Northern Colorado Counties Want Us To Make Room For 51st State Business Cards Conference Calls Conference Calling Published: June 8, 2013 Northern Colorado Counties Want Us To Make Room For 51st State, Secession petitions went wild after the last election, but not all the rebels want out of the union. Eight rural, mostly conservative counties in the upper reaches of Colorado are making noise about carving out their own place within the Republic of Obama. Three Weld County commissioners are pushing Northern Colorado to become the 51st state, steamed that the state legislature has enacted stricter gun control and renewable energy laws. The last state to pull this off was West Virginia in 1863, and Greeley resident Steve Mazurana doesn’t see much hope of it happening again. “Some will just call it Crackpottopia,” said the former political science professor. Weld County’s bid to divorce Colorado and form its own state is a powerful rebuke of Front Range interests that no longer align with rural parts of the state, supporters of the idea say. “The people of rural Colorado are mad, and they have every right to be,” said U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, a Republican from Yuma. “The governor and his Democrat colleagues in the statehouse have assaulted our way of life, and I don’t blame these people one bit for feeling attacked and unrepresented by the leaders of our state.” The plan to carve off the northeastern corner of the state — Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma and Kit Carson counties — and form the state of North Colorado was hatched at a Colorado Counties Inc. conference earlier this week, Weld County spokeswoman Jennifer Finch said. The commissioners, united by interests in oil and gas regulation, gun control, transportation and agriculture, agreed to discuss its feasibility and perhaps put the question to voters in their counties in November, Finch said. But some see it as ploy to raise the long-term political capital of those involved in the proposed move. Or worse, it’s a bad joke. “It’s just going to be seen as a crackpot idea by a bunch of crackpot commissioners some of whom are term limited,” said Steve Mazurana, a longtime Greeley resident and former political science professor at the University of Northern Colorado. “Some will just call it Crackpottopia.”
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