MAPLight.org Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection: "MAPLight.org brings together campaign contributions and how legislators vote, providing an unprecedented window into the connections between money and politics."
h/t to Mr. Pogue:
From the Desk of David Pogue, New York Times,
Following the Money Trail Online
The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
It's a new Web site with a very simple mission: to correlate lawmakers' voting records with the money they've accepted from special-interest groups.
All of this is public information. All of it has been available for decades. Other sites, including OpenSecrets.org, expose who's giving how much to whom. But nobody has ever revealed the relationship between money given and votes cast to quite such a startling effect....
All I can say is, "Let the games begin!"
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