Warehouse workers in Southern California went on strike this Wednesday, following months of high tension, high temperatures, and extreme pressure in a major Walmart-contracted warehouse. These courageous workers walked off the job to protest retaliation by their warehouse employers. Their plight is not uncommon in Walmart-contracted warehouses, which I learned from firsthand experience. After five years of lifting heavy boxes every day in the warehouse, my body aches. I am 31. Walking is difficult, lifting my son is nearly impossible, and I frequently have very painful back spasms. I finally left my job at the warehouse after I seriously hurt my back. But I had to fight for medical attention. The managers of the warehouse didn’t care about my health or safety. They tried to prevent me from seeing a doctor. I fought and I won medical care, but I have seen a lot of my coworkers fired for similar injuries. They leave the warehouse hurt, with no job and no health care. We move goods for Walmart, but we are treated like we are disposable. To this day it makes me angry. That’s why I am joining with other workers and people who support us to end these inhumane working conditions. Together, we can improve the lives of the thousands of people who live with these conditions on a daily basis. Support warehouse workers and sign our letter to Walmart. We will deliver it to Walmart executives when we arrive in Los Angeles at the end of our march.

My petition is about campaign financing. I - and all citizens, for that matter - have been affected by big-money organizations buying elections. The problem is that the very group that could bring this to an end is profiting off the practice. We need to control the accountability of our elected officials and candidates, and assure that to the greatest extent possible they are working for the good of all citizens and not serving special interests of a minority who can expect special interest or self-serving favors for huge contributions.

Ed Diana and the OC Legislature are using divisive tactics to delay maintenance while the historic Paul Rudolph Government Building continues to disintegrate. His plan is to stall until the building is beyond repair then stick the taxpayers with the bill to replace this perfectly useful building with a new monument to politics.

Fair Elections Now! Instead of focusing on their constituents and the important issues of the day, elected officials in Washington spend too much time raising money from wealthy donors and lobbyists – often from the very industries they’re supposed to oversee! It’s time to get our leaders out of the fundraising game and let them do the jobs we’ve elected them to do. The best way to do that is to pass the Fair Elections Now Act. Under such a system, qualified candidates who take no contributions larger than $100 can run for Congress on a blend of small donations and public funds. This bill already has more than 150 cosponsors. If your Representative is one of them, please thank him or her. If your Representative has not yet signed on as a cosponsor, please ask him or her to do so right away! (When you enter your address below, our system will look up the name of your Representative and his/her co-sponsor status.) Take action today!

In 2008, The Supreme Court decided that corporations can use their money to buy political speech during peak campaign seasons. As a result, independent corporate political speech is now protected under the First Amendment. According to the Supreme Court, money becomes speech when corporations use money to speak. This makes corporations entitled to First Amendment free speech protection. Now, according to the Supreme Court, money is speech which makes corporations persons. This tortured and butchered logic underpinned the High Courts ruling in the Citizens United case. Citizens United wanted to use corporate money to air a film critical of Hillary Clinton which would have violated The McCain–Feingold campaign finance reform Act. The Supreme Court overturned the law on First Amendment grounds. The law previously prohibited "electioneering communication" by corporations.

Since the Citizens United ruling by the supreme court, super-pacs and wealthy individuals have the ability to pour large sums of money into political advertising. Many ads contain lies and distortions that can wrongly influence elections. An example is the TV ad featuring a Canadian woman who came to the United States for medical treatment because she thought it would take too long in the Canadian system. She tells us she would have died if she hadn't received the prompt treatment given to her here. In fact, it was reported that instead of a life-threatening tumor, she was diagnosed with a benign, non-life threatening cyst. The purpose of this ad was to cast Obamacare in an unfavorable light by suggesting it is like the Canadian health care system. The truth is that the woman would have received timely, appropriate care in Canada, and there is no comparison between Obamacare and Canada care. Join me in calling for TV networks to do a better job of screening these political ads for the truth, and rejecting those that fail the test. Also, join me in calling out participants in these ads to back up their claims with facts, such as medical records.

Grover Norquist, a man never elected by any constituancy, is controlling the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and a large portion of the US Senate. Where does he get his funding?

Get the Washington State Legislature to pass a resolution calling on the U.S. Congress to pass a constitutional amendment that reverses the 2010 Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Corporations are not entitled to the same constitutional rights as people. Regulating political contributions and spending is not equivalent to limiting political speech.

The state should sue one prosecute these institutions for fraud, using RICO and all other crimes committed which allowed the taking and devaluation of homes and property These would include the illegal use of electronic transfers of title used by the banks. These transfers should be clarified by the governor and the secretary of state, to violate the laws of contracts and real estate on the face of those laws. These are direct violations of "illegal taking"

When government officials engage and sign pledges that are in conflict of interest with the needs of the people we all lose with the exception of the owners, and perhaps the signors, of the pledge.

Recently, there has been an explosion of companies who sell, with a mouse click, relevant data about personal address, age, date of birth, telephone number, personal income, etc. While this information is available for the most part, in public records, it is difficult to retrieve it. Selling this information should be seen as a violation of privacy and as a threat to one's safety.

Holding Corporate America responsible for any overseas manufactured goods that arrive in the USA tainted with melamine or any other toxic chemical that can pose a health threat to humans and animals. No one should profit from making humans or animals sick, and when it does, products need to be pulled from shelves immediately and corporations need to be held responsible!!