Making Politics Very Local
Here's a cool new tool that might make you wince. Neighbor Search lets you type in your address (or any address) and find out who in the neighborhood has made a donation for the current presidential race. You get the donor's name, address, who they work for, the amount of the donation and who it went to. (Yet another link via Dan Gillmor.)

This information has always been public, but just not quite this easy to access.

Poking around a bit I found that in my neighborhood, a writer for The Onion gave $225 to Howard Dean; Charles Wilson, listed as a writer for the New York Times, gave $190 to Wesley Clark; an attorney on Prospect Park West gave $2,000 to Howard Dean, $1,500 to Clark, and $1,000 to John Edwards; Ilene Rosen, a producer at WABC-TV gave $200 to Dean; computer designer Wesley Clark gave $250 to Wesley Clark while Wesley A. Clark the consultant (at the same address) gave $1,000 to Wesley Clark.
- posted by Amy @ 3/21/2004 02:42:00 PM