By Bob Walsh
A group of separatists has filed for a state ballot proposition for 2018. This ballot proposal would remove from the state constitution the clause that asserts that California is an inseparable part of the union. Assuming the Yes California Independence Campaign is effective the question will appear on the November 2018 ballot leading to a vote on the question itself in the spring of 2019.
Constitutional scholars currently believe that no state can secede without the permission of the congress and 38 states. No one is bettering that is going to happen, but then again very few people were betting that Trump would win either. There are already 13,000 volunteers signed up to gather signatures.
In addition the group asserts that, if they get 55% of the vote, they can, and will, apply to the United Nations by way of the Treaty on Self-Determination and apply for the U. N. to recognize California as a nation-state at that time, regardless of the action or lack of action of the congress and state legislatures.
If this happens the conservative separate separatists who want to split off the state of Jefferson from the rest of California may get some momentum as well. That notion has been kicking around more-or-less seriously since the 1940s. They were going for a 2020 ballot initiative but may now piggyback on the CalExit folks. Unfortunately I doubt that San Joaquin County would go with Jefferson and would likely stay with the communist-socialist People's Republic of California. Damn shame.
This will be fun to watch.
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