The U.S. Supreme Courts decision called Citizens United has undermined the foundations of our democratic society in so much as special interests feel they can buy the government and representitives. It is essential that we end this threat to our country as quickly as is possible. I don't want my government up for sale. I don't want big money interests manifesting themselves in the form of Grover Norquist to control public officials. I would also ask that operations such as Grover Norquist be outlawed since it corrupts members of government.

We are tired of offensive, racist, misleading billboards!

Canada has repeatedly denied Fox News a license to broadcast in that country because they have truthfulness in journalism standards. In Canada a publicly licensed broadcaster may not broadcast any false or misleading news. Imagine that? The public owns the airwaves - what if we demanded the truth from ALL sides? Wouldn't that be a good starting point? Reagan abolished the truthfulness in the media. We used to believe the airwaves belonged to the people, now it belongs to corporations or Super Pacs. Let's make the liars accountable.

On January 21, 2010, with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are persons, entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government.

Stop the barrage of political ads on TV and phones.

Reversing the law regarding the corporate and/or union moneys being used to support a particular political candidate or campaign.

The banking industry should not be allowed to make huge profits from student loans that borrowers are not allowed to discharge through hardships or bancrunpcy. They are charging high interest rates and raking in the money from student loan borrowers, collecting in some cases 400% of the original loan taken out, knowing that it is practically guaranteed to be paid as student loans are next to impossible to be forgiven. If student loans remain that difficult to discharge, all student loan borrowers PAST and PRESENTshould be allowed to have a reduction in their student loan interest rates to something reflective of a savings account rate, in the realm of 1% to 3%. My loan rate is 9% on a loan taken out in the early 1990's, one of which I am still paying on dispite having paid back more than twice what I borrowed, and with a future of paying back another two times more before the loan is paid. Please help.

This year's embattled election may be over, but the bitter, vicious attack ads used by campaigns and politicians won't go away. Once election cycles start up again, so will the ads. Isn't it time we asked for more? Shouldn't we demand intelligent, thoughtful discourse from those seeking elected leadership? Wouldn't it be more beneficial to get answers, not attacks?

The practice of large, wealthy corporations spending lavishly to influence Congressional legislation needs to be outlawed. It is clear that this practice promotes legislation that caters to special interests at the expense of the common good for American citizens. This is tantamount to "insider trading" on Wall Street.

LIPA is not open communicating to the consumer what is going on....Yes an estimated 200,000 are out of power but this not including WE the people in the designated storm surge area 100,000+. Now LIPA you want to UP your prices. How dare you LIPA. We would like the Local, State and Federal Governments to do their job and step up! Come On Town Supervisors, Governor what are you doing to hold LIPA accountable. They are lying about assessing homes as I have proof of homes not able to be lived in due to flooding not being dried up or cleaned out where LIPA turned power back on

National Grid and Long Island Power Authority’s (LIPA) preparedness and response to Hurricane Sandy have been completely unacceptable. Poor pre-planning has led to over 50 electrical substations going offline and left more than 1 million customers without power. Surely these substations could have been located, built, and/or protected better. Poor response is evident in that initial time frames for repair were given as "7-10 days", and then later bumped to "10-15 days". Over 150,000 customers are still without power a full nine days after the storm. Many are being told, “It could be at least another week”. Calls to customer service provide no estimated repair times for particular addresses, and as of November 7th they are no longer accepting calls. A message just simple says, “Due to the high call volume we cannot assign you a representative. Please try again later.” To boot, LIPA’s text alert system is not functioning as well. The fact that LIPA had to bring in thousands of out of state works also speaks volumes to their level of preparedness. Also, the fact that more than 1,500 non-union workers were turned away is simply appalling. With temperatures dropping and gasoline lines growing, harm that comes to people and their homes now falls on LIPA’s shoulders. For the highest power rates in the country, this is simply unacceptable. Please sign if you agree.

I am a proponent of fair trade. A while ago I noticed Starbucks was brewing fair trade coffee only once a week, and now, not at all. I am writing this petition in hope that Starbuck's will support fair trade everywhere.