Thursday, March 1, 2012

Wonder if someone donated to Gov. Phil Bryant? Search his donors by name here

One of the great things about our Secretary of State's website is that you can view campaign finance reports filed by candidates.  One of the problems, though, is that you can't search by donor.  You can only search by the candidate.

I decided to do something about that as best as I could, and allow the public to search campaign finance reports by donor.  It's a mammoth undertaking, though, so I decided to begin with Gov. Phil Bryant.  You can go to this link and view a Google Docs spreadsheet with donors to Phil Bryant from June 2010 through July 2011.  There's more to be done, of course, but this is a start.  The work on this project so far has been done by Dylan Watson, a senior at Millsaps.  Dylan did a fantastic job on it, and deserves the credit.

Enjoy.

2 comments:

Chad Benoit said...

You can search fairly effectively at www.followthemoney.org. They analyze campaign finance reports and sort it by donor best they can.

Chad Benoit said...

You can search fairly effectively at www.followthemoney.org. They analyze campaign finance reports and sort it by donor best they can.