The Hemingway Report

Friday, April 13, 2018

California could vote on separating into 3 states in November

A venture capitalist billionaire said he received enough signatures to get a measure on California's November ballot that asks voters if they want to split California into three states.

A 4 state solution would be better.

Of course, North and South California would have to build a wall. South California 2.

Tim Draper, the chairman of Cal 3, the organization pushing the measure, said they've obtained more than 600,000 signatures -- nearly twice the number needed to get on a state ballot -- and will present them to the California Secretary of State for verification.

"This is an unprecedented show of support on behalf of every corner of California to create three state governments that emphasize representation, responsiveness, reliability and regional identity," Draper said in a statement.

The measure would separate the Golden State into California, which will be the coastal area between Los Angeles and Monterey; Northern California, which will include everything north of Merced, including San Jose and San Francisco; and Southern California, which will include the area west of the new California and south of Los Angeles.

"The separate states are based on existing counties; statehood promotes a sense of community among residents and builds culture," Cal 3 says on its website. " Areas like Sacramento are currently run by powerful special interests like the Teachers' Union. Partitioning the state will help put the power back into the hands of the constituents. If the new state's elected officials aren't meeting the needs of the state's citizens, it will be easier to vote them out of power in the next election."

This isn't the first time Draper, an early investor in Tesla and Skype, has tried to divide California.

Back in 2014, he spearheaded a measure that would have asked voters to divide California into six states but failed to win enough signatures.

Steven Maviglio, a longtime Democratic Party political consultant who helped lead the effort against Draper's 2014 measure, told the Marin Independent Journal that there's no official opposition group working against Cal 3, but said he and others have discussed it.

Maviglio criticized CAL 3 as a "a colossal waste of time."

"It's completely unworkable and ridiculous," Maviglio said. "It's kind of a shame with so many important issues facing the state that this wacky idea might appear on the ballot."

If voters were to approve Draper's ballot, it would still need to be approved by the state legislature and the U.S. Congress.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Comey's new book tour... It Takes A Deep State Village

The James Comey media (softball) blitz has officially begun and when the rag is wrung his true colors show. Anyone surprised???

Stephanopoulos got the interview. The tease was…”Is Trump a mob boss?” No way in hell was he going to be interviewed by Hannity or Carlson which tells you where his true loyalty lies.

PS: You ever wonder why you have to take a drug test to get a job? But these bastards, in the highest positions in government FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, etc... never have to take a polygraph test!

NRA accepted donations from 20 Russian-linked contributors

The NRA conspired with the Russians to get Trump elected with the whopping sum of $2500???

Looks like the NRA is the new punching bag replacing Confederate statues.

They’re trying to make a big deal out of this?

(The donations/member fees of $2500 which may include Americans living in Russian.)

Meanwhile, Amber heard just gave the radical terrorist group known as the ACLU $3.5 million to help them enforce any display of the dreaded TEN COMMANDMENTS.

http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/09/amber-heard-johnny-depp-divorce-settlement-donation-promise/

Looking back... if you were Putin wouldn't you rather have the former lying SOS for president? Right now she would be busy tearing down the border wall too busy to concentrate on Putin.

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The National Rifle Association (NRA) disclosed in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) this week that it received contributions from 23 individuals with links to Russia since 2015.

The letter, dated Tuesday and made public on Wednesday, stated that the gun rights group received just over $2,500 from those individuals and that most of the money was from "routine payments," like membership fees. Some of the payments may have come from Americans living in Russia, the NRA noted.

Roughly $525 came from "two individuals who made contributions to the NRA," NRA general counsel John Frazer wrote in the letter, which was first reported Wednesday by NPR.

The NRA's acknowledgment that it received payments from 23 individuals signals a sharp increase from the group's previous disclosures. An outside counsel for the NRA told ABC News in an interview last month that the group received just one contribution from a Russian individual between 2012 and 2018.

Frazer in this week's letter also addressed payments to the NRA made by Alexander Torshin, a Russian politician and the deputy of the country's central bank. He said Torshin has been a life member of the group since 2012, and has paid membership dues, but has not made any additional contributions.

Torshin is among the Russian officials named in new U.S. sanctions imposed last week. Frazer said the NRA is now "reviewing our responsibilities with respect to him."

McClatchy D.C. reported in January that the FBI was investigating whether Torshin sought to funnel money to the NRA to help President Trump win the 2016 election.

Wyden has questioned the NRA for months about possible connections to Russia. Frazer said in the letter to the senator that the organization would stop providing information on the matter.

"Given the extraordinarily time-consuming and burdensome nature of your requests, we must respectfully decline to engage in this beyond the clear answers we have already provided," he wrote.