Posted on 13 July 2011.
It appears that, while still incredibly far from success, the secession movement proposed by county supervisor Jeff Stone of Riverside County is still on the tracks. It is reported the Riverside County Board of Supervisors agreed to endorse secession provided no tax monies were used to promote it:
Elected officials in Riverside County endorsed a proposal Tuesday to discuss cleaving California in two, but with a catch: No public funds can be spent on the budding secessionist movement.
The Governor of California, Jerry Brown, was appropriately respectful of the effort:
It’s a supremely ridiculous waste of everybody’s time,” said spokesman Gil Duran. “If you want to live in a Republican state with very conservative right-wing laws, then there’s a place called Arizona.’
People are doing exactly that! This sarcastic answer would be more amusing had this story not appeared in CNN Money the very same day! One of the states seeking California business is Arizona!
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