Don’t divide California, shrink Sacramento instead

This November, Californians will have the opportunity to vote against their state’s very existence.
Tim Draper, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who failed to place a six-Californias effort before voters in 2014, has succeeded this time around — albeit with a plan to reduce the Golden State to three smaller units. Despite the obvious appeal of fundamentally shaking up state politics, this new effort seems just as farfetched as the last.
On the one hand, “Cal-3,” as t