The news media has become so biased in not only how they slant news but also the news they choose to report. For example, the report very little about the Occupy Wallstreet movement. If we stop watching the news on TV and buying newspapers they will lose their advertisers.

There has been at least $41.5 milion available but on hold for over 3 months (update: $280 million on hold for 6 months). It's supposed to be getting used to keep people in their homes and as relief for victims of corrupt banking practices by Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and GMAC/Ally Financial. Help us get this money working and stop foreclosures & evictions until it is. Sources: http://www.ag.state.mn.us/Consumer/PressRelease/120209NatMtgSltmnt.asp http://www.propublica.org/special/where-are-the-foreclosure-deal-millions-going

I am sick and tired of seeing the representative of the super rich try to stop much needed programs for the working poor, social programs and programs for the middle class.

WE SHOULD VOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE INTEGRITY, EDUCATION, DOING GOOD DEEDS, HAVE WISDOM, HEART, NOT FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE MONEY.

You're eligible to upgrade your phone , you research the phone you want and Verizon tells you they are charging you a $ 30 upgrade fee to offset their costs! Yet they continue to throw bog money at politicians and super pacs!

Require 75% of stockholder's to approve for each and every donation to any election campaign committee,PAC, Super PAC, non-profit group; or organization or to the person running for office or for any ballot measure or public information statement.

PACs and Lobbyists run this country more than what is desirable in a democracy. There should be a very small allowance for Corporate donations and PACs to politicians. Lobbyists should only be allowed to contact politicians in plenary sessions.

Late last year, the Montana Supreme Court made the first crack in Citizens United by upholding a century-old state law banning direct corporate spending for or against candidates in state elections. Not long afterward, a right-wing group asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule that decision. Now, as the U.S. Supreme Court considers the case, the attorneys general from 22 states and D.C. have filed an amicus brief supporting Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock's bid to maintain limits on corporate spending in state elections. With nearly half of all states on board, this is the largest coordinated legal effort against Citizens United yet. Winning this lawsuit would immediately curtail the corrosive effect that unlimited corporate dollars are having on our democracy at the state level, and also be a major step toward overturning Citizens United nationwide.

Ronald Reagan allowed the CEO's to set their own pay scale and allowed them to be paid in stock. This has made it so CEO's who control the board's basically control their own pay. What we have seen is excessive CEO pay in the millions. The pay that they are getting is a new form of Embezzlement but it is openly accepted. Embezzlement laws should be used to put the CEO's in jail and to stop this fraudulent abuse of power.

It will take an act of Congress to pass a law that Prohibits cellular phone companies from charging Excessive fees and penalties.

Despite the growing desire for "organic" foods in America we find ourselves more reliant on chemicals to produce our food than ever. Part of the problem is the extremely flawed organic labeling system in place. The organic label is inadequate at resolving the multiplicity of standards that create consumer confusion and undermine certification integrity while preserving the ability for labeling methods to target a wide range of environmental and public health issues. Our solution is to divide and sub-categorize this process into more specific narrowly defined certifications designed for consumer clarity and the realistic ability to regulate and enforce, under this model “pesticide free” would be only one of many new labels put into practice.

The city wants us to help pay for a multi-purpose arena in Sodo district of Seattle. We've been through this before, and last time we were ignored getting stuck with the Safeco Field bill. Why should we have to pay for something that many people in the city won't even be using? We've got to tell Mayor McGinn to put the breaks on this one and withdrawal public funding of this.