to post petitions? >> exactly. it is just a petition site.to take the people who signed the petitions and mobilize them. these are very specific. literally three fields. what you want to change in who has the power to change it, and why should people join you? 20,000 that started. many of them go by road. to go where did the inspiration coalesce into the idea of petitions? how did you focus in on petitions? >> initially was using the web to organize people around, and objectives. this started in 2005. i was in washington, d.c., and disenchanted with a first experience in government. i was doing government consulting for education companies. i got involved with the website and you see the capacity for people to come together around personal interest. the same technology can be used to organize people by the issues they care about. it is very historic structural dilemma where it is extremely expensive for the time to organize people. by virtue of that we you -- you have aids objectives that are oftentimes less powerful. that was the genesis of

we only had one week to collect the petitions and we will have 45 days to collect ballots. we have done it in parts of staoet in zone one and two to communicate with the hotel community. being that we only had one week to collect the petitions that is why we feel that we did not get as many as we would like. our goal with the ballots is to have more participation through through the building >> i like this one better. so the billing and collection, basically, how it works, in the existing and how it would work in the future is a contract with the task collector would be drafted and approved. and that would spell out when the tax collector would do in terms of billing and collection and that would be paid actually by the moscone in the district. and that is the intention that the billing would happen through the tax collector office and the collection would happen by the treasure and tax collector and they would transfer the assessments on a regular quarterly basis to the expansion district and that process has been working and being, you know has been refined, but that is t

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>> in the past on some of the petitions they have responded like they can't answer the petition.eresting to see if 42 the came back with some snarky response but they have also combined petitions in the past. so it's likely they will do one response. >> greta: for all 30 states? >> right. >> greta: and 30 states don't have the threshold? >> the three last time, louisiana and florida have hit the threshold. there was another petition that was started, liberals started a petition asking obama to sign an executive order that anybody that signs those other petitions should get exiled from the country. >> greta: a little fun with each other. coming up your last call. brace yourself are we approaching the fiscal cliff faster than we thought. jay leno has that answer up next. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else mes standard at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsib

thousands have signed a petition on the white house website. fox's casey steigel explains why they want to go it alone. >> reporter: the last time a bunch -- >> the last time a bunch of stupid hicks did this was before civil war. this is bad. there is no good precedent to this. eventually they will shut up and sit down and show up again the next election. >>> thousands of citizens in the lone star state want the obama administration to go it alone. >> let's just move the whole state to australia. >> reporter: texas governor rick perry raised the idea in 2009. he's since made clear he has no interest in it and does not support these petitions. texans have company in this idea as americans in more than 30 states are floating the plan on the white house website. >> i thought the civil war was over a couple hundred years ago almost, but i mean i'm not surprised. we're kind of individualistic here. >> reporter: oregon's petition has more than 10,000 signatures. so what's really motivating folks who want to opt out of america? >> it would be interest

it's a petition side. saturatedsaturated in social media and the tools to take people who sign a petition and mobilize them. these are specific. literally three fields. twitter and 20,000 started and many of them go viral. >> you mention the inspiration. where did it coalesce in the idea of petition how did you to does that desire. >> it wasn't petition but using the web to organize people around common objective. it was actually 2005 i was in d.c. disenchanged with my first experience in politic. i was doing consulting government consulting for education companies. just had graduated from. and i ended up looking to the website facebook.com 2005. very early. facebook.com, and you sort of see immediately the capacity for people to come together around personal interest or photographs or friends, and i saw the same technology could be used to organize people around issues they care about. and so one of the most fundamental problems in social organizing and social justice which is collective action. it's hist

sign the petition.'s to fire toupee chump because of his outrageous statements and the fact that the clothes, the signature line at macy's he promotes are not even made in the united states. most of the stuff is made in china. there is a great piece in the "washington post" by alexandra petrie. when we think of macy's, most of us think of the macy's thanksgiving parade when dozens of balloons dangle over the streets of new york city to the alarm of small child. i defy you to find any phrase that more perfectly describes toupee chump than a giant balloon inflated to gigantic proportions. sometimes he floats outside 45th floor windows. the only difference between him and one of macy's inflatables is that he is full of hot air. well-done. >> well said. well said. >> again, folks, if you want to take action, go to signon.org. i guarantee if this petition gets up to a million, i have a feeling -- i'm going to guarantee it, i'm going to guarantee the ceo of macy's will have a change of heart. this petition co

to post petitions? >> exactly. it is just a petition site. it now has the tools to take the people who signed the petitions and mobilize them. these are very specific. literally three fields. what you want to change in who has the power to change it, and why should people join you? 20,000 that started. many of them go by road. -- go viral. coalesce into the idea of petitions? how did you focus in on petitions? >> initially was using the web to organize people around, and objectives. this started in 2005. i was in washington, d.c., and disenchanted with a first experience in government. i was doing government consulting for education companies. i got involved with the website and you see the capacity for people to come together around personal interest. the same technology can be used to organize people by the issues they care about. it is very historic structural dilemma where it is extremely expensive for the time to organize people. by virtue of that, you have objectives that are oftentimes less powerful. idea. people to organize. it was on

any petition that gets more than 25,000 signatures gets an official response from the white house. are a couple up there that i think people would be interested in. there are over 240 active petitions but there is one to establish a legal system of motorcycle riding judgessings who serve as police, judge, jury and executioner all in one. and there is one to trade your deemployee ma for -- diploma to get your tuition back. the reason we bring this up is because since election day when barack obama was reelected there has been petitions r for states to secede from the union. in particular the petition from the republic of texas leads the pack with over 117,000 signatures. i apologize, that's my fault. it's actually 117,000 signatures. >> are all those folks from texas or is this from all over the place. >> it's turned into a bit of a referendum so other states can weigh in on what states should be in the union. i did a sample. of the 117,000 signatures, i looked at over 58,000 of them and only 56% are people who are in texas. the rest are from people elsewhere in the nation. 7% are i

the petition to see seed is growing with speed. >> deep in the heart of texas! >> find out why i agree with rick perry. texas is not allowed to leave the union. thanks for watching. president obama came back to washington to fight for fair deal on taxes. today he called on his base. i love it. he went right to the folks who put him in the white house. president obama held his first official closed door meeting with groups from outside the white house. the invited guests were all leaders of labor organizations and progressive think tanks. compare this list to the guest list for tomorrow's meeting. 12 of the most powerful ceos in american business. this schedule was not a mistake. president obama was letting the middle class and the workers of this country know, you come first! aflcio president is confident the president will keep his commitment to the current tax rates for the middle class. >> the president led with that notion of protecting the middle class, and now you have republicans that have it in their power. they could sign a bill tomorrow that protects t

secede.most of those petitions texas' petition haa nearly 50- thousand.karen kileyyoffk-e- y-e in austinhassmore on momentum. &p3 18:3 texas is amazing, evvryone knows thatthe lone sparrow: 19:31 i wish thhy would secedecall ittpoot election push back, thh hottest onlineecraze- signing on to support texas breakkng free from the fedd. pprrow: 20:20 i hink the counnry would be bettee without texas. erika hernaadez 18:47 do you all. it's like a facebook like days then it's gone. tom connolly 18:08 i think it's probably not tto serious, time soon, but it's pretty worr3 funnnan ooline petitiio asks the hite house to let texans form their own goverment. pointing out texas has a balanced budget and a large pconomy, the petition claims "ii is practicaaly feasible for texas to withdraw from the & nion"09:44 i think that sort of wallz oof on it's own is prettt problematic. it also is a rooest gesture and this nnthing more. jim henssn is the director of the texas politics project, at ut. while seriously - hh poinns out the billions in federal aid, not to mention border security pexasswould forfeit.

i'm not surprised. >> oregon's petition as more than 10,000 signatures. what is really motivating folks who want to opt out of america. >> it would be interesting to find out what they think the benefit of it was would be. >> reporter: once any pet i go reaches 25,000 signatures in 30 days' time it mandates a response from the obama administration. but the bottom line is this might be a good way to americans to air their frustrations but the petitions carry no legal weight. >> it is not in the president's power under the constitution to let a state is he cede. it is not clear whether anyone, even congress, could let a state secede. it might take a constitutional amendment.. >> reporter: petitions from louisiana and texas are reaching a threshhold for response. you can see these petitions for yourself online at white house.gov. >>> to baseball now, you know the season is over but the natsz are 2-2 this week. davey johnson was named national league manager of the year. -- but the nats are 2-2 this week. he recently signed on for one more season as a skipper

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today, we have submitted petitions, actually, they have gone up to 53.97 percent weighted in support of forming the proposed mascone expansion and today is the resolution of intention that you are considering. and after if this was approved, at the full board, then, the department of elections will mail the ballots to all of the hotels proposed to be assessed in city and county of san francisco. and after that, there will be a public information meeting in january on the 23rd, which is included in the date of this proposed resolution of intention. and then, after that, the full board, as community as a whole would consider the resolution to establish following a ballot tabulation and public testimony. in addition, there was a validation action process to validate not only the proposed financing portion of the district but also the assessment district. so other approval processes related to the bonds, this is proposed that the city would issue bonds that would be repaid in large part by the assessments by also by the city contributions. and we will get more into this in a minute with

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is one of the petition lists. you want to petition to get maryland to secede from united states? caller: i did sign one, gas, sir. i do not want us to be on the hook for running our own state government into bankruptcy. a petitioning the federal government to bail them out. i do not know that is such a good idea. host: and deal realistically expect that when they maryland might be its own country. caller: it may not be so much of that, it just may be that we are putting our foot down as saying we do not want to pay for other people's miss doings. host: we have a tweet hear from natalie -- she writes, the best way to succeed is for sympathetic state and local governments and individuals to stop complying with directives from d.c. dictators. would you go along with that? hello? we have lost him. professor, your reaction? guest: and natalie but you just read. what she is talking about is a nullification which is closely aligned with the secession. are you just refuse to follow the lead federal law. but you stay part of the union. the constitution forbids that. supremacy clause.te mi

so the petition phase is when the hotels received the petition and they were able to vote yes or no if they wanted to pay funds into the assessment district to fund this proposed expansion. the petitions came back and they are at 54% of the weighted support among hotels. those are submitted to the board of supervisors, so right now we're at the ballot-mailing stage. the board just approved a resolution of intention, which is just stating the board's interest and intent to form this district, if there is enough votes during a special ballot election spays. phase and it was approved last tuesday by the board of supervisors and there is a management plan that goes with that resolution that details all of the things that the district will do and the details of the assessment and the boundaries and it has all of the attached sort of market impact studis about why doing this district will help the economy. so for a lot of meat and detail you can look at the management plans and attachments. so the ballots will be mailed out by the end of this week to all the hotels. and then we'll have an in

because we felt our concerns were not being adequately addressed a petition was started. people who lived on sutter, webster post and fillmore signed an opposition and collect $5 5 signatures. we appreciate rooster tail restaurants support of our concerns, putting up signage, and to hose and clean the outdoor patio nightly and maintain cleanliness. since this past monday i have been informing all the petition signees of these recent changes and inquiring whether they agree to these changes or wish to continue opposing. as of today, 26 signees have responded, but there has not been a consensus since some are still opposed. our actions have always been motivated by our sincere wish to protect our neighborhood, our homes, and the quality of life of everyone who lives and does business here. we look forward to working with rooster tail restaurant for the betterment of our neighborhood and community. thank you very much. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment? public comment portion is closed. commissioner antonini. >> yeah, ms. young, are you in agreement with t

each on petitions to secede.orida, louisiana, florida, texas leads the pack with more than 115,000 signatures by itself to, quote, peacefully grant the state of texas to withdraw from the united states of america and create its own new government. as "the washington post" dana milbank put it in a recent column f obama were serious about being a good steward of the nation's finances, he would let them go. did you hear that? because many of those states are what dana milbank said are government takers, they take more in federal money than they pay in taxes. alabama gets $1.71 from the federal government for every $1 paid in taxes. louisiana gets $1.45 in federal aid for every $1 they pay in taxes. author of "bush's brain," and james braxton peterson associate professor of english at lehigh, and michael steele, former chair of the rnc and a political analyst here at msnbc. gentlemen, this is an extraordinary thing but let's talk about this, professor peterson, recent "daily beast" article you talked about using maps

and generating similar petitions by staff at other stores. one supporter said, let employees have their holidays, too. another wrote, i've never heard anyone say, i sure wish stores opened earlier for black friday. however, retailers say that's exactly what they've heard -- >> customers said we want to come in early and go to bed early, to shop early. eating the thanksgiving dinner, do the dishes and get some exercise at walmart. >> reporter: walmart and target offer their workers holiday pay. an attractive incentive. target telling nbc news, we've heard from many stores that they had more team members volunteer to work than they had available shifts. and that team member preferences were considered in creating our stor staffing schedules. with 10% of holiday sales at stake during the thanksgiving weekend alone in what's been a tough economic year, opening early is one way for retailers to get consumers in the door. >> since her petition did go viral, casey has been told she doesn't have to work thanksgiving if she doesn't want to. >> she ref

so the amendment of the whole was necessary because we from the time that the petitions were originally, the first petitions were originally submitted to the board of supervisors that triggered the 30 percent support, which allowed the resolution of intention to be introduced. from that time forward, when we started working with the budget analyst office, it was clear that we needed to provide the full picture of the project financing now, even though this resolution is only moving forward the assessment district portion of the financing. we realize that we needed to get very clear on all of the financing terms including the city's contribution as well as the bond financing in the management plan and in the resolutions. so, we took a pause and instead of coming right to committee, we regrouped with all of the different city agencies and the tid and the san francisco travel and negotiated the terms that we presented to you today. so that is a lot what is in the amendment in the whole and in addition to clean up items that we needed to fix. >> okay. >> starting from the dates and other ty

>> well, this petition is relatively new.ization has had a petition drive through the last two sessions of the texas legislature for this particular purpose. every session we accumulate thousands of signatures of texans that just want this issue come to a vote. >> sean: tell us why at this point a lot of people say you lost the election, you don't like obama, that is probably true. isn't it important had a we are the united states of america? you feel a sense of obligation that we have to stay united? >> i think that is cruel irony. for people like and you that are committed to the principles of liberty and freedom as envisioned by our founders, when you look at it in the context of the governor's statement that he sees no reason to change the union, i think we're face with the reality that the union has fundamentally changed. we've got a federal government that treats states like texas as a cash cow, that has no regard for the sovereignty streets and treats us like a subdivision of the federal government. we have seen the tr

and we sent an outreach letter to all the people who signed the petition, clarifying where we stood. so, i think that sharon has pretty much touched on all of these, so, i won't repeat anything here, but basically tracy and gerard are committed to, you know, keeping the neighbors happy and they're going to train the employees well so that they [inaudible]. >> i think your time is close to up. >>> okay. i'll finish by saying this is [speaker not understood] because its was raised regarding pests and vermin. they had three inspections -- >> i think your time is really up now. if we have any questions, we'll be sure to ask, especially about pests and vermim. i'm opening it up for public comment. i have one speaker card, marianne hoyt, yeah. >>> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is marianne hory. my family has lived in golden gate apartments for about 30 years. golden gate apartment is an affordable housing complex owned by chinatown community development center. i'm here to ask the planning commission to decline the request by rooster tail restaurant at 1963 sutter street to add an

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california had 11,000 petitions. according to the website, the obama administration said they will review and respond once it reaches 25,000. >> >> a sacramento family basks in the spotlight after welcoming their new tripletts and possibly breaking a new world record. > emotions running high for jason and brittany. she gave birth to triplett boys who weighed together a total of 20-pounds. they are submitting forms to the guinness book hoping their boys tip the scales towards a world record. >> >> a close eye on the hillside that was compromises by a mud slide. unusual steps residents are making to make sure their homes are protected if the hill gives way again. >> >> the arrest of the driver suspected in the hit and run that injured the man riding this mountain bike. . >>> good evening, >> the mud has been cleared out of the street, but residents in daily city are still keeping a watchful eye on the hillside that gave way when the water main broke. mike has more on the steps being taken. >> reporter: the work on the

i'm out in march so this is an interesting new residence in almost two dozen states are now petitioning the white house to feed from the u.s. you heard me right to speak one person who filed a petition in texas even cited the abuse of civil rights in the case of the n.b.a. and t.s.a. as his reasoning but i would wager to say that he's a minority these are the states filing you for the session more than half of them are southern states does it look familiar or good this map of the historic felt. interestingly enough with the exception of virginia is every single state that was in the confederacy is now on board with this petition and ironically these are the some of the very same states plagued with institutionalized racism to this very day i can't just help but wonder if this effort is not just about obama's policies because if it were why didn't we see this kind of initiative during the bush administration i mean after all the policies are pretty much still the same look obviously i'm no fan of obama but the most vocal criticisms about him are based in bigotry and racism and unfortunat

states filing petitions and considering secession from the country r.t. dot com that's where we've got to all those details standing by for you. also on our website our watch out of skype uses your private information may be at risk after the company rather than one suspected hacktivist even before getting a court order. are two minutes past the hour moscow time this is r.t. of the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but did stop short of recognizing the group as the sole legitimate voice of the syrian people leaders of syria's exiled opposition beset by mutual suspicion and infighting formed a new block on sunday and now seeking full international backing artie's a middle east correspondent paula sphere takes up the story for us. six the gulf states have formally recognized the new syrian coalition as the official representative of the syrian people and the foreign minister of qatar has said that this recognition will remove obstacles that will ultimately be able to secure arms for syrian rebels the coalition does look set