Change Congress Google Group

Updating candidate contact information

2008-10-07T18:22:56Z

Some of the contact information for the candidates listed in the
iPledge page is missing. Is there any way for users to update/add
contact info?

Re: [c-c] Re: Commission on Presidential Debates

2008-09-28T12:51:25Z

Sunlight will post the latest bail out bill at PublicMarkup.org as soon as the actual text is available. You will be able to comment on it, section by section.
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Unfortunately I don't know where to find this information, but it

Re: Commission on Presidential Debates

2008-09-28T04:31:35Z

Unfortunately I don't know where to find this information, but it
would be VERY interesting. The candidates are so consumed with
presenting a specific image that information like this could blow that
out of the water. Now you might say that's a good thing, but we don't
live in a world where the majority of people weigh all information,

Re: SaveAmerica

2008-09-28T04:22:27Z

While it can be difficult to define 'conservative' at times, I believe
that I am a conservative democrat as well. We are right to discuss
the presidency in these broad sweeping terms, because that is the
power the President has and should have, broad change. I also believe
that there is so much we don't know that attempting to make an

Commission on Presidential Debates

2008-09-26T22:29:24Z

Does anyone here know where to find written formal documentation on
the agreement reached between the McCain and Obama camps on the format
of the debate tonight? I want to know who proposed what, what
concessions were made, what topics were deemed off-limits, etc. I have
found news articles detailing some of the decisions, but I would like

Re: SaveAmerica

2008-09-21T23:20:35Z

Let's talk about real problems that we need to fix first.

I am a Conservative Democrate, and I support Obama. I am in favor of
tax reductions in general, because I believe that excess taxes is not
good for the economy, but I also believe that the purpose of tax cuts
must be to support the US Economy, by helping the creation of millions

Re: [c-c] Re: tech help

2008-09-10T20:11:10Z

Aaron/Simon,
Thanks for helping me track this down. Mary McGlohon at cmu had a nice post
last week using the fec data:
[link]
She is planning on releasing her fec parser code as well. Some processed
data is available in matlab format:
[link]

Re: tech help

2008-09-10T13:05:29Z

Hi Pete!

The FEC format seems to match the forms completely, but the files
usually leave out a lot of details. I'm not sure to what extent
address information is left out, but it certainly shouldn't be too
hard making the parser script parse out these values.

We have them available here [link]

Re: [c-c] Re: tech help

2008-09-10T00:53:46Z

Hi, Pete! The code we have so far is at:
[link]
Simon's done a fair amount of work on handling the detail of the weird
.fec formats, but I think it's still missing some pieces. He could
probably tell you more.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Pete Skomoroch

Re: tech help

2008-09-09T22:30:05Z

Just found your pointer to the file formats [link]
[ZIP]

what a mess :)

Re: tech help

2008-09-09T22:20:40Z

Where does the FEC parser stand? I was interested in doing some
geocoding, and stumbled on this site yesterday. I spent some time
parsing the ftp individual donor files before I realized they don't
include address info.

A couple of quick questions:

(1) Does anyone know if the electronic filings contain all the records

Re: Mobilize.org Money In Politics Democracy 2.0 Grant Summit

2008-08-25T18:28:08Z

Sorry for the dated reply...I just stumbled across the thread.

I'd be very interested in attending the conference as well as helping
spread the word. Please email me with more details on how I can
participate: st...@stanford.edu

Thanks

Sheel Tyle

Mobilize.org Money In Politics Democracy 2.0 Grant Summit

2008-08-12T16:32:48Z

Hi all,

I haven't posted on this list before, although I've been on a while.
I work for youth empowerment organization Mobilize.org. We're holding
a summit for Millennials (16 to 30), sponsored by the Sunlight
Foundation, to discuss the problem of money in politics and identify
innovative solutions to the problem in their communities. I would

Re: What About Challengers?

2008-08-06T16:08:53Z

All good questions Guy.

We're working a few things that should clear this up.

1. A Candidate page that puts all those who have pledged in one place.
This should give the user a breakdown of who's who and where they're
at in their race.
2. You can absolutely post and tag challengers who are facing off

Re: [c-c] Re: tech help

2008-08-05T15:19:13Z

Simon's actually been pushing forward on this and will hopefully have
something today or tomorrow.
[link]
That might work -- the problem is that the dictionary keys vary in
each line depending on the first field, which isn't normally true with
CSV.
I put some example files up: