The Sunlight Foundation and Opensecrets.org have teamed-up to launch a lobbyist information package using new data. The site has a new video introducing the effort with a focus on Sen. Max Baucus. In many ways it boils down to this: information regarding who is meeting with whom, who is receiving money from whom – who […]
Month: October 2009
New Twitter ideas for political advocacy
Twitter is testing a new list function, according to this report. . . . Lists [is] a new feature we’re testing with a small subset of users. The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, […]
Senator Bellmon and the Federal Election Campaign Act
Senator Henry Bellmon died at 88. Of his life’s many notable achievements, he also offered an amendment to the Federal Election Campaign Act involving certain uses of conributor data. The § 438(a)(4) “commercial purposes” exception was proposed as an amendment to that section by Senator Bellmon of Oklahoma: Mr. President, the purpose of this amendment […]