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mahina

(18,988 posts)
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 12:33 AM Sep 2014

Who's funding your Hi. legislator's race? Check out this very cool site. Works on pc or mac too.

http://uhero.github.io/civic_celerator/

Civic accelerator ap lets you look at each district and provides very cool interactive graphics that shows where the money's coming from.

Wow! I'm delighted to have access to this without going downtown and plowing through the filings, which I'll admit I've never done…just waited for a good journalist to do it for me because I can't get through it. Mahalo to the developers, you are awesome!
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Who's funding your Hi. legislator's race? Check out this very cool site. Works on pc or mac too. (Original Post) mahina Sep 2014 OP
quite interesting, though having to click all those little circles is tedious. wonder if there is a msongs Sep 2014 #1
Okey dokey. Here's the Schatz/Hanabusa race on open secrets mahina Sep 2014 #4
Wish that worked for AZ or wait does it? lonestarnot Sep 2014 #2
I guess not but here's your opensecrets link for Arizona: mahina Sep 2014 #3
Yeah! Good thank you! lonestarnot Sep 2014 #5
Easy as pie :) mahina Sep 2014 #6

msongs

(70,227 posts)
1. quite interesting, though having to click all those little circles is tedious. wonder if there is a
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 12:53 AM
Sep 2014

table presentation listing contributors and amounts, would be much easier to read

mahina

(18,988 posts)
4. Okey dokey. Here's the Schatz/Hanabusa race on open secrets
Wed Sep 3, 2014, 02:29 AM
Sep 2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary.php?id=HIS1&cycle=2014

but I bet you knew about that site already. I just find the data easier to grasp from the map. It's all super useful though.
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