We support a return to excellence in California Schools. Top performing states spend $16,000 - $22,000 per student per year. California’s goal - for 2021 - is to spend less than half that amount per student. Meanwhile, California spends $60,000 per year per prison inmate, and one-half of our inmates are high school dropouts. Since 1980, we’ve built 19 prisons and 1 university.

I recently visited a sanctuary for abused farm animals. There I found cows, chickens, sheep and goats who had once been subjected to horrendous conditions, and were fortunate enough to be rescued and transported from hell to heaven. The animals which affected me the most, though, were the horses. Never before had I seen horses running free in a field. They looked so alive, flowing in a setting that was natural for them; they were in their element. When I returned to the city later that day, I again saw horses - but this time in a very different situation, drawing carriages full of people on a sweltering hot day. I looked at their heads hung low, their eyes full of sadness, their bodies full of pain. What I saw were broken spirits. There's nothing worse in life than a broken spirit, a living creature who has lost all hope. No one - human or animal - should be subjected to living out a life of such pain. And why are they in this position, anyway? Because some people think of horse-drawn carriages as quaint, romantic. Because some people capitalize on this imagery and make big profits off of it. We can't just stand by and allow this practice to continue. Please don't take horse-drawn carriage rides, don't add to the profits of cruel and exploitative carriage companies. E-mail City Councilman Mark Squilla today ([email protected]) and tell him and Philadelphia City Council to ban horse-draw carriages - for good. Let's help these horses to live out the rest of their lives in a sanctuary where they, too, can run free in the fields.

STOP FAST TRACK LEGISLATION ON THE TRANS-PACIFIC-PARTNERSHIP TRADE AGREEMENT

Can you imagine when it's time to retire or get sick and you can't vote for Medicare or Social Security expansion or reform? There are people who have fought for our country, fought in our country and died for the security of our nation and the right to vote and are at the age where they are on Medicare and Social Security, but are not going to be able to vote because they don't have the proper ID. How can that be? I'm begging you to stop the suppression Governor Corbett.

In 2010, the Pew Foundation published a report on the state of children's dental care in the US. PA earned an "F" on that report. In response, then governor, Ed Rendell, pushed for the creation of the Public Health Dental Hygiene Practitioner license, to create a mid level provider who is licensed to provide dental cleanings, fluoride treatments, sealants and education in schools, nursing homes, and other places where citizens have not had access to care. There are now >400 licensed PHDHP's in PA who want to provide care to our most vulnerable citizens. However, there is no provision for these PHDHP's to submit a claim to an insurance company for payment of their services. The claims must be submitted with a dentist's license. This creates a restriction in the PHDHP's ability to provide care they are licensed to provide, creates a middle man that adds cost to the provision of these services, and keeps children from getting preventive dental care. We need your intervention to change this silly restriction. Dentists haven't wanted to treat these citizens. The restrictions should be removed to allow PHDHP's to provide important preventive dental services to children.

My father taught me fairness, justice and opportunity is the bedrock or our society. He said we are our brothers keeper. But our Republican Governor does not subscribe to these ideals. His decision to stop Public to Assistance to single unemployed people , his reduction to educational funding of public schools, his refusal to extend MA to to the working poor, his push to restrict a citizens right to vote and his lack of protecting our environment has caused pain and suffering to millions of our citizens. The good news is he has to run for reelection and we can say NO. It's time to change to a Democratic Governor. Volunteer to help defeat Tom Corbett.

The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis continues to impact families all across the country. By acting now, we can create a new source of funding that will get our fellow Americans back to work and grow our economy. Working poor and middle-class Americans, the backbone of this great country, deserve nothing less.

Countless times in our nation's history, we've seen the amazing power of democracy - how ordinary people, often without much money, joined together to bring about lasting change. In Citizens United, the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate money in elections by declaring that corporations are people and money is speech. Now, our democracy is at grave risk of becoming nothing more than an auction-one in which the We the People will always be outbid. Corporations are not people. They do not breathe or eat or sleep. They do not dance or fall in love or raise children. They do not go bowling or fight in wars or get cancer. They do not vote. Yet now they threaten to trample democracy by claiming constitutional protections that were intended only for actual people. The ruling must be overturned, and a constitutional amendment is the best way to do that. Millions of voters across the country have expressed their outrage at the Citizens United decision by voting on ballot questions and it's time for Philadelphians to get the chance to express our outrage too. Right now the Citizens United ballot question is bottled up in the Law and Government Committee. Please sign this petition so we can convince City Council to let Philadelphia voters have our say.

Recently Cheasapeake city jail has changed the photo policy from five photos of children/loved ones per inmate to now, not allowing photos to be sent in anymore. What they have is what they get. Some of these men/women will be spending a great deal of time behind bars and regardless of the crime committed I dont think its fair they have to go without photos. Visitation only allows children to visit who are age 12 and older. To some of the inmates photos are the only way for them to see thier children.My Husband is one of the inmates at Cheasapeake city jail. We have a 10 month old son together. His son was born wile his Father was incarcerated. He has some time to go before they will get the chance to meet. He looks foward to photos as they show his baby boy growing into a young man. Please help me and others by sighing this petition so the inmates of Cheasapeake city jail (who are people too) can still recive photos. Thank you for your time and effort.

because the competency of the law has been jepordized by segregated sexual politics in Illinois osg by the orders of the commander and chief himself which i witnessed in person preferential treatment for deaf women they get treated well the president wanted to sleep with a chineese ward i know name Katie barack and the women were all girl friends but i was unwelcome and serving me equal was not allowed the law has been misrepresented procurement softwares exist to do the duty i have seen them in the osg i also have read abouot them on the internet that guardians use lousy excuse when you own my freedom not to take good care of a human being in short ssi ssdi and being a ward a wrech such as i and others is being a wage slave to ghetto services of government with ghetto services of the mind for psych services il needs to learn about mental health from Milwaukee Wisconsin thery get the best grade in America i cant say from mental health is a legal toilet of legal dysentery and you keep cutting funding lots of wards both deaf and hearing are mentally ill in Illinois this is a disgusting state to live in when it comes to getting help seems discrimination is nine tenths of the law but they change they word from discrimination to being diserning and women get the shop to you drop treatment by Barack Obahma yet i cant i gues he is pickune to which ones are privliaged to his discerning honor of who shops that was 10 deaf women no males we are dogs women are privilege in Illinois Office of the state guardian at Christmas time and the director has the nerve to tell me Illinois does not celebrate Christmas they do not celebrate holiday they don't celebrate thanksgiving they don't celebrate any holiday but martin luther king day this is deragotory representation when you own my freedom in full in my opinion a limited ward has the same inaliable right but holiday is derogatory to the birth of a thanksgiving as i have told people Christmas is a thanksgiving for life it is a thanksgiving for your children your friends your family for freedom for love and Santa clause is important to a childs development andafter all if you know the darn story santa clause is older then joseph he and jesus would not have had magic robes if it was not for santa clause jesus would nothave had his secret powers or been born if it were not for santa clause did you know there is actually a science to immaculate conception i once found online but its science it is just that America should not in my opion be run in any way or form based on religious freedom or on philosophy or just law or business alone for a degree i believe America has a need for a specialized diagnostic America i believe America has a serious need for it and i believe we need to start a real white house school as i have told George Herbert bush Ronald Wilson Reagan as i have told George w bush as i have told bill Clinton and hillery Clinton and barack o bahma all face to face i haveideas to redesign the office of the state guardian as some call it or the guardianship and advocacy commission same office same people ithis office is connected with many commissions they say nation wide they also say that theyhave more wards then any othere state of the nation but they cant evenuse the free web or the internet to get things for wards or use cheaper sites to procure for there wards some audacity of hope ii gues kiness and common sence don't pay i gues they don't do that its not there jobas the director says to get us things we want and need its not there job to save us more money its not there job to invest for us because state wards cant do that because of social security they need a serious refit and redesign of the guardianship and adviocacy commission i highly recommend gina maria rossi for director of the guardianship and advocacy commission gina was the aid to the director in the past i don't know the reality of the politics but something more then the audacity of hoping for marriage something went down and she was workingdoing the directors job and hers the director was slacking off and dumping it on her and when gina called her on it in front of me the director she said and i quote so what if i am gina stated that she was more qualified for the job then she is the director Helen t Godlewski maiden name also goes by married namein office she is married to the head man and gina also managing deaf wards remind you because she speaks our language and no one else does and refuse to provide interpreter for deaf with other guardian now such as i i get hearing who promised to learn the language a nd is not even trying ITS A INSULT it violates ADA it is Derogatory representation of the GAC guardianship advocacy commission also known as the OSG seems someone is incoherent in the representation of this it confused the hell out of judge Maureen e connor at one time and she didn't even know mrs godlew2ski by that name she knows her by her other name seems there is a contractual mental competency problem as law states but if your going to choose who is best lets ask some questions and realize the fact already that Helen is very post hypnotic when she is around me ginaz in my opion has a better personality type for the job then Helen i have seen here order her to be oppressive and not therapeutic and in the best interest and i was trained in therapeutic recreation which deals with the services for the disabled and mentally ill this is not all fun and games as a lot of people llike to think it is very intellectual and they need that kind of training in the GAC i c find there Guardians not realy therapeutic in personality type or practices of intelligence they only disburse approval of money to payee there is no need for therapeutic one on one with the ward gina did that she was a outreach specialist guardian /payee of me and im my owqn worst patient most therapeutic rec staff are because its so time consuming and you go home with a lot of ot...

because the competency of the law has been jepordized by segregated sexual politics in Illinois osg by the orders of the commander and chief himself which i witnessed in person preferential treatment for deaf women they get treated well the president wanted to sleep with a chineese ward i know name Katie barack and the women were all girl friends but i was unwelcome and serving me equal was not allowed the law has been misrepresented procurement softwares exist to do the duty i have seen them in the osg i also have read abouot them on the internet that guardians use lousy excuse when you own my freedom not to take good care of a human being in short ssi ssdi and being a ward a wrech such as i and others is being a wage slave to ghetto services of government with ghetto services of the mind for psych services il needs to learn about mental health from Milwaukee Wisconsin thery get the best grade in America i cant say from mental health is a legal toilet of legal dysentery and you keep cutting funding lots of wards both deaf and hearing are mentally ill in Illinois this is a disgusting state to live in when it comes to getting help seems discrimination is nine tenths of the law but they change they word from discrimination to being diserning and women get the shop to you drop treatment by Barack Obahma yet i cant i gues he is pickune to which ones are privliaged to his discerning honor of who shops that was 10 deaf women no males we are dogs women are privilege in Illinois Office of the state guardian at Christmas time and the director has the nerve to tell me Illinois does not celebrate Christmas they do not celebrate holiday they don't celebrate thanksgiving they don't celebrate any holiday but martin luther king day this is deragotory representation when you own my freedom in full in my opinion a limited ward has the same inaliable right but holiday is derogatory to the birth of a thanksgiving as i have told people Christmas is a thanksgiving for life it is a thanksgiving for your children your friends your family for freedom for love and Santa clause is important to a childs development andafter all if you know the darn story santa clause is older then joseph he and jesus would not have had magic robes if it was not for santa clause jesus would nothave had his secret powers or been born if it were not for santa clause did you know there is actually a science to immaculate conception i once found online but its science it is just that America should not in my opion be run in any way or form based on religious freedom or on philosophy or just law or business alone for a degree i believe America has a need for a specialized diagnostic America i believe America has a serious need for it and i believe we need to start a real white house school as i have told George Herbert bush Ronald Wilson Reagan as i have told George w bush as i have told bill Clinton and hillery Clinton and barack o bahma all face to face i haveideas to redesign the office of the state guardian as some call it or the guardianship and advocacy commission same office same people ithis office is connected with many commissions they say nation wide they also say that theyhave more wards then any othere state of the nation but they cant evenuse the free web or the internet to get things for wards or use cheaper sites to procure for there wards some audacity of hope ii gues kiness and common sence don't pay i gues they don't do that its not there jobas the director says to get us things we want and need its not there job to save us more money its not there job to invest for us because state wards cant do that because of social security they need a serious refit and redesign of the guardianship and adviocacy commission i highly recommend gina maria rossi for director of the guardianship and advocacy commission gina was the aid to the director in the past i don't know the reality of the politics but something more then the audacity of hoping for marriage something went down and she was workingdoing the directors job and hers the director was slacking off and dumping it on her and when gina called her on it in front of me the director she said and i quote so what if i am gina stated that she was more qualified for the job then she is the director Helen t Godlewski maiden name also goes by married namein office she is married to the head man and gina also managing deaf wards remind you because she speaks our language and no one else does and refuse to provide interpreter for deaf with other guardian now such as i i get hearing who promised to learn the language a nd is not even trying ITS A INSULT it violates ADA it is Derogatory representation of the GAC guardianship advocacy commission also known as the OSG seems someone is incoherent in the representation of this it confused the hell out of judge Maureen e connor at one time and she didn't even know mrs godlew2ski by that name she knows her by her other name seems there is a contractual mental competency problem as law states but if your going to choose who is best lets ask some questions and realize the fact already that Helen is very post hypnotic when she is around me ginaz in my opion has a better personality type for the job then Helen i have seen here order her to be oppressive and not therapeutic and in the best interest and i was trained in therapeutic recreation which deals with the services for the disabled and mentally ill this is not all fun and games as a lot of people llike to think it is very intellectual and they need that kind of training in the GAC i c find there Guardians not realy therapeutic in personality type or practices of intelligence they only disburse approval of money to payee there is no need for therapeutic one on one with the ward gina did that she was a outreach specialist guardian /payee of me and im my owqn worst patient most therapeutic rec staff are because its so time consuming and you go home with a lot of ot...

Californians die every year from gun violence because of loopholes that permit criminals and dangerously mentally-ill people to get their hands on military-type guns, which have only one purpose–to kill human beings. Governor Brown recently vetoed SB 374, which would have banned sales or possession of semi-automatic rifles with detachable ammunition clips, –- the very kind of guns that were used in the mass murders of theater-goers in Colorado and innocent children in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, and in the LAX killing on November 1, 2013. Most gun safety advocates are not after legitimate gun owners' weapons which are used for hunting or self-protection--that's a false rumor spread by the Gun Lobby and the NRA to frighten gun owners into thinking we want to take their guns away. Sign this petition to urge Governor Brown to stand up to the Gun Lobby and the NRA--to protect innocent Californians from slaughter by criminals and dangerously mental-ill persons.