZERO until it implodes.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-09/california-s-brown-urges-caution-as-record-revenue-swells-budget

(Bloomberg) -- California Governor Jerry Brown is faced with a dilemma other leaders would love to have as he releases his budget today: what to do with record tax revenue expected to leave the most populous U.S. state with a growing surplus.

The state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office projects California will take in at least $2 billion more in revenue this fiscal year than what is estimated in the budget. That has lawmakers from Brown’s Democratic party calling on the 76-year-old governor to spend more on safety-net programs and other priorities. Brown urges caution, pointing out that most of the additional revenue must by law go to public schools.

“The state budget, after a decade of fiscal turbulence, is finally balanced -- more precariously than I would like - but balanced,” Brown told lawmakers earlier this week in his annual state of the state speech.

For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.---John 1:17

California is so big I believe it has a very diverse political sentiments that vary with geography, so some of those 10 additional senators, perhaps most of them, would likely have conservative sentiments.

.... for whatever that is worth. Supposed "conservatives" have been behind the wars started under Bush and continued under Obama, in the name of "might makes right" America.

They still owe over 400 BILLION... because of past out of control libtard spending.

And don't forget, kookifornia is one of the highest taxed state in the 50. You assholes are doomed.

Like when they got rid of the Republicans in the White House and balanced the budget under Clinton it will take time to undo the damage Arnold and his party did.

I already posted this up in post 12... but Pericles is too libtarded to understand debt... and when faced with the cold hard fact, Pericles will blame the whole problem on one past republican... like O'bunghole does with Bush.

Yeah, proposed budgets are like fairy tales. The end of year balance sheet tells a different tale.

Liberals live in fairy tales... Unemployment is down, a million new jobs... 200.00 bucks and I'll sell you a bridge.

The Federal debt went down in 1957 under Eisenhower. That is the last time it went down, the Clinton "surpluses" notwithstanding. Both parties have spent more than they took in for nearly 60 consecutive years.