Oregonians submit ballot proposal to secede from the union

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    Two days after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, two Portlanders have submitted a petition for a 2018 ballot initiative to have Oregon secede from the United States.

    On Thursday morning, Jennifer Rollins, a lawyer, and Christian Trejbal, a writer, filed the Oregon Secession Act.

    "Oregonian values are no longer the values held by the rest of the United States," Trejbal said over the phone Thursday.

    Those values? "Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness," Trejbal said, "plus equality."

    "Obviously," he said, the ballot proposal "came about partially in response to the election results on Tuesday."

    "But," he added, "it's been developing over time."

    Trejbal said that he and Rollins are hoping to start a serious conversation in Oregon about what it would mean to peacefully leave the United States. They opted for 2018 to give Oregonians some time to really think about what seceding from the union would mean.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/..._trump_victory_oregonians.html#incart_m-rpt-2
     
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    Just move Portland and Eugene to the Bay Area and we'll be good.
     
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    Golly, I hope they read up on how it worked out for South Carolina.
     
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    Just because Fred and Carrie have the show Portlandia, doesn't mean they can have the state too
     
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    That gives you time to upgrade my stateroom.
     
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    It's people like you is why the new Republic of Oregon won't have nice things.
     
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    Our emperor Phil Knight will make sure we have many different changes of uniform ....he's got the only check Marz needs....the swoosh
     
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    Once they secede, Amon Bundy will swoop in and occupy the governor's mansion.
     
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