Congress Gave Colorado $119 Million Dollars to Support the Stability of the Child Care Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic…. But in Colorado the Funds Won’t Go to Providers! The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act provided $10 billion in supplemental Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, but HHS OCC did not provide the oversight required to ensure that the funds were being used in alignment with the act. These funds were intended to serve as targeted aid to assist the early childhood education sector, which had been greatly harmed by the pandemic. The vast majority of early childhood providers are small, female owned, microenterprises. During the pandemic, they largely remained open (unlike public schools), and continued serving children and families in person, but doing so was exhausting, dangerous (726 child care workers tested positive during 223 reported outbreaks alone, and at least one child care worker in Colorado died during a 12/30/20 outbreak at Acacia Learning Center in Denver and several facilities are under current OSHA investigation), and was not lucrative. Operating expenses soared under the new regulations and revenues declined precipitously: The National Organization for Young Children (NAEYC) found that without urgent relief half of the nation’s existing child care facilities were at risk of closing and the industry was at risk of collapsing. The CDC estimated that child care facilities would incur additional COVID-19 related expenses of $22 per child per week during the pandemic just to comply with their guidelines (and these expenses are still ongoing for providers). The Center for American Progress found that the cost of providing home based family child care went up 70% and the cost of providing center based care went up 47% during the pandemic (with the biggest increase in costs affecting classrooms that cared for 3 & 4 year olds due to limitations on group sizes). At the same time that costs soared, NAEYC reported that average childcare enrollments for both home providers and centers declined 67%. These microenterprises struggled to access the sources of capital available to other types of small businesses. Many providers dipped into their own pockets and put expenses on personal credit cards to remain operational. It was widely acknowledged that women had incurred disproportionate impacts during the pandemic (due to leaving the workforce to remain home and perform child care duties), any that economic recovery would depend upon the availability of child care and the functioning of this sector. As a result, Congress approved $10 billion in targeted aid to the child care sector through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA). To receive funds, required each state’s lead agency (in Colorado, the Office of Early Childhood) to submit a letter detailing (among other things) “How the lead agency plans to use CRRSA funds to support the stability of the child care sector to help child care providers (program facilities and workforce) pay for increased operating expenses during the COVID-19 public health emergency?” and also “How they will provide assistance to providers not participating in the low income subsidy system (in Colorado, CCAP) prior to the COVID-19 public health emergency?” Most states opted to give funds directly to providers in the form of flexible grants that could be used as needed- for payroll, operating expenses, PPE, recruitment or retention bonuses, hazard pay, to hire a mental health consultant for their facility, or provide scholarships and training opportunities to offset these increased expenses. Through this program, child care providers would receive $500 per child in Alabama, $525 per child in California, $8,500 for each licensed center in Minnesota, $22 per child per week in Pennsylvania, $6,500 for each provider in Washington, etc. But in Colorado, providers will not receive any funds to offset additional expenses incurred during the pandemic, and aren’t guaranteed to receive any funds. Help isn’t coming. In Colorado, NO funds will be distributed to providers to offset the additional expenses facilities have incurred during the pandemic, NO funds are guaranteed for facilities that do not accept the low income subsidy, CCAP, and the majority (55% of the grant funds) are guaranteed to go to other entities (community colleges/scholarship funds, county councils/referral systems, parents, and consultants, and winners of competitive grants that are available to counties, school systems, for profits, community groups, and special interests).

We are writing in opposition to Nassau County’s proposition to relocate the Seventh Police Precinct to inside Cedar Creek Park. The county wants to subdivide one parcel of park land into two parcels of land and build a police precinct. The precinct will have a cement base approximately 8-10 feet in height (flood zone regulation) with a two to three story building built on the base. In addition, they will take additional park land and convert it into an 81 spot parking lot behind the precinct with a six foot fence, install a radio tower, generator and gas pumps to gas the police and count vehicles. We view this proposal as ill-advised, ill-conceived and destructive of the master Plan of the towns of Wantagh and Seaford. We are extremely concerned about this proposed alteration of park land, the environmental issues that will result from the proposal as well as the quality of life issues for those visiting the park and living in the area around the park. The following negative ramifications will be inflicted on members of our community residing near the park and for those visiting the park: The criminal element being brought into the park. The police will be bringing criminals into the park under arrest. For those arrested on a lower level offense (including lower level drug offenses) they may be released with an Appearance Ticket from the precinct into the park where families and children are frequenting. There are strict laws concerning drug activity within a certain radius of parks and schools and with this proposal the drug dealers or drug users will be brought into the park precinct under arrest and possibly released into the park. It is counter-intuitive at best. The criminals will also be returning to the park after their arraignment to retrieve their property from the precinct that may have been vouchered during their arrest. There is also concern that certain arrests or police actions may cause public protest and result in large gatherings at the precinct. These gatherings may interrupt daily activities in the park as well as exposing individuals and families to unnecessary risk and danger. There will be increased vehicular traffic in and out of the park from those who work at the precinct, as well as visitors and people conducting business at the building. The increased traffic is of concern for the numerous bicyclists and joggers that use the park on a daily basis. Not only will additional traffic and noise be generated from daily operation of the precinct, but with a large lot, there is an increased likelihood that the parking lot could be used by other county vehicles and trucks, further increasing noise and gas fumes on top of what will be generated from the precinct. The gas fumes generated from gas pumps and their proximity to residences and those visiting the park is of concern. The park will be losing parking areas which in the summer months are filled to capacity, thereby increasing vehicular traffic and parked vehicles on the surrounding residential streets. The environmental and aesthetic effects of the radio tower. The additional illumination of that area of the park with lighting around the precinct and parking lot and the effects on nearby residences. The additional noise of police sirens on a consistent basis to those residing around the park and those utilizing the park would have an adverse effect. The aesthetic beauty of the park will be forever altered by the building of a three story structure, installation of an 81 spot parking lot with a six foot privacy fence, a radio tower of unspecified height and a large generator of gas pumps in back of the precinct. This area already suffers with increased traffic, odors and noise from trucks and other effects from having the water pollution control plant in Cedar Creek Park. This situation will worsen with the new building Nassau County is one of the most densely populated areas in the country. We have over one million people living in Nassau County that enjoy our county parks. Cedar Creek is the only park in Nassau County that has a bike path directly to Jones Beach that is utilized by thousands of bicyclists, runners, roller bladders and walkers. There are numerous bicycle and running events that take place throughout the year at the park in addition to the many sporting events and sports practices utilizing the various fields and grass areas. On Nassau County’s own website, it is promoted that “In December 2006, the playground at Cedar Creek was named “Best Playground of Long Island” by Long Island Press, the weekly newspaper. Previously, the playground was judged by News 12 Long Island viewers as the best on Long Island.” These accolades would surely disappear when a police precinct and large parking area is put at the front of the park. Why does the county feel it is necessary to alter park land in relocating the precinct? Isn’t there a commercialized area that...

While working at National Cab Company in San Francisco I was harassed, assaulted and had property damage to my vehicle as a result of a Dispatcher outing me at work. When I started at National Cab Company I was hired by a Transgender person. Dispatchers and drivers would make fun and make damaging remarks about the general manager who is transgender. I was afraid to tell anyone at the company that I was gay and have a partner. I told a lie—“I am straight and have a wife and three kids”—in fear that I would get the same type of treatment. About a year after working at National Cab Company on Mckinnon in San Francisco the word got out. The head dispatcher found out and called me on my cell phone in disbelief, saying, “I heard you are gay, is that true?” I responded yes. The conversation went on for almost 45 minutes. The lead dispatcher was upset with me for being gay. I was told by the lead dispatcher that I was no longer allowed to enter the office when he was on duty and that "things will change around there.” After that things did change. • I lost my Friday Night shifts. • The lead dispatcher told other drivers and management that I was gay. • Comments of my sexuality were announced over the airwaves while dispatchers were working. • One dispatcher sent me out to pick up one young man who requested a cab and would say to me “You’ll like this one” and “I know you swing that way.” • I was just starting work one afternoon when a coworker called me a faggot and said “None of those faggots will vote for you.” The general manager, Jesus Portillo, was present during this incident, but he did not say or do anything in response to this harassment. • On August 25, 2010, I arrived at work and walked up to the window. About 20 other drivers were present at the time. A cab driver started yelling at me and called me a faggot. He spit on me. Jesus Portillo (General Manager) was behind the window and could see and hear this, but he did not do or say anything. I called the police and filed a police report regarding the verbal and physical harassment from the cab driver. When the police arrived, Jesus Portillo came out of the office. He was yelling and appeared to be angry and disturbed. I told him that “This has got to stop.” However, he got upset with me for calling the police. • I told Jesus Portillo, Dan Hinds, and Mike Murphy that I was going to get a restraining order against Michael Estrada. In the two weeks after I told them this, I faced constant harassment from Mike Murphy. Mike Murphy told me that if I filed a restraining order against Michael Estrada, he would have 20 guys file a restraining order against me and threatened to fire me. • I complained to Jesus (General Manager). Jesus said “Can’t you girls get along?” and told me that I “need not report anything” to him, indicating that he is not interested in hearing about the harassment that goes on. • Around this same time, I complained to SFMTA. I reported the harassment from Michael Estrada to Scott Leon and Chris Hiyashi at SFMTA. • Following my complaint to SFMTA, I spoke with Dan Hinds and Jesus Portillo. During this conversation, Dan Hinds told me “You are the one causing problems.” I believe that he was referring to my sexual orientation as the cause of the problems. In addition, his solution to address the harassment involved is to fire all parties involved, instead of addressing the actual harassment. • In the fall of 2010, Oliver, another driver, asked me “Are you gay?” and “Are you a faggot?” in an angry and threatening manner. He was right in my face. I did not report this event to Jesus because Jesus previously told me that I should not report any incidents to him. • In January of 2011, I faced harassment from Seymour, another cab driver. Previously he and I had been friends. However, I believe that his attitude toward me changed after Michael Murphy told him about my sexual orientation. He sent me threatening texts while we were both on the job. He also texted me things like “I’m on my way back to Sissyland,” referring to San Francisco, and he told me “Don’t give me a fag ass guilt trip.” • I reported these comments to Jesus. However Jesus did not address the harassment and said that Seymour shouldn’t get National Cab Co. involved in it. • Since Michael Murphy learned I am gay until the time I was discharged, he constantly made threats toward me and questioned me, asking “Are you sure you’re gay?” I have contacted the SFMTA division of taxi services to be aware of the practices at National Cab Company. To this date, two years later no provisions regarding discrimination have been added to lease agreements. I was terminated from employment and am unable to get another taxi driving job. We need to tell National Cab Company that it is not ok to treat people this way who are working to pay their bills. I have suffered abuse, assaults, and property damage just for being gay! Please sign this petition to send a message that the company policies sh...

In light of recent threats from the Trump adminstration against immigrants, we urge you to do everything in your power to protect DC residents. This includes ensuring (1) that there is absolutely no cooperation between DC law enforcement and ICE; (2) that DC residents detained by ICE can access the Immigrant Justice Legal Services (IJLS) grant program; and (3) that the DC Department of Corrections stop notifying ICE when an inmate with an immigration detainer is released.

Henry McMaster, Alan Wilson, SCDHEC, SCED, SC House, and SC Senate, Please exercise all of the power and influence accessible to you to stop the spread of COVID 19 by mandating CDC guidelines for all South Carolina citizens, especially for our children and young adults in public K-12 institutions. Specifically, and most urgently, by repealing Proviso 1.108, and more broadly by mandating masks and encouraging vaccinations as noble and necessary measures urgently needed for the greater good of South Carolinians. Laws often impede individual freedoms when those laws protect others. I don’t envy your position right now, and I really mean that. I also watch in astonishment as you continually relinquish any power and influence you have to stop the spread of COVID 19 in South Carolina, and instead delegate the responsibility to the constituents you are charged with leading. Who will protect us? In South Carolina we have one of the highest infection rates per capita in the world, so it seems like a good time to reexamine our mitigation protocols. Instead, you say, “The answer is vaccination,” and revoke authority of our schools to invoke recommended safety protocols. A large swath of our population here in SC refuses to be vaccinated despite you standing at your podium saying it’s the answer. I’m at a loss for why our SC government isn’t fighting with everything they/you have to mitigate the risk, and why in some ways you seem to be actively fighting against it. If you can’t issue mask mandates, why do you actively fight against them, and who CAN issue mask mandates? I watch in horror as our children and their teachers are falling ill and dying. Every day when I’m exposed to hundreds of people at work, I wonder when it will be safe to visit my mom again. Every time I go to my local grocery store I worry after having been exposed to largely mask-less shoppers. I avoid other shops because that would expose me to unnecessary risk of COVID 19. I don’t eat out anymore. I’m skipping a group hike this morning because the delta variant spreads outside. I know I’m unlikely to die since I’m vaccinated, but my bar is higher than I-won’t-die. My bar is, “Am I doing every reasonable thing I can to stop the spread of COVID 19, and keep my loved ones safe?” While I’m not a spokesperson for all vaccinated people, I can tell you this vaccinated person desperately wants us to consider raising our collective bar. I don’t mind making sacrifices to keep my fellow humans safe. I very much mind sacrificing while our state leaders recklessly shift the responsibility to constituents – a strategy that has proven itself ineffective. I don't think the view from where I'm standing is much different from anyone else right now. Just in the past week, three people I know are grieving the loss of a mother, a son, and a mother-in-law – all to COVID. Five people in a neighboring household are down with COVID. Another person just got back to work after 5 weeks of severe COVID. He survived. His son did not. A few weeks ago, we lost two coworkers on the same day due to COVID. My young, adult, vaccinated daughter is still recovering from a breakthrough infection she got from a vaccinated friend. It’s been two weeks and her fever is broken, but she still struggles with loss of taste and smell and is now suffering debilitating nerve pain cause by COVID. She has been out of work at her minimum wage job with no sick pay. My social media newsfeeds are filled with death every single day. It’s all very traumatic. We have a lot of laws that impede our freedoms when public safety would be at risk. If you’re saying that you can’t impede personal freedoms to mitigate the spread of COVID 19, then how can you make, and enforce, drunk driving laws? Or speeding, or any other traffic laws? How can you have laws that prevent people from shooting guns in residential areas? How can schools send kids home who have a fever? Or head lice? Or for wearing a tank top? How can you disallow kids driving on the road before they’re licensed because parents deemed their kids as responsible and mature enough to do so? How can you stand behind all the laws that promote public safety and stand in the way of mitigation efforts for the worst threat to public safety we’ve seen in our lifetime?

dear sir or vag, regarding health care and insurance: RAPE. if the statute of limitations for something as trivial as sex is being abolished, i take issue with not being able to prosecute loney hutchins for what he did to me over an 8-9 month period in 1997-1998. i had been involuntarily confined at mr. loney fred hutchins' quack-rehab establishment called "21st century living services" in gallatin, tennessee. this was back in 1997-1998, when i was 22-23, i was told at age 40 that too much time had passed for anyone to bring him to justice, so now i am on a quest to prevent my ordeal from happening to anyone else. my ordeal is documented at loneyhutchins.com and 21stcenturylivingservices.com, in case you are interested, but i am writing because i feel that insurance companies would save a ton of money if they would keep in contact with their clients. if prudential insurance would have cared enough about where their money was going, they would have contacted me at least once a month when i was loney hutchins' bitch. yes, i was his bitch, he treated me with much contempt and malice. that's water under the bridge, but if prudential insurance would have contacted me to make sure things were okay, well, they would have learned that their money was being wasted. they would have learned that i was being held against my will at a place that was making me miserable every day, and they would have stopped their funding. it is IMPERATIVE for insurance companies to contact the clients who are in someone else's care, just to ask if things are okay. prudential insurance probably would have saved at least $50,000 if they took the time to contact me while i was being held against my will at 21st century living services. oh, i called the police to save me, but the gallatin police listened to my captor (loney hutchins) and not to me. i was not mandated by anyone to be there, but it took a suicide-attempt to get out. A SUICIDE-ATTEMPT. if prudential insurance would have contacted me just once in the 8-9 months i was there, they would have stopped funding and loney hutchins would have had to let me go. AND I WOULD NOT HAVE ENDANGERED MY LIFE. this is a petition to raise awareness. in 1997, loney hutchins made me - a naive 22 year-old - sign a contract to be in his program for 6 months, EVEN BEFORE I KNEW WHAT HIS PROGRAM OFFERED. when i called the police, and after they were talking with loney hutchins, they told me that they couldn't do anything to get me out of the dysfunctional rehab-home BECAUSE i signed a contract. again, i will state that if prudential insurance would have contacted me to ask about my condition, i would have been free without question. instead, let me detail just what i went through. 1) i stayed at the quack-rehab for 6 months of boredom, purposelessness and misery, 2) i was threatened of being sent to a mental-institution if i didn't sign another 6-month contract, 3) i made a few escapes, the last one prompting loney to have bars put over the outside of my window, 4) i cut my wrist, 5) i was sent to a hospital to get sewn up, 6) i was sent to a group-home for depression, 7) i escaped from that group-home ("he doesn't wanna be here," is what the administrator said to police - i wish loney hutchins would have given me up when he realized the same thing), 8) i was sent back to loney's, 9) i threatened to cut my wrist again, 10) i was sent to a depression-ward at "tennessee christian medical center" and i was there for more than a month, 11) loney finally agreed to let me out of the second 6-month contract i signed, 12) the hospital put me on a plane to new jersey so my dad could drive me to "austen riggs" in connecticut, 13) i hopped a flight back to nashville on the layover, 14) i got an apartment in nashville. now, if loney hutchins would have accepted and respected the fact that i didn't want to be in his "care," or if prudential insurance would have contacted me to talk to me WHILE i was in loney hutchins' "care," i would have not been put through the ordeal i was put through. this is a petition for people to DEMAND that insurance companies start following-up on the patients who are in someone else's care. this is NOT a petition to bring attention to the bullies known as loney fred hutchins and phyllis joan blasdel hutchins, and this is NOT a petition to bring attention to 21st century living services or the crime of "involuntary confinement". dylan terreri, i [email protected] www.loneyhutchins.com www.21stcenturylivingservices.com

I know that hydraulic fracturing in California has been ongoing for well over thirty years (30). The damage that this kind of method poses to the environment is clear. The process requires millions of 65,000 and 600,000 gallons of water and toxic chemicals listed below: -trimethylbenzene -Dioxane eicosene hexadecene octadecene tetradecene Dibromo-3-nitrilopropionamide, a biocide azobis-{2-(imidazlin-2-yl)propane}-dihydrochloride Dibromomalonamide Acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulphonic acid sodium salt polymer acryloyloxyethyl(benzyl)dimethylammonium chloride Bromo-2-nitro-1,3-propanediol Butoxy ethanol Dibromo-3-Nitriloprionamide (2-Monobromo-3-nitriilopropionamide) Ethyl Hexanol Propanol / Isopropyl Alcohol / Isopropanol / Propan-2-ol Propen-1-aminium, N,N-dimethyl-N-2-propenyl-chloride, homopolymer propenoic acid, homopolymer, ammonium salt Propenoic acid, polymer with 2 p-propenamide, sodium salt / Copolymer of acrylamide and sodium acrylate Propenoic acid, polymer with sodium phosphinate (1:1) propenoic acid, telomer with sodium hydrogen sulfite Propyn-1-ol / Propargyl alcohol Triaza Azoniatricyclo]decane, (3-chloro-2-propenyl)-chloride, methyl-1-butyn-3-ol Nonylphenol Polyethylene Glycol Ether Branched / Nonylphenol ethoxylated / Oxyalkylated Phenol Acetic acid Acetic acid, hydroxy-, reaction products with triethanolamine Acetic Anhydride Acetone Acrylamide Acrylamide - sodium 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonate copolymer Acrylamide - Sodium Acrylate Copolymer or Anionic Polyacrylamide Acrylamide polymer with N,N,N-trimethyl-2[1-oxo-2-propenyl]oxy Ethanaminium chloride Acrylamide-sodium acrylate copolymer Alcohols, C12-C16, Ethoxylated (a.k.a. Ethoxylated alcohol) Aliphatic Hydrocarbon / Hydrotreated light distillate / Petroleum Distillates / Isoparaffinic Solvent / Paraffin Solvent / Napthenic Solvent Alkenes Alkyl (C14-C16) olefin sulfonate, sodium salt Alkylphenol ethoxylate surfactants Aluminum chloride Amines, C12-14-tert-alkyl, ethoxylated Amines, Ditallow alkyl, ethoxylated Amines, tallow alkyl, ethoxylated, acetates Ammonia Ammonium acetate Ammonium Alcohol Ether Sulfate Ammonium bisulfate Ammonium bisulfite Ammonium chloride Ammonium citrate Ammonium Cumene Sulfonate Ammonium hydrogen-difluoride Ammonium nitrate Ammonium Persulfate / Diammonium peroxidisulphate Ammonium Thiocyanate Aqueous ammonia Bentonite, benzyl(hydrogenated tallow alkyl) dimethylammonium stearate complex / organophilic clay Benzene Benzene, 1,1'-oxybis, tetratpropylene derivatives, sulfonated, sodium salts Benzenemethanaminium, N,N-dimethyl-N-[2-[(1-oxo-2-propenyl)oxy]ethyl]-, chloride, polymer with 2-propenamide Boric acid Boric oxide / Boric Anhydride Butan-1-ol Ethoxylated Alcohol Alcohol, Ethoxylated Calcium chloride Carbon dioxide Carboxymethylhydroxypropyl guar Cellulase / Hemicellulase Enzyme Cellulose Chlorine dioxide Citric Acid Citrus Terpenes Cocamidopropyl betaine Cocamidopropylamine Oxide Coco-betaine Copper(II) sulfate Crissanol A-55 Crystalline Silica (Quartz) Cupric chloride dihydrate Decyldimethyl Amine Decyl-dimethyl Amine Oxide Dibromoacetonitrile Diethylbenzene Diethylene glycol Diethylenetriamine penta (methylenephonic acid) sodium salt Diisopropyl naphthalenesulfonic acid Dimethylcocoamine, bis(chloroethyl) ether, diquaternary ammonium salt Dimethyldiallylammonium chloride Dipropylene glycol Disodium Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetate D-Limonene Dodecylbenzene Dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid Dodecylbenzenesulfonate isopropanolamine D-Sorbitol / Sorbitol Endo-1,4-beta-mannanase, or Hemicellulase Erucic Amidopropyl Dimethyl Betaine Erythorbic acid, anhydrous Ethanaminium, N,N,N-trimethyl-2-[(1-oxo-2-propenyl)oxy]-, chloride, homopolymer -1 Ethane-1,2-diol / Ethylene Glycol Ethoxylated 4-tert-octylphenol Ethoxylated alcohol Ethoxylated alcohol Ethoxylated alcohol (C10-12) Ethoxylated alcohol (C14-15) Ethoxylated alcohol (C9-11) Ethoxylated Alcohols Ethoxylated Alcohols (C12-14 Secondary) Ethoxylated Alcohols (C12-14) Ethoxylated branch alcohol Ethoxylated C11 alcohol Ethoxylated Castor Oil Ethoxylated fatty acid, coco Ethoxylated fatty acid, coco, reaction product with ethanolamine Ethoxylated hexanol Ethoxylated octylphenol Ethoxylated Sorbitan Monostearate Ethoxylated Sorbitan Trioleate Ethyl alcohol / ethanol Ethyl Benzene Ethyl lactate Ethylene Glycol-Propylene Glycol Copolymer (Oxirane, methyl-, polymer with oxirane) Ethylene oxide Ethyloctynol Exxal 13 Fatty Acids Fatty acids, tall oil reaction products w/ acetophenone, formaldehyde & thiourea Fatty alcohol polyglycol ether surfactant Ferric chloride Ferrous sulfate, heptahydrate Formaldehyde Formaldehyde polymer with 4,1,1-dimethylethyl phenolmethyl oxirane Formaldehyde, polymers with branched 4-nonylphenol, ethylene oxide and propylene oxide Formamide Formic acid Fumaric acid Glassy calcium magnesium phosphate Glutaraldehyde Glycerol / glycerine Guar Gum Heavy aromatic petro...

Almost two years ago now, Long Beach Police, using a battering ram and armed with a defective warrant, raided a legal medical marijuana dispensary in Long Beach, California. The entire facility was destroyed. The basis for the destruction was alleged violation of an ordinance banning all medical marijuana in Long Beach that had been hastily enacted as "emergency legislation" at the urging of then City Attorney Bob Shannon. There was, of course, no emergency. The dispensary had leased the property far in advance of the passage of the ban and the City Council failed to include any amortization period, let alone the minimum 2-year period it should have. More than $30,000.00 damage was done to the interior of the dispensary. Patients were arrested as well as brutalized. Officers, effectuating their defective warrant, were in paramilitary uniforms with machine guns out pointed at patients who were prescribed cannabis pursuant to California state law. Months after the raid, managing patient Christopher Woodard, a very professional and compassionate African-American man, filed suit against the City along with other patients and dispensaries that had similarly been raided, some without any warrants at all, since early-2011. The lawsuit alleged that the City as well as individually named officers, including Det. David Strohman, had violated various civil rights. Although most of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit were patient dispensaries, the only individual plaintiffs were Woodard and his brother because officers had, following the raid of the collective, gone out several nights later and raided their homes. When they raided Woodard's home in Riverside County, officers terrorized his then eight-year-old daughter, who suffers from a heart ailment. Following the raid, Woodard left the medical cannabis industry and went back to working as an electrician and E.M.T. Since the raid, his house has gone into arrears and he has had to borrow money from friends. The damage done by police to his home, family, and employer were devastating. The trial date set for the lawsuit was March 12, 2014. However, about six (6) weeks before the lawsuit was to go to trial, Officer Strohman arrested Woodard. That's right -- almost two years after the raid, Strohman -- the main police officer defendant in the lawsuit for violation of civil rights -- arrested one of the two individually named plaintiffs in the case just shortly before trial in the civil case was set to begin. As soon as our office attempted to arrange bail for Chris Woodard, the District Attorney sought a "1275 order," a program reserved for drug kingpins and large-scale drug traffickers. Essentially, the District Attorney alleged Woodard could not post bail until he proved the proceeds used for bail did not come from illegal drug transactions. In fact, Woodard could not afford the approximately $3,000 required for him to bond out of jail without loans from his family -- he never has been and is NOT a drug kingpin. He is a father and responsible person who has worked continuously to support his family and to help patients both as a managing patient and E.M.T. After he had been jailed for nearly 3 weeks, Woodard's family was able to raise the money necessary to bail him out of jail. A hearing was thereafter set to determine the origin of the money as required by the Penal Code s. 1275 order the District Attorney had obtained. Prior to the hearing, Sergio Sandoval, who works for my law office, had arranged bail with the bonding company and had, as he has compassionately done for many individuals brutalized by Long Beach Police over the years, co-signed on the paperwork for the bail. At the Penal Code s. 1275 hearing, just days before the federal civil rights trial was set to begin, Det. Strohman was in court along with Los Angeles Dep. District Attorney Patrick O'Crowley. When it appeared the judge was ready to grant bail and allow Chris to be released on bond, O'Crowley suddenly argued to the judge that he could not allow Woodard's release because the Pappas Law Firm was under investigation. With a look of disbelief, the judge asked O'Crowley what the firm was being investigated for and what evidence the District Attorney had. O'Crowley reported he had no evidence but that the firm was being investigated meaning that Sergio's signature on the bond paperwork was questionable. After going back and forth for a period of time, the judge granted the bail request despite Det. Strohman and O'Crowley's effort to thwart bail and keep Chris in jail. That evening, bail was posted. However, as had happened before with Woodard, he was somehow "lost" in the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail system. For two days, despite bail being posted, Woodard was not released. Then, much to the surprise of everyone except the D.A., a new hearing before a different judge was suddenly set on the issue already determined by the first judge. Not surprisingly, the new judge was...

Jeb Bush was the Republican Governor of the State of Florida and brother of the Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush during and prior to the 2000 Presidential election. Republican Secretary of State, Katherine Harris was also co-chair of Bush’s Florida campaign, clearly a conflict of interest in conducting a fair and impartial election. Jeb Bush promised to “Deliver Florida” to his brother, George W. Bush as reported in numerous newspaper articles. Secretary of State, Katherine Harris and Governor Jeb Bush had the motive and the means to make sure Florida’s decisive electoral votes were “delivered” to George W. Bush. Video regarding the 2000 election can be viewed at https://youtu.be/FJopOtIa5Xo According to Wikipedia, “Harris’s purge of voters in Florida removed both ineligible and eligible voters. Harris, along with state division of elections director Clay Roberts, and Governor Jeb Bush used an inaccurate ineligible-voter list that eliminated a disproportionate number of eligible African Americans from Florida voter rolls”. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, 12,000 eligible voters, a number twenty-two times larger than George W. Bush’s 537 vote triumph over Al Gore, were wrongly identified as convicted felons and purged from the voting rolls in Florida. African Americans, who favored Gore over Bush by 86 points, accounted for 11 percent of the state’s electorate but 41 percent of those purged. ChoicePoint / DBT was given a $4 million no-bid contract under the Jeb Bush administration which purged thousands of African Americans from the Florida voter rolls. Jame Lee, Vice President of Choicepoint / DBT testified to a panel called by US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney that the State of Florida Division of Elections stated they only wanted 80% accuracy on the list. In other words, to be identified as a convicted felon, one only need to have a similar name to that as someone listed on a Texas convicted felon’s list. According to the Brennan Center for Justice: “Florida registrants were purged from the rolls if 80 percent of the letters of their last names were the same as those of persons with criminal convictions. Those wrongly purged included Reverend Willie D. Whiting Jr., who, under the matching criteria, was considered the same person as Willie J. Whiting. Without specific guidelines for or limitations on the authority of election officials conducting purges, eligible voters are regularly made unnecessarily vulnerable”. You can view the testimony of Jame Lee, Vice President of Choicepoint / DBT in a documentary called American Blackout (around 12 minutes into the film). As a result, ChoicePoint identified thousands Florida residents as convicted felons, which caused them to be illegally and wrongfully purged from the voter rolls. As it turned out, almost everyone on the Florida purged voters list had the right to vote. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 2000 Election Investigation Report The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights conducted an extensive public investigation of allegations of voting irregularities during the 2000 presidential election in Florida. To follow is some of the text from the report at http://usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch9.htm “Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election” “The investigation, utilizing the Commission’s subpoena power, included three days of hearings, more than 30 hours of testimony, 100 witnesses, and a systematic review of more than 118,000 pages of pertinent documents Findings: Despite the closeness of the election, it was widespread voter disenfranchisement, not the dead-heat contest, that was the extraordinary feature in the Florida election. Disenfranchisement of Florida voters fell most harshly on the shoulders of African Americans. Statewide, based on county-level statistical estimates, African American voters were nearly 10 times more likely than white voters to have their ballots rejected in the November 2000 election. Recommendations: The U.S. Department of Justice should immediately initiate the litigation process against the governor, secretary of state, director of the Division of Elections, specific supervisors of elections, and other state and local officials responsible for the execution of election laws, practices, and procedures, regarding their contributions, if any, to the extraordinary racial disparity in the rate that votes were rejected, through their actions or failure to act before and during the 2000 presidential election, in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended. Appropriate enforcement action should be initiated to ensure full compliance with the election laws. The Civil Rights Division in the Office of the Florida Attorney General should initiate the litigation process against state election officials who violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, and/or Title IX of the Florida statutes through their actions or failure to act before, during, ...

I hope you are reading this because there are some very important things you need to know here. This action to "End Global Warming" is that of one who has fallen for "their" lies, and is deceived into ignoring the real issues causing our problems. First of all, global temperature changes from ice-age to warm age (like now, which will be the warmest on Dec 21 of 2012), are caused by the Milankovitch cycles: 1)the circle/oval nature of the earths orbit=100,000yrs; 2)the precession of earths axis makes a circle=about 26,000yrs; 3)the tilt of earths axis also changes in a cycle of 41,000 years. All of these effect the temperature. Also, Antarctica used to be near or at the equator, and the predicted shifting of the earths axis is happening right now, at 40miles per year last time I checked. We here in Arizona are therefore slowly moving towards the equator while the north pole moves towards Russia. In the last 150 years it is true that we have increased the natural warming slightly, but only a small percentage (well under 10%) of the natural fluctuation between now, and the middle of the last ice age (which was 130,000 years long, and note, the neanderthals started and ended during that same period). Further note that there is major meteor activity every 26,000 years, and that it is more severe ever third cycle, and this is the third cycle. There are major meteors headed our way in 2012 and 2020. Last time they ended the ice age and killed the neanderthals. The time before that was minor, it only created the huge Arizona Meteor crater, which is a small global event compared to the other ones as seen in the Ice Core chart on Wikipedia. The time before that was the third and last time that the super-volcano in Yellow Stone erupted, it has erupted every 75,000 years or so, and each time because of a meteor. Also, a meteor created it the first time, about 225,000 years ago. You must understand that these are natural events, and it is only those of us that understand them that can survive the coming changes. HERE IS THE REAL ISSUE YOU NEED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT.... Intentional genocide of the Human Race by The richest international financiers including (but not limited to): Rothschild, Rockefeller, Morgan, Schiff, Warburg, Lehman, Lazard, Goldman Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, etc.. Here is how they are doing it... (Note, all of the sources for this are available on: www.truthcontrol.com/forum/fixing-problems) The international and central banks control the nations governments by controlling their money. This is the plan devised by Mayor Rothschild and 12 others in the 1770s because they could see that the Constitution could ruin their centuries old plans for complete Global Domination (the New World Order, if you dont believe in it, search for: "New World Order Quotes" and see the proof). The methods used for killing us are: Genetically Modified Foods which are shown to alter your organs and cause deaths, Chemtrails contain tons of aluminum which is an accumulating toxin, Mercury in the Thimerosal in all vaccines, or aluminum in their replacements, cause diseases, All Processed and preserved foods cause disease. The cure for all disease is to eat only those foods that made our ancestors healthy for the last million years, balance your Ph to just over 7.1, and get the right amount of the 42 "Essential Nutrients", and you will cure all disease. Now at my market (Frys) the only NOT G.M. Produce is one type of heritage tomato. That is the only food in the store that does not cause harm. Here is how health, disease and aging work: Our cells have learned to use certain molecules, and anything new leaves left over parts that are ionized and called free radicals. These bond to other molecules causing harm, aging, and all diseases. That is why all drugs have negative effects, and only natural foods can truly cure all disease. The first doctor to find this in the modern record was Dr. Gerson. Also Dr. Reams and many others. These rich individuals are the ones who call themselves the Illuminati, Mayor Rothschild started them in the 1770s for this reason. They infiltrated the free masons and make up their ranks above 33. They actually worship Lucifer, which explains why they want money and power more than love, peace, and harmony like any good christian. You see, this is the foretold battle or revelation, and the internet is the current front line. That is why they are trying so hard to censor it, because this is they key to informing the people of this horrible truth on the Earth today. "THEY" have always known that if too many people learn about this, they will fail, and that is why we need to protect and use the internet to make that happen, preferably before another one of "THEM" gets elected (i.e. Mitt Romney). If you do not know about the following things, than you are partly responsi...