White House Begins Responses to 'We the People'
When the White House announced “We the People,” an online petitioning platform, activists were cautiously optimistic. Whether the platform turns out to be a new way for average people to have a two-way conversation with the White House — on a topic of their choosing, not restricted to White House talking points — depended on how seriously administration officials take their promise to respond to any petition that passes a threshold for signatures, activists told me. That threshold started at 5,000 signatures and was raised soon afterward to 25,000.
