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Wallawe: Do you think this on-line petition system is useful? Instead of going through a congressman, one could go through the White House? https://wwws.whiteh
by zeratul 15y ago
Wallawe: Do you think this on-line petition system is useful? Instead of going through a congressman, one could go through the White House?
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/how-why/terms-participation https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/how-why/terms-partic...
- wallawe 15y agoI think it is probably more useful and would get more attention than an individual letter or phone call to your congressman.
- cWallace 15y agoThis wasn't addressed to me but I thought I'd comment. The We The People petitions, I believe, are there to make the people believe they are making an impact in policy by signing one. Most, if not every, response from the White House has been a generic, basically meaningless response from an unknown staffer. Case in point: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-demand-vapid-condescending-meaningless-politically-safe-response-petition/gCZfn86x https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-demand-v... Notice how this petition has been signed by more people than most of the others...