Calexit Leader Moves to Russia Permanently — or Until California Secedes

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Calexit Leader Moves to Russia Permanently — or Until California Secedes
by MICHELLE MOONS | 20 Apr 2017 | 969
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2017/04/20/calexit-leader-moves-to-russia-permanently-or-until-california-seceeds/

  "The leader of a California movement to secede from the United States of
   America, or "CalExit," does not want to live under the American flag —
   and is now settling in Russia.
   
   In a statement issued this week, Louis Marinelli announced that he is
   moving to his wife's native Russia permanently, or at least until
   California secedes, calling himself the self-appointed "representative
   of the Republic of California to Russia".
   
   Marinelli posted a long message on yescalifornia.org about his decision
   to seek permanent residence in Russia, and to abandon the effort he
   started in 2014 to see California secede from the union. Marinelli
   states that he led the group in the absence of a native Californian to
   lead it, adding, "From the beginning, I have pointed out the trouble I
   bring to the table with my political background and my history in
   Russia, a country I have grown to love."
   
      As I have stated in the past, I do not wish to live under the American
      flag. I do not wish to live under the American political system or
      within the American economic system. Regardless, I had long planned to
      eventually return to occupied California and struggle for her
      independence from the United States so we could build the kind of
      country that reflects our progressive values. However, while my
      frustration, disappointment and disillusionment with the United States
      remains, these feelings now point me in a different direction. I have
      found in Russia a new happiness, a life without the albatross of
      frustration and resentment towards ones' homeland, and a future
      detached from the partisan divisions and animosity that has thus far
      engulfed my entire adult life.
   
      Consequently, if the people of Russia would be so kind as to welcome me
      here on a permanent basis, I intend to make Russia my new home.
   
      Accordingly, as the author and architect of the Calexit ballot
      initiative petition which is currently circulating in California, it is
      only proper, given my intention to seek permanent residence in Russia
      and not return to California in the foreseeable future, to withdraw
      that petition from circulation, and to allow a new petition, free from
      ties to me and drafted by others, to be resubmitted at future date of
      their choosing.
   
   In Marinelli's lengthy address, he attempts to explain some of his
   disdain for the U.S., and the motivation for his "CalExit" campaign as
   he writes that he brought his foreign wife to America, but says there
   were issues with the process of her immigration status. He says his
   allegiance to the United States shifted to allegiance to California.
   
   In a prior interview with Breitbart California, Marinelli had indicated
   that his wife is a citizen of Russia and her family still resides there.
   
   He continued, in his address:
   
      And so, thirty-six months ago, I started the Calexit campaign in order
      to establish a country where my wife would not need to live in the
      shadows and where my family would feel welcome. And I wanted a country
      to be proud of again... and California, unlike the United States, is a
      great source of pride for me. But three weeks ago, my wife finally
      received her green card and now my personal struggle against the United
      States government has ended.
   
   He called himself a Californian "first and foremost, and that my claim
   to being an American is the same claim that could be made by the other
   inhabitants of North and South America because we are all Americans."
   
   Marinelli boasted that Yes California has compiled a mailing list of
   110,489, with 97,463 of those as registered supporters and 8,510
   designated volunteers, but just 1,201 actual financial contributors.
   
   The CalExit leader concluded by stating that he would return to
   California once the state secedes from the union. "Until then I will
   continue to serve as the representative of the Republic of California
   to Russia," he wrote.
   
   Yes California filed papers last November to begin collecting
   signatures in an effort to put a California secession measure on the
   2018 ballot. The group needed to collect 585,407 valid signatures to
   qualify.
   
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From the comments :

RobL_v2 • a day ago
So the same Liberals who are blaming a Trump victory on the Russians are moving to Russia to escape Trump?!?!

Certifiable!

Now where can I go to help you pack, I'll even buy your one way ticket and drive you to the airport.
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[Astrangerinmyownland]

LOL California secession, if I understand it correctly, is a total fucking joke.  Without federal funding and white taxpayers, it'll quickly revert to the character of its constituents - 3rd World Mexico.  California in the union is a gravy train of whitey tax payers money.  Who'd willing give up sucking off whitey's tax revenues?  That place will be Aztlan with Incan blooded savages performing human sacrifices at noon sooner than it will be some independent libertarian paradise.

Silicon Valley, the tech giants and the Shabbos Goyim in Hollywood/Music aren't going to stay once they're forced to live in barrio slums with brown people everywhere.