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If you move the goalposts to modifying the State Constitution, sure, you can do anything that doesn't conflict with the Federal Constitution. The votes would n
by junkscience2017 9y ago
If you move the goalposts to modifying the State Constitution, sure, you can do anything that doesn't conflict with the Federal Constitution.
The votes would never materialize. In Palo Alto or Los Gatos you couldn't even get 2% of voters willing to surrender their right to local governance.
Why not turn this around...SF can agree to become part of San Jose. Are you still interested?
- bradleyjg 9y agoI live all the way on the other side of the country. I don't have a dog in the fight. I just suggested that the Bay Area could be reorganized into a single municipality through the initiative process if the voters of California decided to do that. Whether or not you could actually get the votes is something I'm not equipped to answer. A big part of it would depend on what people in Southern California think of the idea given that it contains over half the state's population.
- junkscience2017 9y agoLos Angeles is the result of the process people here are advocating and it is considered a civic disaster...so much so that it has had to yield to secession efforts in the entire years. Surprise, people don't want to have their mayor live 80 miles away. Few in California would vote to create a second Los Angeles.