I believe all candidates for elected office should be required to disclose five years of their federal tax forms. This seems like a simple requirement, as tax filings tell us what the candidate values. I feel anyone who is not willing to follow such a rule is rightfully suspicious and should not be considered for office.

County Executive Chris Abele is attempting to replace pro-veteran Trustees on the Milwaukee War memorial Board of Trustees. We are concerned that he is seeking to stack the board with Trustees who favor a Milwaukee Art Museum takeover of the War Memorial Center. The Milwaukee County Board has a chance to prevent this takeover. We are calling on Supervisors to stand for veterans and prevent County Executive Abele from diluting veteran representation at the War Memorial.

I think we need to do away with the Department and make the CIA and FBI go back to doing their job instead of just setting around and collecting a check off the public, anybody else would,ve been fired or chewed out not have a whole new Government body created to do their job.

Corruption find fertile soil in unaccountable elected officials. Those public officials develop a sense of entitlement and righfull ownership of their seat with a passing right as an inheritance to their family or friends.

'We the People' must have the opportunity to vote, in order to provide proper direction, and a thoughtful, fair review, to our elected officials on election day. Sign this petition to request the US Congress establish a federal holiday on election day and name it 'We the People Day', with our elections being the only business underway on that day.

Increasing the annual amount of money a retiree can make or eliminating the restriction all together. With the changes of medicare/medicaid receiving less benefits and deductions are more, plus the way the economy is going,retirees should at least have the opportunity to make more money.

Any Honorably discharged veteran who has a severe disability that he or she claims was in the line of duty based on evidence should be automatically covered by the veterans administrations pension and not have to keep coming up with new and different proof every time the government manufactures a new " code" or regulation that continuously denies the veterans and there are many many who are denied ligitamate claims. The US government screws over its veterans who have done their duty and served their country honorably and all the money spent trying to keep veterans poor and unable to hire the qualified lawyers who can and will take them to court and let the public see to what extremes are gone to in order to deny benefits could be used to pay up what is owed to honorably discharged disabled veterans and to shame the us government to the deserve they earned in doing so. Our government supports and spends billions to "HELP" countries rebuild and support that we spent billions to destroy in wars and do so with the money stolen from our own veterans. Its so so true that a few rule so many in our "progressive" country. We all will be working to build a country for someone else soon, very soon.

Pass a law to prohibit public officials from ever working or receiving any kind of compensation or contract direct or indirect from Lobbying firms after their service as public officials.

As a part of any new legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, let's eliminate or modify existing health care and retirement benefits for all federal and state employees, including Executive, Legislative and Judicial and branches of government, as well as the military, and bring all federal and state employees into the same system to which the rest of us are entitled.

Nearly 700,000 Michigan citizens signed a petition to put the right to collectively bargain on the November ballot for a vote of the people. The petition was approved by the State Board of Canvassers in March. Now corporate special interests are attempting to silence the voice of working people by not even allowing a chance to vote on this important issue. Working people are facing cut after cut to their wages, health care benefits, retirement security and safety protections. The best way to fight these cuts is to protect the right of every worker to unite with one strong voice. We can't let corporate special interests hold our judges hostage. We deserve a chance to vote. - Ashley Forsberg, RN Sparrow Hospital in Lansing

Congressional health and pension benefits should be the same as the laws that they pass.

The Republican and Democratic Parties control the presidential debates and exclude third party candidates. This is anti-thetical to democracy. We petition the Commission on Presidential Debates to allow Jill Stein to participate in all of the presidential debates this year.