We don’t have to hear anti-LGBT nonsense in California too often. Certainly not during Pride month. But when Texas Governor Rick Perry visited San Francisco this week, he had this to say: "I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way." It’s just wrong to compare homosexuality to a destructive addiction like alcoholism. Governor Perry needs to apologize. Add your voice and we’ll let him know his comments are unacceptable. Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom

I'm start this petition to shed some much needed light on the misrepresentation of Black America on reality TV. The only way this is going to stop is if we start by doing something about it.

Serial killers of wildlife ( trappers, hunters, hounders ) have controlled state agencies as killing business for a century. Wildlife is our commons and we all have a responsibility to pay for and steward our wildlife humanely. Fair Pay/Fair Say/ Fair Play. If 90% of the public are wildlife watchers and do not kill, they get 90% of the public land safe from harm. If 6 % kill, then they get 6% of the public land for killing, and since .0015 % of the public traps - that is the percentage for trapping. But we all pay equally and are represented proportionately in wildlife, land, air and water decisions.

I have been disabled now for 18 years, my husband a Veteran of the United States Of America passed away 9 years ago with Kidney Cancer. My only source of income is from Social Security Disability. I had insurance with my husband's former employer, Arkansas Best Freight. My insurance ended a few years ago and now I am told by the employees at Social Security Administration in Downtown Fort Worth, Texas that I will be penalized for 18 years of not taking Medicare when I first became disabled, ( something that I was not aware of. I can not afford the fee for Medicare Part B, nor the penalty percentage of 140%) that's being accessed today. I have asked to file a appeal on numerous occasion regarding this. Please help me and other disabled Americans that are disabled in body and mind. I am not the only person that's being forced by our Government to pay for services that we did not receive. I'm not the only person that's being insulted and demeaned at the Social Security offices. Where in America do we pay for services not rendered and then are penalized? Social Security is at a all time low, and our yearly increases are not enough to survive. I want to continue to live, but I must have food, shelter,and medicine for my blood clots, diabetes and other illnesses. Please stand with me, and others and sign this petition. Thank you

Thoroughbred racing needs a thorough stable cleaning. The essentially unregulated drugging of race horses is both incredibly dangerous and cruel. Unlike their human counterparts, these equine athletes have no choice and no voice. Please ask your members of congress to speak up for these magnificent creatures and their riders today.

For those who have no insight guardians can control whom a person speaks to or sees. Every human being has the right to happiness and not being controlled in this manner. My brother and I recently lost our father, his advocate in 2013. Since then his Guardian has forbidden all contact between Jim and his family. We've received threats of harassment/trespassing and we fear for his emotional and physical well being. I've come to the conclusion this is not just an issue for those in Iowa but all over our country. Guardians should have limitations and Jim should be able to speak and see his family. For more information: http://freejimmy.org https://www.facebook.com/guardianshiplaws Giving the voiceless a voice. One signature at a time.

The Town of Chevy Chase initially objected to the installation of portables at Chevy Chase Elementary School (CCES) to preserve open space in the Town. MCPS Director of Department of Facilites, James Song, proposed and agreed to dismantling the CCES computer lab and converting the space to a classroom and eliminated the second portable. Other elementary schools in our cluster are not losing their computer labs as a result of technical modernization. Our student population is growing and we will need the space afforded by a second portable. Town of Chevy Chase Mayor Strom has written a letter to MCPS indicating that the Town has removed its objection to the second portable and has agreed to defer to MCPS in assessing the need of a second portable classroom. Given this recent development, CCES needs to obtain a second portable classroom and NOT lose its cherished computer lab. we ask that MCPS stick to its previously approved plan.

Too many children are being removed from safe homes to unsafe homes. My son was removed from my home under false allegations and placed with his dad who denied him at birth when he did not sign the birth certificate or come around at all till he was 11. He only saw him three times after then. My sons 14 now his dad has given him marajuana and smoked it with him, he's also given him alcohol, tried to fight him under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and threaten to put him out for telling me what was going on. I expressed these concerns to the worker, her supervisor, and the hot line and still I've received no help.

Park and neighborhood improvement.

"As a former student at Fuller Seminary, I know how hard it is to find housing that's affordable. Now that I live in a low-income area of Pasadena, I witness the challenges that many here face to afford to remain here when they are being squeezed out by the rising cost of housing. 23,000 household in Pasadena are in need of affordable housing. Students will be competing with those long term residents who grew up in Pasadena and are being priced out and displaced, for the same precious few affordable units that exist. Please sign this petition and attend the Pasadena City Council meeting when this will be address, likely on June 23rd, at 7 pm. The Council Chambers are located at the southeast corner of the second floor of the City Hall. Contact me confirm the date: [email protected]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year more than two million people are hospitalized and 23,000 die because they have been infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. We're now in danger of returning to an age when simple infections are potentially fatal. Our decision-makers need to hear from the public, and it needs to happen quickly. That’s why we've launched a campaign to stop the overuse of antibiotics where the problem is the worst -- on factory farms that mix antibiotics right into the feed of healthy animals. In fact, 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are for animals. The result? Bacteria that come into contact with these animals mutate and become resistant to antibiotics, and the infections these bacteria cause -- everything from pneumonia to MRSA -- become harder and harder to treat. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the authority to stop the worst overuse of antibiotics on factory farms. Please join us in calling on the FDA to act now.

The School Board is stripping away the right for Volunteer Coach's to drive their Athletes to and from Athletic events.