In The State Of Pennsylvania, Major George Tillery #AM9786 has been in prison over 31 years for crimes he did not commit. There was no evidence against him for the 1976 poolroom shootings that left one man dead and another wounded. Major Tillery Is Innocent. The surviving victim gave a statement to homicide detectives naming others—not Tillery or his co-defendant—as the shooters. Major wasn’t charged until 1980, he was tried in 1985. Neither witness had personal knowledge of the shooting. This is a case of gross prosecutorial misconduct and police corruption within the Philadelphia criminal justice system. Major Tillery deserves more than a new trial, he deserves dismissal of the charges against him, restoration of rights and freedom from prison. To Learn More About This Story: Visit: http://www.justice4majortillery.info/

The race for the 98th Assembly seat has taken a turn that defies belief. Karl Brabenec has proven himself unfit for office. Background- United Monroe is a grassroots political movement based in Monroe NY. It has a board of directors that vote on political endorsements. It began 4 years ago when the Monroe government bought a movie theater over the objections of the residents. It has since grown into a political movement that has stopped the KJ annexation, overturned a corrupt Monroe town board, sued to open up election practices in Orange County and 2 years ago garnered over 9000 votes for its Assembly candidate. That election put United Monroe on the map as a political force that must be reckoned with as a counter weight to the Bloc vote coming out of the village of Kiryas Joel. United Monroe is not an official political party like the Republican or Democratic Party. In order to obtain that status a Party must obtain a significant number of votes for Governor. United Monroe has never endorsed for Governor. United Monroe has always been about free and fair elections, open government, fighting corruption, protecting the environment, sustainable smart development, open space preservation, protecting our schools and giving every citizen the right to be represented by elected officials not beholden to corrupt voting Blocs that subvert the best interests of the population for their own benefit. It has been on the ballot each year since its founding as an independent party. United Monroe rejected the candidacy of Karl Brabenec. They felt that anyone who would vote not to empower the monitor of the East Ramapo School District with the power to help those children was unworthy of support. They felt that anyone who would stagger up to a microphone and tell a packed house of over 1000 people that making a decision on the Annexation of Town of Monroe land into the power of the corrupt religious oligarchy that is the Village of Kyrias Joel “is hard”, is unworthy of support. They felt that his sponsored bills were incompetent and his “me too” attachment to bills written by effective legislators was pathetic. United Monroe endorsed one of its founding members, John Allegro to run for the seat. United Monroe passed petitions for John Allegro to run for office under its banner, obtaining almost 2200 signatures. The chairwoman of United Monroe arrived at the Board of Elections today to turn in the petitions only to find that Karl Brabanec had already submitted petitions stealing the United Monroe name for his own. It seems logical to assume that he and his minions went door to door getting signatures by obfuscating the name of their supposed party or by claiming to be the United Monroe endorsed candidate. He is a thief. He is attempting to steal the good name and the good will of United Monroe. He knows that he is certain to lose the Republican Primary against John Allegro unless he can confuse the electorate about who he is and who supports him. The candidate willing to do anything to win is unworthy of the office he seeks. Reject Brabanec and everything he stands for. Corruption. Confusion. Spinelessness. Incompetence.

Our State Assembly will be voting on SB 32, The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, in just a few days. This clear measure will extend the state’s targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through 2030. Matt Dababneh hasn't announced his position on this crucial legislation. He needs to know that we will be talking about this for a long time in terms of public health, California's clean energy economy, and the moral imperative to protect our children.

I'm a member of a civil organization that's trying to secure justice for the wrongful killing of Ronnie Shumpert.

[Español abajo] I, as an Arkansas resident and/or benefactor of the Civic Center in Springdale, wish to affirm for the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Commission that Mr. Eddie Vega is an upstanding citizen and businessman, and the Civic Center is valued by the Northwest Arkansas community. Mr. Vega's generous contributions to area nonprofits and the Arkansas Children's Hospital have had a tremendous, positive imprint on Arkansas, with deep reverberations across various communities. Mr. Vega's economic impact has been just as significant, and is considered a well-recognized Hispanic leader and entrepreneur, establishing some of Arkansas' most successful businesses in multiple markets. As such, I respectfully ask that the ABC Commission give favorable consideration to the Civic Center and Mr. Eddie Vega at their August 17th hearing. Yo, como un residente de Arkansas y/o beneficiado del C​ivic Center​ en Springdale, deseo afirmar ​a​ la Comisión​ ​ de Arkansas del Control de Bebidas Alcohólicas (ABC) que el Sr. Eddie Vega es un ciudadano ​ejemplar ​y hombre de negocios, y​ que​ el ​Civic ​Centro es valorado por toda la comunidad del noroeste de Arkansas. ​Las​ contribuciones generosas del Sr. ​Vega a organizaciones sin fines de lucro y el Hospital Infantil (Children's Hospital) de Arkansas han tenido una enorme huella positiv​a​ en Arkansas, con profundas reverberaciones a través de diversas comunidades. El impacto económico del Sr. ​Vega tambien ha ​sido muy​​​​ significativ​o​, y se considera un líder empresario hispano bien reconocido, estableciendo algunas de las empresas más exitosas de Arkansas a través de multiples mercados​.​ Por lo tanto, pido respetuosamente que la Comisión de ABC adopte una posición favorable para el C​ivic Center y el Sr. Eddie Vega en su audiencia d​el 17 de Agosto​.

Donald Trump announced yesterday that, if elected president, he would enact an extreme "vetting" test to determine if the values of those seeking to enter the U.S. are so-called American values. He claims his test would expose those who have "hostile attitudes" towards America. Yet we know that his proposal is fueled by racism and xenophobia. Our country already has a test immigrants take when they apply for citizenship—one that tests their knowledge of American history and civics. So, before Trump gets to propose a new, xenophobic test, I challenge him to take the one that already exists. I believe Trump would almost certainly fail this test, given his general ignorance and weak grasp of basic facts about American history, principles, and functioning of our government. His entire political career—beginning with his absurd and dangerous campaign to discredit President Obama—has been built around alienating other Americans. The fact is, Donald Trump is nothing more than a spoiled, unpatriotic drain on society who has earned nothing and helped no one.

At the October 7 California Coastal Commission (CCC) hearing in Long Beach, the CCC staff recommended that the commissioners deny the Coastal Development Permit (CDP) for the proposed massive Banning Ranch development project. The CCC staff’s recommendation was based on the developer's proposed project heavily impacting the extensive Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas (ESHAs), wetlands and Native American evidence on Banning Ranch, as well as other significant Coastal Act inconsistencies, In their report, the CCC staff described how, by reducing the development footprint to 11.5 acres, the developers could build a project that would be consistent with the Coastal Act. The CCC staff report from the October hearing can be viewed at: http://documents.coastal.ca.gov/reports/2015/10/w9b-10-2015.pdf Rather than deny the development permit, the commissioners voted in October to postpone their decision and directed the developer and the CCC staff to work together to find a project that could be approved. In the months following the October hearing, the developer has submitted a reduced version of the proposed project that revised the development footprint from 124 acres to 85 acres. This revision seems more designed to secure a vote of a majority of the commissioners rather than a genuine attempt to bring the project into compliance with the Coastal Act. This proposed project still has nearly 900 homes, requires extensive grading (2.8 million cubic yards), and continues to result in significant impacts to ESHAs, wetlands and Native American evidence, and for these reasons, the Banning Ranch Conservancy opposes the developer's revised proposed project. The project was scheduled for a vote in May (ultimately postponed at the developer's request). For the May hearing, the CCC staff prepared a report in which CCC staff reclassified some areas of ESHA as non-ESHA, significantly expanding the potential development footprint from 11.5 acres to 55 acres and recommended approval of the developer's proposed project as long as the approval was conditioned such that the project would fit into the 55-acre footprint identified by CCC staff. The Banning Ranch Conservancy has strong objections to the CCC staff's reclassification of ESHA as non-ESHA and for this reason, we remain opposed to the proposed project, even with CCC staff's recommendations.

Cable companies like Direct TV, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Dish and others should allow the option to remove FOX News as a network that is paid for. I want to stop my money from the fees I pay for my cable from going to FOX News.

I like many others am a victim of electronic harassment and ganged stalking, a heinous crime which must end.

Hitler used the same strong-arm tactics to prevent voters from coming to the polls in Germany. Now Trump is urging his armed supporters to intimidate minority voters in the US. Many of my family members were killed in the concentration camps as a result of this fascistic practice. Trump should NOT be allowed to influence the vote in the same way.

The SWFL Clean Water Movement is a group of concerned citizens rallying to end the toxic Lake Okeechobee discharges that destroy our river, esturay, and local Gulf waters. Freshwater releases from Lake Okeechobee pose major problems for our Southwest Florida ecosystem. As a result, incidents of dead oyster beds, wilted sea grasses, toxic algae blooms, and fish kills have increased in our coastal estuaries and rivers. We demand that our elected officials, legislators, and the corporate businesses responsible for this disaster support the solution: Buy the land and send the water south!

Last week, Donald Trump put out a call on his website for "election observers" to keep Hillary Clinton from "rigging" the election. This focus on trumped up spectres of election fraud as a tool for intimidating voters is nothing new for the Republican Party. During the 1970s and 1980s, after people of color in low-income neighborhood were harassed and intimidated at the polls, the Republican National Committee (RNC) was barred from a practice called “voter caging”—challenging voters’ eligibility to cast ballots at their voting site. And now, Trump's “election observers” could be the next wave of voter intimidation based on bogus charges of voter fraud. The Brennan Center’s ongoing examination of voter fraud claims have found that “voter fraud is very rare” and “voter impersonation is nearly non-existent.” What is not rare, however, is our country’s legal history of blocking people from voting. The Fifteenth Amendment and the Nineteenth Amendment—which gave people of color and women the rights to vote, respectively—were ratified after years of campaigning, organizing, and sacrifice. Jim Crow laws kept Black Americans from voting until the civil rights movement fought for and secured the passage of the Voting Rights Action, signed into law in 1965. We cannot allow Trump supporters to harass voters—our country has come too far to be pulled backward.