April 19, 2011 (San Diego’s East County) – Who’s giving money to your elected officials? Are there conflicts of interest?
Now you can find out easily thanks to two new websites just launched.
The Sacramento Bee has created a searchable database for all gifts given to state officials and legislators over the past 10 years. Get details here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/04/database-see-search-g...
Now the County of San Diego’s Registrar of Voters has launched a new website for citizens to monitor disclosures of local officials, such as planning boards through mayors: http://sdvote.net/CampaignDocs_Web_Public_Access/default.asp
Contributions to federal officials, along with some analysis, may be found at www.opensecrets.org.
Comments
Are you mad yet?
If looking at these sites and finding out who is buying your representatives doesn't male you angry then there is truly no hope for this Republic.