If you're a programmer and want to do something politically powerful, write a tool that takes FEC bulk data and dereferences the chains of PAC-to-PAC donations used to obfuscate giving, so we can see clearly which corporations donated to which candidate.
It's sufficient for my purposes to show that the money went to an entity (or through a chain of entities) that funds such-and-such roster of candidates. It's not necessary to prove that a specific donated dollar wound up in a specific campaign.
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Ok. The bulk data already does that. I mean, it's two queries, but it does it.
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The point of what I'm asking for is to get this down to one query. Follow the chained PAC donations until all that's left is a list of candidate committees, possibly with a weighting.
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Money out from Google: https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pac2pac.php?cycle=2018&cmte=C00428623 … Money out from Eye of the Tiger:https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgot.php?cycle=2018&cmte=C00467431 …
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All of which can be done using the bulk data: https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/2018/oth18.zip …
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That's what I'm asking people for, a script to automate this analysis of the bulk data.
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