Oct
08
2006
Citizen Journalists shine light on Congressional Spouse-hirings
Posted by Paul in General, Information Commons, News of News, Virtual CommunitiesThe Sunlight Foundation’s Family Business Project asked citizen journalists to find out how many members of the House of Representatives have their spouses on the payroll.
In less than 2 days, “Citizen Muckrakers have investigated 437 members of Congress, and tentatively found 19 spouses who were paid by a member’s campaign committee-totaling some $641,200 since January 1, 2005.”
The organizers at Sunlight can hardly believe it themselves — and they promised to start the verification process on Monday.
Sunlight Labs offers a number of cool tools for watching Congress and they promise more.
If you have skills, they are looking for an intern.







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