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At the time of the writing of this post, the Texas secession petition had garnered 25,318 signatures-above the White House's self-imposed rules for requiring a reply.

They just ignore the rules when they want to avoid dealing with something:

White House removes petition seeking honors for cat

An official White House website that asks for petitions from voters has apparently killed a move to get an honorary seat for a cat who came in third in a U.S. Senate race.

If the Obama White House can side-step important issues like that and get away with it, they can easily ignore secession petitions.

[rockrr]

There are a lot more liberaltarian lost causers on this site than I previously imagined.