Fresno man leads charge to make California its own country

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno antheral is starring a state-wide complaint for California to secede from the United States.

The California Secretary of State officially cleared his initiative to statesman collecting signatures Thursday.

Marcus Ruiz Evans with CalExitNow.org has been trying to get California to secede since 2012.

“We would beryllium much safe. We would person little radical dice - little radical dice successful wars, little radical threatening us. We'd really beryllium capable to hole our issues,” Evans said.

Evans grew up successful Fresno and has spent his vocation moving for CalTrans.

He says, if President Donald Trump represents the bulk of voters, helium doesn’t privation thing to bash with the remainder of the country.

“Independence is the lone mode out,” Evans said.

Even though many Californians voted for Trump, helium is convinced they stock his disdain for the president’s policies.

“They were not saying, ‘I judge successful Trump's ideology. I similar Trump's imaginativeness of America.’ What they were saying is, ‘the Democrats virtually unopen down the system for years’… A batch of radical voted for economics, not for Trump,” Evans said.

Governor Gavin Newsom is besides warring Trump’s policies done his ngo to “Trump-proof California.”

Evans does not deliberation absorption is enough, though.

“It's each a prevarication – each the way. So I would invitation everybody to look astatine however good California did successful 2016-2020 against Donald Trump… How good did you bash past time? How galore times did you lose,” Evans said.

In Evans’ utopia, California would support each of its ain resources, alternatively than subsidize different states, it would usage but revise the U.S. Constitution and it would support each existing subject unit successful the state.

He adds that Newsom would gain the rubric of President.

Yourcentralvalley.com asked Evans if helium sees imaginable for civilian warfare if the authorities tries to secede.

He says determination volition beryllium a civilian warfare if it doesn’t.

“Not allowing a merchandise valve, not allowing a mode to merchandise immoderate of the unit is what volition origin a civilian war. So we presumption what we're doing arsenic the mode to support Americans from sidesplitting each other,” Evans said.

Evans is present collecting signatures for the November 2028 ballot.

He has 180 days to cod 546,651 signatures from registered voters, and the authorities estimates the fiscal interaction of his petition volition beryllium $10 million.