Shasta says no to Jefferson

State of Jefferson supporters hit another speed bump on Tuesday (June 24), when the Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 against supporting the movement to separate the North State from California.

The decision came after more than two hours of debate and public comment, with most of the 40-plus community members who spoke publicly asking the board to support a split. Thus far, supervisors in four counties—Glenn, Modoc, Siskiyou and Yuba—have voted to support Jefferson, as have voters in Tehama County.

Butte County supervisors voted on June 10 to revisit the issue in six months.

In other state-splitting news, signatures are being gathered to put Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper’s plan to divide California into six states to voters this November. More than 800,000 signatures must be collected from registered voters by July 18 to qualify the initiative for the November election.