Aiming To Punish State, Utah Lawmaker Backs California Secession Push

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A Utah lawmaker who is no stranger to controversy is planning legislation calling on his fellow lawmakers to endorse a movement in California for that state to secede from the United States.
Utah Republican Rep. Paul Ray said in an interview Thursday that he does not want California to leave but is tired of the state’s “far off to the left-extreme” political positions.
“I’m sick and tired of the whining we get from the state of California