New California strives to be 51st state [View all]

[TexasTowelie]

MARYSVILLE, CA (RNN) – The founders of the New California movement “declared independence” from the current state Monday in a bid to separate the rural and urban counties.

Robert Paul Preston and Tom Reed, the founders of the movement which launched in 2016, describe California in its current form as “ungovernable.”

They read their own version of a declaration of independence in Marysville, CA, Monday in a bid to eventually form their own state.

“High taxes, education, you name it, and we’re rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California,” Preston told KOVR.

Read more: http://www.enidnews.com/cnhi_network/new-california-strives-to-be-st-state/article_42ac8b47-73be-5fe5-8e02-ed97eb8c13aa.html