{"id":10613,"date":"2013-09-25T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T10:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10613"},"modified":"2013-09-25T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T10:12:58","slug":"another-ca-county-votes-for-secession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10613","title":{"rendered":"Another CA county votes for secession"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"california\"<\/a>The Modoc County Board of Supervisors today voted to join neighboring Siskiyou County in its bid to secede from the State of California.<\/p>\n

Board Chairman Geri Byrne said a measure to join the push to form a State of Jefferson was approved by a vote of 4-0, with one supervisor absent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put the measure on the agenda because I heard from a number of people in my district that wanted to do such,\u201d Byrne said. \u201cWe\u2019re not saying we\u2019re seceding today, we\u2019re saying let\u2019s look into it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roughly 40 people turned out for the board meeting, Byrne said a standing-room only crowd in the Modoc County chambers. About a dozen spoke in favor of the measure with only two raising objections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is going to have to be something the people bring forward,\u201d Byrne said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to have to be from the bottom up, not from the top down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The move makes Modoc the second county to join in the fight to form the State of Jefferson in less than a month. Siskiyou County passed a measure to start the secession process at the supervisor\u2019s Sept. 3 meeting.<\/p>\n

Mark Baird, a spokesperson for the Jefferson Declaration Committee, said the group hopes to have a dozen counties commit their support before asking California legislators to allow the formation of the new state.<\/p>\n

\u201cCalifornia is essentially ungovernable in its present size,\u201d Baird said. \u201cWe lack the representation to address the problems that affect the North State.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking for 12 counties, though we can certainly do it with less,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

If all goes according to plan, Baird said the new state\u2019s economy could be 15 percent larger than that of New Mexico.<\/p>\n

Still, most of the more populated counties in Northern California have yet to lend their support, though a number are considering it, including Shasta County and Redding, the most populous city north of Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Siskiyou County has a population of just over 44,100, while Modoc has about 9,300 residents, according to the most recent U.S. Census data.<\/p>\n

Supervisors in Butte County, the most populated municipality to consider joining the movement, have scheduled a vote for Oct. 22.<\/p>\n

The Redding City Council has yet to set a date for a discussion on the topic, which is being sought by Vice Mayor Patrick Jones.<\/p>\n

Jones has said action by the city would send a strong message against Sacramento politics. He has said the area gets no representation from the State Capitol.<\/p>\n

He noted at the time that Lassen County was considering a vote on withdrawing from the state.<\/p>\n

Residents, many who live in rural setting, no longer feel as if California is their state, and they identify little with the central and southern part of the state, he said.<\/p>\n

“When they\u2019re that diverse, (the state) should split,\u201d Jones said. \u201cAt this point, I don\u2019t care how the state is split as long as they cut me off from Sacramento and beyond.\u201d – redding.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Modoc County Board of Supervisors today voted to join neighboring Siskiyou County in its bid to secede from the State of California. Board Chairman Geri Byrne said a measure to join the push to form a State of Jefferson was approved by a vote of 4-0, with one supervisor absent. \u201cI put the measure … Continue reading “Another CA county votes for secession”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2158,6467,6468],"class_list":["post-10613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-secession","tag-state-of-california","tag-state-of-jefferson"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/california.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10615,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions\/10615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}