Calexiter
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Calexiter (plural Calexiters)
- (US politics) Someone who supports Calexit.
- 2016 December 15, “California's Latest Ballot Initiatives Prove Residents Live In Fantasy World”, in The Federalist:
- Could it possibly be, #Calexiters, that maybe it's you who don't the share values with rest of the country?
- 2017 July 13, David Ross, “The cuckoo “Calexit” movement”, in Valley Roadrunner:
- The Calexiters think that California would be better off as its own nation, and, taking a page from the British and their “Brexit” election last year, thinks that the rest of the state’s voters can be convinced that separation would be a good idea.
- 2017 August 3, Casey Michel, “California Secessionists Retain Russian Connection”, in EurasiaNet:
- The decision marked a revival of sorts for Calexiters: initial efforts at winning support for a ballot initiative collapsed in the spring after it was discovered that a prominent figure in the movement, Louis Marinelli, head of an organization called YesCalifornia, was living in Russia, and maintained close ties to a Kremlin-funded group.
- 2017 August 24, Ben Boychuk, “Calexit is our state's latest delusion, all three versions”, in The Sacramento Bee:
- Undeterred, Calexiters regrouped and strategized anew. Late last month, they returned with a new proposal they're certain will catch on.
- 2018 August 7, “Save us from another kooky California breakup plan”, in The Los Angeles Times:
- We'd like to think such a kooky idea has no shot at getting on the ballot, like the previous attempts by the two main Calexiters — Marcus Ruiz Evans and Louis J. Marinelli — to get some sort of secession proposal on the ballot. But crazier things have happened.