[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [MAPforPeace] Great resources

[Jenifer Cartwright]

      Something we all need to have at our fingertips, if we don't already know who all the campaign profiteers are...          Jenifer
   
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            For those that are interested in the companies we all do business with and who they support - right or left - these are great resources for checking them out.   
   
    
     Federal Election Commission: FEC.gov. The FEC was the primary source for all of our information. Federal election law requires that any donation over $250 be recorded and be publicly available at this web site. Therefore if you search for specific individuals or for specific employers you can always find where large political donations are going.
  
     Open Secrets: Opensecrets.org. Open Secrets presents a large variety of data. They use the FEC as their primary source and we found them particularly useful to study and record donations from political action committees (PACs) which many corporations operate with the explicit purpose of influencing legislation and public policy.
  
     MAPLight.org: Maplight.org. MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws. This common practice is contrary to the public interest, yet legal. MAPLight.org makes money/vote connections transparent, to help citizens hold their legislators accountable.
  
     The Blue Fund: The Blue Fund. The Blue Fund is the only mutual fund out there which in addition to creating a portfolio of companies based on traditional social responsibility indicators also uses a methodology similar to ours to rate companies on their political giving practices. Necessarily they have to maintain a list of blue companies in their portfolio which can be found here.
  
     Public Integrity: Public Integrity. Public Integrity is a good place to investigate lobbying dollars spent by various companies. Open Secrets also has some of this data.

   
  Juli DeJonghe
dejonghe4peace at verizon.net
Protect Our Constitutional Rights
IMPEACH BUSH CHENEY!!
   
  Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.  ~Henrik Tikkanen
  

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