[written by UVa LaGrape]
Did you know that..
Dave Matthews donated $2300 to Barack Obama?
The biggest 2008 election contributor in Cville is Stanley Woodward, a self-employed artist who donated $6300 to Obama’s campaign?
Patricia Kluge gave $4600 to Hillary Clinton?
How do I know this, and why is it legal for me to tell it to you?
The Huffington Post, the left-leaning opinion site of Arianna Huffington, created a search engine called Fundrace 2008 that allows you to search for every single citizen who contributed more than $250 to a presidential political candidate in 2008 or 2004. This information is already open to the public, but usually we see this info in the news as lists of the totals for each candidate. It’s a different level of “public” to have that data turned upside down to list the individual donors, searchable by any nosy neighbor like me.
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=city&city=charlottesville&search=Search
You can search by first name or last name, street address, city, state, zip, occupation or employer. That last one is interesting. You can search for employers like “CNN”, “NBC” or “Universal Studios” and find celebrities. Alan Tudyk (actor from 3:10 to Yuma) gave $250 to John Kerry in 2004. Barton Biggs, financial correspondent for CNN, gave $1500 to the DNC in 2004. Seth Meyers of SNL gave $1000 to Barack. Looking up employers can also give you a feel for the political bent of a company. Those 3 are heavily Democrat.
Charlottesville as a city is about 68/32 Dem/Rep in contributions. UVA is about 76/24 Dem/Rep. Uva is 100% McBain.
The site also has the side benefit of listing contributors’ addresses, jobs and employers, along with Googlemaps to their homes. Stalkers are erect with pleasure over this site.
Adding to the Stalker viagra is the Federal Election Commission’s website, which doesn’t have Googlemaps, but does include more details on each contribution (like the dates of the 3 contributions that led up to Stanley’s $6300 total), and contribution information dating back to the 90’s.
http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/advindsea.shtml
I found my friend “Samantha” on there and I like how she listed her occupation as “mom”.
You won’t find me on there because I’m too po’. But I did find my mom. How could she give Kucinich $500 when she owes me $200? I’m gonna hafta put the smackdown on that ho. Does Uva LaGrape hafta choke a bitch?
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Tagged as: 2008, albemarle, Charlottesville, contributions, election, Local, McCain, Obama
this is good for finding info on VA representatives:
http://vpap.org/
Alan Tudyk (actor from 3:10 to Yuma)
From 3:10 to Yuma? How about from “Firefly”! Infinitely cooler.
I’m mostly upset that I saw Dahlia Lithwick on there. I had no idea she lived here– she’s one of my favorite writers on slate.com. Like all great journalists, she helps me care about things other than myself, and in this case, it’s law review. Anyway, the Hook put her on its “hot seat,” and I had hoped to do something on cvillain.com for her. Dahlia, if you are reading this, I am a member of your unofficial fan club. If Slate ever goes away, I will literally not know what is going on in the world– it is my number one news source. I actually wrote Andrew Rice at one point to tell him how much I enjoyed his TP flare, and we exchanged e-mails a few times. Daniel Politi, I appreciate the consistency, and I imagine that working through the middle of the night all week is very difficult. Lindsay Barnes, if you are reading this, did you find Dahlia the same way I did? I would love to know.
/but I digress.
3: What does that upset you, lilith? I’m a Dahlia Lithwick fan myself, but it didn’t surprise me that she has political preferences. It would surprise me if I could perceive those preferences in her objective reporting (vs. the more opinionated pieces on Slate or the WaPo op-ed page), but I never have, which is part of the reason I think she’s a solid reporter (e.g., Supreme Court coverage on NPR).
I’m a bit surprised she was able to do that. The”Posties” I know who work for the dead tree edition can’t contribute to political campaigns without getting hammered by the authori-tays on the masthead, but since she’s part of slate.com and (I’m assuming) Washington Post Interactive (which now runs Slate, IIRC), I guess there are different rules.
I agree that she’s very good at what she does. And that it’s great that she can do it from here.
Oh, no, I was disappointed because the Hook beat me to her!
looks like the website was started in late 2003 for the 2004 election:
http://www.news.com/2100-1028_3-5178135.html
yo..search for “Keswick” or “22947″ son…that’s where there money’s at. I had no idea Keswick had it like that.
Magic Johnson gave 2300 to BO and 4600 to HC
Oprah gave 2300 to BO
Jerry Springer gave 2000 to Kucinich and 4600 to HC
Barbra Joan Streisand gave 4600 to Hillary, 2300 to Edwards, 2300 to BO
Paul Newman maxed out and gave $4600 to both BO and HC.
Diddy gave 2000 to Al Sharpton in 2004
Michelle Obama gave $399 to Barack. She’s a cheap date.
Tim Kaine gave 2000 to Kerry and 2000 to Lieberman in 2004.
Drew Carey, 2300 to Ron Paul
Jeff Garlin, 250 to BO
Thomas Schlamme, 2300 to BO
Dahlia Lithwick: I don’t see where she has written as a straight journalist. Maybe she’s always been a columnist, an opinion writer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia_Lithwick
Her work on NPR has been as a guest, not a reporter.
In the Hook it has “Most embarrassing moment? I once did CNN with a Cheerio in my hair.” That proves it! No, wait, it was this, “Subject that causes you to rant? The assault on civil liberties and the war on terror.” (March 6, 2008).
The C-Ville has an interview in Issue #18.23 :: 06/06/2006 - 06/12/2006 also. I would link but I don’t like it when they try to make me “moderated”.
11: good clarification, colfer. I was thinking of her NPR visits as times when she seemed objective, meaning she could talk about the Supreme Court and the cases before the Court without revealing her personal policy preferences on the issues at-hand. But I hadn’t realized that she’d never been a print reporter as-such. (She did used to be a divorce lawyer, though. Fact!)
You are so in trouble when I tell your mom that you called her a Ho, young lady.
Aren’t you supposed to be at CLAW, birthday girl?
Let’s get local. Get lo, get lo get lo get lo….from the Rotundaaaaaa to Whitehall! From the red bricks of City Hall! To Fashion Squarepeg Mall! To all Main Street Street Street Street Street! To all Main Street Street!
Peter Skinner, super-wealthy dude and former owner of Sam Shephard’s place, along with Mrs. Skinner, gave Hillary $2300 each.
Emily Tinsley, R.N. and wife of Boyd, gave $4600 to John Edwards.
Boyd himself gave another 4600 to Edwards.
Joan Fenton, owner of many local bizzes and freaking awesome artist, politician and all around woman, gave $2300 to Hillary.
Awesome artist Cary Brown gave 2300 to Barack.
Whelan Financial’s turnaround specialist Kevin Flannery gave 2300 to Rudy.
Wanda Kochhar, Chair of Outcomes, Inc (one of Entrepeneur Mag’s Hot 500 of 2007) gave $2300 to Hillary.
Jocelyn/Joyce Leitao, wife of Dave, gave 2300 to Barack.
Phil Wendel, founder of ACAC, gave 2000 to Giuliani
Carol Troxell, owner of the New Dominion Book Shop, gave 1000 to Hillary.
Kristin Szakos, chair of the local Obama campaign, gave $556 and much blood, sweat and tears to Barack.
Miki Liszt, our best-known local dancer, gave $550 to John Edwards.
David Rogers, area school principal, gave 523 to Barack.
Kathe Petchel, owner of Bright Beginnings, gave 400 to Barack.
Awesome historical dude Paul Gaston gave 333 to Edwards.
Dennis Tracz, CEO of Barista on Demand, gave 254 to Barack.
Jennifer Robinson, owner of graphic designer Birch Studio, gave 204 to Barack.
and finally,
John Grisham gave 4600 to Hillary and 1000 to Barack.