Monday, October 19, 2009

A Good Petition

ONLINE PETITION - REPEAL AB962 AND SUPPORT AB373 [More]
I don't disagree with the premise or the proposal.

I just find it curious that the petition site is maintained by Mike Haas, the guy who attacked this on these grounds:
Earlier this century, not long after Bush was first elected and Ashcroft had barely taken office, these nits tried to fundraise with a "national online petition" attacking Ashcroft! See:
http://web.archive.org/web/200204081....com/petition/
(I bet they think this stuff is long gone)
They tried to blowup a non-existant issue and truly pathetic petition "numbers" into sounding significant, pretending that such non-official efforts (not registered with any Secretary of State anywhere) are influential, while collecting personal-contact-information. (It's illegal to keep the personal info one gathers with a real, official, registered petition.)
So, Mike: Got yourself a "real, official, registered petition" there?

Is it "registered with [the] Secretary of State" so that yours is "influential"?

Why the "required fields" for email, name and address, or the optional pdf letter? "Collecting personal contact information," are we?

And why the big self-serving ad on the page linking to your Ammo Guide website, where you charge people "just $18.95/year," especially when you lied about us using our petition to "fundraise"?

As for "truly pathetic petition 'numbers'," you will, of course, keep us posted on your efforts?

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