SUSANVILLE >> An attempt to split Lassen County from the rest of California was easily defeated Tuesday, with 58 percent of voters against secession.
Lassen, the only remaining county to include the question of separation from the state on their ballot, clearly rejected the idea. In Lake, Plumas, Amador and Nevada similar measures had already been removed from the ballot, or failed to qualify.
“It was an awesome night,” said Jim Chapman, Chair of Lassen County Board of Supervisors. “All across the board the politics of fear were rejected by the politics of hope and the ‘Jeffersonians’ were soundly trounced. The best their candidates in Lassen could do was about 30 percent and the Measure G results blow a big hole in their aspirations. They have no coastline on the west and have lost half of their border with Nevada,”
Cindy Ellsmore, Keep It California Chair, said: “We applaud the tremendous local grassroots effort to counter Measure G, as well as Lassen County voters for recognizing Measure G was misguided. The plan would leave the county financially devastated and severely at-risk, and Lassen families more vulnerable.”
