California Republicans want a divorce.
The Babylon Bee likes to make jokes about people fleeing California, but I never thought it would involve splitting the entire state in half!
State Assemblymember James Gallagher (East Nicolaus) intends to hold a press conference Wednesday to present the plan, which he says is in response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to redraw the state's congressional maps.
Gallagher, [the] Republican leader in the State Assembly, will introduce Assembly Joint Resolution 23, which calls for the creation a new U.S. state comprised of 35 inland California counties, including most of Northern California, the Sierra Nevada, Central Valley and Inland Empire.
"The people of inland California have been overlooked for too long," Gallagher said in a media release. "It's time for a two-state solution."
The new state would immediately take 10 million residents away from California, making it one of the most populous in the nation.
Unfortunately, much of the new state would be desert and it would have no ocean access, meaning Emperor Newsom would get to keep control of all the ports.
Unless...
Gallagher intends to hold a press conference Wednesday morning at 10 a.m. to discuss his plan, with support from other Republican legislators.
Republicans in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho may be interested as well!
Whether its a mere political stunt or actually has any teeth, the proposal has fiercely divided many Californians, including Republicans, in the comment section.
Careful, now! That's extremist talk.
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