Two New York States

[Dougles]

How? Why?

He is right, it is unconstitutional to break away from NYS. It has to be approved by NYS then by the FED, but it can be done!

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

for pete's friggin sake...

IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!

Should and Could are very different words.....

[mesue]

He is right, it is unconstitutional to break away from NYS. It has to be approved by NYS then by the FED, but it can be done!

probably by harder work than anyone is willing to do. Too bad.

[Flutter]

I voted yes because it's a pipe dream of mine, but I know it will never happen.

However, instead of the 51st state.....I wanna be the 11th province.

[WNYresident]

for pete's friggin sake...

IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!

Never really stopped elected officials before has it?

[300miles]

I voted No because I think it would be more effective to direct our energy into revising state laws to establish that Upstate cities should not be under the same regulations as NYC. Once we create regulations appropriate for our region, then the area can see some real benefit.

[Surfing USA]

for pete's friggin sake...

IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!

That's debatable (though not a debate I'd particularly care to have). But what's NOT debatable, what is PERFECTLY clear, what CANNOT be mistaken:

Article IV, Sec 3.
but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.

Do you really think that the NYS legislature would go for it? Do you really think that the US Congress would go for it, considering that at that point there are at least 3 other states who would have areas agitating for statehood? Do you really think we need to further fracture our country along partisan lines?

People want to sound like they're investigating "important stuff." But this is as likely as Jim-O's wet dream of returning to the Articles of Confederation. It's a freakin fairy tale about rainbows and unicorns...except the rainbow and unicorn stories would at least have happy endings.

Is your second post admission that your first post was wrong?

Remember this one, folks. It's not too often that run4it admits that he was wrong.

[knowsitall]

We finally agree on something....altho I don't use the word "poop" often....

Ch. 2 is full of great ideas......for me to poop on.

[cheekman]

Ch. 2 is full of great ideas......for me to poop on.

come on wny number 1 cheerleader ms.demler making all that money, and you don't like her ideas.

[justKel]

I'm all for it. I don't think a vote is the way to go. If enough people bug their legislators they will listen. If you call a vote among the people and most of NYC wants things to stay the way they are, we're a bit outnumbered.

[justKel]

for pete's friggin sake...

IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN BECAUSE IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!

Yep, and there's that. You can't just call a vote on this. There's a lot more to it than that.

[CSense]

Never really stopped elected officials before has it?

I'd have a better chance of winning the lottery, having a love affair with Scarlett Johanson, being struck by lightning and living, meeting an extraterrestrial and ultimately being killed by a flying meteor, all on the same day!

[run4it]

I'd have a better chance of winning the lottery, having a love affair with Scarlett Johanson, being struck by lightning and living, meeting an extraterrestrial and ultimately being killed by a flying meteor, all on the same day!

Hell of a way to go! count me in...

[run4it]

Is your second post admission that your first post was wrong?

Remember this one, folks. It's not too often that run4it admits that he was wrong.

Yeah, ok...in my irritation of seeing someone try to drum this stupid idea up again, I made a misstatement. Separate statehood in and of itself is not unConstitutional. But the means by which it would have to happen are simply not practical nor feasible, and are a tremendous waste of time simply BECAUSE of that improbable (no, not impossible, but about as improbable as those unicorns I was talking about) mechanism.

[sneakers77]

Is your second post admission that your first post was wrong?

Remember this one, folks. It's not too often that run4it admits that he was wrong.

Lets be honest, there's not too many times he his wrong.