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Related: About this forumWho'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
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msongs
(70,227 posts)1. quite interesting, though having to click all those little circles is tedious. wonder if there is a
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
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.
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.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)2. Wish that worked for AZ or wait does it?
mahina
(18,988 posts)3. I guess not but here's your opensecrets link for Arizona:
https://www.opensecrets.org/states/summary.php?state=AZ
Common Cause http://www.commoncause.org/states/arizona/
Good to see you lonestarnot.
Common Cause http://www.commoncause.org/states/arizona/
Good to see you lonestarnot.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)5. Yeah! Good thank you!
Good to see you too mahina!
mahina
(18,988 posts)6. Easy as pie :)
aloha