Weld County (Colorado) Approves Secession Ballot Initiative

Wingnuts • August 2013 • Views: 1,828

The Weld County Commissioners voted unanimously Monday to place a statehood initiative on the November ballot, joining three other counties interested in seceding from Colorado.

Yes, they’re still wasting time on this.

The response from those meetings was overwhelming, Commissioner Sean Conway said, with 95 percent to 98 percent of Weld residents saying they felt a disconnect between the rural communities and metro areas of Colorado.

I’m sure there’s no inherent sampling bias there…

coloradoan.com

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6 comments

Skip Intro Mon, Aug 19, 2013 12:12:11pm

I like how these people just assume that they’ll automatically become a new state.

Sorry, morons, but it doesn’t work like that.

XtremeDave Mon, Aug 19, 2013 1:03:08pm

Aww, how cute that rural Colorado wants to secede now that they are a minority. Reminds me of how every few years we get a proposal for inland California (plus San Diego and Orange County) to secede and form their own conservative utopia. Good thing this will never happen.

Anyways, I would set the first condition of admitting notDenver as a 51st state that the District of Columbia receive full congressional representation. Any chance that Republicans want to make that bargain?

calochortus Mon, Aug 19, 2013 1:03:21pm

re: #1 Skip Intro

I like how these people just assume that they’ll automatically become a new state.

Sorry, morons, but it doesn’t work like that.

Heck, I’ve seen wingnuts respond to this idea by suggesting other conservative areas do the same thing because then there will be lots and lots of conservatives in both the House and Senate. Apparently liberals would never do this, so, Victory!
However, even most of the wingnuts realize it’s not gonna happen.

I just wonder how they think northeastern Colorado and the corners of Nebraska and Kansas (who might join up to create the new state) are going to support themselves. Agriculture, especially dryland agriculture simply doesn’t bring in the revenue they’d need. This is particularly true in a time when folks are beginning to realize they’ve been drawing down the groundwater in a totally unsustainable way.

kirkspencer Mon, Aug 19, 2013 2:49:26pm

So here’s the funniest thing to me. Say they secede, where are they going to put the state capital? Most likely answer, Greeley, as it’s the largest population in those counties. Now consider that the current complaint is how the rural counties aren’t getting representation, and then look again at the state capital having well over half the total population of the four counties, and ask yourself what happens next.

Schadenfreude comes to mind. And petards.

Amory Blaine Mon, Aug 19, 2013 7:50:20pm

Every road going in and out of that county should have punitive tolls.

jogiff Tue, Aug 20, 2013 3:30:16am

re: #2 XtremeDave

Aww, how cute that rural Colorado wants to secede now that they are a minority. Reminds me of how every few years we get a proposal for inland California (plus San Diego and Orange County) to secede and form their own conservative utopia. Good thing this will never happen.

They’re not even technically trying to secede. They’re trying to kick the rest of us out. Their state will continue to be California and the counties they kick out will have to choose a new name.

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