[Campaigns-l] candidate directories.

[Benjamin Rahn]

FYI, we're building a directory of state legislative and executive
campaigns at http://actblue.com/directory -- of course, we only list
Democrats :-)

I can't vouch for the accuracy in Minnesota in particular, but I know
that we shold be extremely accurate in CA, IA, IN, ME, OR, PA, SD, TX
UT, and WI.

-Ben



On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Steven Clift wrote:

>
> It would be great to connect.  If volunteers here are interested
> perhaps we can kill to birds with one stone.
>
> Since 1994 we've been doing election information directories like:
>
>     http://e-democracy.org/wiki/Minnesota_elections
>
> Last year, we introduced MediaWiki to Minneapolis elections with
> some
> great success:
>
>     http://e-democracy.org/wiki/Minneapolis_elections
>
> Ideally, the page content/links on our site could also be lifted to
> Campaigns Wikia and to Wikipedia (as appropriate) and vice versa if
> we share some Minnesota volunteers.
>
> Where we need the most help is here:
>
> http://e-
> democracy.org/wiki/Minnesota_State_House_and_Senate_candidates
>
> Luckily our state includes web addresses on the candidate forms, so
> many (not all fill it out right) are in hear to transfer over:
> http://candidates.sos.state.mn.us/
>
> As a lesson to Campaigns Wikia more broadly no volunteer effort
> other
> than E-Democracy's has ever developed a comprehensive link list of
> state legislative candidates (example - http://www.e-
> democracy.org/2002/leg.html )  And at the local level, we've only
> been able to cover a few cities. So this might be an area where your
> volunteer capacity would provide some an extremely useful public
> service.  We can't expect campaigns to drop out of broadcast mode if
> most of them can't be easily found online where they at least have
> the option of being more interactive on their web sites.
>