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WASHINGTON, DC – Software similar to that used in the infamous Chevy Tahoe mix-and-match ad contest – where user-created ads turned into a public relations fiasco for Tahoe – is being modeled and put to use in the political sphere for the first time. The Sunlight Network, working with MSNC partners and UGEN media, is launching a tool that provides clips of public domain cartoons, golfers, an old man doing water jazzercise, and staff meetings, and audio clips of the Brandenburg concerto and creative-commons licensed funk, and asking people to write their own irreverent take on "what does Congress do all day?"
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WASHINGTON, DC -- The Sunlight Network (the 501(c ) (4) social welfare organization affiliated with the Sunlight Foundation) is today announcing “The Punch Clock Campaign,” which will pay out good-will bounties to anyone who gains the signature of a Member of Congress, or prospective Member, on an agreement to make their daily schedule – listing all the people they meet with, including lobbyists, and all the meetings they go to, including fundraisers — public on the Internet.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Sunlight Foundation and Sunlight Network (an affiliated 501 (c)4) is announcing six grants today, furthering its mission to promote more openness in government. The grants are going to organizations developing cutting edge projects ranging from an effort to forge a partnership between citizen journalists and traditional reporters, to a model depository on all information related to the 2006 election in one congressional district.
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WASHINGTON, DC – A blogger at Talking Points Memo (www.tpmcafe.com) has uncovered a startling Congressional earmark -- as part of a project launched by the Sunlight Foundation and other organizations -- which seems to personally benefit a small number of lobbyists.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Earlier this year, the Sunlight Foundation made a grant of just over $234,000 for a period of three years to the nonprofit organization, OMB Watch, to develop a database that will be nearly identical to the database that would be mandated under a bill introduced by Senators Tom Coburn and Barack Obama. This is just a fraction of the $15 million cost estimated by the Congressional Budget Office.