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Huge California County Approves Measure
of Possible Secession for 2022 Midterms

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Posted By: earlybird, 8/8/2022 7:39:01 PM

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors this week voted to add a November 2022 ballot measure that would allow the county to secede from California. The measure, which was voted on 4–0 by the supervisors Wednesday, would ask San Bernardino residents: “Do the citizens of San Bernardino County want the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors to study all options to obtain its fair share of state and federal resources, up to and including secession?” “Now, that last line is the most controversial,” said Supervisor Curt Hagman during Wednesday’s meeting about the proposal. “It’s a question we’re going to put to our residents. Do they want to include all options

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 8/8/2022 8:28:14 PM (No. 1242133)
Phase one of 'Fed Up.'
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Zeek Wolfe 8/8/2022 8:35:57 PM (No. 1242145)
I am very familiar with San Bernardino county. It is bigger than some states and you could fit two Israels and one Netherlands into the boundaries from Los Angeles county to the Arizona and Nevada state lines. For the most part the people are conservative and filled with Trump voters. San Bernardino county is part of what is called the "Inland Empire" and with neighboring Riverside county have several million residents. The people have little or nothing in common with liberals living along the coast 50 miles or so away. This is especially true of San Francisco Democrats that now run the state. Becoming a new state makes a lot of political and financial sense.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: EQKimball 8/8/2022 8:39:59 PM (No. 1242149)
California Constitution Art. 11, Sec. (a) states: "The State is divided into counties which are legal subdivisions of the State. The Legislature shall prescribe uniform procedure for county formation, consolidation, and boundary change... Sec. (3)(a)...The provisions of a charter are the law of the State and have the force and effect of legislative enactments." The problem is that even the state statututes cannot amend or contradict the State Constitution.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 8/8/2022 10:40:12 PM (No. 1242315)
Sounds like fun. Is this even possible?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: doctorfixit 8/8/2022 11:03:08 PM (No. 1242358)
Good news. The secession should proceed right down to the voting district level. Forget state secessions. Every state has a populous communist city that will block state secessions.
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