Dayton Uses New White House Online Petition Process To Get A Shuttle

Dayton City Paper Donates Full Page Ad to Space Shuttle Enterprise Petition Effort
“The quest to land retired Space Shuttle Enterprise at the National Museum of the United States Air Force received a major boost when Paul Noah, the publisher of the Dayton City Paper, donated a full page ad supporting the White House petition effort in the Oct. 18th LWV voters guide issue.
The petition launched two weeks ago, has picked up approximately 3,500 4,100+ supporters. According to the White House petition policy: “To cross the first threshold and be searchable within WhiteHouse.gov, a petition must reach 150 signatures within 30 days. To cross the second threshold and require a response, a petition must reach 25,000 signatures within 30 days.”
View the petition at “We The People” at WhiteHouse.gov”
Keith’s update: Apparently the earlier rules prior to 3 October 2011 required only 5,000 signatures for the White House to respond (this petition was submitted prior to that date). Alas, the main organizer of this activity is sending out emails saying “If this petition gets 5,000 signatures by October 30th (it already has 3,743), the Obama administration will reconsider the decision.” I see nothing anywhere that even hints that the White House will “reconsider” this decision as to where Space Shuttles will go. Their “response” may well just say “thanks for your concern, we appreciate your interest, etc. but we have already made up our mind. Have a nice day.”. If signing a petition on this White House website is going to force the White House to actually “reconsider” its decisions then their webservers will most certainly melt under the pressure from people wanting to change everything.