Because I believe gerrymandering makes our government less representative and is a threat to our democracy.

Read more about attacks on Clean Elections: http://azadvocacy.org/press-a-media/press/424-voting-rights-groups-slam-bills-on-clean-elections-ballot-measures Read more about HB2305: http://azadvocacy.org/press-a-media/press/422-voters-can-suppress-the-suppressors Read more about HB2651: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/bill-would-give-clean-election-funds-to-ariz-lawmakers-for/article_b98824fe-a8bd-5b50-97f1-59ede260868c.html

Our military and their families give up so much on a daily basis. This is no way to repay them for their service to our country. After they showed up and went to Iraq and Afghanistan to serve and protect our government has decided to kick them to the curb while they continue to pad their salaries and benefits. We need to have their backs and stand united and say NO. If anyone needs to cut their pay,retirement,medical and benefits it should be them.

My name is Beverly, and I have Stage 4 breast cancer. Medical marijuana could help me manage the symptoms of my chemotherapy, but the New York State Senate Co-Leaders are blocking a vote on legislation that would allow me and others the relief we need. I’m spending what are probably the last years of my life fighting for the Compassionate Care Act because I know that thousands of patients could benefit from medical marijuana – cancer patients like me, and people with multiple sclerosis, severe seizure disorders, HIV/AIDS, and other serious, debilitating conditions. Please join me in calling on the New York State Senate to support patients and caregivers by passing the Compassionate Care Act. It’s time to provide compassion for those who are sick and suffering.

Putting ward waste in the landfill is simply wrong. It needs to be composted like we were promised when they started collecting it. Contact the Mayor now at http://www.louisvilleky.gov/Mayor/contactusmayor.htm

Three Mayoral Candidates met the qualifications for public financing in the first Santa Fe Mayoral Campaign to be publicly financed, Patti Bushee, Bill Dimas and Javier Gonzales. With 9 days remaining in the race, two PACS and two labor Unions are spending unlimited dollars for Gonzales and against his opponents. At last reporting period, the unregulated Gonzales PACs and Unions were matching his allowed spending dollar for dollar.

Several states are ran under the Stand Your Ground Law allowing citizens to protect themselves on their property against criminals. However the state of Florida has shown clear abuse with multiple unjust killings under the protection of this law. Black men live with many false stereotypes that has caused other cultures to judge them and live in fear because of these stereotypes causing black men to be the most feared individual in America. However everyone deserves to live the American Dream that includes freedom of speech and justice for unjust acts. With the unnecessary killings that have taken place over the last 10 years in Florida that dream has been sadly taken away for many blacks in this state. It's time to wake up and say Enough is Enough. This issues touches me deeply because I am raising a young black king who deserves a chance at living out his dreams without living in fear because he is black male. Sign this petition and stand up as one to boycott Florida during spring break 2014. Spring Break is a very busy time for Florida and tourist bring a lot of money to this state during this season. We the American people want to see a change in Florida's Stand Your Ground Law so that innocent lives of black individuals are not unjustly taken over and over again because of fear that was created through stereotypes. An unjust law is no law at all. If we do not stand for something we will fall for anything.

We can't have a replay of 2010! If Independent Eliot Cutler and Democrat Mike Michaud divide the vote against LePage, he’ll be back pontificating and bad-mouthing everyone in sight — for another four years! It’s time now that we start thinking about what we can do. Here’s a simple, straightforward idea: Two weeks before the election, the Michaud and Cutler camps should take an honest look at the most recent poll, and if one or the other is at least 10 points behind, he should do us all a favor, drop out and throw his support to the leading candidate.

The average student loan debt for the class of 2012 was $29,400, a one year increase of more than 10%, with an average annual increase of six percent from 2008 to 2012 (as reported by the Institute for College Access & Success' Project on Student Debt). Students are being priced out of higher-education and sacrificing their futures in order to go to college. In the long term, the nation is losing the benefit of these students being able to dream, plan their lives, start their families, own a home, contribute to the community and live the American dream. Universal access to higher education should be the legal right of every high school graduate. Dream, educate yourself, live your life, and contribute to your community and our nation should be the vision and gift extended to every high school graduate in the United States.

I think the major reason we cannot respond legislatively to the needs of our time is our process is completely engulfed in continuous electioneering. The attack ads and confusion generate a distrust in government and an unwillingness to work across the aisle for fear of political retribution. This is not conducive to a healthy governing body. The windows must be shortened and the money carefully regulated.

The federal government have not keep in mind its responseabilites to the electrate. These elected and appointed officals because they only held accountable at elections, consider those that are rich and constiture the !% between elections. There is a safe guard needed to keep these individuals minds on the interest of the 99%.

AJR 1, a measure to begin the process to amend the United States Constitution to address the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, took a major step forward, passing the California State Assembly by a vote of 51-20. In Citizens United, a deeply divided Supreme Court held that corporations are due the same free-speech rights enjoyed by natural persons. The decision spawned “Super PACs,” which have flooded unlimited and largely anonymous corporate money into federal elections. According to the Federal Election Commission, Super PAC spending in 2012 federal elections totaled more than $567 million. Historically, all amendments to the U.S. Constitution have started in Congress, and been ratified later by 3/4 of the states. AJR 1 takes advantage of the rarely-used Article V process for amending the federal Constitution, which allows states to demand that Congress act. If 2/3 of the states make such a demand, Congress must call a constitutional convention on the topic. Several states and municipalities have already passed informal resolutions condemning the Citizens United decision, but Gatto’s AJR 1 is the first to utilize the Article V process which could compel Congress to act. The state-initiated process in Article V has been tried several times, with limited success. Although the process has never resulted in a constitutional convention, it has spurred Congress to take action several times. According to a 2007 article in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, at least four different amendments to the U.S. Constitution have been proposed by Congress in part because of Article V actions. For example, the amendments that repealed prohibition and allowed for the direct election of Senators were first demanded by state legislatures under Article V. AJR 1 calls for a convention that would be expressly limited to campaign-finance and corporate-personhood issues. Now that it has passed the State Assembly, the resolution will next go to the California State Senate, after which other states could similarly act, triggering the convention. Its passage is further significant because it is the first time in recent memory that a Democratic-controlled legislature has passed an Article V demand. Several Republican-controlled statehouses have recently passed Article V resolutions for the Balanced Budget Amendment or simply to establish rules for a future Article V convention. Today’s passage of AJR 1 signifies broad, nationwide, bipartisan action, by the legislators closest to the people, to demand action on Congress on big issues.