Over the course of the last several weeks, our governor has been asked about what he and our state will do to assist in the drought that will affect all of the farmers in our state, which in turn will affect communities and businesses. He avoids that direct question, and then launches into an attack of the President and brings the conversation down to partisan politics. Keep to the topic, Governor, and avoid partisanship politics on this state and midwest topic.

My niece Victoria Shante Nealy was wrongfully sentenced up to 10 years in prison for a crime she was forced to plead guilty without an attorney present. The Mississippi judge sentenced her to 10 years and suspended 7, thus with 3 years to serve. This sentencing is racially motivated at best. Victoria is an African-American female, single, with two beautiful little girls who is a wonderful mother and hardworker. She was working several jobs to support her children and ill mother. She is a christian woman who will do anything to help others with an infectious personality. She has never been arrested before, no previous criminal record. She paid the money back but still was given a harsh and cruel sentence. The same crime was committed by several white females in Meridian, Mississippi but were given only probation with no jail or prison time serve. Indeed, my niece's wrongful sentencing has devastated my family to say the least. We are outraged by this verdict. We are calling on the judge, Lester Williamson to overturn the sentencing of my niece and set her free immediately. We are demanding that the racially motivated unequal sentencing of African Americans, especially African-American females to end in Mississippi's criminal justice system so that innocent people of color will not become part of a growing and evil prison industrial complex. Shalom.

20% of Americans live in subdivisions that restrict or prohibit the use of clotheslines. I have been trying to get the right to dry for 5 years without success. I continue to be fined for having my clothesline visible. Clothes dryers are the second highest user of residential energy that also contributes to global warming. For the greater good, we all need to be able to conserve by using the simple benign clothesline.

Each State in our Union currently sets their own voting policies and procedures and most of them attempt to make access to the polls easier for voters. Since election day is always on a Tuesday, the policy of early voting attempted to aid those unable to get to the polls during normal working hours. Recently, there have been efforts to curtail access to the polls, to make it harder and harder to cast a vote.. This petition would help every voter who works for a living.

Every taxpayer is suffering while the super elite takes tax breaks. We need the Robinhood Tax to even the playing field. I am targeting Congress to pass The Robinhood tax.

5,200 people in the Pentagon have been paying and viewing child pornography and with their security clearences have been immune from investigation or prosecution! This is wrong and we cannot expect to force other countries to stop this abuse when our own govenment officials are the very culprits that let this crime continue. As a mom I am appalled and disgusted that this came to light two years agoo and to date nothing has been done .

Local unions in Oakland paid for a billboard that stated basicly Your Bay Bridge built in China with your Taxes.

Following the detainment of former Marine Brandon J. Raub, and the recent shootings across the country by various people of unknown mental health conditions, We the People need to petition Congress to draft legislation that will drastically improve access to mental healthcare in our country--right now, helping to PREVENT such tragedies.

With recent comments by Rep. Todd Akin and Rep. Steve King dominating the news, I have felt it necessary to unequivocally state that I Stand with Women. Rep. Tom Price, my opponent and a colleague of Representatives Akin and King, has also made comments that fly in the face of women's reproductive rights.

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We, the People of Earth, desire a world without war, hunger, and slavery; with adequate shelter, clean air, and drinking water for everyone! These are basic human rights, along with open access to the Internet that we demand of ourselves and our governments!

A petition to the moderator of the presidential debate to ask each candidate to take a stand on the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act, aka, the Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities activities and affiliations between commercial banks and securities firms.