Follow the Money! (Who's in your wallet?)

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&CID=N00013846 ^ | 11/30/2007 | Red Badger

[Red Badger]

http://www.opensecrets.org/

Want to find out who's giving money to whom? Your senators? Your congressman? Your neighbors? All you need is a zip code.................

[Red Badger]

It can be really "enlightening" to find out who in your own community gave what to whom..............

[Nervous Tick]

That’s a way cool feature. This is hugh! I’m series.

Unfortunately it’s not working right now (HTTP 500 error)!

Oh well, bookmark for later.

[Red Badger]

http://www.opensecrets.org/index.asp

Try this one......

[Nervous Tick]

Thanks, but when I type a zip code into the “Get Local!” box and hit Go, I still get a HTTP 500.

(and, yes, I’m logged in. :P)

[Red Badger]

Thanks, but when I type a zip code into the “Get Local!” box and hit Go, I still get a HTTP 500.

What's your zip code? 666?..............

[Red Badger]

I get that error on every other screen, now on that site. It must be overloaded! We must have shut it down or the blogosphere is busy vetting all those debate contributors.............

[Nervous Tick]

>> What’s your zip code? 666?..............

Yeah, how’d you guess?

I bet the problem is all those @#$%^&* Dim donors “down here” are making the query run long.

In other news, it’s gonna be another scorcher today.

[toomuchcoffee]

Yup, there’s nobody home at that url.

[Nervous Tick]

It must be overloaded!

[#1CTYankee]

I got the same thing, then I saw the default state was Alabama. Doh! my zip code is in Connecticut.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I got the same thing, then I saw the default state was Alabama

That doesn’t seem to matter. I entered my zip (in Texas) and it pulled up the right info, even though the state was set to Oklahoma. Zip code must override state.

At any rate, the server seems to be un-overloaded now... thanx for the heads up.