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Have You Ever Signed a Petition?

Have You Ever Signed a Petition?


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It's exactly as the title says, have you ever signed a petition? If so, what petition did you sign and what was the outcome? I recently signed my first petition and I was wondering how many members of DP have also done so or believe that they are valuable and can enact changes.
 
I signed a petition to keep the Thrashers in Atlanta, several actually(didn't work out), I also signed a petition to change the endings to Mass Effect 3, worked out better.
 
I haven't signed any petitions. It doesn't seem as though it means much, because you are only one vote. It's another reason why I don't vote, except with voting neither candidate really appeals to my pov, etc.
 
I don't sign petitions because the majority of petition gatherers are just paid shills for special interest groups. Many of them travel state to state, getting paid by the signature, which is then sold to marketing groups.

Pass.
 
Pretty much just online petitions to save cancelled TV shows, lol.

Bring back 'Firefly'! Bring back 'Party Down'! Bring back 'Carnivale'!

:roll: Good grief, I gotta get out more...
 
I've signed a few. They were all to get a measure on the ballot. I'll sign that sort of petition for pretty much anything. It doesn't even matter whether I support that particular issue.
 
I signed a petition recently pertaining to a local issue regarding dog walks in county parks....and I signed another for making our animal shelter a no kill...which would entail new construction to enable the housing of more animals...and of course more money appropriated for staff etc....both petitions failed btw.
 
It's exactly as the title says, have you ever signed a petition? If so, what petition did you sign and what was the outcome? I recently signed my first petition and I was wondering how many members of DP have also done so or believe that they are valuable and can enact changes.
The last petition I signed had to do with allowing a super-Walmart to be built on the other side of town. The city ended up approving the plan, initial building phases were about to move forward when the land owner died. The land fell to his descendants, all as mutual owners (always a bad idea for a will), and they were split on the issue (despite the money Walmart was throwing at them).

And that's where the project is today, stuck in litigation.
 
Pretty much just online petitions to save cancelled TV shows, lol.

Bring back 'Firefly'! Bring back 'Party Down'! Bring back 'Carnivale'!

:roll: Good grief, I gotta get out more...

I'd sign that in a second.

Although that might cost Castle its star and lose Zoe from Suits. So maybe not. :(
 
I signed a petition outside a supermarket once to fight prop 8. After I signed it gay marriage for the whole United States became legal the next day.
 
I'm sure that I have signed a petition before, but I can't recall what it was.

I do however very clearly remember refusing to sign a petition about Hawaii's proposed smoking bans, even as my husband signed it. I was completely for the bans, particularly when it hadn't been but a few months since some chicky with a cigarette in her hand at the bar burned me and then scowled at me and walked away. That along with the horrible smell my clothes acquired just for going out dancing, made me all for the bans.
 
I'd sign that in a second.

Although that might cost Castle its star and lose Zoe from Suits. So maybe not. :(

Apparently, Netflix is in talks to revive it and produce another season, just as they are doing with the cancelled favorite 'Arrested Development'. I hope it happens, but it also just wouldn't be the same without some of the characters who died in the movie. I dunno. We'll see what happens.

I don't watch those other two shows you named, so screw 'em ;)
 
The last one I signed was to allow alocohol sales.
 
I've signed some petitions from time to time, can't remember what for.

Only online petition I ever signed was Vets Against the War in Iraq.
 
It's exactly as the title says, have you ever signed a petition?
Not that I can remember. The petitions I've been presented were either against my political and societal beliefs, or (and I know I'm going to catch flak for this) the person presenting the petition looked like a total ****wad. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to sign anything given to me by a white guy with dreadlocks who smells like the inside of a cats ass.
 
Yes. In fact I Recently signed one for an animal cruelty measure that will be on the ballot.
 
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have to ask... how do you know what the inside of a cat's ass smells like? :confused:

My grandma is a crazy cat lady. She must have at least 13 of those things, and the smell is horrendous because they **** everywhere. I started to dry heave just thinking about it.
 
It's exactly as the title says, have you ever signed a petition? If so, what petition did you sign and what was the outcome? I recently signed my first petition and I was wondering how many members of DP have also done so or believe that they are valuable and can enact changes.

I signed a petition to install a traffic light at the corner of my street. Unfortunately we did not get a traffic light until after someone was killed. Very sad that it took a tragedy before we were listened to.
 
Yep - I've signed numerous petitions that were aimed at keeping criminals in jail. Expanding roadways, adding sidewalks - and the most recent one was to get a 3rd party candidate onto the local-election ballot even though I thought she sounded like a freaking moron . . . I thought it was still a decent cause.
 
It's exactly as the title says, have you ever signed a petition? If so, what petition did you sign and what was the outcome? I recently signed my first petition and I was wondering how many members of DP have also done so or believe that they are valuable and can enact changes.

I signed petitions ranging from enacting a law to continuing a anime show. Sometimes they are successful and something they are not. In my state we have voter initiatives. So if we want someone our elected officials are refusing to do then we start a petition drive. If it gets enough signatures it goes on the ballot and the people vote yea or nay for it. So signing petitions are important.
 
I'd like to see Firefly again, too, but there are some other things I think are more important in life.

I signed a petition to install a traffic light at the corner of my street. Unfortunately we did not get a traffic light until after someone was killed. Very sad that it took a tragedy before we were listened to.
If it was a two-way stop (not 4-way) previously there are good reasons for being reluctant to put in a signal as they have their own problems. It could also be that it was on a back-logged list to be done and the accident moved it up on the list. Still, I dislike it when it takes a terrible accident to provoke an actual response.
 
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It's exactly as the title says, have you ever signed a petition? If so, what petition did you sign and what was the outcome? I recently signed my first petition and I was wondering how many members of DP have also done so or believe that they are valuable and can enact changes.

Yes. I signed a petition to repeal Amendment One in NC banning gay marriage for good. As far as I know there weren't enough signatures since Amendment One is still in effect. I did this because 1)I think that banning gay marriage is a)stupid and immoral and b)an overstep of governmental powers whether state or federal and ought to be unconstitutional especially on the basis of its immorality as described in the writings of the Good Book and 2) I fear that the results will be similar to those in Ohio, in which case, my health care policy could be endangered.
 
I've signed loads of them.

Petitions to get something on the ballot, but I can't remember the result other than it showed up on the ballot that year.

I've circulated petitions as a demonstration of concern to the city council and planning commission. That was a roaring success, thankfully.

I wish I could remember more of them. Oh I remember one that wasn't successful. Getting the state out of the liquor business in Oregon. I've signed 3 of those over the years and it doesn't do a darned bit of good. :(
Out of the liquor business? :confused:
 
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