This is a custom petition, and I want to see if it's always marked as "suspicious," or something. Because that's what seems to have been happening.

Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas should be investigated in suspect of using tax exempt funds from their Non-Profit Status 501(c)3 , to promote hate and discrimination.

The issue of a broken mental health system needs to be fixed, especially since the Cold War arms race ended in 1989. Seeing mentally unstable people end up on the street & able to purchase guns scares me & everybody else. please make sure these people get the help they need.

CONTACT CT GOVERNOR MALLOY AND CT LEGISLATORS ASK THEM TO FUND THE HUSKY A PROGRAM. THE GOVERNOR HAS PROPOSED CUTTING AN ESTIMATED 37,500 PARENTS OFF THE PROGRAM LEAVING THEM WITH NO MEDICAL COVERAGE. THAT'S INHUMANE AND DOESN'T MAKE ECONOMIC SENSE. (See below)

My daughter has failed FCAT more than once she and so many other seniors are in danger of failing z12th grade.Why have a test in place that adults can't pass and make our children take it.

We support repealing the "Right To Work" in the State of Texas. We believe Texas should have labor friendly laws on their books. Once this petition is completed it will be delivered to the Governor and both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the State of Texas.

My son, Marc Lee-Purvis, KV 4348, is currently serving a 5-13 year sentence at SCI Camp Hill because he filed a complaint of theft of personal property against 2 officers assigned to the D.A.'s.Violent Gun and Drug Task Force, namely Martin Dietz and James Dougherty. As a result, he was subjected to constant harassment, intimidation, planting of drugs, perjury, false witness, conviction and finally imprisonment.

Career polititions be gone! 2 terms thats all! we have too many old men that are costing the American people too much money! And I want a salary cap like pro sports players! NO MORE than 100 thousand dollars per year. PERIOD!!

The existence of GMO foods is nearly universal in the workplace. Each and every individual strain of any gmo crop is an unknown potential toxin for which no long term studies have been conducted. Workers are not merely exposed, but actually consume, in massively greater than parts per million quantities, these unnatural compounds, whose safety is compellingly suspect by an ever growing body of concerned scientists. As a potential toxin, the Right to Know Act should apply to gmo's in the workplace and not enjoy any exemptions that might apply to natural foods from the actual Earth biology. Regardless, concerned workers have the right to know under the Act and food manufacturers must supply the requested MSDS's upon request.

Have you had problems with passing the Association of Social Workers Board (ASWB) exam? Have you lost your job due to not passing this exam? Would you like to see the licensure laws changed to retain your Limited License Master Social Worker degree (LLMSW) to enable you to continue to work, without other limited limitations? Did you know that Limited Licensed Practical Counselors (LLPC) will never lose their limited licensure and can work and supervise LLMSW and LMSW, and can bill all billable entities.

In the wake of Angelina Jolie’s exhortation for “every woman” to explore their risk of breast cancer, one company stands to make a staggering profit.The BRCA1 gene for breast cancer is patented by a corporation called Myriad Genetics. All patents are government-enforced monopolies over intellectual property, and they thus prevent anyone else from conducting research or testing on the BRCA1 gene without paying huge royalties to Myriad. This is why the BRCA detection tests cost $3,000 - $4,000 each. If there were no patents on human genes these tests would cost much cheaper . But since patents are allowed, Angelina Jolie's announcement of a double mastectomy even though she had no breast cancer caused the stock price of Myriad to skyrocket to a 52-week high. Our genes are ours, There is no right for a corporation to have a patent on our bodies and thereby make tremendous profits from health care! Why has the media drawn such attention to Angelina's act but ignored this basic fundamental flaw in the laws!

Since the summer of 2011, hundreds of thousands of county residents have been deprived of the use of our local libraries on Mondays and evenings, due to an ill-advised 25% cutback in hours countywide. Libraries feel overcrowded during the reduced hours they are open. The number of children participating in library programs has fallen by more than 12,000 a year. Seniors, children, parents, and the needy are the hardest hit by this failure of government, for the first time in our local library system’s 109-year history, to adequately fund this vital public resource. Yet the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has refused to take responsibility for addressing this budgetary shortfall and has no plan to restore library hours for the coming fiscal year. The library system's $1.3 million shortfall represents just one-tenth of one percent of our county’s $1.3 billion budget. During this library funding "crisis" period, the Board of Supervisors has approved numerous expenditures that serve fewer citizens, are less popular, and less urgent. For example, during last June’s budget deliberations, our supervisors voted to add $8 million to the county's $80 million road maintenance budget. And since 2006, it has also added millions more per year to fund an unpopular 250% increase in county marijuana busts, prosecutions, and incarcerations. Sonoma County is relatively wealthy, and our government has sufficient taxpayer resources to fund the restoration of library hours for the coming year—provided that our Board of Supervisors responds to this urgent public need. This public awareness campaign and petition is a volunteer project of Sonoma County’s Progressive Source Communications. Please help us spread this petition. Without public awareness there can be no public pressure, and without public pressure, county supervisors will continue to ignore their responsibility to restore library hours. More information and contact information for the supervisors is available at RestoreLibraryHours.org.