Breaking up California - Good or Bad

The website calls it Cal 3.  A plan to divide California into three separate states.

Northern California
Southern California
California

California would be comprised of the following counties:

Los Angeles
Monterey
San Benito
San Luis Obispo
Santa Barbara
Ventura

I drive from L.A. County to Orange County once or twice a week.  Would it be a big difference to me if I'm crossing a state line rather than a county line?  Not really.  But there are major problems with this proposal.

The May view of Governor Brown's 2018-19 budget calls for spending $4.04 billion on the cost of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of state government.  It won't cost three times that amount for three state governments, but it will cost a lot more.

The Republican-controlled Congress won't want to create four new seats in the U.S. Senate.  Four more electoral votes won't go over well either.

The process of divvying up the state's resources would be a nightmare.

Even if the proposal passed, it would spend years tied up in court.  It is a waste of time and money to pursue this bad idea.  But that's our state's initiative process.  Get enough signatures and you can put almost any idea on the ballot.