HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmail received from BT Chapman regarding the State of Jefferson Sweeney, Kathleen
From: BT Chapman [btc05@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 7:01 AM
To: SOS District 4
Subject: State of Jefferson initiative
Dear Sir:
I am opposed to the State of Jefferson initiative and if it comes to a vote of the Butte
County supervisors I urge a no vote. Here is the letter to the editor that I wrote in
reaction to what I heard at the meeting in Chico on
10 January.
"My comments focus on the recent State of Jefferson meeting held in Chico.
To begin, I challenge the first sentence in the E-R1s front page reporting of the meeting.
All 300 attendees were not necessarily 'proponents of a new U. S. State.2 Many attended just
to hear, listen and learn.
My reaction to the meeting? If there is that much energy around changing matters affecting
the North State and trying to launch a new state, why not keep our state whole and funnel
that energy toward changing the way things are done in Sacramento and where appropriate, at
the Federal level? The can do, we can succeed attitude displayed at the meeting can work in
Sacramento or Washington just as effectively as it would trying to establish a new state.
The initiative, if successful, will set a dangerous precedence for our United States of
America. Before long we will have a bunch of half states, few or any of which will be
successful and able to consistently deliver on their lofty promises for a better life, lower
taxes and (of all things) personal freedom, etc. What have we now if we donit have personal
freedom?
A new state will make things that much better? I think not.
If those opposed to the proposed State of Jefferson don1t organize quickly, and first express
their opinion to their County Supervisors, we face bigger problems than we already have.
/s/B T CHAPMAN
18 Kestrel Court, Chico
530 864 0866"
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