Colorado Commissioner Looks to Form New State (VIDEO)

Due to intrusive legislation imposed by the state of Colorado, residents of Weld County, Colorado, are moving to break away and form the 51 state. The proposal was recently floated by three country commissioners in response to rural residents angered over the state's recent renewable-energy law, draconian gun control proposals and fracking, measures imposed by Democrats.  

 Weld County's bid to divorce Colorado and form its own state is a powerful rebuke of Front Range interests that no longer align with rural parts of the state, supporters of the idea say.

"The people of rural Colorado are mad, and they have every right to be," said U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, a Republican from Yuma. "The governor and his Democrat colleagues in the statehouse have assaulted our way of life, and I don't blame these people one bit for feeling attacked and unrepresented by the leaders of our state."

The plan to carve off the northeastern corner of the state — Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Washington, Yuma and Kit Carson counties — and form the state of North Colorado was hatched at a Colorado Counties Inc. conference earlier this week, Weld County spokeswoman Jennifer Finch said.

The commissioners, united by interests in oil and gas regulation, gun control, transportation and agriculture, agreed to discuss its feasibility and perhaps put the question to voters in their counties in November, Finch said.

Read more: New state? Weld County floats secession plan for northeastern Colorado - The Denver Post