Talk of Seceding

[erpowers]

A senator from Western Washington State is pusing a bill that will allow Western Washington secede from the rest of Washington State. The Washington Post has the full story on their website. Some Republicans have signed on with him and one Democrat. The Democrats support the bill because he thinks Western Washington takes too much tax money from Eastern Washington.

[Stand and Fight]

1. Link.

Please do post a link...

[erpowers]

9. Here it Is

Go to Air America Radio (www.airamericaradio.com) they have a link to it, or you could go to www.washingtonpost.com.

[RoeBear]

2. I've heard of Northern California

wanting to seceed. Maybe they could join up with western Washington and Oregon too. Fun to talk about- ain't gonna happen.

[WI_DEM]

3. this will go nowhere.

let's hope not anyway.

[atommom]

4. This will probably be about as successful as western Kansas's

attempt to secede from the rest of the state a few years ago! :eyes:

[Walt Starr]

5. It's uncontistutional under Article IV., Section 3. Clause 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.

To do what is suggested, they'll have to get with Idaho, have part of Idaho break off, and have the Idaho legislature, the Washington legislature, and the U.S. Congress consent.

The semicolon moves the consent clause to being wholly applicable only to the Jucntion clause.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Well other constiution

rules have been broken. So why not? Clearly the Constiution doesn't matter anymore. *sigh*

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Actually, it's Eastern Washington that wants to go. I'm for it.

Of course, I live in Western Washington, the Blue/Green part. They could call their new stat Redneckia or North Texas.

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. good, we should have 60 states

West Washington
South California
North California
South Texas
Long Island
South Florida
East Pennsylvania
North Ohio
North New York
West Michigan

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Add east and west Oregon.

Sounds good to me.

[bunkerbuster1]

12. Add Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and da Bronx

and DC.

[noonwitch]

13. We do not want W. Michigan to have their own state

It would be a red state, and probably a theocracy, if they could manage to do it. I would water down Michigan's electoral votes, because there would be no major metropolis to counter act the conservative votes.

[Igel]

10. How's this sound?

Redraw the borders of Oregon and Washington: The eastern parts of both states form one new state, and the western parts form another.

Then the redneck repubs don't have to put up with the latte-drinking dems, and vice-versa.

[ScottNeelan]

11. Dosn't Quite Work

Unfortunately, there are just as many redneck repubs in the Western part of Oregon as they're are in the east. It's Northern Oregon that's relatively redneck-free.

This whole issue reminds me of Northern California and Southern Oregon trying to form the state of Jefferson. It'll never happen...as previously said it's not even constitutional. But it's still fun to laugh at.