When Morristown, N.J., endorsed a 287 (g) bid last April, opponents presented petitions with more than 3,000 signatures.
Jack DaSilva, president of the East Side Community Center, presented petitions he said had been signed by nearly 3,000 Ironbound residents in support of a soccer stadium.
Public representation thereupon reverted to the traditional Arab and Islamic system of a majlis (council), through which citizens and other residents presented petitions directly to the emir.
Earlier on Wednesday, four organizations, including Planned Parenthood and Naral Pro-Choice America, presented petitions with 30,000 signatures of people who oppose the bill.
One of those speakers, Harry Beam, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, presented petitions with 5,300 signatures opposing the design to members of the Flight 93 boards, who were holding a quarterly meeting.
There is an anti-garbage-dumping organization with 4,000 members, they have made personal appearances before the Board of Estimate and the City Council and presented petitions signed by thousands of residents, but to no avail.
Advocacy groups have presented petitions to Gov. Sam Brownback and the speaker of the State House, Mike O'Neal, demanding that State Representative Virgil Peck resign for suggesting that illegal immigrants could be shot from helicopters like feral hogs.
Some liberal activist groups presented petitions with 250,000 signatures to Holder at a House hearing yesterday, asking him to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate the originators of the interrogation tactics.
People don't come to Washington anymore to present petitions to their government".
Lobbying consists largely of presenting petitions to the senior princes -- there have been three major ones since January -- and waiting to see if they elicit any reaction.
