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East-Oregon Movement To Secede And Create 'Greater Idaho' Picks Up Steam

SUNDAY, FEB 05, 2023 - 11:30 PM

A movement by east-Oregon conservatives to secede and join Idaho is picking up steam, according to the Daily Mail, which interviewed the movement's leader, Mike McCarter.



Mike McCarter is president of the Greater Idaho Movement. The campaign is stepping up its push for 15 counties to leave Oregon and join the neighboring state of Idaho

Armed with just $70,000, McCarter has been lobbying for the move in the two states - and has seen allies introduce legislation in Oregon last month. He also has a bill ready to go in Idaho that would accelerate discussions for 15 counties to immediately secede.

"I think people within the United States are watching Oregon's movement, hoping that it'll establish a pathway for them in the future," he told the Mail.



McCarter's office, adorned with muzzle-loading rifles and the head of a musk deer, "could not be further from the image of Oregon as a haven for woke politics, where a majority voted to decriminalize hard drugs in 2020, where coastal valleys provide the perfect climate for the delicate pinot noir grape and where the liberal lifestyle was sent up in the TV comedy Portlandia," reads the report.

That is Portland, with its homeless encampments outside artisan doughnut stores.
By contrast, central and eastern Oregon is a land of hardy ranchers, loggers and sawmill workers. Where daytime temperatures dropped below zero at the weekend after a snowstorm.
And where locals say they have more in common with next-door Idaho than they do Portland and its $6 caffe lattes.
'Our movement is based on values,' said McCarter, 75, a retired nursery worker who runs courses for people who want concealed carry permits
'You know, the traditional values of faith, family, freedom, and independence.
'We don't want to be catered to by the government. In other words, if my power goes down, I have generator, I have water, everything ... food storage.'
As America divides between urban and rural, Democratic cities and Republican hiss and prairies, eastern Oregon is at the forefront of reshaping state lines. -Daily Mail

According to McCarter, conservatives in Oregon would be 'fairly represented' in Boise, rather than the Oregon capital of Salem.

That said, despite 11 eastern counties already voting in favor of moving, he doesn't expect Oregon to just give up 15 counties which contain 63% of the state's land without a fight.
Last month, Oregon lawmakers introduced legislation which would require the state to enter into discussions with Idaho.
McCarter also pointed out that it would save western Oregon money to allow the east to split off, as rural residents are subsidized to the tune of around $500 per person per year.
"So if Oregon, let Eastern Oregon go, they would be much richer right on their side," he said. "They would not have the conflict and the bickering battle that goes back and forth."



As Michael Snyder wrote in 2020:

Out of Oregon’s existing 36 counties, only 14 would remain in the state if Greater Idaho is able to achieve their goals, and a big chunk of northern California would become Idaho territory as well.
But getting this accomplished will not be easy. Approval would be needed from the state legislatures of Oregon, California and Idaho, and that would be a real challenge.
On top of that, the U.S. Congress would have to approve any plan, and getting that to happen would probably require a miracle.
But one thing that this movement has going for it is the fact that it has been endorsed by some big name state lawmakers in Oregon, and that includes the top Republican in the state Senate…

The move would also give western Oregon Democrats a supermajority in the state legislature, allowing them to more freely pursue their progressive agenda.
"Chicago controls Illinois. Atlanta controls Georgia. New York City controls all of New York state," said McCarter. "And there's a distinct difference between urban and rural."

East-Oregon Movement To Secede And Create 'Greater Idaho' Picks Up Steam | ZeroHedge

I love Oregon, it is now a destroyed Democrat cesspool.

Another Oregon county votes to join conservative Idaho and secede from crime-infested blue state

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After a vote on Tuesday, May 21, Crook County, Oregon became the latest to approve the "Greater Idaho Measure," following 12 other counties that have passed measures to secede from Democrat-controlled Oregon to be included in neighboring, Republican-dominated Idaho, believing that the Gem State can better represent their conservative values.The measure, known as Measure 7-86, passed with 53 percent approving efforts to continue negotiations with the state government to move Oregon's border to include Crook County in Idaho.
Organizers of Measure 7-86 said the decision to secede is because of the state's progressive policies and high crime rates. They also claimed to have been alienated in Oregon. Crook County is moving to Idaho to enable citizens to benefit from reduced taxes as well as improved governance and representation.
"The Oregon/Idaho line was established 163 years ago and is now outdated. It makes no sense in its current location because it doesn't match the location of the cultural divide in Oregon," wrote the group Move Oregon's Border for a Greater Idaho. The group's organizers are appealing to Oregonians who feel that their economic potential is being held back by the state government's taxes and other regulations.
"We'll still have federal and Idaho regulations and that's plenty," the group noted. "Idaho knows how to respect rural counties and their livelihoods."
Even voters who oppose Greater Idaho are tired of being governed by Oregon Democrats

According to a report on USA Today, even voters who oppose the measure to secede said they are tired of the dictates from liberal lawmakers in the state capital of Salem and the state's largest urban area of Portland.
These disaffected voters cited measures like the legalization of marijuana, efforts to restrict the use of fossil fuels, gun control measures and how the state handled the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as reasons for their distress.
Moreover, a recent poll revealed that the majority of Idahoans support Oregon's measure. A separate survey also indicated that more than 25 percent of people support the secession of states.
Meanwhile, Ryan D. Griffiths, a political science professor at Syracuse University, said that, like other secession efforts, the "Greater Idaho Movement" lacks a significant groundswell of public support and in most cases is more of a referendum on state-level governance.
"It's a pipe dream, in a way. What they're doing is partly performative, for ideological purposes," he said. "A lot of time, secessionist movements are really just bargaining efforts."
"The voters of eastern Oregon have spoken loudly and clearly about their desire to see border talks move forward," said Matt McCaw, executive director of the Citizens for Greater Idaho. "With this latest result in Crook County, there's no excuse left for the legislature and governor to continue to ignore the people's wishes."
He called on the Oregon governor, the speaker of the House and the Senate president – all Democrats – to sit down with them so that they can discuss the next steps towards changing governance for eastern Oregonians, as well as for the legislature to begin holding hearings on what a potential border change will look like.
Visit Secession.news for stories of states and territories that are fed up with the policies of their governing bodies and are moving to break free.
Watch the video below that talks about the constitutional issues of the movement for "Greater Idaho."

This video is from the Win in Court (U.S.A.) channel on Brighteon.com.
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Sources include:

GreaterIdaho.org
ThePostMillennial.com
NewsNationNow.com
Brighteon.com

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