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Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on May 26, 2013 at 2:07am

Petitions won't make a big difference. If you want to get their attention, start a movement to secede from the state of NY.  Start by having various county commissioners pass resolutions to start the legal process. If you can get 10 or 12 counties to do so, you will start getting serious media coverage and that will get the attention of the state legislators and the governor.

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on May 26, 2013 at 3:11am

The day is fast approaching when this will be necessary for most states. The metro areas have the most population so concentrated in a small area and thus dictate to the entire state and this is just wrong. New York State would be a perfect choice for a secession movement. Why should the rural masses be enslaved to the left wing and "liberal" (what a misnomer!) policies and laws passed by them? New York City could be it's own separate state. Let them legislate THEIR popular opinions any way they choose. Let freedom ring throughout the rest of the state and let the rural New Yorkers legislate according to their needs and morality!

I would love to see Philadelphia carved away from the rest of PA as well.

I'll bet Maryland farmers would love to see Baltimore and the D.C. bedroom communities carved off too!

If this were ever to happen , the electoral college would be so much more representative of the actual populace that I guarantee we would see much different (more representative of the true voice) presidential election results.

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Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on May 29, 2013 at 2:49pm

Its silly to think that secession is based on a single issue. NYC and Philly dominate their respective states to the detriment of the rest of those states. Take a drive on the Pa Turn Pike. As you approach Harrisburg and the southern quadrant of the state it will seem as if you entered a different world. Big housing developments, great roads and bridges, downtown businesses booming, unemployment rates half the rate of W Pa. Same in NY. The mega-metropolises have nothing in common with the western halves of the states.  The only way for the western portions to free themselves of this domination is to secede and and start a new state. And this is something I have been pushing long before shale gas became an issue.

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