The White House has a website (petitions.whitehouse.gov) where any citizen can create a petition, and if that petition gets 100,000 signatures, the White House has promised to respond to the petition. It is an effort by the Obama administration to give citizens a voice in their government, and allow the White House to know what citizens think is important.
In the last few days a new petition has appeared on the website. It is a petition asking that Alaskans be allowed to vote on whether to secede from the United States and rejoin Russia. I don't know whether this petition is an inventive demonstration against Russia's seizure of Crimea, a misguided teabagger effort to embarrass the president, or just an example of an eccentric and slightly malevolent sense of humor. I suspect it is the latter.
And thousands of people are signing the petition. As I write this post, over 24,000 people have signed the petition. I assume that many Americans like this kind of off-the-wall humor, because Alaska (like the other 49 states) isn't going anywhere.
it would make every Texan happy as shit..then we'd be the biggest state again..check the cities were the votes are from..bet their all from Texas..hell I'd sign it.
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