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Please sign the petition to oust Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJK
by genwin 14y ago
Please sign the petition to oust Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-.... It needs 14K more signatures by Feb. 11, so share it.
Regardless what you may think of the petition's wording, no one should be allowed to continue to do what's obviously wrong with impunity. Ortiz (Heymann's boss) has indicated that she has no intention of stopping extorting plea bargains from defendants with threats of imprisonment and fines grossly disproportionate to the actual crime.
- dominotw 14y agoDo you know what happened to the petition signed to oust Ortiz . Has the whitehouse responded to that?
- genwin 14y agoIt's https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat... No response yet that I know of.
- hkmurakami 14y agoDemand Progress posted this [1] and sent it out to all its subscribers today, to urge the government to stop stonewalling on the Ortiz issue. [1] http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/wh_ortiz/?akid=1973.2253878.Q49nLK&rd=1&t=2 http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/wh_ortiz/?akid=1973.22538...
- dominotw 14y agoA petition for the petition.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- werid 14y agohow many of these petitions have led to anything besides a little more than a standard response?
- pygy_ 14y agoThis petition will not make it without some major publicity. It got 300 signatures in the last four days (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5115555 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5115555). Any idea of places that could help amplify signature requests?