Robin Abcarian: Rich dude with more money than sense launches another campaign to break California up
The culture of disruption is getting out of hand.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist and Bitcoin evangelist Tim Draper has revived his proposal to carve our fabulous state into smaller parts. His current proposal, Cal 3, is a minor improvement over his 2014 scheme, which was to break the state into six parts.
But it's just as misguided.
Draper claims that creating a Northern California (including San Jose and San Francisco, east to Mariposa County), Southern California (including Orange and San Diego counties) and just plain old California (including the five coastal counties from Los Angeles to Monterey) will magically have the effect of improving education, lowering taxes and repairing the state's
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