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I mean, they're allowed to respond by saying "No comment" or, more likely, a totally white-washed PR report extolling the virtues of a marginally related task force or agency that seems to completely miss the point.

But who knows, maybe we'll get a decent response.

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"No Comment" will say a lot to many people.

They routinely say "no comment" to demands to do something like freeing an accused defendant, so that wouldn't give a lot of information

They responded to the petition for Obama to resign and to allow secession...the response may be whitewashed (or, rather, not to people's liking), but it at least puts the case in the spotlight again. And for those who think Ortiz's political career should carry this baggage, it becomes harder for her to disassociate her history from this.

The response the OP mentioned: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/our-states-remain-...

The secession petitions are even more ridiculous when you realise that it only takes 25,000 signatures to get a response (Louisiana, the least populous state on the list, has a population of a little over 4.5 million according to Wikipedia) and the signers didn't even have to be a resident of the state calling for secession.

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