I am a big fan of Clean Elections or Voter-Oriented Elections which is about getting corporate money out of elections. There is a new wiki-style crowd sourcing project made by the man who invented Creative Commons aimed at doing just this. It is hard to get laws passed that keep corporate money out of elections because the people who are in office have been elected with the help of corporate money, so it is not in their interests to vote for such bills. This project is a way around that problem...

The project consists of a pledge, a map, and a wiki. The pledge is for the candidates to take to promise to not take PAC money.The a map shows which representatives have taken the pledge and which haven't and also shows political affiliation. The wiki is to document candidates stances and history concerning financing. The hope is that we can wikipedia-style pressure the candidates to take the pledge and publicly shame them if they break it.

In case you are wondering about our representative Brian Baird, he raised 42% of his money ($177,702 of $421,385) of his 2008 campaign contributions from PACs (Political Action Committees).

I think this is huge. Please check it out.

The project's site:
http://change-congress.org/

Please check out the "About" section of the site. It talks about the goals of the project:
http://change-congress.org/about/

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