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I hate to be a cynic but the timing seems too coincidental with the death of Aaron and the petition to remove Carmen Ortiz from office. She was nominated to her
by geuis 14y ago
I hate to be a cynic but the timing seems too coincidental with the death of Aaron and the petition to remove Carmen Ortiz from office. She was nominated to her position by the President, so there is an assumption (perhaps invalid) of close ties to the administration.
- siganakis 14y agoFrom the article: "This new threshold applies only to petitions created from this point forward and is not retroactively applied to ones that already exist." So the Ortiz petition will be unaffected.
- nonamegiven 14y agoIt's the other way around. The change to the petition process was affected by the embarrassing pace of the Ortiz petition.
- MBCook 14y agoI think the idea that it was the Piers Morgan petition[1] getting 109k+ signatures was more likely to be the straw. As mad as everyone online is about Aaron, I don't think it's actually that big an issue in Washington. The brouhahas after Sandy Hook sounds much more plausible as an issue big enough to cause a change. [1] http://universe.byu.edu/beta/2013/01/14/white-house-rejects-petition-to-deport-piers-morgan/ http://universe.byu.edu/beta/2013/01/14/white-house-rejects-...