Even as our thoughts and prayers are going out to the Ft. Lauderdale shooting victims and their families, the Florida State Legislature is AT THIS VERY MOMENT considering a "guns everywhere" bill that would open up a long list of public places to firearms. Those places include Florida’s college and university campuses, county and municipal buildings, legislative committee meetings, K-12 schools and...airports. Yes, airports. The bill would furthermore seek to allow concealed weapons holders to open carry in Florida. 1.7 million Floridians are conceal carry permit holders, the greatest concentration of permit holders in the country. Firearm homicides claim 4.5 Floridians per 100,000, which is higher than the national average of 3.5 Americans per 100,000. With studies showing that states with weak gun laws have the most gun violence, Florida should not be weakening its laws further by forcing more public spaces to allow guns and by permitting concealed weapons holders to open carry. The tourism sector is a powerful voice in Florida and can influence state policy on gun safety. The Florida Commission on Tourism and other leaders in the tourism industry will not like to hear that weaker gun laws that lead to more guns in public places may lead people to start looking elsewhere for that perfect family vacation. Tell the Florida Commission on Tourism now that seeing guns everywhere would not help families feel safe and welcome in the Sunshine State.

We are working in co-opetition with the Internet Homes, the Facebook Groups and the Twitter Voices to work for the greater good. I founded OFD 50 States Plus Projects to encourage just what the Move On and Senators Warren and Schumer are doing with their calls and meetings alerting the Country to the problems and offering solutions from practical grass roots people. We the People of the USA are fighting for our better and that of our Families, Friends and Neighbors. Lets work together in many places.

Trump is using these tweets to deflect attention away from real issues. Critical issues are taking a back seat to reporting on the tweets, reactions to the tweets, and his staff explaining his tweets. The best way to stop him is to ignore him.

The purpose of this petition is to disengage traffic cameras in the city of New Orleans by petitioning the Mayor. We have the only traffic cameras in this region and have the highest taxes which includes; property and city.

We need more oversight in regard to ethics and criminal activity happening in our government. The GOP wants absolute power that has no accountability.

How will I get affordable covered health insurance with breast cancer and my husband with diabetes and gout and my mother in-law at 102 get mcaid insurance for nursing home assistance ? Health care and social security should be a priority. These cuts should not be done

The messaging opportunity for the Democrats to begin to convince Trump voters that Democrats represent blue collar workers' interests lies with opposition to an anti-worker Labor Secretary. If the Democrats want to win in the midterms; this is the matter they should emphasize. And we should not accept a labor secretary with no record of supporting workers.

There were many signs that President-elect Donald Trump would be a disaster for working families, but his choice for secretary of labor—fast food CEO Andrew Puzder—is truly horrifying. Puzder's anti-worker views are no secret. He opposes raising the minimum wage and doesn’t believe millions of working people should be paid for the overtime they've worked. He supports the practice of letting corporations hire temporary or contract workers to avoid bargaining with employees. Outside of his opposition to policies that would help millions of working people, Puzder has done everything he can to cut corners and shortchange the tens of thousands of hardworking people at Carl's Jr., Hardee's and the restaurants his company owns. He's called workers at Carl’s Jr. and Hardee's—workers who have made him rich—"unskilled" and said they "don’t produce enough economic value." More than half of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s restaurants that were investigated for wage and hour violations were found to have violated the law. He refused to pay his managers overtime they earned, saying paying them more would take away their "sense of ownership." He's talked about replacing workers with machines. Puzder's track record raises serious concerns about his qualifications. Sign the petition to tell members of the U.S. Senate to oppose his nomination for labor secretary.

seem like the right thing to do!

The wall President Donald Trump wants to build on the Mexican/USA border is an out dated and primitive tactics, of empires that wish to rule by brute force, instead of seeking a mutual common bond to address the issues at hand. There are many Mexican citizens that have made their lives here in the USA and have had children born here. They work here, live, love and die here, their only transgression was not to follow protocol and apply for citizenship. If being "illegal" is the problem, then the solution should revolve around helping the people become legal. If there are Mexican citizens that are criminals, proven to commit the crimes Trump has accused them of, they of course should be deported. Those that wish to stay here and make a life for themselves and their children should be allowed to do so, as so many other Europeans as well as every other nation have done in this country in the past. Donald Trump should do the right thing and stop letting fear dictate his actions, that is not the type of leader we need, the past has proven what happens when the people are round up in fear. Donald Trump, Don't build this wall, find a better way to make citizens legal and make our nation stronger in unity, not division.

The Senate is about to hold hearings on Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Labor -- one of the WORST fast-food CEO’s, Andy Puzder of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. I work at Hardee’s under Puzder. I know first-hand -- we MUST fight his nomination. I was paid far too little to live -- just $7.35 per hour -- and see health and safety violations all over the place at my restaurant. Puzder makes more in a day than many employees make in a year -- and he even opposes the minimum wage Now Trump wants to put Puzder in charge of enforcing the very laws that he broke as CEO. We won’t, we can’t, back down.

I'm a school board member and father of 3 kids in public schools in west Michigan, Betsy's home turf. Her ultimate goal is the total dismantling of public education in favor of a Calvinist Christian Reformed education.