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RandySF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 08:22 PM
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Campaign to split California returns.
A Southern California Republican says it is time to split California in half.

Jeff Stone, a Riverside County supervisor from Temecula, says he wants 13 of the state's mostly conservative counties to break away and become "South California".

The proposed South California would be made up of Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Mono, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Tulare and Riverside counties. That totals about 13 million people.

A spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown says this is a laughable political stunt.

"It's a supremely ridiculous waste of everybody's time," spokesman Gil Duran told the Times. "If you want to live in a Republican state with very conservative right-wing laws, then there's a place called Arizona."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43716735/ns/local_news-san_francisco_bay_area_ca/?GT1=43001
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 08:23 PM
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1. Does he think southern California is going to be a red state? /nt
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 08:24 PM
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2. If he leaves out LA, yes
That's what he wants actually
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21st Century FDR Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 08:25 PM
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3. It could very well be
Edited on Mon Jul-11-11 08:26 PM by 21st Century FDR
They would have Orange County, San Diego, and all the desert shitholes in the southeast.

RimJob's in Fresno, isn't he?
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-11 10:57 AM
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7. Those "desert shitholes" are what make Los Angeles possible
Your water comes through us, your garbage is dumped here, and most of the renewable energy in the state comes from said "desert shitholes"
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Bennyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 08:34 PM
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4. Good.
Lets charge them for water. NORCAL Will clean up on that by itself.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-12-11 10:55 AM
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6. Los Angeles would die without water from other counties
Let us not forget one of the biggest government owned and operated environmental disasters (Mono lake)
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 09:47 PM
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5. Divide and conquer, as the saying goes. Why am I not surprised that
it's Repigs who want to do this to a blue state??
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