Judge Jaqueline Hatch blamed a victim of sexual harassment for the fact that an off duty policeman assaulted her. The man was convicted of the crime but the judge refused to give him jail time or have him register as a sex offender. All women are victimized when one of us is treated in this way.

Judge Jaqueline Hatch blamed a victim of sexual harassment for the fact that an off duty policeman assaulted her. The man was convicted of the crime but the judge refused to give him jail time or have him register as a sex offender. All women are victimized when one of us is treated in this way.

We need voter ID to prevent another fraudulent election.

I am a victim of being unfairly treated and not get any compensation for getting hurt on the job by a co-workers negligence and a constent struggle to get my checks and being turned into collection for them not paying medical bills,not to mention having to completing change my lifestyle and having to deal with constent pain.I have had 2 surgeries on my right shoulder and one on my left.I have a daughter that I cannot afford for her to go to college because of all of this,I have no savings left and if I don't get help soon I will be homeless.

In an effort to promote American economic growth and create demand for American made office, maintenance, and construction products, any federal, state, county, and city government entity must buy 60% made in the USA products, with the goal of 90% by 2016.

The new national curriculum is a burden that is wreaking havoc in American public school classrooms. Teachers are being bullied everyday by administrators, legislators and business executives who have no experience in the field of education. Companies like Bain and Walmart are influencing the passing of dangerous laws that restrict the rights and freedom of teachers , and people like Bill Gates are influencing educational policy. Academics have been pushed to the side in favor of technology and testing. In addition, the national curriculum, the child of Bush's No Child Left Behind is further eroding real teaching. Data is now driving instruction and technology use in the classroom is being forced upon students and teachers, although even the American Pediatric Association recognizes the dangers of excessive screen use and recommends no more than two hours of screen time per day. Education is NOT a BUSINESS and should not be run like one. Children and teachers are individuals and this one size, robo-teacher concept is nothing short of frightening. Actual teacher centered classrooms are no longer allowed, and teachers, experienced ones in particular, are being threatened and bullied in classrooms across the country everyday. That teachers have been maligned and demonized in the last several years is sad, but what we are doing to our children is even more so. Public school children, especially minority and poor ones, are being left further and further behind everyday. Please, repeal the national curriculum and kick businesses out of the educational policy debate. Give teachers back their ability to teach. Our futures and those of our children depend upon this. And, please, talk to teachers before making wide sweeping changes in education. I would not know how to do your job, could you do mine? Tomorrow I will go to school and teach King Lear, The Grapes of Wrath and The Great Gatsby to my junior and senior classes. And as I do, I will be thinking in the back of my mind that I could be caught doing so by an administrator. But the fear of what we are doing to our children is stronger even than the fear of reprisal. So I will continue to teach, everyday, until I am allowed to do so openly once again, or until I am let go which becomes a greater and greater possibility with each new law passed.

The American people are still suffering from the impact of the 2008 financial crisis. With their lucrative, risky gambling, big banks may trigger another crisis requiring a taxpayer bailout to save the economy from total disaster.

I am not personally affected with my right to vote being stripped from me after committing a crime. As a nation this issue effects all of us. It is similiar with ecomonic slavery and keeping an unfair balance in the voice of our nation. I believe a person who has owned up to their mistakes and paid their debt to society should not lose the right to vote. Being a voice in our democracy and moving forward with our nation is something that should never be taken away from a citizen of the United States.

One of the horrors of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision is the lack of transparency it allows in the untold millions that flow into presidential and congressional elections through superPACs. Even foreign governments like Saudi Arabia and China have access to congressional races. By mandating that transparency after the election season has begun, these corporate sources of donations can be used against their recipients. The breadcrumbs of corruption and quid quo pro will be visible to all, and their existence will be useful ammo in ads even when a candidate is being outspent 8 to 1. President Obama has, through the executive order process, the power to require all companies, nations, and private entities that have contracts with the US government to make political donations public. Now is the time to make this happen so this information can best benefit the underdogs in this political cycle.

I just CARE

Keep a good, hard-working, Commissioner on the job for all of us! Good Government is Responsive, Efficient, Accountable, Transparent and Local. It takes dedication, creativity AND common sense to Do More With Less. www.LynnPadgettForOurayCounty.org

Everyone uses hot water for bathing, cleaning, etc, yet less than 1% of homeowners use solar energy to heat that water. This low participation is costing 80 million homeowners about $43 billion each year. This petition is to our federal lawmakers to provide a 20 year loan to any willing homeowner to purchase a solar water heating system with no up-front money required. The savings would be double the loan payment. In other words homeowners make money even during the payback period. Based on 60 million homeowners and 5 hours of sunshine per day, some of the benefits include creating a million jobs, save homeowners over 1/4 electric bill, lower coal consumption by 1/8 US yearly output, reduce CO2 pollution equal to removing 25 million cars, offset 120 power plants of 250 megawatts each. This will start a culture of real solar energy use as our economics and environment demand.