Help ProPublica with their Super Bowl Blitz
source: http://projects.propublica.org/tables/superbowlblitz
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I was less than pleased with last week's Supreme Court decision to allow corporate money to flood into political races. Not that I'm anti-business, I just think there's too much money in the mix as it stands and more money means more screaming advertisements means more voter apathy.
So what can we do? Sure we can watch corporate money as it gets funneled into political causes - but honestly, a lot of that giving isn't transparent. It comes as gifts. Like a weekend of golfing, or a really nice dinner, or...a trip to the Super Bowl to see the Saints defeat play the Colts.
And it's with that in mind that ProPublica has launched their Super Bowl Blitz - asking people to help them identify which Congressmen are getting Super Bowl perks this year. From their site:
"The Super Bowl is America’s most expensive sports spectacle, and it has long been used to rub shoulders, gain influence and form ties that help congressional candidates raise the approximately $1 billion they spend on their campaigns every two years. While most of us can’t afford a ticket to the Super Bowl, we know the NFL sets aside a large number of them for public officials and corporations to buy at face value (the cheapest tickets are going for as much as $1,799 on StubHub). Politicians use the tickets to reward big donors, and corporations use them to reward politicians."
They need your help. They want you to help them call all 535 members of Congress and find out if they're going to the Super Bowl. Here are the instructions.
Instructions: http://projects.propublica.org/tables/superbowlblitz
More about the program: http://www.propublica.org/ion/reporting-network/item/super-bowl-blitz-which-cong...
So what can we do? Sure we can watch corporate money as it gets funneled into political causes - but honestly, a lot of that giving isn't transparent. It comes as gifts. Like a weekend of golfing, or a really nice dinner, or...a trip to the Super Bowl to see the Saints defeat play the Colts.
And it's with that in mind that ProPublica has launched their Super Bowl Blitz - asking people to help them identify which Congressmen are getting Super Bowl perks this year. From their site:
"The Super Bowl is America’s most expensive sports spectacle, and it has long been used to rub shoulders, gain influence and form ties that help congressional candidates raise the approximately $1 billion they spend on their campaigns every two years. While most of us can’t afford a ticket to the Super Bowl, we know the NFL sets aside a large number of them for public officials and corporations to buy at face value (the cheapest tickets are going for as much as $1,799 on StubHub). Politicians use the tickets to reward big donors, and corporations use them to reward politicians."
They need your help. They want you to help them call all 535 members of Congress and find out if they're going to the Super Bowl. Here are the instructions.
Instructions: http://projects.propublica.org/tables/superbowlblitz
More about the program: http://www.propublica.org/ion/reporting-network/item/super-bowl-blitz-which-cong...
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