I think this fuss over Legistorm is really rather wonderful.
You see,the thing is, that all those assistants and aides to Congresscritters, all those snouts in the trough, they have to tell everyone how far those snouts are in the trough.
You know, release it all as public information.
The along comes Ligistorm and makes all that already public information easy for people to actually sort through, easy for people to read. And then the little piggies are up in arms.
Because, when they agreed that what they got from the taxpayer should be public they didn’t mean that the public should actually be able to find out anything. Oh, no: in the cellar marked "Beware of the Leopard" was fine, but actually knowing? That’s not the point at all.
Quite a LegiStorm
Washington Times – Washington,DC,USA
The latest row over the Capitol Hill Web firm LegiStorm is no
different. Founded in late 2006, LegiStorm offers easy and free
public access to the salary …
LegiStorm Makes Capitol Hill Staffers Mad: Who’s Right?
Associated Content – Denver,CO,USA
Now, a firm called LegiStorm is making these records available to
the public online. According to an article in the Washington Bureau
Tribune, …
LegiStorm Setting Off Furor Over Private Information
Associated Content – Denver,CO,USA
By Patsy Hamilton, published Apr 09, 2008 LegiStorm, a website
created by Jock Friedly, allows taxpayers all over the country to find out
how their …
Making public employees more public
Marketplace – Los Angeles,CA,USA
JEREMY HOBSON: Jock Friedly started "Legistorm" to shine
some light on Congress. He added the personal financial disclosures of
Capitol Hill staffers in …
LegiStorm Publicizes Congressional Staffer Info
Stop the ACLU – New Cumberland,PA,USA
When the info was released by LegiStorm, the staffers were incensed
that their personal info was made public. For its part, LegiStorm
says that it didn’t …
Legistorm: Good for American Politics
Synthesis – Chico,CA,USA
House Staffers and Political Pigs are getting all upset because
Legistorm.com is posting already public information about their
finances. …
LegiStorm Creates Legal and Ethical Discussion
Associated Content – Denver,CO,USA
By Amy Cox, published Apr 09, 2008 A debate has emerged on the Capitol and
around the country about LegiStorm. Legistorm is a website
devoted to making …
LegiStorm tracks political aides’ finances — invades privacy, too?
Salon – USA
Aides to lawmakers on Capitol Hill are livid at LegiStorm, a company
that recently began posting political staffers’ financial information
online. …
House Staffers Livid Over Web Site
Washington Post – United States
But the Web site, LegiStorm, contends that it has a First Amendment
right to publish already public information about some of the Capitol’s
most powerful …
Legistorm.com schools Congress on democracy in the Information Age
By Tom Paine
A site called Legistorm.com is causing concern
among congressional staffers because of their posting of what is
otherwise public access information about their finances. Well it’s
called transparency, and in a government that works for …
Blog of the Founding Sons – http://foundingsons.wordpress
Legistorm.com – Congressional Staff Salaries & More
LegiStorm – the online home of congressional staff salaries.
Find out who’s making the big money on Capitol Hill and who’s toiling
for jack squat. Find out which private organizations have paid to send
members of Congress and staffers …
Digg / upcoming – http://digg.com/
LegiStorm: Transparency’s sidekick
By Leslie Graves
The website LegiStorm has kicked up mucho dust with
financial disclosures of how much Hill (that’s the Hill in DC) staffers
take home in taxpayer-funded salaries. “Hysteria over personal
financial disclosures is how they describe one …
Open Records – http://openrecords.wordpress
LegiStorm Publicizes Congressional Staffer Info
By WTH
When the info was released by LegiStorm, the staffers were incensed that their personal info was made public. For its part, LegiStorm says that it didn’t mean to put personal info on the net and promised to remove the staffer’s …
New Media Alliance – Warner Todd Huston – http://thenma.org/blogs/index
LegiStorm has publicized public information
According to LegiStorm, the company involved
in the dispute, some staffers included information that is not
required, such as children’s names and investment account numbers.The
US House of Representatives has released this information …
Digg / upcoming – http://digg.com/
LegiStorm tracks political aides’ finances — invades privacy, too …
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