Sign the Alaskans for Truth Petition!
For all of you who wish you could have been at the Alaskans for Truth rally, or were there but didn’t sign the petition, here it is! This is the petition that we will be submitting to the “powers that be”.
Whether you are in Alaska, our outside the state, please sign. We’re trying to get as many signatures as possible in the next few days. This affects all of us.
To add your voice, click the link and sign online ASAP! Email everyone you know!
Thank you!
Signed! #26 – let’s get a million more!!
Is it appropriate for non-Alaskans to sign?
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YES!
AKM
I live in Los Angeles and I signed the petition.
If the McCain campaign can meddle in Alaska’s internal affairs, I believe it creates an opportunity and an obligation for all Americans to “meddle” by opposing their efforts.
Signed, so glad you could include us concerned citizens in the lower 48. Though we couldn’t rally with you all in person, we are definitely there in spirit!
I live in Washington, DC and I signed it. If you sign they ask for your name, email, city, state AND country. I think the Alaskans rightly expect international support on this one.
Did anyone just hear Palin crack on Joe Biden’s age, saying she has been following his speeches since she was in 2nd grade? Are you kidding me? She also was referring to Biden’s gaffe that the Obama/Biden ticket didn’t believe in clean coal. If she pulls THAT out of her makeup bag of tricks at the debate, I hope Biden retorts, “Governor Palin, one would hardly think that YOU would be the appropropriate authority to begin a discussion on gaffes and misstatements.”
great! Let’s get this thing signed by all on our email lists, our sympathetic family and friends, and get heard! Anybody sending articles to tv news and newspapers in their town? Don’t forget to let Fred Meyer know you don’t appreciate them for selling Palin memorablia and not Obama’s. Call, email, talk to their customer service, etc.
I have just signed the petition.
Even though I am a guy in the lower 48, I especially support the women of Alaska in leading the world in this battle as they have done so far. And they are acting on behalf of the Spirit of the Wolf Mothers. Karma is a bitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izYTskwE0As
#53 signer reporting for duty!
Quick side note- We need to be careful here with this bailout. They are already twisting this to be a “demo” problem. This will adversely affect all of us if there is not something worked out. My husband said the rumblings in the International markets (he watches it like I read Mudflats-nonstop) are really freaking. Apparently this is much bigger and scarier than we know and will really hurt us all if this is not dealt with. This is a last effort to separate from BUSH and they are blaming Obama (?). McCain is trying to say that he did his part and Obama “dialed” it in and thus the failure. I appreciate the sentiment “I’m not paying for this!” but do we really understand this problem enough to be able to say that? Credit is frozen for all businesses (small and otherwise). This will trickle down in not such a good way. I am really pissed that we are in this predicament but we are and we need to figure out a solution, now. The talks are on break for the Jewish holidays so maybe wiser minds will prevail on Thursday. This is becoming a partisan issue and missinformation will run rampant. My point in all this is to say we need to support our legislators without condoning a give away. It is not about “Just say NO” because it just isn’t enough this time. They MUST find a solution together. Sorry if I offended anyone but this will affect the election one way or another. I’m off my soapbox now.
You guys are great! I can hardly wait to see how this shapes up throughout the day! It’s up to 107 already.
Signature #101 – Thanks again AKM. Call me and I’ll come up and help you put that swing set back together!
Another international signature for you all.
No. 105. The rule of law matters to us all, wherever we may live.
Signed it!
Just did my part. Was #92 in the history making
mvngfwdNo Gravatar (11:12:23) : ,
I studied it over the weekend as to whether the “Credit Freeze” is a bold faced manipulative lie and just a tactic for the fat cat bankers to get off the hook. After research, I now side with Warren Buffett and your husband. It is true. Firewalls are going to go unless something is done to restore both national and international inter bank lending.
As hard working Americans we are all justifiably mad as hell that the doofus scum on Wall Street did this to us. But we can settle that later. I suggest firing squads at all the upscale country clubs in Connecticut after this has all been stabilized maybe five years in the future. Also that the people now take over all BMW, Audi, and Mercedes dealerships within 100 miles of New York City in the name of the People’s Republic of Wall Street. Also, New York State license plates by Federal Law must now have a Hammer and Sickle on them.
But in this hour the U.S. Congress and Senate must act. Too bad free market Republican ideologues. You must vote for government intervention now even with Federal Reserve fiat money. Eat your ideology and your shirt and your children now. You got us into this mess with your highly leveraged derivative heads up your asses. I say Wall Street wives should go to the firing squads too when the time comes.
But for right now I agree with mvngfwd’s husband. The Credit Freeze is real. The consequences will be dire. We must act.
I’ve signed it as well. I’m #130
I put the online petition out there for Alaskans for Truth and it is our full intention for EVERYONE to sign it!
Signed!
And please take time to watch Obama’s best speech yet in VA. You won’t regret it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ctgw9VyV_0
I did it!
To mvngfwd
Your side note assumes that anyone in congress knows how much of a problem this is. We have NO information to date as to what this is all about. The assumption, on my part, is that a totally deregulated Wall Street has stolen trillions of our childrens’ and grandchildrens’ future earnings under our very noses. The seriousness is because China, Japan etc. want their money back and have probably threatened some nasty consequences if we don’t bail them out. We will never be able to resume our position as a first rate country if we allow this to become a partisan issue and allow those who got us into this situation to lay low and start stealing again in a few years. Let’s take the medicine now and have a full accounting. Let’s lay to final rest the trickle-down economic theories, the American business works best if government stays out of it theory. The car companies spend millions on lobbyists to resist CAFE standards while their foreign competitors make the cars we need. Then they come cap in hand for federal loans, while still disavowing global warming! Thank god we have one intelligent couple running this year, however hamstrung they might be by the disaster that has been the last 8 years.
After you sign the petition, please go to the Action Alerts section of the Forum and read the Countdown to Truth info that I’ve posted there. Email & phone the legislators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Must run to appointment in Wasilla (yuk), so will not be back to answer questions for a while……..
House Republicans just refused to vote for the bailout, and it has failed. McCain can’t even deliver his own party! lol
Pelosi inserted POLITICS in her speech (big time). Republicans were offended and some just held a press conference saying that Pelosi’s remarks changed their votes.
Now, I agree, Nancy should have been a LEADER today and left out the political slam. However, if Repubs didn’t vote for a bill they believed in, who’s putting “country first”?
I am to the point of screaming “THROW THE BUMS OUT” – ALL of them – AND I AM USUALLY MORE DISCRETIONARY…really.
The DOW is down again -730…a loss bigger than the market has never seen in one day
McCain is actually/potentially in big trouble for this no-vote fiasco. He was bragging about how he pulled it together in his speech in Ohio this morning. Now it shows how clueless he was for the outcome. All his phone calls did nada.
Don’t be so quick to blame Nancy like the Repubs did. Like Barney Frank said – if they are going to take it out on the entire country (and world) just because they got their feelings hurt in a speech by Nancy – then they are going to have to pay the consequences.
Chris Matthews is burning mad about this. We’ll see how it plays out in the next few hours.
Here is the headline you will see a lot of (this from Daily Kos)
John McCain Fails To Deliver GOP Votes
I’m #131
Bush is going to speak – CNN
Thank you Hamlets…let’s get the word out. We have two days to “reflect”. I find it ironic that this comes during the Jewish New Year, which is a time for reflection and coincides with Mercury in Retrograde (starts tomorrow) also a time of reflection. Is the Universe trying to tell us something?
DONE!!! From Connecticut!!
It will be tough for the Republicans and the McCain campaign to pin the defeat of the bailout swindle on Democrats in the House. Republican members opposed it by nearly a two-third total of “Nay” votes.
I’m Signer # 80. I signed because I feel a somewhat desperate need to make a statement, but, I am under the impression that internet petitions are not legally/politically/ethically viable. Please, can someone with more experience straighten me out?
I’ll sign any petition with which I agree. I’m all over this one, but I wonder if this petition can have anything other that symbolic value.
#233 – Signing from McCain’s own backyard – Arizona.
Does anyone realize that if McCain were to be elected and passed away while in office, Nancy Pelosi would become Vice President….Talk about clash of styles!
Signed as #96 — This Minnesotan is with you!!
off topic
@bec in illinois — this rain delay is throwing off my day. had hoped to take a couple hours to see CWS and DET. I for one, would love a showdown tomorrow! Go TWINS!
Done, #243.
Signed from Colorado, #251
just wanted to share this:
http://interviewpalin.com/
I was so proud to sign this. I lived in Alaska from 1960 to 1979. I have a son who still lives in Wasilla. This makes me sick. Sure, the political scene wasn’t perfect during that time, but we were envied and admired by everyone on the “outside”. Now, unfortunately, Alaska is becoming a laughing stock to many outsiders. This is very sad. Alaska, to me, used to be exactly what America stood for. Sure, sometimes things were not perfect. I remember Ted Stevens and some of the stuff he pulled (or tried to) during that time. I remember when he and his wife were in the plane crash and she died. Never, ever, when interviewed..from his hospital room to Washington did I ever hear or read of any sorrow from him. It was always “me, my, mine…” Sad, sad, sad. Anyway, I’m with all of you Alaskans….I still feel like one. It never leaves once you have lived there and felt truly “Alaskan”.
I’m #274… I will consider myself the official Vancouver, WA ambassador.
I come in peace, left leaning peace.
Thrilled to be able to participate in Alaska. So glad the petition is available online. #270.
I am DISGUSTED by Congress. IF, and it’s a big if, Pelosi’s ill-timed comments are the reason a dozen changed their vote, shame on them. Talk about partisanship.
Who’s putting country first? Do any of them really care? Nobody is willing to put their a$$ on the line and do the right thing. They just want to win in their next election. Do they fail to realize that in this economic climate nobody wins?
Commentators are saying this is a huge repudiation of Bush White House. Great, both parties can distance themselves from Bush. What about the American people??? You’re distancing yourselves from us too. Dow down 777. And it’s not just the Dow. That’s a mere indicator of the bigger problem.
Partisan politics push us into pandemonium…
MSNBC just said McCain has “egg on his face” since this did not pass after he said he made it happen this morning. Opps! Well, one positive moment out of all this.
I signed!
Sorry to say that, inasmuch as this is about the accountability of an Alaska appointed official (Attorney General Talis Colberg) and an Alaska elected official (Gov. Sarah Palin) to the people of Alaska, I think the petition would be much more effective if it were restricted to Alaska registered voters. I thought that Saturday when I signed it at the rally too, & saw there was no effort made to ensure that signatories were Alaska registered voters. Alaska state government has no obligation of accountability by non-Alaskans for an issue of Alaska law and governance. It DOES have an obligation to be accountable to Alaska residents. So I doubt they will credit this petition at all, as ANYONE can sign it.
yeeehaw! #324
Meghan got ran over by a reindeer…
http://tinyurl.com/4lcs8w
Freaking McCain! “It’s not time to fix the blame, it’s time to fix the economy.” Agreed. Except, prior to saying that he fixed blame on Obama for injecting politics into the process. Pot meet kettle, Mr. rushing back to Wa(r)shington to save the day, except you didn’t.
On that note, dear Mudpuppies, accept my wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year. May we all know good health and happiness in the year to come. (I hope these wishes from my heart don’t offend anyone. It’s not my intent to push my religious beliefs on anyone. It’s my hope that you accept my good wishes in the spirit they are intended…friendship.)
I;m in.
The net is a wonderful thing.
For the first time in my life, I don’t feel so much like a sheeple anymore. I truly have learned a lot in a few short months.
@DeMo (13:35:38) :
“Freaking McCain! “It’s not time to fix the blame, it’s time to fix the economy.” Agreed. Except, prior to saying that he fixed blame on Obama for injecting politics into the process. Pot meet kettle, Mr. rushing back to Wa(r)shington to save the day, except you didn’t.”
You expressed my sentiments exactly!! What a hypocrite McCain is.
I saw a great signature line on the Daily Kos by OleHippieChick – “McPalinCain – in yer gutz, you know they’re nutz!” Gotta love it!!
A very Happy New Year to you, DeMo~
~Goalie Sanka Palin
I echo Mel’s statement. To have any real impact the petition must be signed by registered alaskan voters only! Collecting signatures for “Clean Elections” we were to sign up only registered voters as unregistered ones would be thrown out.
While I appreciate all the support from out of staters, they really dont help us in any legal sense.
I live in Maryland, and I signed, in the 400′s signings, now. I think the message does matter, and the message being sent is..we are watching, all of the states, all of the elected officials.
Time to put an end to corruption, fraud, lies and coverups. On all levels. In all states. We’re in this together, no matter what the state boundaries indicate!
AKM, please start a new petition for registered Alaskan voters. While the numbers of signatures on the present one are impressive, the out of state signers have no legal basis to be counted. If its to actually be submitted, signatures must be verified as REGISTERED ALASKAN VOTERS. The rest will be thrown out.
i SIGNED! But after reading some of the preceeding comments, perhaps I should not have!
Sign away! Perhaps AKM has a different destination for this than submitting it to the state. However if it is to be legally actionable in AK only registered voters will be counted.
I signed too – didn’t notice the numbers. I wish I had.
Even though this is not admissible in any legal sense, I think the tremendous sentiment expressed demanding that everyone be answerable under the law is important.
I want to thank you all who have been posting regularly. I’ve been lurking since the world fell through the looking glass during the convention at the beginning of the month. This blog has been a valuable source of information. It has also helped keep me sane when I feel like everyone around me is accepting the manure heaped upon us.
DeMo, I appreciate your well wishes for the New Year. I am an atheist, but greatly respect the right for each person to believe as he or she chooses. I only ask that others show me the same respect. Expressing good wishes is never offensive.
Signed, and it’s over 500. I don’t think it matters if you live in AK or not. This is not a legal petition in any case, unless AK is wonderfully more permissive than most states. Generally, you have to be a registered voter to sign a petition to get something put on the ballot.
In any case, this is the computer age — it should be within the petition site’s powers to produce a subset of signatures from AK (although, there is no easy way to verify a claimed address — yeah, you could use the ip address for an approximation, and ISPs know the billing address of email accounts, but that’s theoretically private info).
#584 reporting in.
thank you for the petition! I am proud to sign and be a part of your “revolution”!
Signed from Southeast Iowa, highly appreciative of the opportunity.
I am #610 although I would have liked to have been #666 just for fun.
We’re not Alaskans, but maybe we can add a comment that we won’t visit Alaska and spend our big tourist dollars and fill up those floating hotels aka cruise ships until it’s less mucky up there!
I couldn’t sleep last night and found myself listening to Air America in the wee hours of this morning. I heard an interview with a man named Dr. Mark Crispin Miller, a professor of Media Ecology at NYU. He stated that it’s Karl Rove–the man really calling the shots for McCain’s campaign (surprise, surprise! The same Karl Rove who is the election “analyst” on Fox)–who selected Sarah Palin as she will be the REASON FOR THEIR VICTORY AFTER THEY STEAL (YET AGAIN!) THIS ELECTION! Check out his website and pass the word. http://www.markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/
Here is another petition to sign if you are so inclined…Tom Brokaw has been a liason for the McCain campaign and he is scheduled to be a moderator for an upcoming Presidential debate..
Care2 has a petition to boot Brokaw from the debate http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/boot-brokaw-as-de …