When we entrust police officers with power to protect and serve us we should be treated with respect and when that power is abused, those officers should be held accountable. To learn more about how SAPD Officers are not being held accountable please read The Texas Civil Rights Project's Report http://www.texascivilrightsproject.org/docs/sapd/Police_Misconduct_in_San_Antonio-TCRP_Human_Rights_Report.pdf

Pick a problem! Pick any social, political, economic, or environmental problem. Pick them all! You will find that somewhere in that problem, to a greater or lesser extent, some entity’s failure to act responsibly is a factor in the existence of that problem. It stands to reason that if we move universally across the broad spectrum of our problems, to increase that level of responsibility for those entities, that we will also be moving to decrease the extent to which those problems exist.

I'm proud to be a Native Texan and we deserve a statesman for our governor. Not someone who is more interested in making and carrying out political threats.

The Los Angeles Ethics Commission recently proposed important changes to the city's matching funds system to increase the rate at which qualified donations are matched to 6 dollars for every dollar. This has the potential to give small donors a fighting chance in city elections. Unfortunately, the Commission has not recommended lowering the amount that can be matched per donor. Under the current proposal, up to $500 of a donation gets the 6-1 match, meaning somebody who gave $1,300 — clearly not a "small" donor — would get $3,000 in public funds — making their advantage over small donors even bigger! Please urge the three members of the Los Angeles City Council Rules Committee to fix the proposal: City Council President Herb Wesson, Councilmember Jose Huizar, and Councilmember Tom Labonge. Sign the petition now!

He deserves such harassment for all the pain and suffering he has caused (me) our country from any forward movement because he is hell bent to keep Obama from having any accomplishments.

The one-by-one "investigations" miss the real problem!

If the photographs emerging from Ferguson, Missouri look like some foreign war zone to you, you're not alone. Plenty of former soldiers in Iraq & Afghanistan are saying the same thing. This was no accident. The armored vehicles, assault weapons and body armor that police are wearing in Ferguson—and other state/local police across the country—come from the United States military. Since 1996, the Department of Defense has transferred $4.3 billion in military equipment to local and state police through its 1033 program. Since 2001, the Department of Homeland Security has further militarized our police through federal funds for “terrorism prevention.” It is time for this to stop. Sign the petition to President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Homeland Security Secretary Johnson: stop sending military equipment to local and state police.

The recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, make the dangers of police militarization obvious. It is time for strict limits to be placed on the sale and supply of military-grade weapons and vehicles by the Pentagon to local police forces.

There are currently 50 cosponsors of the amendment . Even one more cosponsor will give our movement to get big money out of politics a SENATE MAJORITY. NJOCU (NJ for the Overturn of Citizens United) is a grassroots coalition of 29 statewide organizations that has worked for 3 years to bring a amendment before Congress that will ensure the free and fair elections that our Founding Fathers envisioned. SJR19 enables Congress and the States to regulate campaign financing and to distinguish between artificial entities and actual people. Results of this petition will be sent to your Senators. They will know you want them to LEAD. Your voices will be heard and your comments read. Each of you is needed in the fight to restore our Democracy: to insure government of, by and for the people; not of, by, and for the money. The September 8th Senate vote is an important first step; stay alert to the next steps, PASS THIS PETITION ALONG TO OTHERS, and go to the our website, www.njocu.org, for updates and information how you can join the NJOCU Coalition.

The situation in Ferguson, MO affects all United States citizens. We cannot allow our police to become unchecked forces against our own people. We must stop the trend of militant policing, before the tears gas canisters and SWAT teams are in our own backyards, and we must demand justice for the civil rights violations that have already happened in Ferguson. I suggest creating legistlation for solutions like: - Mandatory ethics and multicultural training for police officers around the country; - Increased diversification of police forces - a police force should be representative of, and made up of, the same people it's protecting and serving; this includes cultural backgrounds, educational levels, skin color, sexual orientations, religions, etc.; - Changes need to be made to DoD 1033: The Department of Defense’s Excess Property Program This program is too far-reaching; it provides officers with equipment they don’t need, without providing them with important training. While items such as helmets, armor, recording devices, boots, canteens, and binoculars are useful and should be donated to police forces, items such as LRAD units, large armored tanks, heavy, military grade weaponry, and the like, ought to be given to our National Guard – where units are already trained in their use, and where they can be deployed around the nation when necessary (and when an appropriate process has been applied to their deployment). I encourage anyone who agrees, or who has other viable solutions, to add them to your signature!

The California Supreme Court has blocked voters from directing Congress to overturn the Citizens United ruling by removing Proposition 49 from this November's ballot. The Court may allow it back on the ballot when they consider the case in September. The courts are telling us that corporations are people and their campaign spending is free speech. Now they are telling us that real people are not allowed to speak back with our votes.

If an investment banker made the wrong call on 61 stocks in a row, their clients would take their money somewhere else. But that’s exactly what the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has done when it comes to forecasting how much Americans drive. They've overestimated driving levels for 61 consecutive forecasts, causing billions of dollars to be wasted on unneeded new highways, and causing lagging investment in transit and maintenance. In reality, Americans have cut back on driving for nine years in a row. And as the DOT updates their next forecast, we need them to get it right. In the 61 forecasts released by the DOT since 1999, actual driving totals have been far below forecasts every single time. This year’s forecast was bizarrely even wrong about the past, projecting that Americans drove five percent more in 2012 than they actually did. Our spending of transportation tax dollars should match how we actually get around -- and right now, that means new rail and bus routes, improved paths for bicycles and pedestrians, and maintaining and repairing our existing roads and bridges. Alternative kinds of travel are growing increasingly popular, especially among the Millennials -- who will be the chief users of our future transportation system. Part of the problem is that state governments make bad forecasts, too, and when the feds aggregate them together, it’s a case of garbage in, garbage out. Nevertheless, it’s time for the DOT to start making good forecasts, instead of just relying on state projections stuck on cruise control in the past. That way, we can get the investments in 21st century transportation that we need.