Well, we aren’t either.
Only, we here is Weld County, CO — and several other counties that are joining us or are preparing to join us — are actually trying to do something about it. Aside from the civil disobedience with which we’re already making our displeasure known, which includes a refusal by our district reps and state senators to follow the anti-gun laws passed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bought-and-paid for Colorado Democrat coalition, which includes all of the Democrat-led assembly people and Senators along with Colorado’s Democrat Governor.
Not living in New York, many of us feel we shouldn’t be constrained by the wishes of a wealthy New York Mayor, particularly one who I’m honestly convinced believes he was put on this earth to serve as its king.
The Weld County Commissioners voted unanimously at Monday’s meeting to place a measure on the Nov. 5 ballot asking voters whether they want the county to join other rural counties in forming another state.
“The concerns of rural Coloradans have been ignored for years,” William Garcia, chairman of the Weld County Commissioners, said in a statement. “The last session was the straw that broke the camel’s back for many people. They want change. They want to be heard.”
Three other rural counties — Cheyenne, Sedgwick and Yuma — also plan to place the 51st state referendum on the fall ballot. At least three more counties plan to consider the proposal this week at their commission meetings, said Jeffrey Hare, spokesman for the 51st State Initiative.
Known for its agriculture and oil and gas production, Weld is the largest of the Colorado counties exploring a break with the state after the legislature’s sharp turn to the left with bills restricting access to firearms and doubling the state’s renewable-energy mandate for rural areas.
Democrats control both houses of the legislature and the governor’s office. Two Democratic state senators — Angela Giron and John Morse — are facing Sept. 10 recall elections in response to the legislature’s gun control votes.
Forming a state isn’t easy: Even if the ballot measures pass, the Colorado state legislature would be required to amend the constitution to configure the state’s borders and refer a request for a new state to Congress.
Approving a 51st state would require a majority vote of both houses of Congress, although the Constitution doesn’t require the signature of the president, Mr. Hare said.
“Again, folks say this can never happen. However, we are starting to hear from disenfranchised groups all over the country,” said a post on the 51st State Initiative’s website. “We are truly a divided nation. It is possible, if not likely, that we may not be the only group requesting from Congress the formation of a new state.”
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Given the complexities involved with creating a state, Mr. Hare said, the Northern Colorado movement is considering two other options: asking Wyoming to annex Colorado’s northern counties or requesting that the state legislature redraw its Senate districts to give a senator to each of the state’s 64 counties, analogous to how the U.S. apportions seats by state, regardless of their populations.
Colorado now has 35 senators in districts drawn by population, giving the state’s urban areas far greater sway in the state legislature.
And many of those who’ve poured into our urban areas come from states that they left already bankrupt.
It’s like we’re being ruled by migratory locusts — if locusts were shallow, status-seeking yuppies whose politics were tied to what they believed were the perceptions of each party and its members, and who thought hipness can be defined by a willingness to remove natural rights they don’t happen to find terribly appealing in the hands of the swarm (though they of course often exempt themselves from the very restrictions they impose on us).
Which they aren’t. They’re people. Who happen to get elected. Which doesn’t make them my sovereign. It makes them my employee.
And I am fixing to vote for firing their asses.
You “neo-confederate” racist, you.
I wish you luck and pray for your success. Such success may do as much, if not more, than Levin’s efforts.
One of the things that bothers me in my state, is the fact that the large municipal areas tend to wag the dog. I don’t care what happens in the big city. That’s why I live where I do. Yet the Progs take control there and wind up driving the agenda to the detriment of the rural populace. An example in our state some years ago was a PETA front group sponsored referendum sold to the city-dwellers as preventing “puppy mills,” but which essentially banned most livestock farming, which supports countless families. Fortunately, the legislature stepped in, but such is the danger unless there are checks on unlimited metropolitan power, similar to the Electoral College.
As long as your new state flag isn’t four white guys lynching a black guy, I’m down with it.
Best of luck, and spit in the eye of those progressive fascists for me too.
why not become part of wyoming?
Hunter Thompson’s “Freak Power” run in Aspen isn’t looking so crazy now, is it?
Good luck with the effort, even if all you get is to spit jalapeño juice in the Denver yuppies’ eyes.
Racists!
It will be my pleasure to confront any who scoff and/or question your motives. Any chance to explain to people that it’s neither fair nor reasonable to allow city dwellers control over the lives of those who’ve escaped the city.
One of the things that bothers me in my state, is the fact that the large municipal areas tend to wag the dog.
I think that’s true for many if not most states. Even the horrible slow-motion train wreck that is California is really only liberal along the coast and in the San Fran and LA regions. The rest of the state is pretty conservative. If they followed the CO suggestion to have a state senator for every single district (instead of grouped by population), that would instantly yank the state legislature back over to the right of center.
Replace “district” with “county”, and Bob’s your uncle.
Here in PA (population: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and ‘other’), there was a move afoot to have our EVs in a Presidential Election cast proportionally-ish (by Congressional District), rather than winner-takes-all.
Needless to say, the Dems instantly cried bloody murder about “disenfranchisement”, but of course those of us who don’t live in either of the two cities have been disenfranchised since 1988 (last time PA went ‘R’).
To a Democrat, it’s ‘disenfranchisement’ when they only get to cast their own votes, rather than everybody’s.
… but surely Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle?
Godspeed, Jeff.
OUTLAWS!
North Colorado will be a welcome addition to Red State America.
Meanwhile, in Maine…
Please, let this go viral.
I hear a rumble, folks.
jake tapper
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“It’s like we’re being ruled by migratory locusts…
Which they aren’t. They’re people. Who happen to get elected. Which doesn’t make them my sovereign. It makes them my employee.
And I am fixing to vote for firing their asses.”
Jeff–Thank you. I’ve taken the entire three paragraphs above–unedited–and put the quote into my “Quotables” file. They’ll be on their way to many others.
I went to college in the late 60s and early 70s in New Hampshire and it’s sad that you weren’t around to warn the Vermont/Maine/New Hampshire native citizens about the Beaters who were retiring–and despoiling–those independent Yankee states that were under attack. (Of course, I was in SDS and I might have had to kill you–or sell you a lot of good weed and crystal meth for the intense studying. Nothing personal. I just didn’t really care then.)
If blue states are running gun manufacturing off to more friendly red environs, isn’t that a, well, unilateral disarmament on their part? Makes the 51st state movement more feasible, I’d say.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130820/BUSINESS01/308200019/Remington-Arms-scouts-Middle-TN-after-N-Y-bans-its-rifle?nclick_check=1
new jews per faggot islam
Islamists Step Up Attacks on Christians for Supporting Morsi’s Ouster
Battle space prep work steps up into a higher gear.
2008 lesson learned. Control of the opposition’s primaries is vital to winning but you must destroy all possible conservative candidates as early as possible or a Palin may throw a monkey wrench into the works.
2012 lesson. Even the most outrageous, insanely stupid smears work as long as you just push them over and over in the media. Anything that has even a small flicker of fact to hang the lie on will do. The voters we Dems need and have will buy into most anything if well packaged and sold with emotion. Binders, roof-dog, Benghazi was movie caused, give proof of principle.
After election, further confirmation of principle coming from Newtown & Trayvon frenzies over faked narratives pushed to advance our agenda. Fakes, emotionally sold, work well with our voters and base.
For 2014 and 16 need to start as early as possible to winnow the field leaving only the Rovians as the Republican leftovers for them to have available.
Not new. The war with the Coptic Christians, the Orthodox, and the Roman Catholics goes right back to the beginning of Islam. The only “peace” has been when Islam was too weak to attack and so pretended to sue for and/or be peaceful.
This is just a coming out (again) party being held in Egypt. It will likely spread as they all want to be free to be.
Coptic Christians in Egypt did not hold Mass for the first time in 1500 years this week.
When will Fearless Leader weigh in?
When will Fearless Leader weigh in?
You mean by issuing yet another official cheer of encouragement to the Brothers from the White House or Department of State? That mayn’t be politick at this juncture, no matter how fervent his love of Islam, given the (poisoned-gas) atmosphere in the Middle East today.
He has kind of been hiding in his lair since they returned from Martha’s Vineyard. I expect him to regale us with a testy speech about how much we suck some time later in the week.
1600 years.
Drumwaster says August 20, 2013 at 5:21 pm
… but surely Bjorn Stronginthearm is my uncle?
“Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold.”
leigh says August 21, 2013 at 9:04 am
Coptic Christians in Egypt did not hold Mass for the first time in 1500 years this week.
When will Fearless Leader weigh in?
Did they pray before any sporting events? It’s my understanding that that is the surest way to establish a religion…
The real trick The Almighty Emperor Obazm has to pull off now is communicating that in his view, the greater the amount of stockpile Assad uses today, the lesser will be the stockpile that Al Qaeda gets its hands on when Assad falls. For certain it is, The Almighty Emperor will not lift a finger to destroy the stockpile where it sits.
That’s even worse than what I had read previously, geoff.
Before Egypt’s MB is defeated I’d expect to see bombings at various ancient sites that used to attract tourists. The non-Islamic ones.
. . . ancient sites . . . [which] . . . attract tourists. The non-Islamic ones.
heh. That almost seems like a sort of (intentionally snide?) redundancy regarding Egypt, at least insofar as it’s difficult from our remove to readily recall specifically Islamic tourist attractions — but perhaps it’s better not to doubt that there’s some sacred Shrine of the Ground-Thumping-Forehead or other somewhere there?
“Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold.”
“Now you’re singing the chorus!”