The large corporations and the super-rich give vast amounts of money to our legislators' campaigns so that they will pass laws favorable to them. They spend large amounts, also, to defeat those who are opposed to their interests. That leaves the rest of us, the 99 percent, without a voice in our government. The result is the top one percent accumulates more and more wealth, and the rest of us less and less.

Make it easier for the President of the United States to make revamp his own administration. As it stands now these changes need to go through Congress.

It is time that our elected officials start putting policy ahead of their party. This bickering between both parties has to stop. They are no longer truly concerned about the American people and issues that effect them. Each party refuses to reach a bipartisanship on policies that will benefit the American people. It is time that they start to cooperate with each other and make a genuine effort to reach an agreement on policies rather than putting the party interest first. Furthermore they need to stop being in the pockets of big corporations and stop putting the needs and interests of these corporations ahead of the American people.

Like Kentucky's Governor Steve Beshear congress should cut their government salaries by 10%. This would help decrease the national debt. And leave my social security and medicare alone!!!

It's clear that we've got to amend the U.S. Constitution to overrule the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. But most of the amendments in play in Congress deal only with the problem of money in politics (see http://FreeSpeechForPeople.org/node/441 ). That's important, but we have to go deeper too: Citizens United also said corporations have constitutional rights, like free speech, as if they were people. This gives corporations the power to get the courts to throw out all kinds of laws they don't like - including food labeling, health, environmental, and civil rights laws as well as laws on money in politics. We need an amendment that makes it clear that people, not corporations, are in charge of America. The People's Rights Amendment, H.J. Res 88, does this (see http://PeoplesRightsAmendment.org ). It has extensive bipartisan support in the House but has not yet been introduced in the Senate. That's why we need your help. Please sign on, then spread the word. Thanks, from the whole team at: http://FreeSpeechForPeople.org

As a career firefighter in the State of Illinois, I have paid into my pension fund without ever missing a payment. State Government Officials have historically allowed State and Municipal employers (my boss) the right to ignore their responsibility to provide adequate funding contributions into State/Municipal pensions, resulting in an 83 BILLION DOLLAR PENSION SHORTFALL. There is talk of A POSSIBLE FEDERAL BAILOUT after the election for Illinois. EVERY US CITIZEN should SignOn to this Petition to tell Gov. Pat Quinn: SOLVE YOUR OWN FINANCIAL PROBLEMS. My State can't afford to clean up the mess that your State caused!

Financial transparency is the life-blood of our democracy. Both Democratic and Republican past presidential candidates have released their tax returns. They have also voluntarily identified "bundlers," powerful and wealthy individuals who influence their friends and associates to donate to a politician, raising as much as half a million dollars per bundler. If Mitt Romney is allowed to win the presidency without disclosing these sources, it will set a dangerous new precedent of secrecy which will endanger the ability of voters to judge the financial integrity of a candidate.

The Republican National Convention opened with a party in St. Petersburg for delegates, politicians and wealthy donors. City tax payers are on the hook for $580,000 for that party. Now we know that the RNC has raised more than $55 million and may be able to pay these costs. Donor Bill Edwards gave $4.6 million and receives city subsidies. Donors like Sheldon Adelson, Communist China's casino mogul and David Koch spend millions to influence government. They can well afford to pay their bills. Please urge city council to insist these expenses are borne by the RNC, not taxpayers.

I'm getting somewhere between 10-15 calls a week to my home and cell phone. While I am fine with emails and postal mailings, and can tolerate door to door visits, phone recordings are intrusive and make me mad enough to not vote for any candidate that is represented by the call. Recognizing that it is important to provide candidates ways to communicate their message, phone calls should be restricted to personal one-on-one calls, or recordings for those who opt in for such messages.

I'm asking Governor Cuomo to please help the Democrats running for the State Senate who are Governor Cuomo to support the Democrats running for State Senate who are fighting for a “Fair Elections” system with public financing.

With vicious political attack ads whizzing across the country, and misleading lies being spread to the voting masses, it’s no wonder that the average US American adult feels disillusioned and distrustful of most politicians. Free speech was introduced by the first amendment to the US Constitution with good reason, but the ubiquity of “free speech” should not apply to issues that people get to vote on. Specifically, “free speech” should not allow for the mass distribution of lies, when it comes to voting issues. Some would say that it is the “opposition’s” responsibility to publically identify the lies, but how is this possible, when the “opposition” is not extraordinarily wealthy, or when many voters get all of their information from a single partisan source?

I am sick and tired of untruthful campaign ads.