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SOPA Track - Check How Congress Votes on SOPA
- theoj 15y agoHere in NYC (the second tech hub in the the US) we have not one but two Protect IP Act co-sponsors: Senator Schumer and Senator Gillibrand. I don't think enough people know about this. Give them a call or email and let them know how you feel about Protect IP and SOPA.
- vorace 15y agoHere are links for Schumer & Gillibrand, to contact them: http://sopatrack.com/congressperson/S000148-sen-chuck-schumer http://sopatrack.com/congressperson/S000148-sen-chuck-schume... http://sopatrack.com/congressperson/G000555-sen-kirsten-gillibrand http://sopatrack.com/congressperson/G000555-sen-kirsten-gill...
- megamark16 15y agoWe've got a co-sponsor here in Missouri too, the governor's brother, no less. Out with the old, I say.
- jonursenbach 15y agoSame with here in CA. Both Feinstein and Boxer are PIPA co-sponsors. http://sopatrack.com/lookup?lat=37.7825297&lng=-122.4068805 http://sopatrack.com/lookup?lat=37.7825297&lng=-122.4068...
- danso 15y agoHow are the funding amounts quantified? For example, for Chuck Schumer, the site has this: Money Raised $1,465,160 from big media $1,191,700 from pro-PIPA groups $323,475 from anti-PIPA groups From every other type of campaign-finance summation I've seen, big media IS considered a "pro-PIPA group" (and these classifications by the open-gov groups aren't a hard science either, of course)...so how is it that pro-PIPA groups have a lower amount than big media?
- vorace 15y agoAll these amounts include links to sources. "Big media" goes to a page where it explains that it's a career total (from opensecrets.org). I initially just added this, but then the Paul Ryan issue came up and the Atlantic Monthly article criticized the lack of data around this issue. So I put in data from maplight.org - just funds raised specific to this issue.
- beedogs 15y agoThat site's going to be depressing as hell in a few days.
- vorace 15y agoIf so, bring it to the polls on election day as a reminder to vote them out.
- rurounijones 15y agoRandomly selected california...goddamn that makes for bad reading.
- taf2 15y agoholy crap -> http://sopatrack.com/lookup?lat=39.070388&lng=-76.54523999999999 http://sopatrack.com/lookup?lat=39.070388&lng=-76.545239... these guys are going to totally vote for SOPA!