Billionaire Draper Pushes Six-State California Initiative
Wednesday, 01 Jan 2014 12:09 PM
By Andrea Billups
A proposed ballot initiative filed
in California would divide the state into
six separate entities.
The petition, filed by tech
billionaire and venture capitalist Tim
Draper, not surprisingly gives Silicon Valley its own state, TechCrunch.com
reports, offering rationale from Draper for why it could be beneficial for all California residents.
In making his odd pitch, Draper
cited California's
diversity of geography, industry and community, noting that "citizens of
the whole state would be better served by six smaller state governments,"
CNN reported. He said his state had been "rendered ungovernable" by ongoing
changes in its economic and social landscapes.
"I am endorsing this
initiative because it is a way to localize governance and bring more
representation to the local level," Draper said in a statement. "I am
planning to work to get it on the ballot."
The new states would be:
Silicon Valley which would also
include San Francisco;
West California, which would be
based in Los Angeles;
South California, which would
cover Orange County
and San Diego;
Central California covering the Central Valley
North California which would
stretch from Lake Tahoe to the coast; and
Jefferson which would include the far north of the state and would
be named for the president who sent the Lewis and Clark expedition to the area.
Draper's plan is outlined on map
on his Six Californias website.
In a six-point email that Draper
sent to the TechCrunch explaining his
plan, he said one of the benefits would be for all six states to start afresh —
"from a new crowd sourced state flower to a more relevant
constitution."
Whether Golden State
residents are ready for such a novel concept remains unclear, although the
Merced Sun Star, in a editorial, calls out Draper, the founder of the global
venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, for using such a notion to add to
his empire.
"Draper thinks California multiplied by six would get 12 U.S. senators.
Following this line of reasoning, we should break up Texas as well. And Florida. And New York. Then we could all have more U.S. senators,
which is just what a limited-government guy like Draper wants, right? More
politicians," the paper — which would find itself based in the new state
of Central California — wrote.
"Draper’s plan seems, well, a
bit fragmented. It’s the kind of thing a guy with money on his hands would do
if he were looking for his next venture capital target(s): six new states that
owe him something," the editorial continued.
Tim Draper
Timothy C. Draper
was a board member for the Haas School
of Business, and his father is William
H. Draper III.
Note: Richard C. Blum is
a board member for the Haas School of
Business, married to Senator Dianne
Feinstein, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Robert
D. Haas was a board member for the Haas
School of Business, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
F.
Warren Hellman was a board member for the Haas School of Business, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson is a professor at the Haas
School of Business, a fellow at Center
for American Progress, and was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Center for
American Progress, and the New America Foundation.
George Soros
is the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, the founder
& chairman for the Open Society
Foundations, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
William H.
Draper III was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and is Timothy C.
Draper’s father.
Robert J.
Abernethy is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, California state government Governor Jerry Brown’s sister, was the California state government treasurer, and an attorney
at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
Thomas E. Donilon was a partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, the White
House deputy national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), is a friend of David M. Rubenstein, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett
is the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was the president
for the Economic Club of Washington,
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
David M.
Rubenstein is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the
president for the Economic Club of
Washington, a friend of Thomas E.
Donilon, and a trustee at the Institute
for Advanced Study.
Eric E. Schmidt is a trustee at the Institute for Advanced Study, the
chairman for Google Inc., the
chairman of the New America Foundation, was a funder for New America Foundation, and
a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
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