{"id":13080,"date":"2014-02-21T05:09:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T05:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13080"},"modified":"2014-02-21T05:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T05:09:30","slug":"california-discovers-apartheid-with-six-californias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13080","title":{"rendered":"California discovers Apartheid with Six Californias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/six-californias.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13081\" alt=\"six-californias\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/six-californias-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/six-californias-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/six-californias-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/six-californias.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Supporters of a plan to divide California into six states can begin collecting signatures to get the proposal on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced that the proposed ballot initiative \u2013 known as Six Californias \u2013 could move forward Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the plan, from venture capitalist Tim Draper, most of the Bay Area would be considered \u201cSilicon Valley.\u201d Napa, Sonoma and Marin Counties would become part of \u201cNorth California.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Valid voter signatures are needed from 800,000 to put the measure on the ballot statewide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even if voters approve the plan, it would face an uphill battle in congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf the federal government approves the proposed creation of six new states, all tax collections and spending by the existing State of California would end, with its assets and liabilities divided among the new states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Decisions by appointed commissioners and elected leaders would determine how taxes, public spending, and other public policies would change for the new states and their local governments,\u201d reads the summary from Bowen\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Source: CBS SF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of a plan to divide California into six states can begin collecting signatures to get the proposal on the ballot. Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced that the proposed ballot initiative \u2013 known as Six Californias \u2013 could move forward Tuesday. Under the plan, from venture capitalist Tim Draper, most of the Bay Area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California discovers Apartheid with Six Californias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[164,8414,8415,6138,8316,8413],"class_list":["post-13080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-apartheid","tag-bay-area","tag-debra-bowen","tag-secretary-of-state","tag-silicon-valley","tag-six-californias"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/six-californias.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080","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=13080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13082,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13080\/revisions\/13082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}