EXCERPT:
MAY: “Hey, Donald, have we got a deal for you! You think we want to be the 51st state? Nah, but maybe California would like to be the 11th province. How about it? California, Oregon, Washington. You’re — you’ve got geography [inaudible]. Not only that, we’ve already got a carbon trading system between California and Quebec. We’ve got some strong alliances on our West Coast from British Columbia. There’s been a lot of academic papers on the idea of Cascadia. So, California Governor Newsom and Washington State Jay Inslee and newly elected governor of Oregon Tina Kotek. How about it? Want to put a referendum to your citizens?”