Dueling MoveOn.org petitions: 54,412 for de Blasio to resign; 133 for PBA Pres. Lynch to resign

Greg P. | 9:37 PM on December 21, 2014

Well, this isn’t going so well for the progressive MoveOn.org folks.

A petition started by the “People of NYC,” at the time of this post, has 54,412 signatures calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to resign after the execution-style murder of two NYPD officers Saturday night. And you can see from these tweets how fast the petition has grown in the past 24 hours:

https://twitter.com/TheTrialFile/status/546764136680787968

https://twitter.com/TheTrialFile/status/546669739557519360

After assassination of police officers,11,000 have signed a petition calling for the removal of Mayor DeBlasio: http://t.co/lArt0foiHX

— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) December 21, 2014

For comparison purposes, a petition calling for Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch to step down for his comment suggesting that Mayor de Blasio had “blood on his hands” from the deaths of the two officers. This petition has 133 signatures:

https://twitter.com/chrisobannon/status/546846517382758401

https://twitter.com/agiftagain/status/546853117762215936

MoveOn.org has since decided it will no long promote the de Blasio petition because it conflicts with its member’s views:

MoveOn volunteers reviewed this petition and determined that it either may not reflect MoveOn members’ progressive values, or that MoveOn members may disagree about whether to support this petition. MoveOn will not promote the petition beyond hosting it on our site. Click here if you think MoveOn should support this petition.

Oh, well. Let’s see if the Lynch petition can catch up!

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