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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: 230RN on June 10, 2013, 08:52:31 AM
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As you know, Colorado has been in the news since those ridiculous new anti-gun laws were passed, and even the Sheriffs of the Colorado counties are suing to nullify them.
Soooo.... Weld County in Colorado is taking a tough stand:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/weld-county-commissioners-vote-unanimously-to-ignore-new-colorado-gun-control-laws (http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/weld-county-commissioners-vote-unanimously-to-ignore-new-colorado-gun-control-laws)
In addition to voting to not follow or enforce the laws Monday, Weld County Commissioners last week cited them while making a case for secession from Colorado. A bill increasing renewable energy standards in rural areas was also cited as motivation for that plan.
Postal abbreviation will probably be "WE." I doubt they'll call it "North Colorado."
Map of Colorado Counties for your convenience (Weld is in the Northeast part of the State):
http://www.digital-topo-maps.com/county-map/colorado.shtml (http://www.digital-topo-maps.com/county-map/colorado.shtml)
Terry, 230RN
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:thumbsup:
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Wish eastern Washington would do the same to get away from Seattle. Luckily the state consitution says no one but the state and federal can make gun laws, and there is enough people in eastern washington to stop most of the crazy stuff out of Seattle.
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Wish eastern Washington would do the same to get away from Seattle. Luckily the state consitution says no one but the state and federal can make gun laws, and there is enough people in eastern washington to stop most of the crazy stuff out of Seattle.
Spokane ftw :thumbsup:
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Spokane ftw :thumbsup:
You from/in Spokane? Great place, I grew up in the Tri-Cities.
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You from/in Spokane? Great place, I grew up in the Tri-Cities.
Go COUGS!
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go DAWGS!
Go COUGS!
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go DAWGS!
HAha. Go cougs is funny cuz the cougs usually suck but the locals are freakin die-hards :thumbsup:
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Go COUGS!
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I go for the cougs but am more of a boise fan for some reason. But anyways :stopjack:
I really doubt that they will become a new state, especialy since there are already lawsuites trying to stop the new law within the state and similar lawsuites at the federal level. But it would be interesting if it did happen, mightmake a bunch of other localities to do the same thing in other states.
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More:
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_23406235?source=pop_section_news (http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_23406235?source=pop_section_news)
Weld County's bid to divorce Colorado and form its own state is a powerful rebuke of Front Range interests that no longer align with rural parts of the state, supporters of the idea say.
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The plan to carve off the northeastern corner of the state — Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma and Kit Carson counties — and form the state of North Colorado was hatched at a Colorado Counties Inc. conference earlier this week, Weld County spokeswoman Jennifer Finch said.
The commissioners, united by interests in oil and gas regulation, gun control, transportation and agriculture, agreed to discuss its feasibility and perhaps put the question to voters in their counties in November, Finch said.
(See County Map link I cited in the OP.)
("Front Range" refers to those areas which are in and near the Eastern Rocky Mountains --partly mountainous, partly plains.)
All this is of course aimed at kicking the oh-so-urbanized and latte-sucking State Government in the ass in order to draw attention to the schism between urban and rural areas in present-day Colorado. And a large part of it is related to the State's new ultra-left Legislature and its Governor, which rammed those new, ridiculous gun control laws down our throats.
"It's just going to be seen as a crackpot idea by a bunch of crackpot commissioners some of whom are term limited," said Steve Mazurana, a longtime Greeley resident and former political science professor at the University of Northern Colorado. "Some will just call it Crackpottopia."
Well, "Crackpottopia" or not, it's making some news. This is all relevant to what a lot of people, myself included, feel is basically a "Tyranny of the Cities" in politics, where urban interests and outlook absolutely crush the wishes and needs of the outlying rural areas.
And not just with gun control.
And not just in Colorado.
Terry, 230RN
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I hear you Terry. Even with things such as the presidential elections. Big metropolises trump every one else's say.
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^ Well, I'm in contact with some folks on other boards on this because there is some question about whether this "cecession" effort is making any news outside of Colorado.
I've long objected to this "Tyranny of the Cities," but I don't see any way to stop it except with symbolic efforts such as this one, because Power, once gained, is never given up. And the cities have the power.
Terry