Congrats to RacerX

[edX]

so Tommy, what is wrong with Sacramento? it seems like a perfect place to warehouse politicians to me

I would prefer we not clutter the city with anymore of them than we have to. and just exactly which piece of empty land would you build this new capitol building on?

[RacerX]

So if you want Sacramento to be part of SC, who is going to take Fresno?

I don't know, I just thought that we would make everything north of SLO town be Northern California, everything else (except SD county which becomes the District of San Diego) would be Southern California.

Any ideas about what would be the capital of Baja? That is the area that would see the most dramatic changes by joining the USC.

[AdmiralAK]

Originally posted by Ed Spruiell

tolya - for an international man of mystery, your concepts of calif. are kinda stereotypical

lol its the fact that I have not been there in order to see first hand what goes in

maybe one of these days

[TommyWillB]

Originally posted by Ed Spruiell
...and just exactly which piece of empty land would you build this new capitol building on?

If you've been here in the last few years you'd know that our "royal" Mayor slick-Willie Brown has all of the necessary palms pre-greased.

I've lived near SF my entire life and have never seen an massive of a building boom as right now. Where does the land come from? Eminent domain of course.

You should see his city hall. Somehow me managed to raise "private funds" to have the top of it guilt (guilded?... you know, encrusted in gold).

Truth be told, if Willie brown had his way he'd build a castle on Treasure Island. I have no doubt that would also be where the State capital would be located.

[TommyWillB]

Originally posted by RacerX
So if you want Sacramento to be part of SC, who is going to take Fresno?

I don't know, I just thought that we would make everything north of SLO town be Northern California, everything else (except SD county which becomes the District of San Diego) would be Southern California.

Any ideas about what would be the capital of Baja? That is the area that would see the most dramatic changes by joining the USC.

Since Fresno (a land of toxic fertilizer laced dust storms) is well south of Sacramento, this is a no brainer. They can have it.

The gerrymandering would be a bit tricky. Basically I'd like Northern California to keep it's water and some of the farms. Southern California can invest in desalination and negotiations with Colorado/Arizona for Colorado River water.

Possibly Southern Claifornia can have the eastern edge up to Sacramento and Northern California can take the coast down to SLO/Cal Poly.

[RacerX]

Okay, lets remember that we are talking about the United States of California here (not the My State is Better than Yours States of California), which collectively is the 6th largest economy in the world. We aren't going to get anywhere if people hog resources. There is enough water in the Sierra Nevadas (which runs the length of California I might add) for everyone, and we are all going to be using desalination. There is no way we are using drop one from the Colorado River (we are not asking the USA for anything that we don't have to). The only thing I care about having to do with the Colorado River is the the water that comes out of it into the Gulf of California is completely clean.

Besides, you would be giving SO complete control of the future power supply that way. I plan on making a number of solar field in Death Valley to help power USC.

And something tells me Baja is going to produce more from their farms within a couple years of it becoming a state than both NC and SC combined.

[edX]

Hey Tommy, Slick Willie is my man.

and i hadn't thought of Treasure Island which i don't really consider to be part of the City. but it would be the perfect place for such a capitol building. I still don't like the idea of having that many more politicians that close to us. And I would hate to see the beauty of Humboldt disturbed by their presence even more.

and while i too believe in the country of Calif, this whole north vs south thing where californians want to split into two states already is a problem. I have seen both sides of it and basically see the current sharing of resources as beneficial to all. I am sure there is room for improvement but have never focused on how we might do so.

RacerX - why would you want to provide more power to the University of Southern California?

[RacerX]

said by my troublesome friend Ed
RacerX - why would you want to provide more power to the University of Southern California?

You know what I mean!

They could use some more power though.