“The Greater Idaho movement” :data-laughing:
Mike McCarter, center, has galvanized a coalition of 8 counties to secede from Oregon, moving into Idaho, where they would find more amenable politics.Courtesy of Greater Idaho, greateridaho.org.
The Greater Idaho movement seeks to redraw state boundaries so rural Oregon can join Idaho.
Idaho’s House voted in favor of exploring the move after 11 Oregon counties did the same.
Moving the state boundary would require the approval of Oregon, Idaho, and the U.S. Congress.
The Greater Idaho movement — a conservative effort to have eastern Oregon secede from the blue state and join Idaho — got a major nod of support last week from lawmakers in the red state.
Literally surrendering political power to your opponents by doing this. Larger states by population are proportionately weaker on the national stage.
On the other hand this would almost certainly result in ID stealing one of OR’s electoral college votes.
Dems: We can’t improve anything because the parliamentarian said so
Reps: redrawing state lines
Moving the state boundary would require the approval of Oregon, Idaho, and the U.S. Congress.
Not holding my breath on this.
The Greater Idaho movement — a conservative effort to have eastern Oregon secede from the blue state and join Idaho — got a major nod of support last week from lawmakers in the red state.
This isn’t even as cool as straight secessionism. Its just a weird legalist land-grab that nobody can actually execute on. At best, you’re going to see another round of Bundy Rancher shit, possibly with more sitting state senators involved this time around.
I don’t expect it to work but they’re trying almost everything they can legally and illegally to try and deliver results to their base’s perceived interests. We all know they’re full of shit but Dems don’t even try one quarter as hard to fuck over Reps
they’re trying almost everything they can legally and illegally to try
Eh. They’re making a lot of mouth noises and leading their local communities around by the nose. In another two years, they’ll be screaming about how the mean old Idaho Supreme Court is full of Woke Transgender Millennials who have prevented them from seizing every Waffle House west of Hwy 201. They’ll raise a bunch of money on this shit, do nothing, wait for people to get incredibly mad, and then act shocked when some random family of vacationers gets lynched over the hysteria.
I think that when the rumblings of this started the Daily Show did a pretty good bit about it. The response out of Salem was basically, “If you pay us for all the state-owned assets we’d be losing from this trade, then we can talk”. It’s something on the order of trillions of dollars.
I was laughing at the thought of passing through multiple islands of Idaho.
being a revanchist for fucking idaho is so funny
