As a teacher in the Mesa Public School system, I know that you can only best serve the kids in your classroom by listening to them. The same principle should apply with Arizona’s legislators. They were elected to serve the people of Arizona and should be listening to us. But, lately, it seems legislators are only giving an ear to deep-pocketed, outside extremist corporate donors who are working through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to get their agenda passed. Recently, I participated in a press conference to speak out on ALEC’s extreme agenda. I spoke out because I am concerned with the way outside corporate power, through organizations such as ALEC, is taking over our democracy. Instead of measures to create good jobs and improve education for our children, our lawmakers are pushing radical policies from ALEC such as Arizona’s infamous immigration law, private school vouchers, “Shoot First” bills, voter suppression laws, and anti-worker measures. And while some companies, including Pepsi, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Wendy’s, KRAFT, Intuit and Arizona Public Service, the largest energy company in Arizona, have withdrawn from ALEC, some legislators in Arizona continue to blindly support ALEC's extremist legislation. Well, it’s time for lawmakers to start listening to Arizonans, not secretive, corporate front groups like ALEC. Please sign my petition to tell Arizona lawmakers to cut ties immediately with ALEC and focus on improving education and helping Arizonans get back to work.

Enacting a law that would license funeral service professional in the same manner that doctors are licensed. This would make them more accountable, and strengthen the profession that is presently free to pray on individuals and take advantage of them in a sensitive time in their lives.

Most on-line purchases, and almost all TV commercial product orders, add on a charge in addition to shipping charges. These can be called "handling charges" or something similar, but they have nothing to do with the cost of getting the product shipped, and are arbitrarily applied based on how much the seller believes consumers will pay. We want a law that will restrict all shipped purchases to charging consumers only the true cost the seller pays to a shipping company for getting the product shipped.

There was never a public discussion nor a VOTE on the events that initiated the ALTERATION of our FARMLANDS to GMO crops. This ISLAND of KAUAI has been DUPED! OUR health, and the health of our CHILDREN have been DISCARDED as if we were just experimental TRASH! Of all places on EARTH! this is, and has been such a ....(can't find a strong enough word)....as if (and I'm not discounting the idea) that an ALIEN RACE has decided to change us by OUR FOOD! Or, to eliminate us altogether. Sounds pretty nutty doesn't it! KAUAI , at present , is still one of the most beautiful places on our planet....and because a group of obscenely rich industrialists want to "play GOD" with the UNPROVEN chemical genetics of our FOOD....they BOUGHT our local GOVERNMENT, and perhaps more. THIS IS NOT A HUMANE THING, and needs to be STOPPED and REVERSED! ( Why didn't they do this in THEIR BACKYARD) I bet their wives and children would think them CRAZY, and end up in divorce!

Every federal and state contract with any company should have a clause that stops that company and its associated corporations from lobbying the government.

In 2008, Mitt Romney was not selected as a vice presidential running mate on the John McCain ticket. In the cacaphony of poltical discourse, the reason became apparent; that he alledgedly submitted a decade's worth of returns; and that he was not vetted for the national ticket as a result.

this petition is to increase awareness of the fall of America as we know it.

This is to have Congress require that all corporations doing business with Defense Department providing goods or services to be used in an active war zone to cut their profit margin by 50%. If corporations deserve to be recognized as "people" they should be required to make some sacrifices to help the Country in times when families are asked and do sacrifice their children .

Many, many ills, including the infamous "Citizens United" ruling, have their source in the counter-intuitive and in fact odd idea that the rights accorded to citizens under the U.S. Constitution must also be extended to corporations. First introduced in an obscure lower court case, the supreme court eventually upheld this strange idea. We request that the State of Iowa revoke this status regarding corporations.

Amend the Constitution: END Corporate "Personhood." Money is not speech! We are seeing in the current election cycle the huge amounts of money that is being spent on some elections by corporations. The people have lost their voice!

We are fighting back to save Lola Daniels' home from foreclosure. Lola has been in her home for over 30 years and was never late on her mortgages until she was forced to retire early due to illness. Lola and her son are both disabled . We are calling on OneWest and Bank of America to give Lola a principal reduction and a reasonable payment plan she can afford.

Prop 13 bases property taxes on the original purchase price. While this contributes to the stability of neighborhoods, it is a windfall for commercial properties and deprives the state of needed revenue.