{"id":918,"date":"2007-05-25T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2007-05-25T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T17:04:00","slug":"maplight-org-money-and-politics-illuminating-the-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"MAPLight.org | Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAPLight.org Money and Politics: Illuminating the Connection<\/a>: “MAPLight.org brings together campaign contributions and how legislators vote, providing an unprecedented window into the connections between money and politics.”<\/p>\n

h\/t to Mr. Pogue:<\/p>\n

From the Desk of David Pogue, New York Times,<\/nyt_kicker><\/p>\n

Following the Money Trail Online <\/h1>\n

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By DAVID POGUE<\/div>\n

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Published: May 24, 2007<\/div>\n
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The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.<\/p>\n

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That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway, to avoid becoming depressed by Maplight.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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.<\/p>\n

All of this is public information. All of it has been available for decades. Other sites, including OpenSecrets.org<\/a>, 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….<\/p>\n

All I can say is, “Let the games begin!”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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