Florida Petition To Secede Reaches 30,000 Signatures

In just three days since Patch reported about a Florida secession petition, the petition grew from 1,343 to 30,304 signatures, exceeding its goal.

The Florida secession movement through an online petition has exploded over the course of three days, now surpassing its goal, reaching 30,304 signatures as of Wednesday evening. Patch first reported the Florida secession movement Monday when the petition on the White House's petition website had only 1,343 signatures and the story went viral to the point where 30,304 people have signed supporting the idea of secession, though it's not legally possible. The petition was created Nov. 10. Overall, 20 petitions for similar secession requests were filed on the site, and Texas even reached 60,000 signatures for its petition, The Huffington Post reported. More than 178 comments were posted on Patch's initial story and another 124 comments were …

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9:00 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013

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What's Tampa Bay Saying?

Florida Secession Movement: Your Thoughts?

An online petition has been filed with the White House requesting that Florida be allowed to “withdraw from the United States of America.” Do you think it’s time to go it alone?

A growing group of Floridians think the state should break away from the United States and run its own affairs. Doubt it? There’s an official petition filed with the federal government via the White House’s website. The petition had 18,728 signatures as of 8:45 a.m. Nov. 13. It has a goal of 25,000 signatures and was only created on Nov. 10. There’s even some momentum behind the idea it would seem. When Sarasota Patch ran an article on the petition, it was reported there were only 1,343 signatures. That number has since climbed in leaps and bounds, nearing the goal of 25,000. Here’s what the petition asks: We the people of the great state of Florida, do see that in today's world the Federal Government has not led our citizens justly and …

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10:47 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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