North Colorado: 51st state

Five lame posts.

 

Maybe it's to fit in with a lame site. Everything on here is boring. Which might say why I've had five posts in three weeks.

 

I don't know if it's still in effect, but Kennesaw, Ga., passed such a law in the '80s.

 

I would never become a member of a website that would choose to accept someone like me!

 

Just sayin...this is a thread that yearns to be something it can't be. Water and farming? C'mon. Are those code words I'm not privy to?

 

Since you've brought your greatness here, why don't you illuminate us with it and turn this thread into all it can be.

 

Water is not really an issue. In Colorado water rights are treated as a property right. A person can buy and sell water rights. So the farmers in Northwestern Colorado would presumably retain their water rights jsut as they would there water rights.

But Colorado has changed from a pretty red state to one that leans democratic pretty quickly. In 1998 Republicans controlled both senate seats, the governor's chair and both houses of the legislature. Now the Dems do. The Denver suburban counties of Arapahoe and Jefferson and also Larimer County in Northern Colorado now slightly lean democratic. Those three counties are 25% of the State's population. Given the growing Hispanic population that trend will probably continue and Colorado is on it's way to becoming another California. So if you are a conservative farmer you probably feel left out.

 

And you've had to edit every one of them?

 

In 1804 the average Congressional District average 40,000 (33,000 at the founding of the republic)
Today the average Congressional District is nearly 700,000, with the largest being Montana at over 968,000 (1 rep) and the smallest Rhode Island at 526,000 (2 reps).

40,000 a District today would mean a House of Representatives of over 7500 rather than 435.

 

Oh. Well, I could certainly understand by that attitude how people get run off from here.

 

It's shocking that someone named Pain in the Ass who comes in with a condescending attitude and adds nothing of value is worried about getting run off. Can't figure that one out.