More:http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_23406235?source=pop_section_newsWeld 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