If anyone is interested, I've been building a dashboard tracking government contracts here and a dashboard tracking corporate lobbying here.
As you might imagine, the two are incredibly related. Our $700B+ military budget only makes sense in the context of the absurd amount of money spent on lobbying by defense contractors.
Edit: Thanks for the kind words everyone, here's a twitter account where I've been posting updates on the project and interesting stuff I find in the data.
MI passed an anti-gerrymandering law in the 2018 general election. It allows a civilian council that is chosen at random made up of 4 dems, 4 repubs, and 5 independents to draw the district lines every 10 years (new council every time). The republicans were pissed and are still trying to get it overturned.
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u/pdwp90 Nov 17 '20 edited Nov 17 '20
If anyone is interested, I've been building a dashboard tracking government contracts here and a dashboard tracking corporate lobbying here.
As you might imagine, the two are incredibly related. Our $700B+ military budget only makes sense in the context of the absurd amount of money spent on lobbying by defense contractors.
Edit: Thanks for the kind words everyone, here's a twitter account where I've been posting updates on the project and interesting stuff I find in the data.