Never Forget

[Pannonian]

Point of Order: it's more complicated than just the Cal citizenry didn't care. It's that + badly-crafted Initiatives (with great intentions, but no funding sources), a hopelessly partisan (and therefore useless) Assembly who, failing in their own jobs, pass the decisions onto the voters via those badly-written Initiatives, that get passed by a simple majority of voters who managed to show up at the polls that day.

We (California) are in dire need of a Constitutional Convention, to re-craft how Cali Law is made.

As a footnote, I point out that California was also an Independent Republic for awhile; for a total of about 21 days. Somebody thought it'd be a good idea to get a US sailor-boy to hoist the Stars and Stripes near Sacramento - bam! we became a colony of the US, and later, a State. One can only wonder what life might be like in the Republic of Califia.

You should have maintained your independence until now. Then you could offer to join the Union in return for the US bailing out your incompetent government and massive debts.

[KukriKhan]

You should have maintained your independence until now. Then you could offer to join the Union in return for the US bailing out your incompetent government and massive debts.

Yeah. Or declare war on the US over water rights, then surrender when the first shots get fired, and get foreign aid for 50 years.

[InsaneApache]

Yeah. Or declare war on the US over water rights, then surrender when the first shots get fired, and get foreign aid for 50 years.

That must be where the Duchy of Grand Fenwick got the idea from.