Apparently Part of my state wants to secede

[spawnofthesith]

"Northern Colorado"
http://kdvr.com/2013/08/19/residents-in-weld-county-will-get-to-vote-on-51st-state-question/

WELD COUNTY, Colo. — County commissioners in Weld County approved an initiative to allow the county to secede from the state Monday morning.
Commissioners unanimously voted in favor of placing a 51st state initiate on the November ballot.
The initiative reads: “Shall the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, in concert with the county commissioners of other Colorado counties, pursue becoming the 51st state of the United States of America?”
Weld County has had a series of meetings talking about seceding from Colorado in recent months.
Ten counties (Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and Yuma) participated in several discussions throughout June and July regarding the statehood initiative, and several counties held public meetings to hear comments from residents, said county spokeswoman Jennifer Finch.
Commissioners have cited a feeling that northeastern Colorado counties are ignored by the state legislature.
One of the advocates for a new state of North Colorado, Sean Conway, told FOX31 Denver that he and other commissioners feel the state government has been ignoring values of rural counties when passing recent legislation including gun control measures, expanding oil and gas production and creating new renewable energy standards for rural areas.
“The concerns of rural Coloradans have been ignored for years,” said Commissioner Chairman William Garcia in a statement. “The last session was the straw that broke the camel’s back for many people. They want change. They want to be heard. Policies being passed by the legislature in Denver are having negative impacts on the lives of rural Coloradans. This isn’t an ‘R’ versus ‘D’ issue; it’s much bigger than that.”
Any move to secede would require votes in each county. Then the plan would require the approval of the state legislature and the governor in order to petition Congress to create a new state, the newspaper reported.
Liberals have mocked the move on blogs and on Twitter, where some tossed around new names for a separate, northern Colorado state: “Weldistan”, “Tancredonia” and “Fracktopia.”
“It’s embarrassing for them, and it’s embarrassing for the people they represent,” Jason Bane, the founder of the blog ColoradoPols, told FOX31 Denver in June. “They complain that the legislature didn’t listen to them — they DID listen to them, but in a Democracy, there are lots of other people who have viewpoints, and they don’t all throw a tantrum just because a vote doesn’t go their way.”

[Lloyd Blankfein]

Pathetic. What the fuck is it with conservatives and secession.

They're like whiny kids who didn't get their way, and now want to say this is their half of the room so they don't have to follow the agreed to rules.

Until they want that government cheese, then they're part of 'Merica.

Like Texas in the land of the last stand beating poor ranch mexicans, I mean the Alamo.

[ovid9]

I don't understand why some people seem to put so much effort into something that isn't going to happen?

I mean, even if the crackpots vote yes, the state legislature and the governor have to sign off on it before it can go to Congress for a vote.

The chances of that happening are about the same as a goose that shits golden eggs showing up at my door and saying "Buddy I want to make you rich."

Oh well, I guess some people need something (pointless) to do.

[spawnofthesith]

Oh well, I guess some people need something (pointless) to do.

I guess I can't hold it against them, Weld county is boring as shit, just a bunch of fields. I guess they need something to do to keep entertained

[ovid9]

Oh well, I guess some people need something (pointless) to do.

I guess I can't hold it against them, Weld county is boring as shit, just a bunch of fields. I guess they need something to do to keep entertained

Can't you guys legally smoke weed now?

[Lloyd Blankfein]

I flew a jet into Cheyenne once. I looked out the window south bound in the cockpit and literally thought, "home of the Rockies? That John Denver is full of shit man."


Northern Colorado, you suck.

[spawnofthesith]

Oh well, I guess some people need something (pointless) to do.

I guess I can't hold it against them, Weld county is boring as shit, just a bunch of fields. I guess they need something to do to keep entertained

Can't you guys legally smoke weed now?

Apparently that's not enough for the cow farmers. Or maybe that's one of the reasons they want to secede from us damn hippie Southerners

[Lloyd Blankfein]

Never trust a guy that goes shoulder deep in a cows vulva to seminate

[ovid9]

Never trust a guy that goes shoulder deep in a cows vulva to seminate

Words to live by.

[Sasquatch]

Never trust a guy that goes shoulder deep in a cows vulva to seminate

[spawnofthesith]

[ShaneV]

What's wrong with wanting to succeed?

[Casey4s]

Cool, you guys can have your own civil war now.

[spawnofthesith]

Greeley (the county seat of Weld county) is infamous enough for its.... odor.... that it has its own urban dictionary page http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smells%20like%20greeley



EDIT: and an NPR article too http://www.npr.org/2013/08/03/207645081/colorado-city-tries-to-cleanse-its-reputation-for-cow-odor

[ovid9]

Oh hell, Greeley is the county seat of Weld? This all makes fucking sense now. SOOOO much sense.

[PurpleTrails]

It's more like oh hell is Greeley.