[Campaigns-l] Mr. Candidate

[Io Attawai]

> Jamie Baswell wrote:
>> I think the wiki portion should be as factual as possible.
>>
>> What I'd love to see:
>>
>> Name
>>
>> Biography
>> -- Written by himself or supporters. Not a political history, which
>> will be covered later, but a simple history, where they're from, what
>> schools they attended, generic stuff like that.
>>
>> Voting Record
>> -- List of voting history, if any.  Each entry can be a simple item
>> number and how they voted.  Each item number can itself be a link to a
>> different Wiki entry containing a summary of the bill and what various
>> candidates have said about it, if anything.
>>
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> [Bill 90210] - Voted NO
>> "I voted no on this because of a rider that required all California
>> residents to replace their cars with penguins." - Mr. Candidate, New
>> York Times interview, 1997
>> [Bill OU812] - Voted YES
>> "I voted yes on this because I think it's important to save the Alaska
>> Salmon." - Mr. Candidate, Campaign Wikia, 2006
>>
>>

i would like to see financial disclosure/endorsements/known backers;

[contributors for fiscal 2007]
         Exxon-$13.00
         Dubai Ports IbC-$12.87
[lobbys endorsing[
         IWW
         Bogata Chamber of Commerce
         Church of Satan


I think the number 1 obstacle in consisely transmitting a given
persona's political suchness lies in describing the machine that they
are synergically tied to. Someone like Ted Kennedy is an easy fix to
make relative to possible bias in connecting the dots between him and
his power; Clinton would be a quagmire, not that it's notable but
rather that it's banal complexities lend more opportunuty for bias.

i know there's other sites tracking $, no doubt we all share bookmarks
here. I'm sure we've all noticed the same vagarities in numbers, too,
making authenticity an issue...

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