State Of Jefferson Movement Includes Tuolumne County
The State of Jefferson could become the USA’s fifty-first state and would include Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, El Dorado and nearly every county north of Sacramento.
Joe Bick, local resident and advocate for the new State of Jefferson, was Friday’s KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”.
On Wednesday January 6th at 10 AM, those behind the movement will be in Sacramento Declaring the Petitions of Separation to the Secretary of State for recording and then walking them over to the Legislators office for presentation.
According to Bick, Tuolumne and the other counties included in the State of Jefferson has not had adequate representation in the California state legislature for the past several decades. The most expeditious way to restore representation is to create a new state where local issues by local people can be dealt with and representation will be restored. The “Jefferson” state movement is using the legal method of engineering a state split through the formula required by Article IV Section 3 of the US Constitution.i This formula necessitates a greater than 50% majority of both houses of the state legislature and Congress approving the split in order to create a state out of an existing state or states.
In order for “Jefferson” to be successful, three tenets must be completed or verified. First, counties that want to be part of the new state must have their Supervisory Boards Declare and Petition to Separate from California and join the new state (Declarations) which creates standing for each of those counties. Second, financial viability for the new state must be validated. Third, the state and national legislative actions outlined above must achieve a majority result.
As of January 1, 2015, six counties have Declared and Petitioned to Separate from California and join the new state of “Jefferson”. Both the California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) and an internally generated financial model have shown that “Jefferson” is a viable entity. By the end of January 2016, six counties will have had their Declarations filed with the Secretary of State of California which could initiate the legislative phase of state separation. The legislative action will be delayed long enough to determine if additional counties would like to join the new state. There are 14 additional counties that have active committees trying to educate the public and reach their supervisors with the message of republican based representation which is guaranteed in Article IV Section 4 of the US Constitution. ...
http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/256059/state-of-jefferson-movement-includes-tuolumne-county.html
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