West Virginia governor: Virginia counties unhappy with liberal gov should just secede

That'll be a nice trend

"WHEN YOU DONT AGREE, JUST SECEDE"

Seriously, when was the last time a governor advocated secession?

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There is about 160 years of precedent for this one, though.

What state was West Virginia once a part of?

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Clearly Maryland

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There is about 160 years of precedent for this one, though.

What state was West Virginia once a part of?

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Doh!!

Lets make this happen.

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Lets make this happen.

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What would be the procedure for such an action??

Wouldn't VA have to agree? = they won't

Hold a special election? Amend the constitution??

I don't think Virginia at the time agreed with the original secession of West Virginia, but, there it exists today

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What would be the procedure for such an action?? Wouldn't VA have to agree? = they won't Hold a special election? Amend the constitution??

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Take a look at a map, and draw an outline around all the contiguous to West Virginia counties where such a vote is likely to pass. Hold a simultaneous county level election in those counties.

If the ballot measure passes, then at a county level, with the assistance of the West Virginia state government immediately begin acting as if those counties belong to West Virginia. State taxes going to Charleston, Wva State Troopers patrolling the highways, opening WVa DMV locations so residents can get licenses and replate their cars. Initially, I would make that free for 90 days or something like that to make it a zero cost option for residents. I might even give all new West Virginia residents a one year state income tax exemption as a carrot. State level elected officials would immediately withdraw from the Virginia assembly and be invited to the West Virginia legislature.

As the saying goes, possession is 9/10ths of the law, and as the Dems have taught us over the past several decades, just doing things goes a long way towards getting them done.

Gut Virginia and leave Blackface Northam as the governor of a handful of Northern Virginia counties and an urban area or two.

If the West Virginia state government actually had a set big enough to get this done, heck, I think I would move there.

Or we could go back to business as usual, have a rally, go home, and live under Northman’s anti first and anti second amendment tyranny.

"WHEN YOUR GOVERNMENT IS TRASHING THE CONSTITUTION, JUST SECEDE"

FIFY

Article 4, Section 3, Clause 1

“no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”

So counties leaving to form a new state called South Virginia is against the federal constitution without permission from both the Virginia legislature and congress....but that document is completely silent on the issue of part of an existing state joining itself to another existing state.

That’s why you have West Virginia move unilaterally to annex Virginia counties after a county level vote.



(what’s that one westernmost blue county?)