The elected Legislators in Alabama cost the Sate, according to 33/40 news, $320,000.00 on a recent special session to address the budget shortfall. Nothing was achieved except bills not related to the budget. So now a second special session will be called. And another $320,000.00 will be spent. These wasteful Legislators should forfeit any pay and be responsible for paying for the costs of both special sessions.

The Financial Services Conflict of Interest Act would ban the “golden parachutes” that Wall Street uses to reward executives for taking jobs in government (a subtle form of bribery), limit the lobbying that can be done by financial regulators after they leave government, and expand the range of situations in which officials must recuse themselves from decisions affecting their former employers. Personnel decisions are policy decisions - we’ve learned that again and again. This bill could make an important difference in slowing the revolving door.

In Theory, America Is Great. In Reality, America is Ethically, Spiritually and Financially Bankrupt. For Significant Time, Yesterday's Average Hopelessly Lost American Leader Foolishly Allow Precious Natural Resource Exploitation Until Artificial Resource Need Is Great. Nation Dependent upon Artificial Resource Timeplace Average Citizen In Imminent Danger. For, Continuous Manufacturing of Artificial Resource Improperly Mass Produce Waste, Toxicity and Real Debt. Lobotomized by Brain-numbing Opinion, Yesterday's Average American Leader is Mentally Incapable of Leading America From God's Future. For This Reason, Humanity Faces Extinction. This Mean. America Citizen must Accept Fact. America can No longer afford Unfit Leader.

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.