​We plan to have our statewide meeting in September 2024
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Divide NYS Caucus

Write an editorial or letter to the editor of your local paper, email your local news station, or call in to a talk radio station program; on why you believe separation is the only choice. Please mention 2023-24 S3093 is a NYS constitutional amendment to divide the State into three autonomous regions. If it's published, please take a picture, or send a link, or tell us the station's call letters, email it to us at capitalchapterupstate@aol.com

Sample Letter/Comment
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The bill [S3093](https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S3093) to partition New York State into three autonomous regions is still stuck in committee due to lack of support of county officials. While a few towns have passed home-rule resolutions in support, no counties have passed one! 
**2023 is an election year for most counties in NYS; we need you to repeatedly contact your county officials’ most officials never hear from their voters so they feel safe to do nothing! ** Below are details and a button to connect you to your county officials’’ contact information. **Keep contacting them BY EMAIL or PHONE till to you get a reply** If you do NOT ACT NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
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Please personalize & send the following email to your County officials so they adopt the following home-rule resolution. A link to their emails is also below.

SAMPLE EMAIL
     In NYS under the home rule clause, NYS Senators and Assembly(wo)men are obliged to introduce a bill if a municipality in their district passes a home rule resolution; and then sends a copy of the resolution AND the bill (Amendment) to their NY State legislators.
Please adopt the following home rule resolution. The proposed amendment would partition NYS into three Autonomous Regions; the amendment text and an outline that explains it can be found at this link. [https://www.divideny.org/amendment.html](https://www.divideny.org/amendment.html)  A sample resolution is below:

   “Whereas: The views of people who live in the upstate and downstate areas of New York State are very different and really should be divided into separate states, or completely autonomous regions.
It is therefore resolved: that the ______(supervisors/legislators)__ of _ (county name)__County have adopted this home-rule resolution and request our New York State legislators support  2023-24 S3093  an amendment to our New York State constitution to partition our state into completely autonomous regions; the New Amsterdam, the Montauk and the New York Regions. Each region has its own regional governor and legislature (Senate and Assembly). All regional legislatures would meet jointly as the state legislature for six weeks a year. New York State pensions remain unchanged.  The token state government that would remain has almost no power. “ 
Sincerely,
(your name)
Home-rule resolutions must be sent by a county official via certified US mail to all the State legislators whose district includes all or part of the County adopting the resolution; otherwise it is a meaningless non-binding resolution.

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​It takes REPEATED emails and calls to GET OFFICIALS to ACT. Please send an email to your NYS Senator see below and your Assemblyperson see below. You can use the two sample emails below just enter the names and then personalize the email(s).

Use this link to send the email https://www.nysenate.gov/senators-committees
REPEATED emails or phone calls are needed to GET our legislators to ACT.
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in our in our MeWe group: https://mewe.com/group/5ad55afefa19d110b3b1ca4d
our Reddit Community  https://www.reddit.com/r/DivideNY/
Long Island Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/DivideNYSLongIsland/
Rockland and Westchester  https://www.facebook.com/groups/240229094068499/
NYC Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/DivideNYsNYC/
Independently  run groups that support dividing:
​Divide NYS Western NY Region FB Group ​https://www.facebook.com/groups/297067385404754/
Divide NYS Genesee County FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/223435402531809/
Divide NYS Long Island FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/DivideNYSLongIsland/
Divide NY-CNY & Finger Lakes FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/cnyfk 
Divide NYS Monroe FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/177687924424188/

    Puerto Rico voted to be admitted to the union as a state, and the US House voted to admit it in 2021, but the US Senate blocked its admission; because it’s two senators would change the balance of the United States Senate.  Please email your member of Congress you can lookup the email here​https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative .​ Ask him/her to introduce the bill to link the admission of Puerto Rico with the creation and admission of New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam would be created by partitioning NY State.
​   Below is a sample email. Ask for a reply. If all you get is an automated reply; please call his/her Washington DC office. It will take a lot of emails to get a Congress(wo)man to introduce this pair with Puerto Rico bill.

===Sample email===
Please introduce the law to pair the admission of Puerto Rico & New Amsterdam to the union New Amsterdam would be created by partitioning NYS. The text of the proposal can be found here
https://www.constitutional-remedies.com/pr-new-amsterdam-ny.html
Section 6 of this law requires that the existing 2022 shapes of the NY congressional districts be maintained, in New Amsterdam till the next census. balance of the Senate would be maintained and both states would be admitted, on Jan 3, 2025.
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Long Island Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/DivideNYSLongIsland/
Rockland and Westchester  https://www.facebook.com/groups/240229094068499/
NYC Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/DivideNYsNYC/
Independently  run groups that support dividing:
​Divide NYS Western NY Region FB Group ​https://www.facebook.com/groups/297067385404754/
Divide NYS Genesee County FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/223435402531809/
Divide NYS Long Island FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/DivideNYSLongIsland/
Divide NY-CNY & Finger Lakes FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/cnyfk 
Divide NYS Monroe FB Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/177687924424188/