California has seen more than 220 secession efforts, all of which have failed, but San Bernardino County hopes that studying the possibility will help it get a fair deal.
Jeff Burum, San Bernardino resident and affordable housing developer, spoke with Fox News Digital on his efforts to get the measure to passage.to explore the option of secession from the state.
Though Measure EE passed with 50.6 percent of the vote on Nov. 8, the likelihood of San Bernardino achieving secession from California is widely considered a long shot. Jeff Burum, an affordable housing developer and San Bernardino resident, speaks with Fox News Digital on the recent effort in San Bernardino County to secede from the state of California.
Velto also expressed concerns with the state's use of taxpayer money to fund the high-speed rail project between San Francisco and Los Angeles — often referred to as the"train to nowhere" — that has an estimated final cost of $105 billion and remains unfinished since being approved in 2008. San Bernardino was ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S., beating out Los Angeles and Oakland, California, in a"I think the governor of our state would just as soon ignore us, and ignore what's happened in San Bernardino," said Burum, when asked whether Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom had been in communication with local leaders on the issue.
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