By KATY MURPHY
Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2017 at 3:29 pm
UPDATED: April 18, 2017 at 7:11 am
... In a lengthy farewell post, Louis Marinelli, of the secessionist campaign "Yes California," explained that "it was only proper" to drop the measure since he no longer planned to return to California to "struggle for her independence from the United States" ...
"I have found in Russia a new happiness," Marinelli wrote, "a life without the albatross of frustration and resentment towards ones' homeland, and a future detached from the partisan divisions and animosity that has thus far engulfed my entire adult life" ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/17/calexit-leaders-drop-ballot-measure-to-break-from-the-u-s/