We ask you to take a hard look at what is happening in the United States Senate. We are losing our democracy and the chief responsibility lies with Harry Reid. Senator Reid is the Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate for the Democrats and he not only squandered the wins and mandates of the 2008 election for the Democrats, he has turned democracy itself on it's head, by failing to act effectively on behalf of the majority of Americans who voted in U.S. Senate races. We are Democrats. In 2008 we worked hard to get Democrats elected to office and we achieved a huge mandate by electing President Obama and strong majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Harry Reid has essentially nullified these wins. Since 2008 Senate Republicans have used the filibuster to block everything they can. The recent Republican filibusters are at a historic high and have resulted in the Senate being tied in knots. Harry Reid failed to use his bully pulpit to shame this practice from the start, and in January 2011 he failed to tighten the filibuster rules to prevent this overdose. We can blame Republicans all we want, but the truth is; Harry Reid is incompetent as the Senate Majority Leader and he has neglected his responsibility to represent us. Senator Reid created Super Committees comprised of equal numbers of Republicans to Democrats, again negating the strong mandate of the 2008 elections for Democrats, and negating the majorities we won in 2010. Harry Reid needs to be replaced now; preferably no later than September 2012. We ask our Democratic Senators to select a colleague who will keep a dialogue with the American people, explaining clearly and concisely what major legislation is being drafted and why it is important. We ask for a respected, progressive Democrat with persuasive speaking skills and a full understanding of how to use the Senate Rules most effectively and in keeping with ideals of representing the will of the people. With the above qualities in mind, we suggest the following U.S. Senators be considered most strongly for this critical position: Sharrod Brown, Richard Durbin, Tom Harkin, Patty Murray, Charles Schumer and Sheldon Whitehouse. Please sign this petitition and send it to everyone you know that cares about having democracy and transparency in our United States Senate. Ask all Democratic candidates in every office, in private and in public forums to work hard at influencing our Democratic Senators to replace Harry Reid, in leadership, by September 2012. Mahalo, Christine Mingo and Michael Janovsky

Dedicate the presidential campaign to Aurora, Colorado. Campaign with facts and proactive declarations not violence, anger, hostility, attacks, negative spins etc. Be the change you want.

This petition is not about stopping persons who want to protect their homes from doing so. It is about taking control. It's time to come up with a new plan to protect the populace.

Electing the President of the United States by direct one person, one vote. Ending the outdated electoral college system which in effect, disenfranchises the majority of Americans who are in either safe Democratic or safe Republican states. Our presidential elections are decided by maybe 10 states. This flies in the face of democracy. There are several ways to do this, constitutional amendment, or through the state legislatures who would vote to apportion their electors. It is absurd to maintain the electoral college. It serves no useful purpose except to preserve a two party system that is not working. Please sign this petition which will be delivered to Congress and the President.

Senator & Congressman totally ignore middle class issues (personally brought to their attention) ... and favor big business and wealthy PAC's

This petition is about congress getting special tax payer subsidized insurance while so many millions of American citizens cannot afford to buy their own. It is also about holding them accountable to any and all changes they make to the Affordable Health Care Act.

I'm petitioning the enacting of gun laws that will do a better job in keeping guns out of the hands of those with mental issues that should preclude them from purchasing or owning guns--something needs to be done NOW. I'm a survivor of a shooting similar to the one in Colorado. Mine was in Salt Lake City in a mall called Trolley Square--lots of people died there too.

These tragedies cannot be explained! We need to think about how we can stop these killings. When are people going to realize that we must change gun laws? No one should be able to buy two rifles plus a hand gun and and then all that ammunition on line. This is senseless!

Makng it more difficult to place initiatives and constitutional amendments on the ballot.

We are all effected by our current status of lobbyists running our country.

Lie detection and polygraph style analysis are mature enough to provide real-time feedback. Lets petition the major news networks to put on-screen lie-dection metrics similiar to how CNN provided live-feedback in the 2008, John McCain and Barack Obama debate in September of 2008: http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/scoring-the-debate-live-on-cnn-420/

Remove all special treatment the government receives. No special pension, no special health care. They are just like us and deserve to be in with us when it comes to laws and regulations!!