According to SourceWatch, State Farm Insurance is a major supporter of ALEC, the group that came up with "model legislation" adopted by a number of Republican-led state legislatures such as the Stand Your Ground law in Florida, voter ID laws that disenfranchise poor, elderly and minority voters, and the attacks on unions in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. State Farm is different from most of the other members of ALEC because it is not investor-owned. State Farm is a mutual benefit corporation, a kind of financial cooperative, which means that it is owned by its policy-holders, pooling their money to provide insurance services. The money it gives to ALEC rightfully belongs to its policyholder-owners, and State Farm has no right to use it to fund ALEC's right-wing agenda. You do not need to be a State Farm policyholder to sign! If you are, please leave a comment about how long you have been with State Farm and how many policies you have with them.

Puppy mills operations are unequivocally sources of abuse of animals and should be regarded as such. They create more animals and increase the numbers of those who must be euthanised. Make the sale of these animals illegal.and the mills will close down.

Legalizing marijuana in the US because it has many benefits to us all. It has no deaths associated with it, it is a safe and natural product, and it can revitalize the economy!

The United States, moreover, the midwest has been subject to countless injuries and deaths to to volatile storms and tornadoes. It is time to take action against homebuilders and code-setters to build better, stronger houses. The aim of this is to show that the home builders such as Toll Brothers get away with making weak, cheap houses to increase profit, rather than use re-enforced concrete to build sturdy homes that can withstand powerful storms. By bringing this issue to light, the home builders and government must raise the standards of building homes so that the insurance companies don't make out on each and every disastrous incident.

When we elected Barak Obama to the presidency he told us to hold his feet to the fire. He said he couldn't make the changes we all wanted and hoped for without US. Well, we didn't push back very hard in these past 3 years and, even though many of us are deeply disappointed, we still believe in the man's essential goodness. But, you can't fight to get our country back by taking money from the people who are stealing our country. Let's tell the President, if he will not use superpac money, We The People can and will re-elect him.

It's time to stop perpetuating the lies about tax cuts for the rich enabling job creation. Make it a requirement that any company benefitting from a tax cut since 2000 must produce results of every job they created as a result of the cuts--to be verified by the GAO--as well as every job they have shipped overseas. Then we publish them JUST LIKE WE DO THE JOBS REPORTS. Let the market--and the people respond to that!

we need to put a piece of legislation on the ballot to tax all religious organizations If a church is providing community service as many do it should re register itself as a community organization

We have been watching this country's own forests, roadways, and waterways fill with filthy trash and debris for over fifty years. It is time to begin removing and safely disposing of the plastic and metal in our neighborhoods, fields, and streams. It is time to correctly manage our forests by clearing dead wood and overgrowth. Legal use of our forest and park wood can create jobs and offer a chance to create clean wood energy; enabling this nation to use a long abandoned home energy. We should call on our area delegates, park services, and our neighbors to begin safe initiations for registered citizens to start actual physical clean-up programs in their local areas, and at state and national levels. Our citizens are our best resource for this job of imperative. The dead-line is yesterday. Our fellow creatures suffer, the health of our continent suffers, and our children see an impossible mess. This is our job. Delay on this issue can only mean, more ugly, choking debris, and unhealthy farmlands, forests, and rivers.

The petition should first identify any politician that authored and signed or is attempting to sign into state law any law that reduces womens choice in healthcare. State ID of bill Author Signatures The petition is to repeal those laws but also to shine light on those that sponsored, authored and signed the law.

IF MR. ROMNEY BECOMES THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY, HIS FULL NAME, WILLARD MITT ROMNEY, SHOULD APPEAR ON THE BALLOT.

The North Carolina legislature is prepared to legalize fracking, a practice that is known to create earth tremors. The Shearon Harris nuclear plant is less than 15 miles from proposed fracking sites in Chatham County. And on January 22, 2010 officials at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced that the electrical generator from the damaged Unit 2 reactor at Three Mile Island will be used at Shearon Harris. So, not only does the NC legislature want to approve fracking near the population centers of Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, it risks water contamination, methane gas pollution and destruction of roadways that will carry thousands of truckloads of chemicals and water to pump millions of gallons deep into the earth. We must stop this insanity.

The USA invaded Iraq on lies. We also invaded Afghanistan to get the 9/11 culprits but we have stayed for ten years and changed the mission repeatedly. The Afghanistan occupation is costing us about $2 billion per week. Meanwhile, we have some in Congress willing to cut from the people with no cuts from war and military.