The pushback in on in Colorado. From recall efforts son politicians that supported the anti gun laws to now talk of counties seceding and forming another state. It goes beyond the anti gun laws too. It sounds like the rural areas are sick of being dominated by the liberal cities. That sounds familiar.
Eight counties in northeastern Colorado are contemplating forming their own state in the wake of unpopular legislation on energy, agriculture, and gun control.
At a conference last week, county commissioners from Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma, and Kit Carson Counties floated the idea of seceding from Colorado and proposed putting the issue to a vote in November.
Commissioners cited a “collective mass” of recent legislation that has isolated rural areas of the state, including gun-control measures and economic regulation that’s put the northern counties at a disadvantage, according to a local newspaper. Give em' hell North Colorado!
“We really feel in northern and northeastern Colorado that we are ignored – citizens’ concerns are ignored, and we truly feel disenfranchised,” said Sean Conway, the Weld County commissioner. Local leaders assert that the state government has failed to address the region’s underfunded infrastructure and school systems, while the Democratic-controlled legislature has pushed new changes in renewable-energy standards and agricultural regulations that have hurt certain sectors of the economy.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...orados-gun-control-measures-lindsey-grudnicki
Eight counties in northeastern Colorado are contemplating forming their own state in the wake of unpopular legislation on energy, agriculture, and gun control.
At a conference last week, county commissioners from Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma, and Kit Carson Counties floated the idea of seceding from Colorado and proposed putting the issue to a vote in November.
Commissioners cited a “collective mass” of recent legislation that has isolated rural areas of the state, including gun-control measures and economic regulation that’s put the northern counties at a disadvantage, according to a local newspaper. Give em' hell North Colorado!
“We really feel in northern and northeastern Colorado that we are ignored – citizens’ concerns are ignored, and we truly feel disenfranchised,” said Sean Conway, the Weld County commissioner. Local leaders assert that the state government has failed to address the region’s underfunded infrastructure and school systems, while the Democratic-controlled legislature has pushed new changes in renewable-energy standards and agricultural regulations that have hurt certain sectors of the economy.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...orados-gun-control-measures-lindsey-grudnicki
