White House temporarily removes petition tool

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is temporarily removing a petition tool from its website after 11 months of silence, promising to respond to public concerns next year.

The Trump administration said the platform, used extensively by critics and less frequently by allies, will be removed at midnight Tuesday and return in late January as a new site.

A White House official said all existing petitions and responses will be restored next year, when petitions that reach the required 100,000 signatures will begin receiving responses.

The Trump administration has yet to respond to any of the 17 petitions that have reached that threshold since Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2017.

Among them are petitions calling on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns and to place his assets in a blind trust. Others that have reached 100,000 signatures call on Trump to both preserve and cease funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The official said the move will save taxpayers $1.3 million annually. Initially named “We the People” by the Obama administration, the site launched in 2011.

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The official said the move will save taxpayers $1.3 million annually

 

They should permanently delete it. Basically whatever Obama did was a waste of money and a failure.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

15 minutes ago, eieio said:

 

They should permanently delete it. Basically whatever Obama did was a waste of money and a failure.

Silence the masses

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Can they not just tweet their concerns?

[eieio 1,594]

49 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

Silence the masses

Similar to Twitter?

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

50 minutes ago, eieio said:

Similar to Twitter?

Twitter is not a product of our government.

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1 hour ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

Twitter is not a product of our government.

Nor is We the People.

[Dashinka 24,871]

5 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

Twitter is not a product of our government.

So therefore it is more efficient.  Why not stop a pointless waste of money?  Sure it only saves $1.3 million, but it is still a savings and people can still protest all they want.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

So therefore it is more efficient.  Why not stop a pointless waste of money?  Sure it only saves $1.3 million, but it is still a savings and people can still protest all they want.

It was not pointless when the Whitehouse was committed to responding to every petition. It is in the same vein as the Whitehouse phone hours shortened to 9 to 4 eastern. 

There is no real good reason to do that, it runs against our values.

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9 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

Silence the masses

 

They had to remove it.  The interwebz need to be recalibrated after 7 days of not being protected by net neutrality.  I'm shocked I can even get to VJ right now.  

7 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

Twitter is not a product of our government.

Voting is though.

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59 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

It was not pointless when the Whitehouse was committed to responding to every petition. It is in the same vein as the Whitehouse phone hours shortened to 9 to 4 eastern. 

There is no real good reason to do that, it runs against our values.

Remind me what the response was to Locking up Crooked?

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

10 hours ago, Boiler said:

Can they not just tweet their concerns?

Bam   

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

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56 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Should one speak ill of the dead?

 

 

[jayjayj 571]

6 hours ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

Nobody is stopping anyone from filing a petition with the federal government.  Let's clear that up first.        

 

If they feel the issue warrants filing a petition, they can do the leg work themselves, just like people did way back in the good ole 1990's.  Expecting the government to provide an electronic petition system, so people don't have to get up from their computers is pure laziness.  If these people really care about an issue they will get out there and find people to sign their paper petition.  Let's see what they do.  I bet they keep sitting at their computers eating sandwiches and crying about Trump.