I have a new awareness of wheelchair limitations in many situations after being forced to be immobile after a boating accident.

This moveon.org petition is about a Petition to add a Rezoning Referendum in Howard County, MD to the ballot in Nov 2014. The petition circulators, asked registered voters in Howard County to sign the petition in order for the citizens of Howard County to be able to vote on whether or not they want big development in many portions of the county. The circulators got 7000 signatures, more than enough for the ballot. The short story is the developers with their money and their lawyers have served the petitioners with subpoenas and some with writs for potential arrest! One of the intimidation lawyers, William Erskine, is up for reappointment to a position of serious power on the Howard County Economic Development Authority. We find this a most egregious conflict of interest. Mr. Erskine (of Offit Kurman law firm, Fulton, MD) is the prime attorney for the Moxley development firm: Normandy Ventures. He is the one who has threatened and intimidated Petition Circulators with being video deposed, asked to produce intrusive degrees of documents, and, finally, being hauled into court by the sheriff. He, speaking for Big Money Development in Howard County and is out to quash citizens right to free speech, petition their government, and their right to referendum. We do NOT want Mr. William Erskine on the Howard County Economic Development Authority. There will, most likely, be many challenges to zoning in the future. We cannot allow Mr. Erskine to have free reign over citizen’s rights in Howard County.

No child should have to fear judgment or retaliation from professional staff within our school districts. According to emails that have been forced public by the "Right To Know Law" cited by the KEYSTONE PROGRESS EDUCATION LAW and by Billplay.com. The South Williamsport School District Officials ( High School Principal, Superintendent, and School Board President) have been publicly confronted on their behavior pertaining to the sexual orientation of not only the student body but a play that was to take place within our school that was cancelled due to our Principal stating "He had concerns about the homosexual content of the play" and the Superintendent and School Board President attending a public forum and lying about it and stating that not such emails existed and making negative statements about bullying, such as bullying is a natural part of growing up, that bullying occurs all the time in their schools, that every child is subject to bullying, and that school officials and teachers cannot do anything to stop bullying. Bullying is to be legally reported by the District to state yet no reports have been made? I would like to see the District held accountable for its statements and the inappropriate educational philosophy/message forced on our children. There needs to be change , acceptance, and 0 tolerance for bullying in order for success to prevail in this District. Please visit both sites mentioned above for all released emails and video of bullying philosophy presented by the Superintendent and the School Board President.

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When Tom Corbett was Pennsylvania's Attorney General he prosecuted state legislators for using taxpayer money for campaign related activities. Now that he is governor, he has been skirting the laws regarding mixing his official duties and campaign activities. The conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's investigation revealed that Corbett has been regularly having his campaign aides participate in official state policy meetings. (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, August 4, 2014) Conservatives and liberals alike have condemned this practice as unethical and probably illegal mixing of campaign and official duties. Now Corbett is using taxpayer money to hold a campaign-style event promoting his Administration's job record. (http://jobs1stsummit.com) This event touts Corbett as a leader in job creation, despite his actual dismal record. "How many hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars are being spent on this event being held in the height of the election season?" asked Keystone Progress in a statement. "And if this is really about job creation and not Corbett's reelection campaign, then why did it take Corbett over 3 1/2 years to hold the first 'Jobs First' conference?" Tell Tom Corbett to stop using taxpayer money to support his reelection campaign.

Unlike every other chemical added to treat the water, fluoride is added to treat people. The CDC (1999) and the National Research Council (2006) have both stated that the fluoride benefit is topical and not systemic. Ingesting fluoride is harmful in a multitude of ways and has no effect on tooth decay.

I live in Broward County, FL., where $17 BILLION dollars of real estate value is NOT taxed! In the USA, that amount is estimated to be about $80 BILLION dollars. Churches own recreation centers, stores, apartments, trailer parks, TV and radio stations ALL WITH OUR TAX MONEY. Preachers get a "parsonage exemption" for their living quarters, ALL WITH OUR TAX MONEY. THIS NEEDS TO STOP! Our country needs to get into the 21st century and stop supporting sky gods that don't exist.

Everyday you pick up the newspaper and you see the cop's are justifying killing people and dog's without any consequences.....this is Bullshit

Berks County residents, alarmed by the in-prison death a widowed mother of seven, discovered that the Court system's policy is to jail the parents of truant children if they cannot pay the children's truancy fines. Concerned citizens who had been unaware of the policy until the woman's death was reported, and who found that corrective legislation was moribund in Harrisburg, concluded that only the force of organized public opinion could foster a change in policy. For that reason, they decided to draft and promote this Petition.

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I have a Daughter that is Special Needs Adult. For MANY years we have watched cuts being made by our government. There are many parents who go through this. These are the people who truly need your support. People with a disability often never have a voice or never get to vote on issues that would impact them. You are their voices. It is time to make a stand. Be that voice. Parent

The State’s proposal radically threatens the health care benefits that Teamster families depend on. As Correctional Workers, we are subject to the state's budget, and the state continues to show that they don't respect us enough to provide decent wages in comparison to our local counterparts. We seemingly have to fight for mere COLA increases, which we don't receive regularly.