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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Friday, June 07, 2013
Rural county commissioners discuss seceding from Colorado - video
A group of county commissioners say they are pursuing a plan to
secede from Colorado and create a new state because they feel the
Democrat-controlled state legislature is not representing their way of
life. Sean Conway, a commissioner in Weld County, is leading a charge to ask voters in November whether to form a new state. “I know you think, wow, this is crazy when you first hear about it,
but then you realize that five of our states — Vermont, Maine,
Tennessee, Wyoming and Kentucky — came about in this fashion, and the
circumstances were very similar to what we’re going through now,” Conway
told FOX31 Denver Thursday afternoon. Conway, a Republican, said informal discussions have been underway
between county commissioners about what kind of action to take. They say
the state government has been ignoring values of rural counties when
passing recent legislation including gun control measures, expanding oil and gas production and creating new renewable energy standards for rural areas. Gov. John Hickenlooper, after a long deliberation, signed the increased renewable energy standard for rural electric co-ops into law on Wednesday. Opponents of that bill labeled it as part of a “war on rural Colorado.” Now, it’s become Fort Sumter. Commissioners from Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma
and Kit Carson counties all expressed interest in the idea. Many met
earlier this week at a Colorado Counties Inc. conference in Keystone to
discuss the feasibility of forming a new state. Any move to secede would require votes in each county. Then the plan
would require the approval of the state legislature and the governor in
order to petition Congress to create a new state, the newspaper
reported...more
Here's the Fox31Denver video report:
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