The California Department of Public Health declared pertussis (whooping cough) an epidemic in 2014, a sharp rise over the past four years. There was an outbreak of measles in 2014 as well. The Los Angeles Times and numerous other media sources have published data on vaccination rates in Southern California showing the widespread use of the “personal belief exemption” (CA Code 120365) by parents to excuse their children from mandatory vaccinations. Public health officials have tied the rise in pertussis and measles to the lowering of the vaccination rate. If this trend continues, the immunity of the entire population is threatened, especially those with weakened immune systems: the very young, the very old, and the like. This petition seeks to address falling vaccination rates by requiring all children to be vaccinated in order to attend California schools unless they have a medical condition that precludes it.

Too often the policies and governing philosophy of Governor Brownback conflicts with the needs and desires of the citizens of Kansas. Farmers are now being attacked, alongside teachers and members of the LGBT community. We the people have had enough! Taxes will be going up to protect the income tax reductions of over 333,000 pass-through businesses: totally unfair. The Governor wants to control the judicial system: totally unfair. The Governor wants to reduce services to every resident: totally unfair. The Governor has and continues to prevent the poorest of us from obtaining the protection of health care: totally immoral and unfair. The only option we have now is to place pressure on him to resign. Please sign this petition and I will personally deliver it after 50,000 signatures are obtained across Kansas.

Wendell Ford served our Commonwealth with distinction for over thirty years. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor, governor, and United States senator in Kentucky history. His life exemplified public service to the people of Kentucky, and deserves to be remembered and recognized. (Sponsored by the Metro Democratic Club, the Louisville Young Democrats, and the Louisville-Jefferson County Democratic Party Executive Committee. Printed copies may be mailed to Bruce Maples, Metro Dems, POB 17315, Louisville, KY 40217)

Women helped build this nation. We are citizens. We gave birth to every citizen. We pay taxes. We fight for our nation, yet we are not included in our own Constitution! Paying women less than men who do the same work with the same expertise is wrong. All are supposed to be equal in our great nation! Let's make it happen.

We oppose subsidizing television programming that we do not want or use. Being charged for ‘packages’ of programming (religious, sports, home shopping, infomercial, and faux news as examples) that we will never use, and being denied programming that we DO want because it doesn't fit into a pre-determined 'package' is nothing less than legalized corporate extortion. We are petitioning for a regulation of the television provider industry, to mandate them to stop charging for and forcing unwanted programming on subscribers, and begin programs offering 'ala carte' packaging based on actual buyer desires and use.

2017 UPDATE: Now that we have a president who is anti-LGBT, as well as a vice president who believes "conversion therapy" is an acceptable treatment for our community, this issue becomes more important than ever! OLD DESCRIPTION: I live in Oklahoma, where politicians continuously make every effort to discriminate against the LGBT community. One of the measure that has been proposed is to let "conversion therapy" of LGBT youth be legal. This blatant crime against humanity is torture, which often leads to psychological damage, including PTSD, identity issues, and even suicide. We need to speak out to all who support "conversion therapy" and make it illegal on a national level! This is brazen discrimination against those who cannot help who they are, who they were born to be, needs to end in every state! Let your voice be heard that you will not stand for such damaging torture of our younger generations! Sign the petition and let's work towards making such a crime against human beings illegal on a federal level!

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, in North Carolina there are approximately 319,000 people who do not have another health insurance option if we do not expand Medicaid. They have too little income to qualify for the Affordable Care Act exchange and too much income to qualify for Medicaid without the expansion. Many are working poor, students, or women. People die every year in North Carolina due to poverty and lack of health insurance, because they do not receive the screenings and routine health care that can catch and manage health problems before they become life-threatening conditions. Due to lack of Medicaid funding, hospitals are suffering and some have closed their doors, leaving their communities without emergency services and endangering health and lives. Expanding Medicaid would create 25,000 badly needed jobs and lead to a healthier and more productive workforce. Ninety percent of the funding would come from the federal government, leaving the state cost relatively modest. Let’s expand Medicaid and invest in the health, well-being, and productivity of the people of North Carolina.

I am a teacher and this is so offensive. Governor Walker has compared teachers and labor unions to a terrorist group. Teachers deserve praise for what they do each and every day. How will we ever attract good people back to teaching if these personal attacks are not condemned by both Republicans and Democrats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcIec8s49hM

Current funding of $25 million/year has not been increased since 1998. Coastal protection programs must include back bays, barrier islands and the inland waterways that are sources of flooding for coastal and urban communities. Shore Protection Fund's beach protection programs are an investment in our State’s $20+ billion shore tourism economy. Urge your legislators to support this much-needed increase in the Shore Protection Fund.

This overt attempt to undermine President Obama's negotiations with Iran on the nuclear issue is damaging to US interests and could push the US unwittingly into another costly, bloody, and misguided war in the M.E.

I believe the death penalty is wrong . Even if it weren't wrong morally, it is wrong in other ways. Since 1970, 150 people on death row were found to be innocent before they were put to death. How many innocent people have we killed? Even one is unconscionable. And the death penalty is meted out is a racist manner. Black people are far more likely to get the death penalty than white. Also it costs the state more to keep a prisoner on death row up until his death than it costs to keep him in the general population for life. There are so many problems with the death penalty from a moral and practical view.

I want to protect the battlefield for generations to come