Stop the huge corporate agribusinesses from creating a new peripheral canal to divert fresh water from the California Delta. This is an end-run to avoid the California citizen’s desires: the voters have already rejected previous efforts to destroy the Delta. Now agribusiness is lobbying the California legislature to create a new peripheral canal without concern for the wishes of Californians, the quality of the water, the survival of Delta farmers, the health of the fisheries, and the enjoyment of the waterways.

For the safety of our children, I support a 30 MPH speed limit on Rt. 172 between Bedford, NY and Pound Ridge, NY.

Mr. Murray, coal-fired power plants are the single largest driver of carbon dioxide pollution and climate change. President George W. Bush's Supreme Court gave the EPA the ability to regulate carbon dioxide in 2007. The newly proposed EPA limits on carbon dioxide will protect Americans from the extreme heat and floods that continue to do untold damage to public health, agriculture and infrastructure. The energy industry must become more efficient and burn less coal. The U.S. leads industrialized nations in carbon dioxide emissions per capita and should lead efforts to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Please spend your days figuring out how you will transition communities away from fossil fuels, creating a more efficient energy sector.

One thing the president could do immediately without legislation, that he has the executive power to do, Direct the Justice Department to look at imports into the United States of specific kinds of guns. Federal law already exists regulating the import of firearms says that any firearm brought into the United States must have been primarily designed for sporting purposes. Presidents George H. W.Bush and President William Clinton, used this power. They directed the ATF to look at these guns and the ATF said that these kinds of guns are not really primarily for sport. So they did ban the import of certain classes of assault rifles. President Obama could do the same thing with the stroke of a pen. Let's weed out guns that aren't for sport! Including assault pistols.

With the latest firing of the Attorney General it's imperative that Congress do everything in its power to ensure that Mueller cannot be fired or removed and that the investigation will continue regardless of Trump's attempts to stop it.

Congress and the Administration should abolish the federal death penalty.

Governor Cuomo: Take Republican ex-Governor Pataki, and his failed ideas for tax cuts for the wealthy, off of your tax panel

Stop harming American boys. We are demanding that doctors stop circumcising American boys. Circumcision permanently removes at least half of the normal skin of the normal penis.

"I can't breathe." It is time for Charlotte and the rest of America to listen to the dying words of George Floyd and Eric Garner. Let us be clear about George Floyd's death: this was a public, blatant lynching for all the world to see. The lynching of George Floyd is another reminder in a long list of reminders that African Americans are under attack and being murdered every single day in America. Just four years after the murder of Keith Lamont Scott and our own uprising in Charlotte, the upward mobility crisis continues to impact Black communities. Wealth must be decolonized and racism must be dismantled in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. We ask for support and share the following actionable items: 1. We call on the Mayor, City Council, County Commissioners of Mecklenburg County, to present a plan to examine and address the decolonizing of wealth and the dismantling of racism in Charlotte. We seek action specifically in the sectors of land, business, and criminal justice. This includes immediate action regarding ongoing gentrification and displacement, an evaluation of policing in the time since the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, and a commitment to engage with the transformative practice of restorative justice. 2. According to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., rioting is the voice of the unheard. There are uprisings in 30 or more cities with the National Guard deployed in 13 states. We call upon the Mayor and County Commissioners to declare racism towards the African American community a State of Emergency. 3. George Floyd died in Minneapolis, a city perceived as progressive while having entrenched systemic racism - Charlotte could be similarly described. Four years ago we learned that the “well of opportunity" in Charlotte runs dry when we ranked 50th out of 50th in upward mobility. We call upon the architects of the Leading on Opportunities initiative to provide an accounting of monies raised and spent on this initiative. Where are we now after four years and millions raised? 4. Charlotte is the second largest banking center in the US, ranked only after New York City. Money flows here, and yet progress for longtime-residents displaced from Brooklyn and other parts of Uptown remains stagnant. We call on the Charlotte banking and corporate business industries to fund in tangible and new ways the decolonizing of wealth and the dismantling of racism in Charlotte. This includes funding and doing the capacity building necessary for African American run non-profit organizations and Black-owned small businesses. We ask that the banking industry in Charlotte provide a public report outlining its plan and success or lack thereof in one year. 5. We recognize the need for marginalized people to have increased access to public officials to shift the focus and pathways of institutionalized power. We call on the ten largest local nonprofits to utilize 20% of their advocacy budgets to lobby specifically on the issues of decolonizing wealth and dismantling racism in Charlotte, and in one year release public reports outlining outcomes and impact on directly affected groups. 6. Financially support Restorative Justice CLT. Restorative Justice CLT is a vital part of the solution for these problems. For the past fourteen months we have been holding listening sessions and building a broad-based coalition of countywide organizations. The Restorative Justice Fund is based on the six priorities established by the Black community during town hall meetings over the past year. The Fund will be used for restorative measures to accelerate upward mobility and healing for disadvantaged African Americans in Charlotte. Designations will include support of restorative measures in the areas of education, faith communities, business, housing (anti-displacement, land values and ownership), criminal justice, and mental health.

Defund the police and fund students education: -Provide more mental health resources for students and staff. -Diversity training for students and staff. -Better curriculum and teaching for African-American Studies, and make African-American Studies a required course. -Emergency response counseling for support for students in crisis. -Spend on social workers, counselors and culturally specific supports for students. -De-escalation training for staff and administration.