• Home
  • About
  • Articles
    • National Review
    • Washington Examiner
    • The Hill Newspaper
    • The College Fix
    • Academic Papers
  • Media Appearances
  • Ascendyn Advertising
  • Contact
    • Home
    • About
    • Articles
      • National Review
      • Washington Examiner
      • The Hill Newspaper
      • The College Fix
      • Academic Papers
    • Media Appearances
    • Ascendyn Advertising
    • Contact

    California’s Secession Movement Gains Traction in Wake of Trump’s Election

    January 27, 2017

    California’s secession movement has grown significantly since Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. The golden state overwhelmingly disapproved of Trump at the ballot box — nearly 3.5 million more Californians voted for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton than voted for Trump — and a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that one in three Californians now support the secession movement. (In 2014, only 20 percent of Californians favored secession.)

    “Yes California,” the leading political action committee fighting for California’s independence from the union, has capitalized on the shift in public opinion. The campaign committee submitted a proposal to Secretary of State Alex Padilla on Thursday, allowing it to collect the necessary number of signatures to create a ballot measure for the November 2018 election; 585,407 Californians must sign the petition by July 25.

    If “Yes California” reaches the signature threshold, Californians will vote on whether to repeal provisions in California’s constitution that outline the state’s relationship to the union. According to California’s attorney general Xavier Becerra in his summary of the initiative, there are two constitutional clauses in question: that “California is an inseparable part of the United States and that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land.” At least half of California’s registered voters must participate and 55 percent of those voters must approve the measure for it to pass. If it did pass, it would trigger a vote scheduled in March 2019 to ask voters whether California should “become a free, sovereign, and independent country.”

    Read More at National Review

    Share

    National Review




      © Copyright Austin R. Yack 2021

      Cleantalk Pixel