On April 21, the Nevada Senate passed SB 499 unanimously. It moves the petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties from April to June, and moves the petition deadline for non-presidential independent candidates from February to June. …read more
Simi Valley, CA– A former Los Angeles Police Department officer turned Republican congressman, Steve Knight, was caught on camera last week reverting to his LAPD ways, and threatening a protester.
As anti-immigration protesters congregated outside of his California office, a man referred to in the video as “Mike” walks up and gives the congressman a handshake.
“You told me you didn’t vote for amnesty, and you did. I looked it up on the Internet. You lied to me,” Mike says to Knight before giving him a pat on the shoulder.
The tap causes the former LAPD officer to come blaring out of Knight, …read more
Fairfield, CA — The Guzman family found out the hard way about how futile their call was to 9-1-1 about their recently kidnapped son.
Monday morning, the family was loading up their car for a trip to Napa. A sleeping 8-year-old Broc Guzman was put in the back seat of the car while they continued to grab things from the inside. When the family came back outside with the rest of their things, the car, and Broc were gone.
Hysterical after realizing what happened, Suzanne and Paul Guzman called 9-1-1 to report their missing son and car.
But when the police showed up, …read more
Utah Republican Party officials, including the state chair, say they are thinking of setting up procedures to interview individuals who want to appear on Republican primary ballots. See this story. …read more
In March 2015, South Dakota made its ballot access laws worse. SB 69 moved the petition deadline for newly-qualifying parties from March 29 to March 1; said no one can independent candidate petitions if they are registered into a qualified party; increased the number of signatures for major party members to get on a party primary ballot, and made their deadlines earlier as well.
Also in the 2015 session, the legislature passed a controversial bill limiting the voter-approved measure to increase the minimum wage. The legislature passed a bill saying the increase doesn’t apply to persons under age 18.
The …read more
On April 20, the Nevada Senate Legislative Operations & Elections Committee amended SB 499 and passed it. As amended, the bill does not create a top-two system. Instead, it improves the petition deadlines for newly-qualifying parties and non-presidential independent candidates. It moves the deadline for new parties from April to June, and moves the deadline for non-presidential independent candidates from February to June.
If the bill passes, the deadline for both types of petition will be June 3, 2016. …read more
Roseanna Barr continues to get publicity due to the recent release of the film, “Roseanne for President.” This interview in Salon reveals that Barr supports proportional representation. It also reveals that in November 2012, as a Hawaii voter, she voted for President Obama because Barr herself was not on the Hawaii ballot and because Hawaii doesn’t permit write-ins. …read more
South Huntsville, AL– A woman was shot by police Sunday evening after her estranged husband, against whom who she had filed multiple protection orders, broke into her home and threatened her with a weapon.
Lisa Skinner, was at the house she shares with her mother on Sunday as Bradley Skinner, broke the glass on a back door and entered the home carrying a pistol and a large knife. The frightened woman asked her mother to go to a neighbor’s to call the police for help, and her mother set off the home security system on her way out.
Lisa previously stated …read more
Savannah, GA — A watchful citizen was walking down Bay street in Savannah’s Historic District, when they saw something that caught their eye.
A Savannah-Chatham police officer was conducting a bit of “online research.” The officer allegedly appeared to be “investigating” a popular porn video website.
This vigilant citizen caught this officer hastily taking in all the porn he could as he sat in the loading zone of the Hampton Inn.
The images were uploaded to popular image hosting site, Imgur, Monday and they paint a pretty damning picture of this officer’s alleged on-duty porn habit.
Watching pornography while at work …read more
Right now, the FDA is a murderous dictatorship
We have a campaign that would allow doctors, patients, and drug producers to opt-out of the FDA. In other words…
If you only wanted to use FDA approved drugs, you could do that.
But if you wanted to use a drug that was not yet approved by the FDA, you could do that too.
Please notice…
This approach would NOT abolish the FDA.
It would merely place the FDA on the same footing as regulatory institutions in the Voluntary Sector.
The FDA would have to compete to show that its work has value, just …read more
