The Shasta County Board of Supervisors has offered the job of running the day-to-day-operations of its government to a top figure in the New California movement pushing to split California into two states.
In an unusual news release, county officials announced that "a majority of the board" had made a "preliminary job offer" to Chriss Street, vice president of New California and a former treasurer of Orange County, to be the county's chief executive officer.
Proponents of New California, formed in 2018, maintain that old California has become ungovernable and seek to gather much of the rural parts of California, along with San Diego and Orange counties, and form a 51st state.
