A group of Californians have filed paperwork to break away from Californian and make a new state called “New California.” Supporters issued a “Declaration of Independence and Separation from the State of California” on January 15. On January 19, they filed a list of grievances against California; the main grievance was that California is “ungovernable.”
The leader, Robert Paul Preston, disputes that policies and laws designed do not work in rural regions. Preston hopes that the state’s rural counties will join the movement. The group is recruiting county coordinators to try and get as many of California’s counties as possible to joi.
They will use Article four section three of the U.S. constitution that give any geographic region the right to apply to Congress for statehood, to form “New California.”
