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in California are exactly what they sound like. It is a mandate to do something with no money behind it. And if you don't do it,

Sacramento will do it for you and you will have to pay back the state that money if it's over the

amount and the state will have to reimburse you the money if you spend the money. Something like

de-annexation really starts to change the culture of what Sacramento aims to do because it starts to direct tax dollars directly back to the cities in which have been de-annexed.

It's an interesting business model, and for am the West Coast correspondent for the Daily Signal,

and I've been gone for a week because I went to D.C. And I also did a lot of homework on my topic today. I've been doing

a lot of homework on this topic because I really don't see another way to solve some of the

big problems we have in California. So my topic today once again is de-annexing, seceding, and

home rule. These are all the three ways that you can split off a city from another city, or you can

put a map around it by zip code and call it its own city. Some people call them charter cities.

Sometimes they're unincorporated cities, but whatever it is, we need to start thinking about it.

What has happened over the last six months is I've been traveling from Sacramento and San Diego and Los Angeles, actually from Humboldt County all the way down to Chula Vista.

And I visited with a lot of mayors in California.

And mayors are in such an interesting position because for the most part, we have strong and weak mayors,

52 primary mayors, and then hundreds of mayors throughout the state that are in charge of

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