With the extraordinary success we’ve had collecting earmarks, we’re starting to generate press interest, and I heard from a reporter in California today who’s looking for some egregious examples from the Golden State. I’ve been up to my you-know-what just managing the collection of earmark data, so I’d love to have you all in the [...]
. . . because every single earmark request by California’s congressional delegation has been entered in our earmarks database! (With this post we continue a tradition of riffing badly on classic songs. Finish out a state and we’ll let you write the bad title for the next blog post!) California sought a little over 2,400 [...]
Ben Goddard writes in The Hill about the new taxpayer revolt in California this week. The political establishment put together a package of initiatives that it thought would fix the budget process there – but the people weren’t buying it. The only thing they passed was the measure to ban salary increases for legislators if [...]
California Proposition 1F is a measure on the ballot for the May 19 election in California. It would prohibit the state commission that sets salary levels for the governor, other top state officials, and members of the California State Legislature from increasing those salaries if the state General Fund is expected to end the year [...]
Before we roll into February, we should probably issue some year-end statistics for 2008. It was a fun and exciting year, what with the presidential election and all, and traffic to WashingtonWatch.com grew at a healthy clip. We had just over 1.1 million unique visitors, and served them just over 2.1 million pages of information. [...]