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Remove Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior1. As reported just today, Zinke has been and remains active in funneling money to scam political committees that rip off elderly donors by taking their money and then mostly keeping it for executive and consultant salaries. 2. As reported just yesterday, Zinke’s friend/neighbor’s two-person company somehow got a $300 million contract to repair Puerto Rico’s electrical infrastructure. 3. As Secretary, Zinke has repeatedly used private charter planes, including a charter flight from Las Vegas to his Montana hometown on a plane owned by fossil fuel company executives, and charters between Caribbean islands ― all on routes where commercial flights were available. 4. Zinke concealed as a congressman from Montana that he’d been living in California, not Montana. 5. Zinke punitively reassigned many of his agency’s senior employees ― for example moving Interior’s chief climate policy expert to the royalty collection division; he also named only political appointees, including several ex-industry lobbyists, to a Department committee on personnel issues, ignoring that career staff is supposed to be part of the process. 6. Zinke, in a speech last month to an oil industry group, praised hydraulic fracturing, which has poisoned the water in communities across the U.S. and poses tremendous risks of gas leaks and increased global warming. “Fracking,” he said, “is proof that God’s got a good sense of humor and he loves us.” 7. Zinke has proposed to the White House that several national monuments be dramatically shrunk and opened for mining and drilling. 8. Zinke requires his security staff to hoist a special secretarial flag on the Interior Department’s roof whenever he’s in the building and to remove it when Zinke departs. In addition, as the Washington Post reported, “He has commissioned commemorative coins with his name on them to give to staff and visitors, but the cost to taxpayers is unclear.” 9. Zinke last month told an oil industry group that nearly one-third of Interior Department employees are not loyal to him and Trump. He might have been understating matters, depending on your definition of loyalty. Probably more than a third now think that Ryan Zinke is a disgrace.46 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Bradford L. Miner
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Oak Park, MI - Let Dogs InsideOak Park, MI currently allows dogs to be kept outdoors with proper shelter and food/water. However, more often than not residents do not follow this law and dogs are kept in inhumane and neglectful conditions during Michigan's fluctuating weather and without the proper necessities. At the most basic level, this is simply horrible. Most of the dogs kept outside are not breeds that can sustain living outdoors (such as pit bulls and other short-haired breeds). Oak Park is a family-centric community and not only should our pets be treated as family and kept indoors, this keeps residents and pets safer. Dogs kept in yards have higher chances of escaping, and possibly getting lost, killed, stolen or even attacking others outside their property. The latter has actually happened to myself and my dog three times. Stop allowing our dogs to be kept outdoors!85 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Jayme Brown
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Protect Checks and Balances: Stop Pompeo's NominationDonald Trump is marching us toward war—or multiple wars—if his latest nominees and appointees are and indication. Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to run the State Department, opposes diplomatic agreements including the successful Iran Nuclear Deal, supports torture, and received the top award from a known anti-muslim hate group. We cannot trust his judgement to run the U.S. State Department, whose main mission is diplomacy, not war. Gina Haspel has defended the CIA use of torture. We cannot trust her to run the CIA and protect human and civil liberties. John Bolton has a history of bad decisions that have contributed to massive loss of life. He was a booster for the Iraq War. More recently, he penned an op-ed on the case for war with North Korea. He just can't be trusted at all - yet Trump appointed him to National Security Advisor. Trump pushed out his secretary of state and national security adviser who had helped restrain Trump's desire for war. His new appointees would be far worse—putting us all at risk. As a first step to protecting the balance of power, blocking a reckless war cabinet, and preventing unnecessary and costly wars: The Senate and must reject Pompeo's nomination as Secretary of State.26 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Dean Obeidallah
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Shut down John Bolton and Trump's war agendaWe all know that John Bolton is a terrible dangerous choice for national security adviser. But the Senate doesn't get to confirm that role. It does, however, confirm secretary of state for which Trump has nominated someone even more dangerous: Mike Pompeo. Pompeo is a climate change denier. He's anti gay rights. He wants to rip up our diplomatic deals. He's defended the use of torture. If fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was the fire extinguisher that kept the Trump flame from engulfing us all, then Pompeo is the fuel that would make the Trump bonfire go out of control. He cannot represent us to the world. We can't stop Trump from appointing John Bolton—a man who pushed for the devastating Iraq War and who recently wrote the case for war with North Korea—as national security adviser. So our only chance to prevent Trump from assembling a war cabinet that would push us to war with Iran and North Korea and risk of ruining relationships around the world is to block Pompeo. Senator Rand Paul has said he won't support Pompeo—now if every Democratic and Independent senator does the same, we can say no to this bigot and no to Trump's reckless march to war.63 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Dean Obeidallah
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Support a Congressional Resolution to Condemn Child Rape and Incest in the USI shouldn't have to do this. But in light of recent comments from politicians, I feel it is necessary.138 of 200 SignaturesCreated by Rich Flanders
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DUMP THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, AND MOVE ON !!!!!TIRED OF THE CRAP DEM. REP. AND IND. HAVE BEEN FEEDING THIS COUNTRY FOR YEARS. ITS NOTT THE GOOD OLE BOYS LAST I REMEMBERED IT WAS THE U.S.A. . BY THE WAY WE FEEL THE U.S. STANDS FOR US....1 of 100 SignaturesCreated by ROBERT H BOMELY JR
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Public Access to court records Bentonville District CourtRecently the Bentonville District Court has been denying record request that are important to Arkansas Employers and their representatives for employment purposes. We believe this is in violation of the intent of Administrative Order 19 and the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act. This action has repercusions to Arkansas Citizens as it is delaying their work start date. We as employers rely on these background checks to protect our buiness, employee and customer safety. We ask you to address this situation and clairify the proper interpretation of Administrative Order 19 to allow access to these records by our Background Screening Companies .33 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Robert Long
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Tell Congress: Stop Scott Pruitt from letting Dow Chemical poison our communities and our food sy...One year ago on March 29, 2017, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided that our children’s health is less important than Dow Chemical’s profits. He revoked a ban on Dow’s nerve gas pesticide chlorpyrifos, shortly after meeting with Dow executives. Pruitt’s willingness to poison our communities to help Big Ag makes him unfit to serve as EPA Administrator. The evidence is clear: We need Congress to hold Pruitt accountable and kick him out of the EPA.37 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Peter Stocker
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General Strike if Mueller gets FiredThe Trump administration is willing to do anything to hold on to power and the people need to draw a red line. Fire Mueller or Pardon any of the Mueller investigations quarry or interfere in any of the many investigations into Trump, Trumps family, or Trump Co and we will act. And since Greed is the only thing that motivates the POTUS a General Strike is the only way to make him listen. A government of by and for the people! That means its our job as the people of America to put a check on the government when it gets out of hand!18 of 100 SignaturesCreated by PATRICK R BALOUGH JR
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Allow all flags to be flown in Delray BeachSmall business owners have been requesting custom flags since we relocated to Delray, 15 years ago. Residents have expressed the desire to display sports or holiday banners in their front yard. Selfishly, we’d like to work with our community like we have with the Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative. #shoplocal #madeinAmerica10 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Alana Karmiol
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Tell the Senate: Don’t let Trump put a Dow Chemical lawyer in charge of cleaning up toxic waste s...Trump nominated Peter Wright to lead the EPA’s program that manages more than a thousand Superfund toxic waste sites. Wright is a Dow Chemical lawyer and former Monsanto employee. The Senate can reject Wright’s nomination. But we need your help to convince it to act!43 of 100 SignaturesCreated by Peter Stocker
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President Trump: Don't tamper with the 2020 Census!The Trump administration wants to rush in a question [1] about citizenship status during the national census. Guess where they got the idea? From infamous Trump adviser Kris Kobach, who represents anti-immigrant hate groups. Of all the ways democracy is threatened by Donald Trump, an unfair and inaccurate census could have the most dramatic long-term impact on public services and congressional district borders. Inaccurate census counts give an unfair share of funding and representation to low-density, rural areas, which is why a bipartisan group of 161 mayors wrote the administration to plead that they not tamper with the census questions and risk an inaccurate count. [3] The more people who are afraid [4] to talk to a census taker -- either because of their own immigration status or that of someone else in the household -- the fewer congress members, the less federal money for schools and other public services, our bustling urban areas will get. States like Texas [5] and California will be very hard hit, as well as every large city, in any state. Sign today to join the chorus and make them hear us. Tell Wilbur Ross to do his job and serve the American people, all of us, not just extremists in the Republican Party. [1] - “Wilbur Ross Overruled Career Officials at Census Bureau to Add Citizenship Question” - Pro Publica, March 27, 2018 https://www.propublica.org/article/wilbur-ross-overruled-career-officials-at-census-bureau-to-add-citizenship-question [2] - “Trump Got Idea For Census Citizenship Question From Anti-Immigrant Hate Group Attorney” - The New Civil Rights Movement, March 28, 2018 http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2018/03/trump-got-idea-for-census-citizenship-question-from-anti-immigrant-hate-group-attorney/ [3] - “Nation’s Mayors to Secretary Ross: Don’t Politicize Census. Remove the Citizenship Question.” US Conference of Mayors, March 27, 2018 https://www.usmayors.org/2018/03/27/nations-mayors-to-secretary-ross-dont-politicize-census-remove-the-citizenship-question/amp/ [4] - “Hidden Figures: How Donald Trump Is Rigging the Census” Mother Jones, May/June 2018 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/donald-trump-rigging-2020-census-undercounting-minorities-1/ [5] - “Analysis: Adding a citizenship question to the census could screw over Texas” Texas Tribune, March 27, 2018 https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/27/analysis-adding-citizenship-question-census-could-screw-over-texas/4,413 of 5,000 SignaturesCreated by Susan Madrak