2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSix Californias Measure Heading For 2016 Ballot, Backers Say
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper will submit signatures Tuesday to put what could be one of the most dramatic startups ever on the ballot - a plan to divide California into six states.
Draper, a multimillionaire known as the Riskmaster, and his team are expected to announce in Sacramento that they've gathered more than enough signatures to put the Six Californias measure before state voters.
The measure, a constitutional amendment, needs 807,615 valid signatures to qualify. Because the deadline has already passed for November, the plan could end up on the November 2016 general election ballot.
Supporters would not say how many signatures they have gathered until Draper holds a news conference Tuesday in Sacramento. But they said they were confident they had plenty to spare.
Democrats have denounced Draper's idea, and worry that an outpouring of conservative support and a lengthy campaign for the proposal could hurt both Gov. Jerry Brown in November and the party's presidential candidate in 2016.
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http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Six-Californias-backers-say-it-s-heading-for-5621377.php
sabbat hunter
(6,835 posts)the US House and Senate would never approve it.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)It ain't gonna happen.
Here's a link from the California Group:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10406804
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)... and I'm sure it won't fly in Washington.
Glorfindel
(9,736 posts)What could possibly go wrong?
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)AND be signed by the President, in order to become official. Never going to happen.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)--Bay Area tech mangates
Galileo126
(2,016 posts)"Pay attention to MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"
MisterP
(23,730 posts)there's even a book on its right-libertarian aspect, "Cyberselfish"
regardless of politics they have a pretty messianic view of technology (I remember George Glider saying we don't need to worry about ozone because by 1997 we'll all be living inside the computers) and think that because they made money in one field they can speechify in all the others
I started thinking on this during the Hyperloop flap: first Musk lies about CAHSR and says "stop everything, I have something that'll cost nothing and never crash," and then it turned out he didn't even have a prototype, and then he quietly gave up in it
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Sad but true
Wounded Bear
(58,721 posts)1: New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
I'm not sure a referendum is even binding on something that is Costitutionally a delegated power of the legislature. I'm not so sure it 'hurts' any politicians or parties, but it could cost a lot of money and be a total waste.
DESchiller
(6 posts)Why wouldn't this benefit the Democrats? I live in California, and it looks to me like most (possibly all) of the proposed new states would have Democratic majorities. If this went through, the Democrats could easily pick up 6-8 seats in the Senate.