Rebellious Colorado counties make moves on secession plan | The Daily Caller.
Representatives of 10 rural Colorado counties met Monday in the sleepy plains town of Akron, about a half an hour from the Kansas border, to advance a plan that has been both hailed and ridiculed in recent weeks: A bid to split from Colorado and form the country’s 51st state.
Eye-rolling critics have dubbed the state-to-be “Weldistan,” after the county leading the charge and alluding to the heavily conservative values of the northeast region considering secession.
Proponents have called it an inevitable result of what they say is a loss of representation in Denver, where Democrats have controlled state government and, in the minds of many rural Coloradans, ignored them in favor of liberal, urban interests.
Just like a conservative living in Boulder. Your simply a taxpayer for the progressives to take money from.
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But for all the uncertainty, there was one common thread: barely veiled anger at how rural counties perceive they’ve been treated by the Democrat-controlled state legislature this year.
Weld County Commissioner Sean Conway called it “a nightmare session.”
“This was the worse legislative session I’ve ever seen,” he said, “how they treated people, how they called bills up on the same day without giving people a chance to testify.”
At least I won’t have to move far.
Pima County in AZ has been talking about this for years, except they’re a liberal county wanting to separate from a conservative state government. There have been 3 attempts there, and they’ve failed each time. I’ll be curious to see how this move by the eastern counties works out.