I’ve thought the White House petition thing was silly from the get-go. But the timing on this makes me wonder if someone at the White House just doesn’t want to deal with it anymore.
Why We’re Raising the Signature Threshold for We the People
In short, yesterday the administration raised the threshold from 25,000 to 100,000 for the number of signers a petition would have before the President would deign to respond. Why yesterday? Hmmm…
A few moments ago:
However, this one got grandfathered in…
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. This new threshold applies only to petitions created from this point forward and is not retroactively applied to ones that already exist.
I look forward to whatever bland non-responsive response they come up with for this. Given how relatively few petitions make it to 25K, I doubt many will make it to 100k.