LA Times
"The idea is the brainchild of Timothy Draper, a venture capitalist from Menlo Park – or as he hopes to some day call it, the state of Silicon Valley. Draper has sunk $2 million into signature gathering for the proposal.
He maintains it will break bureaucratic deadlock in Sacramento (proposed state of North California) and attract more business.
" 'California has become the worst managed state in the country," he told The Times this spring. "It just is too big and too ungovernable."
"Draper, a political independent, needs about 808,000 signatures by July 18 to get the measure on the ballot in two years. He has said he has support from the Oregon border (proposed state of Jefferson) to San Diego (South California), but the plan has been given almost no chance of success by some experts and ridiculed by Democrats and Republicans alike."
Molly Kelley, 62, of Klamath River, holds up a State of Jefferson flag as she folds it inside the
Klamath River Community Hall in California.
"The idea is the brainchild of Timothy Draper, a venture capitalist from Menlo Park – or as he hopes to some day call it, the state of Silicon Valley. Draper has sunk $2 million into signature gathering for the proposal.
He maintains it will break bureaucratic deadlock in Sacramento (proposed state of North California) and attract more business.
" 'California has become the worst managed state in the country," he told The Times this spring. "It just is too big and too ungovernable."
"Draper, a political independent, needs about 808,000 signatures by July 18 to get the measure on the ballot in two years. He has said he has support from the Oregon border (proposed state of Jefferson) to San Diego (South California), but the plan has been given almost no chance of success by some experts and ridiculed by Democrats and Republicans alike."
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