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.
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Replying to @Pinboard
This actually sounds like a fun project. Of course those could be the famous last words before I've seen the data...
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Sounds fun to me, too.
@Pinboard is this "any transaction from one committee to another" you're talking about? https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/any-transaction-one-committee-another-file-description/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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I would exclude party and state committees, because the fan-out is too large. But definitely follow the chains of whimisically-named weird PACs to automate figuring out who is the end recipient.
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