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[99th_Monkey]

[demwing]

1. Misleading - Jeffersonians want to breakaway from their states

not their country.

[99th_Monkey]

4. you know, you are correct. sorry if header was misleading ... I'm deleting the post. ~nt~

[depakid]

2. State of Jefferson

and btw: the recent bill just extended a MAJOR lifeline to many of the these counties. The Oregonian reported that people were actually cheering when it passed

Leaders in rural communities all across Oregon can breathe a deep sigh of relief and set aside dire plans to dismantle their county governments.

They can also be excused for shaking their heads in wonderment at the way the federal government came to their rescue by extending its so-called county timber payment program. The Alice-in-Wonderland process was anything but pretty -- the most politically volatile moment in recent history for member's of Oregon's congressional delegation.

Payments from timber receipts were promised to rural counties generations ago under agreements in which the federal government gobbled up ownership of hundreds of thousands of acres of forestland in 39 states, nowhere more aggressively than in Oregon. After timber revenue declined dramatically in the 1990s, Congress recognized its responsibility by creating the county payments program. In 2005 the Bush administration and Congress refused to reauthorize it.

In Oregon, it meant that schools, sheriff's offices, libraries and other local services would severely shrink or even vanish this winter in communities across the state. Last week's bailout gives 33 Oregon counties $740million over four years and breathing room to create alternatives to the politically unsustainable federal program.

http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2008/10/a_welcome_revival_of_county_ti.html

[cui bono]

3. They want to be the 51st state. So the secession is from CA and OR, not USA.

In Los Angeles there is also a secession movement. A lot of people in the San Fernando Valley want it to be its own city where as right now it's part of the city of Los Angeles.