3 Californias possible in latest state-splitting plan
By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee
California secession efforts are plentiful this year, but tech billionaire Tim Draper wants to go old school: Just split the Golden State into three.
Draper spent more than $5 million in 2014 on an unsuccessful effort to qualify a ballot measure asking voters to divide California into six states. He never gave up on the idea, though.
His newest measure, filed this month, says the “political representation of California’s diverse population and economies has rendered the state nearly ungovernable.