GREATER IDAHO: Movement to Make Several Oregon Counties Part of Idaho Gains Steam

[Mac1958]

I think this is a great idea. Plenty of room for the rubes up there.

 

[martybegan]

A Convention of States and two thirds approval would be necessary for this occur. Doubtful if it will occur in my lifetime.

What is causing all this is BOE vs. Morris, a Supreme Court Case that made States and other localities base any legislative body on a concept of "one person one vote" due to a bad reading of the 14th amendment.

States used to be able to base their upper legislative houses on things like counties, now they have to be based on population as well, skewing State government to any large city or cities in the State.

Fixing the 14th amendment or overturning Morris would be easier solutions.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

A Convention of States and two thirds approval would be necessary for this occur. Doubtful if it will occur in my lifetime.

Why?

 

[2aguy]

The democrats can't let this happen....it is one thing if people can flee a blue state.....it is another thing if whole sections of blue states try to escape their fascism....

Conservatives Want to Secede From Oregon, and Leftists Are ENRAGED

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[Doc7505]

Conservatives Want to Secede From Oregon, and Leftists Are ENRAGED​

Conservatives Want to Secede From Oregon, and Leftists Are ENRAGED

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5 Mar 2023 ~~ By Robert Spencer

The people in eastern Oregon are generally patriotic and sane, and they’re tired of being subjected to the misrule of the far-Left kleptocrats in Salem, who care about them only as a cash cow to fund their socialist pipe dreams. Accordingly, some have formed the Greater Idaho movement, which actually hopes to detach Oregon’s rural eastern counties from the state and attach them to Idaho. This movement, as fanciful as it seems, is gathering steam, and that has Democrats enraged. Whatever else it may be, their rage is revealing.

Idaho Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow, a Democrat, said: “I’m very pleased this measure has virtually no chance of advancing into reality. It would be bad for all involved and bad for the country, and I am opposed to it at all levels.”
Bad for the country! When Leftists who have nothing but contempt for the America-First movement and seem to put America last in all their policy considerations, start declaring that something is “bad for the country,” it must be very good indeed.
Fox News explained Sunday that Wintrow was “referring to a resolution making its way through the Idaho Legislature that wouldn’t move the Idaho-Oregon border but rather call for formal talks between the states’ legislatures about relocating the boundary line. Last month, Idaho’s House of Representatives passed the bill, which will now be debated in the state senate. It’s unclear if the bill will pass the Idaho Senate, but the chamber is, like the state’s House, dominated by Republicans.” That means that it actually has a chance.


Commentary:
Just off the top of my head:

1. Wasn’t Vermont once part of New York state?
2. Wasn’t Maine once part of Massachusetts?
3. I think the boundary between Massachusetts and New York was moved sometime in the 19th century.
4. Ditto the western border of Missouri was moved from the original boundary.
5. West Virginia broke off from Virginia during the Civil War.
6. When the Dakota territory was becoming a state, it was divided into two parts , with each one admitted as a separate state.​

The point being, there have been changes to state boundaries previously in American history. The idea that there can never ever be any changes to any boundaries simply is not historically true.
Additionally, States should have the equivalent of the federal Electoral College system. The idea is, rural counties in a state would not be dominated by one or two large cities.
See: Is it time to take the Electoral College down to the state level?

 

[Doc7505]

Why?

Democrats would oppose it, or insist that Washington D.C. become a State, violating the Constitution..

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Conservatives Want to Secede From Oregon, and Leftists Are ENRAGED​

Conservatives Want to Secede From Oregon, and Leftists Are ENRAGED

pjmedia.com

5 Mar 2023 ~~ By Robert Spencer

The people in eastern Oregon are generally patriotic and sane, and they’re tired of being subjected to the misrule of the far-Left kleptocrats in Salem, who care about them only as a cash cow to fund their socialist pipe dreams. Accordingly, some have formed the Greater Idaho movement, which actually hopes to detach Oregon’s rural eastern counties from the state and attach them to Idaho. This movement, as fanciful as it seems, is gathering steam, and that has Democrats enraged. Whatever else it may be, their rage is revealing.

Idaho Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow, a Democrat, said: “I’m very pleased this measure has virtually no chance of advancing into reality. It would be bad for all involved and bad for the country, and I am opposed to it at all levels.”
Bad for the country! When Leftists who have nothing but contempt for the America-First movement and seem to put America last in all their policy considerations, start declaring that something is “bad for the country,” it must be very good indeed.
Fox News explained Sunday that Wintrow was “referring to a resolution making its way through the Idaho Legislature that wouldn’t move the Idaho-Oregon border but rather call for formal talks between the states’ legislatures about relocating the boundary line. Last month, Idaho’s House of Representatives passed the bill, which will now be debated in the state senate. It’s unclear if the bill will pass the Idaho Senate, but the chamber is, like the state’s House, dominated by Republicans.” That means that it actually has a chance.


Commentary:
Just off the top of my head:

1. Wasn’t Vermont once part of New York state?​

2. Wasn’t Maine once part of Massachusetts?​

3. I think the boundary between Massachusetts and New York was moved sometime in the 19th century.​

4. Ditto the western border of Missouri was moved from the original boundary.​

5. West Virginia broke off from Virginia during the Civil War.​

6. When the Dakota territory was becoming a state, it was divided into two parts , with each one admitted as a separate state.​

The point being, there have been changes to state boundaries previously in American history. The idea that there can never ever be any changes to any boundaries simply is not historically true.
Additionally, States should have the equivalent of the federal Electoral College system. The idea is, rural counties in a state would not be dominated by one or two large cities.
See: Is it time to take the Electoral College down to the state level?

Leave. Go to Idaho. Your land belongs to the state.
Deal with it.

 

[AMart]

My state


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