Help us stop junk mail!! It is a waste of so many resources- trees, ink, paper, time, energy... Let's get the post office to give us an "opt-out" option.

Hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. "fracking") poses a risk to the air and water quality in nearly every community in North America. With each fully utilized gas well, some 360,000 billion gallons of over 600 different types chemicals, including known carcinogens and toxins, are injected deep into the ground. It is believed that these chemicals have leaked into the groundwater of certain communities, and has irreversibly contaminated the well-water, ponds, and habitats within those regions. Methane gas concentrations are 17x higher in drinking-water wells near fracturing sites than in normal wells. There have been over 1,000 documented cases of water contamination next to areas of gas drilling as well as cases of sensory, respiratory, and neurological damage due to ingested contaminated water. In spite of all of these chilling facts, Maryland has still not banned "fracking" entirely. We must let our state legislators know that the short-term profits of some large energy companies are not more important than the long-term health of us Marylanders. Join me in urging our state's legislators to ban "fracking" within the great state of Maryland. (Sources: http://www.dangersoffracking.com/, and http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/fracking/)

Mr. Romney continues to lie about & disrespect the President. But he also continues to INSULT THE VALUE OF THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS. Bottom line, he has invalidated the worth of any of his opinions.

To facilitate raising taxes on the super-rich we should add three new income tax brackets with higher rates set at to $1million, $10million and $100million annual income levels. Currently we tax $100,000,000+ earners with the same tax rate as $250,000 earners which makes raising taxes on the super-high earners difficult.

Adding more insult to injury, families living in the devastation of the Hurriblizzard of 2012 are now receiving notices from their homeowners insurance companies that they will be dropped from the policy. The NE has been hit hard in the past 3 years, a violent Nor'easter, Hurricane Irene, and now Sandy with the topper a blizzard. The insurance companies must be stopped from dropping people in the hour of their greatest need.

Recently the FTC has announced "Relaxed" waivers for media companies with concentration of Print, & Television ownership in cities in America. In Hartford, CT Rupert Murdoch's companies own the one statewide Nerwspaper, The Hartford Courant, The Advocate Newspapers, Fox TV

Planned Parenthood is under attack in Ohio. The Republican Party once again has lost the focus of the people. Instead of focusing on access to health care for women. The Republican party is focusing on who they want to pay for women's health care services.

Limit the amount of money directly or indirectly involved in campaigning. We should also legally shorten the amount of time candidates are allowed to campaign. And we should pass legislation to get rid of PACs and super PACs.

Condemnation of John McCain and Lindsay Graham for attacks on attacks on Susan Rice relating to Benghazi attacks.

A recent study gives New Jersey the dubious distinction of ranking 11th in the country for income inequality, and a big part of the problem is that the state’s minimum wage is just too low. Right now the state wage is $7.25 an hour, or around $15,000 per year. If the minimum wage had been keeping pace with inflation, it would be well over $9 by now. Even raising the wage to $8.50 would bring in $439 million in wages to working families -- and give the state's lagging economy a much needed jolt. The legislature is considering proposals that would raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation. Tell them that now's the time to give New Jersey a raise!

Dennys Boycott

The San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department is quietly attempting to convert a long-vacant historic building on the Marina Green into a commercial restaurant by executing a ten-year lease with the Woodhouse Fish Company. This violates the Open Space Element of the General Plan. No environmental impacts have been addressed. As part of the use, Woodhouse plans to serve alcohol in a public playground, which is against public policy. A traffic study hasn't been conducted, and ADA regulations have been dismissed. 48 neighborhood organizations oppose the proposal, though Parks and Rec has never made a meaningful attempt to consult the local neighborhood nor Marina Green users.