SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — With the reading of their own version of a Declaration of Independence, founders of the state of New California took the first steps to what they hope will eventually lead to statehood.
To be clear, they don’t want to leave the United States, just California.
“Well, it’s been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you name it, and we’re rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California,” said founder Robert Paul Preston.
The state of New California would incorporate most of the state’s rural counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of California.
“There’s something wrong when you have a rural county such as this one, and you go down to Orange County which is mostly urban, and it has the same set of problems, and it happens because of how the state is being governed and taxed,” Preston said.
But unlike other separation movements in the past the state of New California wants to do things by the book, citing Article 4, Section 3 of the US Constitution and working with the state legislature to get it done, similar to the way West Virginia was formed.
“Yes. We have to demonstrate that we can govern ourselves before we are allowed to govern,” said founder Tom Reed.
And despite obstacles, doubters, and obvious long odds the group stands united in their statehood dream.
The group is organized with committees and a council of county representatives, but say it will take 10 to 18 months before they are ready to fully engage with the state legislature.
” The group is organized with committees and a council of county representatives, but say it will take 10 to 18 months before they are ready to fully engage with the state legislature. ”
….and will take 10 to 18 seconds to be infiltrated and CORPORATIZED, leading to no real freedom, unless they find a way to divest of the corporate charter under the current California. Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic in my opinion, but may God grant them a measure of success in regaining a semblance of the Republic, under unalienable God Given Rights.
A bureaucratic approach to fighting bureaucracy.
“… the group stands united in their statehood dream….”
And what are they gong to do when the old California says “no. You can’t leave.”?
They’ll throw their hands up and say “well we tried, but they said “no”, so I guess we’ll just have to work our asses off to feed wetbacks for the rest of our lives”.
Deport all the illegals in those affected areas, then ask what the natives want to do.
“The state of New California would incorporate most of the state’s rural counties, leaving the urban coastal counties to the current state of California.”
Sounds pointless. Let’s say the New California happens. The old California will just expand and push their urban counties into New California and the whole mess will happen all over again.
Once again, they are building a wall and tackling the symptom rather than the killing the ROOT of the problem.
When will people ever learn? When will they realize that they have to get their feet wet and their hands DIRTY in order to do something?