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Source: USA Today
Forget about Texas seceding from the union. It's solidly blue states like California, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut that should get the boot, jokes a Republican running for Texas lieutenant governor.
"I'm in favor of expulsion," Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson told the Associated Press. "New York, California and there's some good people in New York and California but their legislatures' aren't representing them."
Patterson may only be half-joking.
Earlier this year, more than 100,000 people signed a petition on the White House website calling on the Obama administration to allow Texas to secede and create its own government. It was similar to petitions filed by people in Alabama, Louisiana and other states where Obama isn't popular. The White House responded by citing an 1869 Supreme Court decision that found individual states do not have the right to secede...
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/10/11/jerry-patterson-texas-liberal-states-secede/2966519/
I get it...
...Only a few constitutional amendments involved there.
Plan B: Secession.
OK Texas; when hurricane Lee hits Corpus Christie, you're on your own. No declaration of a "national" disaster. No federal intervention or funding for rescue, recovery, cleanup, rebuilding etc.
All your politics & politicians will be local & I guarantee you that every last one of your "leaders" will be swept out of office for pandering to the mindless ideologues who considered secession to be a viable expression of opposition to the current administration.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the divided state of Texas, and against the republic which it stands against..."
Oh that's right Mr. Patterson, your statements were only hyperbole.