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At what point will OUR elected officials say they represent ALL OF US. This is most certainly taxation without representation because we have no representation.

There was a state legislator on Beck's show the other day. He said that our congressmen even ignore calls from state legislators now.

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**Another snippet from Doug Ross ... and he’s soliciting our help:

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Cut Dealers:

This is a partial, crowd sourced solution. You are the crowd, so thanks in advance for helping out:

1. Check the comments for the name you’d like to search—make sure no one’s already done them and go in order down the list.
2. Add a comment below to say that you’re working on so-n-so—heck, claim three names at once if you want
3. Click so-n-so’s link—it’s best to open it in a new window or tab so you can refer back here
4. Check 2006, 2008, and 2010
5. Enter the code at the bottom of the search page and run the search
6. If the search doesn’t return anyone, remove the zip and re-run
7. If the search still doesn’t return anyone, remove the state and re-run
8. Look for so-n-so in the results
9. Add up all their donations by year and party
10. Add a comment below with so-n-so’s full name and donation information

The links below were generated from the PDF of cut dealers linked by Doug Ross. The idea is that the link will pre-fill the opensecrets.org search form. I did this fast, so lots of things may be a little wrong—I know some of the zips are only four digits for instance. These people may not live in the zipcode or state that I specify.

Thanks again for your help! I will make the results available in a text file or spreadsheet when I can.

Update: I missed some cut dealers. It was late... I’ll link those in a new post soon. I’ll also get to the “kept” list, but you probably wont see that before Thursday morning. Special thanks to the Gateway Pundit for supplying the crowd! And many thanks to our hardworking crowd. cathy you sooo rock!

Update 2: After completing the cut list, I took a closer look at OpenSecrets and discovered that I can download their data tables. I’m in the process of doing that and will post my results for cut and kept dealers as soon as I can (not before late tonight and bet on the weekend for the kept list).

List follows here after the above text:

http://rebootcongress.blogspot.com/2009/05/its-ford-or-foreign-from-now-on.html