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Momentum is building behind a Republican leader’s proposal for rural California areas to split off from the rest of the Golden — as two counties are set to vote Tuesday to support the proposal.
Yuba County supervisors adopted a resolution to back the split in Tuesday morning, and Sutter County supervisors had it on their agenda approve in the late afternoon. Both counties encompass rural swaths of land north of Sacramento.
Last year, as Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsomengineered an anti-Trump gerrymanderingof the state’s congressional districts, then-state Assembly GOP Leader James Gallagher pitched a map of his own: splitting California into two states so conservative and rural areas would feel more represented.
“This morning, I’m saying, ‘Gavin, let my people go.’ We would like a better way forward, and we can no longer abide a government that gives us no voice,” Gallagher said at a press conference introducing the pitch.
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Under Gallagher’slegislative resolution, California’s 35 inland counties — covering most of Northern California, the Sierra Nevada, the Central Valley and the Inland Empire — would become a new state. Yuba and Sutter counties would be included.
The measure by Gallagher, who is currently running for Congress, will likely go nowhere in theDemocrat-controlled state legislature. The votes by the two counties are also largely symbolic.
Still, their frustration with Newsom and California Democrats is real, supporters of the resolution said.
“If you look at the funds Governor Newsom has wasted, both onthe train to nowhere…homelessness… the amount of corruption in this state is unbelievable,” said Yuba County Supervisor Andy Vasquez Jr. “We’re ruled by San Francisco, Los Angeles. We don’t have any choice.”
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