How in the world is Conyers

[shraby]

going to hand deliver a half million signatures to the White House? That's got to be a humungous pile of paper.

[smartvoter]

1. Maybe some citizens should help him out. nt

[NinetySix]

2. The citizens could bring their pitchforks...

...you know, to use in lifting all those heavy bales of paper.

[tandem5]

5. and torches...

you know the White House has dim lighting and it would be hard to read all those signatures.

[laura888]

3. sure - I live in DC

anyone know where I can show up?

[whistle]

4. A half million signatures printed out at the rate of ....

...one electronic signature per printed line at 59 lines per page works out to be:

500,000 / 59 = 8,475 pages

That's not all that muany by government standards!

[applegrove]

6. Yup they are used to boxes & boxes of documents.

1000 is 4 inches thick so 4x8= 32 inches. That is a yard. Nowhere near more than they are used to.

[bklyncowgirl]

7. Anyone remember the day that NY Peace activists

Delivered nuclear freeze petitions to Al D'Amato.

Senator Pothole refused to meet with our delegation, so several thousand activists lined up outside the Senate Office Building and proceded to deliver the petitions one sheet at a time. The line snaked through the street, blocking traffic and creating a godawful mess. It was a thing of beauty.

After the first hundred or so petitions were delivered, D'Amato's office called the Capital Police. I happened to be at the front of the line when the cops came. We were ordered to leave. We refused. The cops looked at the number of petitioners and basicly told D'Amato's people to take the damn petitions, they weren't arresting thousands of peaceful demonstrators.

A nice long line of peaceful concerned citizens, led by Conyers and his 92? Congressmembers would get press attention and put on a great show.