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Please sign the petition to oust Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-.... It needs 14K more signatures by Feb. 11, so share it.

Regardless what you may think of the petition's wording, no one should be allowed to continue to do what's obviously wrong with impunity. Ortiz (Heymann's boss) has indicated that she has no intention of stopping extorting plea bargains from defendants with threats of imprisonment and fines grossly disproportionate to the actual crime.




Do you know what happened to the petition signed to oust Ortiz . Has the whitehouse responded to that?


Demand Progress posted this [1] and sent it out to all its subscribers today, to urge the government to stop stonewalling on the Ortiz issue.

[1] http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/wh_ortiz/?akid=1973.22538...


A petition for the petition.


It's https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-stat...

No response yet that I know of.


This petition will not make it without some major publicity.

It got 300 signatures in the last four days (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5115555).

Any idea of places that could help amplify signature requests?


how many of these petitions have led to anything besides a little more than a standard response?




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