Residents propose Weld County leave Colorado, join Wyoming
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DENVER – Residents have launched an effort to get a measure on the November ballot that would explore a Colorado county becoming part of Wyoming.
A Colorado campaign finance disclosure website showed that Christopher Richards registered political committee Weld County Wyoming last February, KDVR-TV reported. It’s pushing a ballot measure that would instruct Weld County commissioners to engage and explore the annexation with Wyoming.
Residents propose Weld County leaves Colorado, joins Wyoming
January 27, 2021 GMT
DENVER (AP) Residents have launched an effort to get a measure on the November ballot that would explore a Colorado county becoming part of Wyoming.
A Colorado campaign finance disclosure website showed that Christopher Richards registered political committee Weld County Wyoming last February, KDVR-TV reported. Its pushing a ballot measure that would instruct Weld County commissioners to engage and explore the annexation with Wyoming.
The county just east of Fort Collins has a population of more than 324,000 people.
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Richards said during a November meeting that he got the idea in 2019 after reading an opinion article in The Denver Post and began pursuing the idea through a Facebook page.
Weld County Residents Want to Join Wyoming
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It s not really the first time we ve heard this, but some Weld County residents want to secede from Colorado, and they re pushing to get a measure on the November ballot. Instead of forming a new state, which has been proposed in the past, this time, the initiative would form Weld County Wyoming.
According to KDVR, Weld County Wyoming is a political committee, of which, members feel Colorado is at war with Weld s agriculture and oil and gas industries, as well as its small businesses.
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It s not really the first time we ve heard this, but some Weld County residents want to secede from Colorado, and they re pushing to get a measure on the November ballot. Instead of forming a new state, which has been proposed in the past, this time, the initiative would form Weld County Wyoming.
According to KDVR, Weld County Wyoming is a political committee, of which, members feel Colorado is at war with Weld s agriculture and oil and gas industries, as well as its small businesses. We wish the Commissioners to ask the people of Weld County to vote “yes” or “no” on the following issue; To give the Commissioners power to represent the citizens of Weld County in exploring the option to move Weld County to Wyoming. This power will include the responsibility to approach the State Houses of Colorado and Wyoming, the Governors of both states, as well as state officials in order to establish what the requirements are to ensur
About 5,000 people live in Eaton, Colo., about 20 miles north of Greeley.
Drive north out of Greeley on Weld County Road 39 and you get a snapshot of Northern Colorado’s culture. The road is flanked by farms and oil wells and old prairie cemeteries. Trump campaign signs still stand proudly.
The last time Weld County voted for a Democrat for president was LBJ in 1964. There is still political diversity in Weld, but in the decades since, the subsequent shale boom and all the oil jobs it brought with it have driven the county even farther to the right.
But that’s just one part of the picture.