If our government’s future is to be an open and accountable one, President Obama must spend the next two years recommitting to the pledge he made on his first day in office.
Continue readingContribution profiles for top House leaders
These House leaders all receive more money from the 1% of the 1% than they do from small donors (under $200). With the exception of John Boehner, the U.S. House leaders we profiled received roughly between 6 times and 16 times more money from the 1% of the 1% than they did from small donors.
Continue readingCampaign Lessons from Dancing Guy
That said, Sivers posted something really brilliant on his blog yesterday - based on a TED talk he's given - and it's something that we can absolutely learn from as the movement for open government builds across the country. This is very much worth your three minutes of viewing time if you're an organizer or even remotely interested in why or how people come together. This "dancing guy" illustrates for us the elements of movement and campaign building in an incredibly condensed amount of time.
Continue readingResources for a Congressional Shake-up
As reports swirl about Members of Congress in transition, it’s the perfect time to delve further into the mechanisms of... View Article
Continue readingTracking another mystery PAC
I kind of like digging into these -- some people do crossword puzzles, I like figuring out which member goes with which leadership PAC. BillPAC, on page three of its March 13, 2006 amended Statement of Organization, provides the following address for its treasurer, Jeff Reeder: 10970 McFarland Rd., Mercersburg, PA 17236. I ran the address through the U.S. Postal Service's 9-digit zip generator -- 17236-9642 -- and plugged that into Project Vote Smart's 9 digit zip search. The address is in Rep. Bill Shuster's district.
Again, none of this constitutes definitive proof -- but when I call Mr. Reeder ...
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