these programs make money for the state . to sell them or have some one else run them . is wrong ! we will lose jobs , we will lose income. stop the governor from selling us out!

I have LOST one home already to school taxes being raised by SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT IN ONE YEAR. Now it may happen again. I don't have a pension plan like a state retiree --- why shout I pay state tax on my pension plan. You want more money pull back some of your state benefits.

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in New York and want to keep it the way it is.

This person, Animal Control Officer, Torsten Werner Took the National Reptile Foundations Tortoises, 3 large all male Sulcata tortoises to the animal care part of AC & C. They were not properly fed, or taken care of and were left in a pen outside that was contaminated with goat poo. fed broccoli ! ( that is toxic to tortoises!) and other veggies that are not on their diet. They only needed orchard hey. So all of them developed the runns. We got our tortoises back, however They closed down the National Reptile Foundation in conjunction with building and planning, BECAUSE i had a 501c3 non profit org..... I was required to have a commercial kennel license, AND they could not give me a commercial kennel license BECAUSE I live in the COASTAL ZONE. Other targets and other people have complained about him taking pit bulls, and having them euthanized, and terrorizing little children with a poor choice of words, and more recently the confiscation of a herd of piggs. taken for no reason, but Animal care wants $1,000.00 from the owner before returning them, or they will be destroyed. I have left the other peoples names out of this petition, but they will gladly tell you all about it if you ask me how to get in touch with them. you can send me an email to [email protected] Officer Torsten Werner manhandles animals to the point of abuse, and seemingly enjoys harassing the owners. After an encounter with this Mendocino County Animal Control Officer, you're left shaking, scared, angry, and abused. He is known for jumping to conclusions, and presents him self as an expert in handling animals, while making you feel like a prisioner who knows nothing, or worse; the scum of the earth. An encounter with this Mendocino County Animal control Officer will undoubtedly change your life forever. You will never see Animal Control the same way ever again. Please sign this petition to have Torsten Werner fired from the position of Animal Control Officer, with the Mendocino County Department of Animal Control. There seems to be a trend of officer Werner to confiscate animals, for no reason. Then when the animals are vet checked, there is nothing wrong with them, but cost the owner several hundreds or thousands to get out of the "Animal care part of Animal care & control" Torsten Werner needs to be fired, He is creating hate and discontent, to the animal owning residents of Mendocino county. He uses a bad chioce of words in delicate situations,..... taking animals with out merrit, and complicating the lives of the animals, and their owners. the funny thing is when officer Torsten Werner is WITH another officer, he has better manners, and doesn't take as many animals in. When Torsten Werner is alone, he has a different attitude towards the people and their animals. Just so you know...... IF any officer is addressing you alone, YOU CAN request for another officer to be present. It is the LAW. Thank you.

During the 1978 Constitutional Convention, delegates fought hard to create the partial public funding program that we now have. Delegate Naomi Campbell said during that Convention: " . . . if we think these tremendous sums being spent [on elections], these tremendous sums being contributed, are not sums for which we are going to ultimately pay because of poor government . . . and because of undue influence . . . we are fooling ourselves." We have let the partial public funding program decay over the past 30 years, and along with it our best chance at a truly functioning lawmaking arena. We need to break the cycle, and have the courage to save this program that delegates fought for in 1978.

In the 2012 election more secret money poured into California election ads from out of state than you can imagine. Corporate money tried to influence our elections and silence the people of California! SB 52 has already passed the assembly but not in time to get to the State Senate. It will make it the law to identify the funders of ads for or against election issues, thus, helping the voters become more informed before they cast their ballots on candidates or ballot measures. Make your voice heard and support SB 52 the CA Disclose Act.

GOP Governor Pat McCrory is planning to sign into law a tough voter ID law amoug the first pieces of state legistation. In conjunction with these new voting restrictions, Republicans all across the South used their control of state legislatures following 2010 to pass redistricting maps that will lead to new voting restrictions placing as many Democratic lawmakers into as few “majority minority” districts as possible as a way to maximize the number of Republican seats.

Policies in Michigan have been enacted that directly conflict with the will of citizens. Women's rights have been swept aside, collective bargaining swept aside, local governments swept aside. The rights of citizens and the voices of citizens must be held in high regard again. Equal rights need to be exrended to all citizen regardless of their economic, social or gender specifics. Michigan is our state and it belongs to all of ALL of us.

Governor Kasich has proposed and then withdrawn legislation to rig the Electoral College to favor less populated districts. This is simply a blatant attempt to rig elections. The end game is to make the White House go into Republican hands even if they lose the popular vote. In the GOP scenario President Obama would have lost the 2012 election even though he won the popular vote in Ohio and nationally by a large margin. This is criminal and we cannot allow our voting priviledges to be discounted. We must stop this before it is introduced again, as we know it will be, in the hopes of catching us off guard. We are focused on stopping all GOP over reach to minimize our VOTING priviledges!

The US Senate has not passed a budget in over 3 years. That has locked in trillion dollar annual deficits. It's clearly unsustainable, and our children will have to pay this money back with interest. We used to want our children to have a better life. Now we're leaving them a legacy of massive crushing debt. We're not telling the Senate what budget to pass. But we are requesting that the Senate pass a balanced budget each year.

As the Los Angeles Times has demonstrated, Capital Appreciation Bonds expose school districts to excessive future financial obligations and risk. http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/capital-appreciation-bonds/

The legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is considering multiple bills that would alter how Electoral College votes are distributed to Presidential Candidates. The people of the Commonwealth deserve to have their vote preserved by the current way votes are distributed.