obitoftheday asks: I propose a petition lowering the signature threshold to 25,000.
» SFB says: I would sign that. — Ernie @ SFB
Want a signature like potential Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s? Hop over to this site and create your own. (ht @ethanklapper)
EDIT: Credit where credit’s due: Yahoo’s Chris Wilson totally created this!
That loop scrawl is what President Obama’s new Chief of Staff Jacob “Jack” Lew calls a signature. A handwriting expert told us that it’s ”among the most uniquely weird we have seen in a quarter century of graphology.”
I need to work on a fancy signature.
That’s not a signature, that’s a scribble.
Reblogging this because it’s newly relevant due to Obama’s decision to nominate Jack Lew his treasury secretary. For lovers of weird signatures that don’t really tax autopens that much.
When a Robot Signs a Bill
By Brian ResnickYesterday, the president was in Hawaii but the recently passed fiscal-cliff deal was in Washington. How could the presidential signature be affixed to the bill to make it law? Obama signed it via a robot, the autopen.
Here’s a brief history of the gadget. (Did you know Thomas Jefferson was the first president to use it?)
Just want to point out that this robotic pen is literally signing its John Hancock (look closely at the photo).
That loop scrawl is what President Obama’s new Chief of Staff Jacob “Jack” Lew calls a signature. A handwriting expert told us that it’s ”among the most uniquely weird we have seen in a quarter century of graphology.”
I need to work on a fancy signature.
That’s not a signature, that’s a scribble.
What’s your presidential candidate’s sign? Depends on who you’re looking at. In the case of Rick Perry, it’s a calm, confident and collected signature, befitting of a longtime governor. In Barack Obama’s case, it’s showy, with giant letters for emphasis. In other cases (Herman Cain, ex-candidate Tim Pawlenty), the candidates sign it like a doctor might — ironic, considering the actual doctor in the campaign, Ron Paul, has a clean signature himself. Check out the signatures that Buzzfeed gathered. They’re pretty interesting.
» GOP pushback comes up a hair short: Following challenges by the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, the state’s Government Accountability Board has ruled that 26 of the Nygren campaign’s recall petition signatures are invalid, and as that left Nygren with just 398 signatures, they kicked him out of the race. Nygren is pursuing legal options, and frankly we don’t expect this to be over — two signatures is such a slim margin, it seems obvious that every last signature is again going to get combed over. The GOP still has a candidate, an activist named David VanderLeest, but given his comparatively lackluster background, we imagine they’re pushing to get Nygren back.
» So, what’s going on here? Basically, the GAB’s decision means they believe the signatures collected by Democrats, in the aftermath of Gov. Scott Walker’s nationally spotlighted union-busting effort, are legitimate. The Republican signatures, however, “have raised numerous factual and legal issues which need to be investigated and analyzed,” the board says. This is likely to ignite a firestorm of accusations about political bias, favoritism and so forth — the Democrats likely see this as a major boon, as they’ve argued fraud on the GOP’s petitions. We’re inclined to sit tight and see how this plays out, but today’s events, suffice to say, don’t favor the Wisconsin GOP.
Another Wisconsin GOP senator to face recall: In the wake of JoAnne Kloppenburg’s possible State Supreme Court win (pending a mandated recount, as she leads by the narrowest of margins), an unthinkable upset absent Gov. Scott Walker and his union-busting ways, it seems clear that Wisconsin Republicans have a tough road ahead. GOP State Senator Randy Hopper is the latest victim of this, as he’ll be forced to face a recall election; Democratic activists have more than enough signatures to file against him. source
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