Update. Please unrecommend this diary and recommend the new one.
Have a look at Joe Rospars
diary.
Gov. Dean has posted a thank you here.
If you've signed the petition and now want to show your support in dollars, go to this site.
Feel free to pass this message along.
9:00pm CST: 13,649 signatures and counting (
this figure excludes redacted sigs)
I will close the petition to signatures at 6:00am CST, Thurs. 6/16. Please pass this back through the channels you used to promote it.
Blogswarm this petition link.
Here's a link for the HTML to copy and paste into your site to embed the image, and link to the petition. Courtesy of Malacandra
Let's show the Dems in Congress we like spine and want to see them show some.
And if you've read this far and haven't yet clicked on the smiling Howard Dean to sign the petition, what are you waiting for? Link to sign it.
Petition Signature Fun Facts (these figures do include redacted sigs) Updated 9:00pm CST, Tues June 14:
The petition was online and taking signatures on Fri. June 10 at 10:30 pm CST. Within 5 hours of being posted it was #3 on the most popular petitions list. We were #1 by yesterday and it is still #1 on the most popular list.
# of sigs by day:
6/10: 558
6/11: 4437
6/12: 3719
6/13: 3083
6/14: 2087 at 9:00pm
Stats from the last 24 hours:
There were no sigs from 7:00pm to 10:00pm
The smallest # of sigs/hour was Midnight with 1, followed by 3:00pm with 7
The largest # of sigs/hour was 5:00am with 607 followed by 10:00am with 602 and closely behind was 9:00am with 597.
I will keep Fun Facts as a regular feature. So check back often. There may be a quiz on this.
UPDATE at 5:00pm CST. Next big TO DO: Get the petition delivered. Some activity happening around that. Will post more as things develop.