Illinois Residents Join Secession Petition Trend
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Residents in at least seven states have filed petitions asking to secede from the union--enough to require a response from the White House, anyway.
And people from Illinois have two petitions in the works, as WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
Illinois' petitions to secede only have a few thousand signatures so far.
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"Republicans like myself almost have no respect for the leader of our country. Zero respect," said Krista Richardson, a 36-year-old environmental engineer who lives in Mundelein.
And she signed the online petition to secede yesterday.
"Not that I really expect anything to come out of it," she said.
It's a symbolic act, she says.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan wasn't immediately sure what the law said on secession.
"It would be my hope that people disappointed in the election would nonetheless respect the president."
Madigan added, "We have fought the Civil War."
