{"id":17395,"date":"2018-06-13T16:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T23:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17395"},"modified":"2018-06-13T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T23:22:50","slug":"3-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/06\/13\/3-states\/","title":{"rendered":"3 states"},"content":{"rendered":"

The dream of cutting California into multiple parts…<\/p>\n

… Really, not necessarily a bad idea — ask West Virginia for a historical precedent —<\/p>\n

proceeds with a new ballot initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a different splinting than the last one I remember — the one that mostly appeared to split LA, San Francisco, and Sacramento away — transparently partisan ideal in order to create a “red state” from the partisanally overwhelmed.\u00c2\u00a0 (See here that particular map’s endorsement from the National Review<\/a>.)\u00c2\u00a0 Indeed, most activism appears set on this one.\u00c2\u00a0 Take it for a venture capitalist to jump past them with more money and resources at the ready and get somewhere with some other map that doesn’t benefit them in the same manner.<\/p>\n

This new configuration — well,\u00c2\u00a0the Northern-most part of Northern California will still be left aching to form that fictional state of “Jefferson” with Southern Oregon — I suppose, and the Orange County laden Southern California will be liable to be the one that might be purple.<\/p>\n

Unless, I suppose, some Arnold Schwarzenegger-wannabe has claims on the Los Angeles state.<\/p>\n

Lt. Gov Gavin Newsom, the Democratic nominee for governor, said Tuesday he opposes the measure.<\/em><\/p>\n

Curious:\u00c2\u00a0 and is there any word from the Republican nominee for governor?\u00c2\u00a0 (May be just idiosyncratic enough to go for it.)<\/p>\n

I suppose the partisan wrestling won’t mean too much, once someone brushes off old John Garner’s idea of splitting off breaking Texas apart into five different states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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