Open Thread for Monday

Two Californias? From the Aquafornia blog....

Downsize California! Another scheme to divide California into two states, this time over Proposition 2 - yes, prop 2, not 8: From the Citizens for Saving Farming Industries: It’s time to let the coastal and metropolitan counties have their way. If they can’t appreciate agriculture they should live without it. They should form their own state. The farm community can start the ball rolling by proposing that the 45 interior counties come together as a separate state. Separating California into two states is a mammoth undertaking. Some will tell you it’s impossible. But simply allowing the mass numbers of farm uneducated city dwellers to dictate farm policy is committing agricultural suicide in California. No other region in the world, let alone the United States, has the capability of producing the variety of agriculture commodities as California. We must not allow the shortsightedness of sheer voting numbers to destroy an irreplaceable industry. The truncated state would include the coastal counties from the Bay Area down to Los Angeles County, with the remaining 45 counties, including Orange County and San Diego County remaining with the rest of the state. Apparently, they want to keep Mickey Mouse! (No way, I say!) All this is being led by Bill Maze, a termed-out Republican assemblyman from Visalia, and a few others. Check it out from the San Francisco Chronicle’s Politics blog: Farmer’s plan to split California ships San Francisco out. Also check it out here.