Policing all over the country is getting away from the real purpose why we have a police force. Police need to get back on track with policing and treating everyone with the same respect that they would expect, even when provoked. If police are given a chance to be hands on in the community with the people they will be policing, I think they can and will better serve/protect without the use of a gun, or violence. Make them spend time in the churches, spend time in the drug centers, learn how people with mental health issues act, learn how to cope with them. Get training on fun range in non lethal shooting points.

First Gov. Branstad turned away vets with severe PTSD by closing beds at the Veteran's home. Now, severely mentally ill clients are receiving poor care because the nursing homes to not have the skill set to care for these people. Read the Des Moines Register News article: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2015/08/12/third-patient-dies-clarinda-mental-health-institute-transfer/31538191/

Good business people want to provide safe and useful marijuana to people who want it and need it, but they are afraid of being arrested. The State could acquire tax revenue instead of wasting tax money on enforcing laws that turn regular citizens into criminals. This would allow proper growing, manufacturing and sale of cannabis for medical and recreational use.

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The public should know who is backing these candidates. It would establish transparency and could educate voters. Knowing who funds these campaigns would bring about a knowledge of how genuine they claim to be vs. how genuine the really are.

There is growing testimony, and statistical evidence, that someone altered the vote counts to tilt all close, state elections to the Republican candidates. To date, secretary of state Kobach has flatly refused to allow any sort of verification to occur, and is even fighting it in court. What are you hiding? Open the books!

As a New Yorker and retired Navy Nuclear trained Senior Chief, I have the utmost confidence in the assurance given by Energy Secretary Moniz that we are getting a good deal. It is imperative Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. Senator Schumer has, in my opinion, succumbed to Isreali pressure because of his Jewish heritage and in doing so, contradicted his own statements. Furthermore, he has undermined his political party at a time when he is needed most.

The Democratic National Committee just released the presidential debate schedule--and it's sparse at best. The proposed DNC schedule with only four debates before votes are cast--less than a quarter as many as during the 2008 primary--fails to give Democratic voters or the American public a chance to have a vigorous conversation on the issues that matter to the American people. These new rules hurt the Democratic party, the eventual Democratic nominee, and our country. Tell the DNC: Go back to the drawing board and come up with a new, more inclusive schedule, or allow others to plan their own sanctioned debates.

I am tired of self serving individuals using their role in our state's government to further their own political careers and lining their own pockets.

It’s known as the “revolving door.” Many government officials responsible for overseeing Wall Street are — wait for it — former Wall Street executives. It turns out the Big Banks even give big bonuses to executives who go slumming in government. Of course, these ex-executives often seem more interested in staying cozy with their former employers (who they’ll probably go back to work for anyway) than enforcing the law. Meanwhile, regulators who didn’t come from Wall Street in the first place are constantly wooed by the prospect of lucrative job offers to leave public service and go to work for the financial institutions they’re supposed to be keeping an eye on. Thankfully, a bill recently introduced in Congress — the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act — would jam the revolving door between Wall Street and federal regulators. This commonsense package of ethics reforms would: - Prevent new agency officials from taking official actions that directly benefit their former employers. - Prohibit Wall Street firms from offering “golden parachutes” to executives who take government positions. - Restrict former regulators from lobbying for two years. - Require departing bank examiners to wait at least two years before taking a job with any bank they oversaw. Senator Elizabeth Warren noted that the Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act is “a bill any presidential candidate should be able to cheer for.” And, in fact, Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have both already endorsed the measure. Hillary Clinton should make it clear that she supports this much-needed legislation, too.

I'm tired of these "old bastards" doing as they please without any regard for the American People. It's time for a change, but it won't happen until voters wake up and make it happen.

Because a popular vote is the fairest way to elect anyone.