A petition calling on House Democrats not to support House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as the next Speaker has hit 500,000 signatures, according to its creator.
It follows the Democrats’ dramatic midterm election victory that saw the party flip both the Senate and the House of Representatives, which will lead to a new Senate Majority Leader and Speaker of the House.
The petition, which labels Jeffries part of the “Democratic establishment,” suggests Democratic leaders are likely to remain under pressure from their party’s left-wing over both personal and policy choices. It was created by Nicole Whitted, an author and Democratic supporting social media creator with over 210,000 followers on TikTok.
For those who don’t want to give newsweek a click: https://www.change.org/p/house-democrats-choose-a-new-speaker
The petition for Jeffries to not be speaker already has more than 5x as many votes as Jeffries had to get elected
The House Speaker should be AOC. Jeffries will hinder the Democrats for 2028.
These soft democratic leaders already showed us who they are, and I’m not interested. Get the Pelosi generation tf on out of here. Them and their stupid stock trading and dumb shit kneeling and wishy wishy nonsense.
I support this, but I do want it settled quickly either way, not like the clusterfuck of infighting when the GOP had to pick a speaker.
Speaker of the House Battle Royale. Or Hunger Games. Same thing.
The original concept of change.org was that average folks could petition leaders with the backing of many people. You didn’t earn money from petition-creation efforts.
According to the petition, “Nicole Whitted is a Change Ambassador who receives compensation in connection with this petition.”
I found myself wondering what a “Change Ambassador” was, search said, "Ambassadors receive a flat advance payment plus performance-based compensation—often ranging from $0.30 to $0.50 per signature collected over a specified period.
It seems that as of 2024, change.org has become a way to earn a small fortune. If she gets 50 cents for each signature, and this one hit half a million signatures, then she just made $250,000.
I really need to get into grifting. It seems very profitable.
So this person made somewhere between $150-250k for posting this? How do I become a Change Ambassador?
e: You have to have a social following of >100k. You get an upfront payment based on audience size, then performance-based payouts for each petition on top of that.
I didn’t know this was a thing, gross.
But where does that moeny supposedly come from? Ads aren’t likely to generate that much per person signing.
I dunno. I could see campaigns being willing to pay a fair bit for a list of email addresses of people who care about a specific topic.
You also may not have realized that you would be on their email list for the rest of your life.
Filters and blocking takes care of 99% of my junk
My district is gerrymandered as fuck but I already contacted both senators saying Schmuck has gotta GO
I found one for the Senate also:
https://www.change.org/p/replace-chuck-schumer-as-senate-majority-leader
If you’re going to do one thing, contact your Rep and Senator and tell them to change leadership. It’ll carry more weight than a change.org petition.
(Yes, I know that’s technically two things).
Get rid of all of the current Democratic leadership that have spent years being door mats.
Replace both the sellouts
Can Mark Ruffalo be the speaker?
Yes, anyone can be nominated. It’s just always traditionally been a member of the House.
Where do I sign?
Edit: never mind, found it and signed
I posted it!
Change.org is really annoying to use. You can’t just sign. You gotta sign, then click through donations and share requests, then click an email link, then skip through more upsells, THEN finally you have signed.
And then they sell your data to every spam list imaginable.
Maybe it’s unlock origin but I just signed and that was it.
Oh yea then they recommend more petitions at the end.
Jeffries gotta go! Chuck the cuck gotta go! Fire Fetterman into the sun!
