Can we improve Petitions to the White House. Last night, Rachel Maddow presented a remarkable story about a Petition to the White House that had garnered more than 150,000 signatures. The subject of the Petition was to require all local city and county police officers to wear body cameras. This is a great idea.
I like the idea of Political feedback. If the President is going to Respond to a Petition of 100,000 signatures, why shouldn't the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the United States Senate Respond as well. We are the People, and We do pay their salaries. We provide them with offices, healthcare, gyms, golf courses, restaurants, expenses. We treat them mighty well. It's time that they work for US.
The Original petition is here:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/...
Mike Brown Law. Requires all state, county, and local police to wear a camera.
Create a bill, sign into law, and set aside funds to require all state,county, and local police, to wear a camera. Due to the latest accounts of deadly encounters with police, We the People, petition for the Mike Brown Law. Create a bill, sign into law, and set aside funds to require all state,county, and local police, to wear a camera.The law shall be made in an effort to not only detour police misconduct(i.e. brutality, profiling, abuse of power), but to ensure that all police are following procedure, and to remove all question, from normally questionable police encounters. As well, as help to hold all parties within a police investigation, accountable for their actions.
So, this is the Petition that I created:
We, the People of the United States of America, Demand a Response from the Senate and House of Representatives!
And, this is the Text:
We, the People of the United States of America, Demand that every Petition of the People presented to the White House with 100,000 signatures and that the White House files a Public Response to, shall be forwarded to the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the Office of the Majority Leader of the United States Senate. The Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Majority Leader of the United States Senate shall prepare and Publish a Public Response to the Petition within Thirty Days of the Receipt of the Petition and White House Response.
What do you think? Should the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate respond to the Same Petitions that the White House does?