White House now requires ‘We the People’ petitions to have 100,000 signatures for official response (death, Whitehouse)

[All American NYC]

“Starting today, as we move into a second term, petitions must receive 100,000 signatures in 30 days in order to receive an official response from the Obama Administration,” said an early evening Jan. 15 statement from Macon Phillips, the White House’s digital strategy director....“This new threshold applies only to petitions created from this point forward and is not retroactively applied to ones that already exist.”....When the administration first established the petition system in September 2011, Obama’s aides promised that any petition with 5,000 signatures would receive a formal written response from White House officials. That threshold was raised to 25,000 for 2012.

There is a pattern forming.

[arctichomesteader]

Dictators don't care what their people think.

[Mathguy]

Um, you guys missed the petition to the whitehouse to build a "death star" apparantly?

They are getting a lot of joke petitions like this and so increased the threshold.

If you wish for our current and future administrations to have to address petitions requesting we change the name of Florida to Jimmy Buffetania or make dungeons and dragons our official national game.....then by all means cry about how this is some loss of liberty.

Come one, this is just partisan whining, you guys have bigger fish to fry than this.

[HappyTexan]

And it only took 5K signatures when the site was first brought up.
Petition happy America..got to love it.

[twinArmageddons]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

Um, you guys missed the petition to the whitehouse to build a "death star" apparantly?

They are getting a lot of joke petitions like this and so increased the threshold.

If you wish for our current and future administrations to have to address petitions requesting we change the name of Florida to Jimmy Buffetania or make dungeons and dragons our official national game.....then by all means cry about how this is some loss of liberty.

Come one, this is just partisan whining, you guys have bigger fish to fry than this.

This.

[Fiyero]

Makes sense. Too many frivolous petitions being created lately. State secession, building a death star, impeaching a governor? None of which the White House is going to approve. It's a waste of time.

[ColonelStraker]

Where did Obamacare and these gun-grabber EO's come from?

[emcee squared]

Good. Too many time wasting petitions on there from whiny people. Why not address things that actually matter?

[Colorado Rambler]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

There is a pattern forming.

Yeah, every time they don't get what they want, a bunch of tea party whiners circulate yet another petition to secede. Call them on it, and people respond with stuff like "25,000 signatures hardly represent the will of the voters in my state."

I don't blame the White House for raising the bar on the required number of signatories. Those petitions are a nuisance. But like I've said repeatedly on this forum, don't let the door hit you on the butt on your way out. You won't be missed.

[All American NYC]

Originally Posted by Colorado Rambler

Yeah, every time they don't get what they want, a bunch of tea party whiners circulate yet another petition to secede. Call them on it, and people respond with stuff like "25,000 signatures hardly represent the will of the voters in my state."

I don't blame the White House for raising the bar on the required number of signatories. Those petitions are a nuisance. But like I've said repeatedly on this forum, don't let the door hit you on the butt on your way out. You won't be missed.

Something called democracy.