THE NATION OF CALIFORNIA
News and Views, Special Edition
Lucy M. Warner
March 1, 2017

THIS SPECIAL POST IS ON A FASCINATING AND POTENTIALLY VERY IMPORTANT ITEM FROM THE WASHINGTON POST, CONCERNING A PROPOSED CALIFORNIA SECESSION. ON SUCH A SEPARATE NATIONHOOD, AND THE LIKELY FURTHER MEDDLING IN US/CALIFORNIA AFFAIRS BY RUSSIA BACKED INTERESTS – SEE THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE CALLED “YES CALIFORNIA” BELOW. IT’S POSSIBLE THAT THIS WHOLE STORY WON’T SOUND QUITE SO PARANOID, OR “FAKE NEWSY,” IF YOU READ THE ARTICLES IN THE WASHINGTON POST AND NPR BELOW. ACCORDING TO THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE, RUSSIA IS ACTUALLY ALLOWING A SPECIAL “CALIFORNIA EMBASSY” TO EXIST THERE RENT FREE – NOT A GOOD THING. IF I WANT TO MAKE A TRIP, I WILL REALLY NEED A ROAD MAP. FIRST, I DON’T TRUST PUTIN NOR TRUMP’S TIES TO HIM EVEN A LITTLE BIT, AND SECOND, JUST BECAUSE WE WANT “CHANGE” SHOULDN’T MEAN THAT WE WILL ACCEPT JUST ANY OLD CHANGE. I SAY WE SHOULD BACK THE LESS RISKY IMPEACHMENT EFFORTS WHICH WOULD LEAVE THE USA WHOLE AND GET RID OF RUSSIAN MOLE IN OUR MIDST.

THIS FIRST CAME INTO THE NEWS LAST JANUARY, THOUGH IT WAS BORN AS A MOVEMENT SHORTLY AFTER THE 2016 ELECTION. THIS, ON THE PART OF THE CALIFORNIANS INVOLVED IS A FEARFUL REACTION AGAINST A DISASTROUS AND UNDEMOCRATIC TRUMP PRESIDENCY, AND I UNDERSTAND. HOWEVER SUCH THINGS RARELY SUCCEED. WE IN THE VARIOUS STATES HAVE MANY, MANY TIES TO THE US GOVERNMENT WHICH USUALLY HAVE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC REPERCUSSIONS.

IN ORDER FOR CALIFORNIA TO BE AS GOOD A SYSTEM LEGALLY AS THE US, THE DRAFTING OF THEIR NATIONAL CONSTITUTION WOULD HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL, NOT THAT OUR CONSTITUTION DOESN’T NEED WORK, OF COURSE. FINALLY, THOUGH, AND DOWNRIGHT SCARY TO ME, THERE IS THAT INTRUSIVE RUSSIAN CONNECTION – PUTIN IS DETERMINED, TOTALLY UNPRINCIPLED, WILY, HIGHLY UNDEMOCRATIC, SMARTER THAN TRUMP BY A LONG SHOT, AND SUBVERSIVE IN HIS METHODS. CALIFORNIANS, BEWARE OF PIT TRAP HIDDEN UNDER THE LEAVES ON THE PATH AHEAD.

BESIDES, A STATE’S SURVIVING AFTER SECESSION IS SO VERY UNLIKELY, EXCEPT PERHAPS AS A RUSSIAN POSSESSION. DON’T WORRY. I JUST CAN’T SEE THIS BECOMING AN ACCOMPLISHED GOAL; THOUGH THE FACT THAT TRUMP SEEMS TO FAVOR DOING BUSINESS IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE WITH RUSSIA, AND IN HIS LOVE AFFAIR WITH PUTIN, COULD WELL PUSH HIS WEIGHT IN THAT DIRECTION. ALL THE MORE REASON TO IMPEACH TRUMP ASAP!.


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Politics
‘California is a nation, not a state’: A fringe movement wants a break from the U.S.
By Katie Zezima
February 18, 2017

Photograph -- “California is different from America,” says Marcus Ruiz Evans of the Yes California campaign. “California is hated. It’s not liked. It’s seen as weird.” Evans has been fighting for secession for years, and finally feels validated by the anti-Trump movement that has reignited the move to secede. (Derek Lapsley/For The Washington Post)

Evans published a 540-page tome in 2012 on why California should secede and is using his indefatigable ability to talk about it to spread that message as far as possible, mostly through Facebook and media appearances.

He has crusaded for California independence for years — he also protested the Obama administration — and said he thinks of himself “as Galileo, Copernicus,” a man whose theories were so revolutionary that they were dismissed until proved true.

Evans is the main point of contact for the chapter leaders, and he handed out purple Yes California T-shirts to attendees of the meeting here. He would occasionally interject with a long, impassioned speech about the importance of California independence or to let the group know it was partnering with an environmentally friendly printer in Culver City.

Clare Hedin, a musician and sound healer, ticked through a set of slides to help people set up their own chapters. Yes California ­T-shirts should be plentiful and handed out to all attendees (wearing them in meetings is encouraged). A sense of community should be fostered, and people should be asked why they came to the meeting and how they can contribute so they feel personally invested. Each chapter leader should take a different tack; San Franciscans tend to be more touchy-feely than San Diegans, for example.

They debated how California should handle the military. Maybe their new nation should be neutral, such as Switzerland, they mulled. Where should it get its water? Most of it, they reasoned, comes from the Sierra Nevada and the Colorado River, which are in the state. California, Evans said, is the world’s sixth-largest economy and already has money, so that will be fine. The secessionists likened their cause to the legalization of marijuana and same-sex marriage: things that seemed implausible a decade ago but are now the law here.

Yes California doesn’t have any policy positions. Its members don’t know how the new nation’s government would be set up. The group’s goal is to first have the state secede and then figure out how it should run.

“People are asking about the new nation’s vaccine policy, and I’m asking, ‘Are you high?’  ” said Karen Sherman, who holds group meetings at the gay dive bar she owns in San Diego. “We want to explore independence, not create a new country around vaccines.”

The group’s biggest effort is focused on collecting signatures for the initiative. It will ask voters if they want to repeal a section of the state constitution declaring that California is an “inseparable part of the United States of America” and hold a referendum on independence on March 5, 2019. The group started collecting signatures in late January and has six months to complete the task.


Michael Boightwood speaks during a California secession meeting in San Diego. (Sandy Huffaker/For The Washington Post)

For supporters, Trump’s election, the desire of some Californians to lead the resistance to his presidency and the group’s growing volunteer base has given the group a semblance of credibility it has long desired.

The group points to Silicon Valley billionaires — including Peter Thiel, who backs Trump and recently said he supports secession, and Shervin Pishevar, who tweeted after the election that he would fund a campaign for California to become its own nation.

The state legislature hired former Obama attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. to battle the Trump administration on issues such as immigration. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) vowed that California will continue to push measures to combat climate change and ensure Californians have health insurance coverage regardless of national policy decisions. San Francisco sued the Trump administration over sanctuary cities. But these and other elected officials have not endorsed secession. Some, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, said they oppose it.

“Ballot measures are very tough to pass when they’re understandable and you have a relative idea what the consequences are,” said Bill Carrick, Garcetti’s political consultant. “Something like this is a rabbit pulled out of a hat; there’s not a chance in the world it will pass.”

[San Francisco sues Trump over order on sanctuary cities]

Sue Hirsch, 46, said she is “ashamed to be an American” in the wake of the presidential election.

“I wanted to be here [at the meeting] to be no longer American, but Californian,” said Hirsch, who voted for Hillary Clinton and said she has at least seven professions, including psychic, Uber driver and hypno-transformative masseuse. “I hate what the rest of America has become.”

Evans and his co-founder, Louis Marinelli, are unlikely saviors of the left.

Both men have been registered Republicans. Evans is a former conservative radio host and Marinelli once staunchly opposed same-sex marriage. (He had a change of heart in 2011, embarking on a nationwide tour to persuade conservatives to support same-sex unions.)

Marinelli — a Buffalo native who said he so prefers California that he doesn’t like visiting his mother in New York — now lives in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He said he voted for Trump because he thought it would be good for the California secessionist cause.

He said in an interview that he wants to return to San Diego but is working there while his Russian-born wife sorts out visa issues in the United States. His wife’s hurdles with the U.S. immigration system and frustration with gridlock in Washington led him to embrace secession. He says he also was inspired by the Scottish secessionist movement.

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So you want to secede from the U.S.? Here's The Fix's four-step guide. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)

But Yes California has had to fend off a torrent of questions about Russian influence. In September, Marinelli represented the group at a Moscow conference hosted by the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia; 30 percent of conference funding came from the Russian government, but none went to Yes California, according to its organizer. Yes California opened a “cultural center” at the movement’s Moscow headquarters in December. Marinelli has compared California independence to the annexation of Crimea, and Yes California has received a flurry of news coverage from the government-funded RT.

Marinelli said Yes California is not affiliated in any way with the Russian government.

“We don’t have any communication with or contact with or receive any support of any kind from the Russian government or any Russian government officials,” he said, noting that people have a right to be concerned about allegations of Russian ties. But he also said that false conspiracy theories swirl around the group, including that it allegedly wants California to join Mexico or that it is funded by billionaire liberal donor George Soros.

On the other hand, he said, “if people think that our movement is supported by the Russian government, then maybe they’ll think that this is more realistically going to happen.”

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Evans is no fan of Trump, believing he is racist, anti-immigrant and sexist. He said Yes California is committed to diversity, inclusion and a peaceful, legal secession. He spends most of his days on the phone, calling, emailing and texting people about the group, whose address is a Postal Annex store in a Fresno strip mall.

Yes California has registered with the California Secretary of State’s office but has not yet reported contributions. Marinelli wants to hire a professional fundraiser and paid staff.

At the San Francisco meetup, some were more optimistic than others about the idea of the referendum actually passing. Most acknowledged the chances were slim. But they’re willing to try, as many times as it takes.

“Our whole point is not to get this initiative passed,” Evans said. “It’s to get it in the minds of 40 million people.”

Julie Tate and Adam Taylor contributed to this report.

Literature given out during a meeting for the Yes California and the California Sucessionist movement. (Sandy Huffaker/For The Washington Post)

Katie Zezima is a national political correspondent covering the 2016 presidential election. She previously served as a White House correspondent for The Post. Follow @katiezez



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'California Nationhood' Ballot Measure Builds Steam
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January 27, 2017 5:14 PM ET
SCOTT SHAFER

Photograph -- If passed by voters, the "California Nationhood. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute" would remove state constitutional language making California part of the U.S. and require the governor to request admission to the United Nations.
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This story was initially posted by member station KQED.

Acknowledging that the legal and political obstacles are formidable, the proponent of a state ballot measure to sever California's ties with the United States and form its own nation has been cleared to start collecting signatures.

If passed by voters, the measure, "California Nationhood. Initiative Constitutional Amendment and Statute," would remove language from the state constitution describing California as "an inseparable part of the United States of America" and require the governor to request admission for California to the United Nations.

That would be just the start of a long and arduous path to nationhood.

To be eligible for the 2018 ballot, the proponent, Marcus Ruiz Evans, will have to collect 585,407 valid signatures from California voters by July 25.

According to an opinion article Evans recently wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, "almost 7,000 volunteers" will collect the signatures — an extremely difficult task without professional signature gatherers. It's generally believed to cost at least $1.5 million to finance a successful signature-gathering drive of that magnitude. So far, campaign records on file show the Yes California committee has raised no money.

In his op-ed, Evans, who appears to be based in Fresno, acknowledged that separation from the U.S. won't be easy.

"Taxes, military bases, establishing an army are just a few of the issues," Evans wrote, adding that "California has the benefit of the Federal Supreme Court decision of Texas v. White (decided after the Civil War), which said states cannot violently unilaterally secede, but they could secede 'through consent of the states.' "

Ultimately, secession would require a federal constitutional amendment and require two-thirds of the states to approve it. A very tall order indeed.

But given the 4.3 million vote margin California gave to Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, the notion of secession — no matter how fanciful — might well appeal to angry, frustrated and worried Californians. A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 32 percent of Californians support forming a separate nation.

Loose talk of secession has come up before after major political swings. In 2009, then-Gov. Rick Perry of Texas (now President Trump's nominee to lead the Energy Department) said, "if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that. But Texas is a very unique place, and we're a pretty independent lot to boot."

California's enormous size and diverse population also inspired a failed effort to break the state up into six smaller states.

And how would President, that is, Gov. Jerry Brown feel about it? While it's doubtful he would give it much credence, there is reason to think the idea might capture his imagination. Years ago, a former top aide to Brown when he was governor the first time around in the 1970s told this reporter that the governor loved to contemplate all kinds of scenarios.

"We once discussed the pros and cons of having the California National Guard invade Nevada," the aide said. That could be music to the ears of the CalExit campaign.

Correction
Jan. 27, 2017
A previous version of this story incorrectly gave the name of the pollster Ipsos as Ipos.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_California

Yes California
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Yes California Independence Campaign is an American political action committee that promotes the secession of the state of California from the United States. The organization is promoting a proposed initiative to be placed on the 2018 California state ballot, which, if passed, will then require an independence plebiscite to be held in March 2019 on the question of California's independence. It would require an amendment to the United States constitution.[1]

"Yes California" and "Calexit"

Yes California formed in August 2015, succeeding the Sovereign California campaign.[2] The campaign adopted its name and logo from Yes Scotland, a campaign group from the 2014 independence referendum in Scotland.[3] The campaign has earned the nicknames Caleavefornia, Califrexit,[4] and Calexit (after Brexit, the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, which in turn was named after Grexit, Greece's proposed withdrawal from the Euro).[5]

Campaign

The Yes California Independence Campaign promotes the secession of the state of California from the United States.[6] It proposes including a measure for a referendum in 2019 on the state's 2018 gubernatorial election ballot.[7]

The campaign president is Louis J. Marinelli, a New Yorker who lives in Russia[8] and has received significant assistance from the Russian government to promote his efforts.[9] The vice president is Marcus Ruiz Evans.[10] Both men are former Republicans[11] and Marinelli says he voted for Donald Trump.[8]

Marinelli announced on December 18, 2016, the Yes California campaign had opened an embassy in Moscow as a cultural centre to help educate Russians about California's history, boost trade, and promote tourism. The embassy has no legal standing.[12] This 2016 event was partially funded by a Kremlin-backed charity linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin, while the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia is providing the office space for the Moscow embassy rent-free.[13][14]

Yes California is controversial within the independence movement for advocating a "Crimean Scenario"[15][16] for Californian independence, because Crimea was annexed by Russia immediately after declaring independence.[citation needed]

Background

There have been more than 200 proposals for the secession of California over the state's history.[17] The last instance of secession in the United States happened in 1861, when 11 states left the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. These states returned to the Union in 1865 after the Confederacy was defeated in the American Civil War. The Supreme Court decided in Texas v. White in 1869 that no state had the right to unilaterally leave the Union.[7] Secession would thus require the approval of 38 state legislatures and two-thirds majorities in both the US House of Representatives and Senate,[18] to pass a Constitutional amendment, as the Constitution provides no mechanism for state secession.[17] Analysts consider California's secession improbable.[18]

History

The Yes California campaign borrows its name and logo from the Yes Scotland campaign of 2014.

The hashtag #Calexit trended in social media as the campaign gained attention[18] in the wake of the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in November 2016;[5] California gave Hillary Clinton 61.5% of the vote to Trump's 33.2%.[19] Marinelli asserted this was evidence of the political divide between the state and nation, saying California is more progressive than the rest of the country and that Californians were offended by Trump's statements about minorities.[10]

The campaign staged protests outside the Capitol building in Sacramento after the November 2016 election, though its organizers asserted the protests were planned months in advance and would have been held regardless of who won the election.[20] Immediately following the election, the campaign received 11,000 emails.[17]

On November 21, 2016, the Yes California campaign submitted an initiative for signature gathering, with an amendment sent later on December 23 to correct a typo. If passed by voters in November 2018, it would repeal Article III, Section 1 of the California Constitution, which states California is "an inseparable part" of the U.S., and require an independence plebiscite to be held on March 5, 2019 on the question of California's independence, the passage of which would require at a minimum 50% voter turnout and 55% voting yes. If the 2019 independence referendum passes, the Governor of California will then also be required to apply for California to join the United Nations.[21]

On January 26, 2017, the office of California Secretary of State Alex Padilla gave its approval for the signature gathering process to begin, and supporters now have until July 25, 2017, to get the signatures of at least 585,407 registered California voters for the proposal to qualify on the 2018 ballot.[22]

The Washington Post reported on February 18 that the Yes California campaign has opened up to 53 chapters across the state, but has not yet reported contributions to the California Secretary of State's office.[23]

Analysis
By the California Legislative Analyst's Office

As per the California ballot proposition process, the California Legislative Analyst's Office filed a report on the proposed initiative's estimated fiscal effects. This report noted that the proposed initiative could be challenged in California courts on grounds that it would be "an unconstitutional revision of California's basic governmental framework". Under the California Constitution, such proposals that would make "far reaching changes in the nature of [California's] basic governmental plan" or "substantially alter the basic governmental framework set forth in the [California] Constitution" can only be placed before voters by either the California Legislature or a state constitutional convention, and not via a voter initiative.[24] For example, a California court could consider whether the repealing Article III, Section 1, stating that California is "an inseparable part" of the U.S., would be such a major revision. Yes California argues that this not a major revision, based on the California Supreme Court's test in Legislature v. Eu that a revision "must necessarily or inevitably appear from the face of the challenged provision that the measure will substantially alter [California's] basic governmental framework".[25]

The Legislative Analyst's report also noted the tens of millions of dollars that would have to be spent by state and local governments to hold an additional statewide election on March 2019.[24]

If California actually does become its own separate nation, the major economic and budgetary impacts for both the current state and local governments are unknown. Among these would be the "sorting out of the liabilities, property holdings, border arrangements, military infrastructure, and other details" relevant to not only with the rest of the U.S., but also with dealing with the military, trade, customs, and other relationships with other countries.[24]

Furthermore, even if the Governor of California applies for California to join the United Nations, the Legislative Analyst's report cites Chapter II of the United Nations Charter: new member applications must go through the UN Security Council, and that the United States, as a permanent member, has the ability to block such applications.[24]

By supporters

California has the sixth largest economy in the world and a population larger than Poland.[26] The Yes California campaign argues that the state suffers under federal overregulation, that the state contributes more federal tax than it receives in federal funding, that the state feels isolated from political power in Washington, D.C.,[6] and that there is a wide gap between the political and cultural differences of California and the rest of the country.[5] For example, California disagrees with much of the rest of the country on immigration and environmental policies.[23]

In an op-ed piece published by the San Jose Mercury News, Marcus Ruiz Evans of Yes California wrote that, "No one is going to pull money out of California if it secedes, no one is going to invade, no one is going to stop trading – there is too much money invested here, too many deals already going on. The world will not let the California economy be disrupted."[27]

At a forum held by the campaign in Los Angeles on February 13, 2017, led by Evans and Marinelli, they argued that California annually loses about $70 billion by subsidizing other states and military overseas, which could instead be used elsewhere. Marinelli also stated that taxes could be lowered enough so that "we may not need to have a state income tax anymore".[28]

However, the Washington Post reported on February 18 that the Yes California campaign does not have exact policy positions, nor do they exactly know how a new independent California government would be set up: "The group's goal is to first have the state secede and then figure out how it should run".[23]

By opponents

An op-ed piece published by the Los Angeles Times stated that California independence "would be a disaster for progressive values" because the U.S. Democratic Party would lose California's 55 electoral votes, its two U.S. senators and its delegation to the House of Representatives: "For decades California has exerted more influence on American politics and culture than vice versa ... it would practically ensure that the rest of the U.S. would drift farther away from our laid-back tolerance and easygoing diversity ... if the United States minus California continues to do little or nothing nothing to combat climate change, Californians — along with the rest of the world — will suffer."[29]

In an editorial, the San Jose Mercury News called Calexit, "a colossally stupid idea ... [that] will start us down a costly, intellectually draining, dead-end path into a world of overwhelming unknowns".[30] The editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune wrote that it is "a waste of time ... [that] reflects a defeatist attitude — that instead of fighting to shape this country’s future, we should just quit. It also reflects a willingness to give up on America".[31]

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has stated that he opposes Calexit, saying, "I want to be a part of an America that continues to stand up for all of us, not bail on all our friends across the country."[28]

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told KGO-TV that Californians should be wary of Russia's connections to Marinelli and the Yes California campaign: "We're a big state. With a tremendous impact in terms of this country's economy and politics ... If you can weaken the leadership of the United States in the world, Russia can be able to get away with a lot more of what they want to do."[14]

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered Sample

size Margin of
error Support Oppose Undecided
SurveyUSA January 31, 2017 800 ± 3.30% 18% 68% 15%
Hoover/Stanford January 5–7, 2017 1,700 ± 3.82% 27% 54% 19%
SurveyUSA November 16, 2016 800 ± 3.50% 23% 57% 20%

In popular culture

On February 20, 2017, Black Mask Studios announced a new comic book series called Calexit that will debut in May 2017. The comic will see California lead a resistance against the President of the United States.[32]

See also

California National Party, another organization working for California independence that was chaired by Louis Marinelli until June 2016

Texas secession movements

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External links

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