I’ve been writing code the last couple of days, before I go back to work next Monday. I decided to write a political mashup using the API from my old buddies over at the SunLight Foundation. I placed second in a national contest sponsored by them a few years back and had a great time in Phoenix showing it off!
This one isn’t quite done but I’m throwing in the core logic here for your perusal. The idea is to submit a State code or a Zip code and return all of the current members of Congress for that place, with links specific to that person.
For this example I’m evaluating New York state, only because I think Kirsten’s cute :-)
Scroll up and down, and click away! Some photos and links are missing: the photos are Sunlight’s issue and missing links are the individual Legislator’s issue.
Update: Here’s my new click by state program called LegiState.
Momma’s lost, what is the purpose?
Hey buddy Betty! Like a lot of things in life, if you don’t see the purpose for something, you simply don’t need it. Skip this post and move on to the next one sweety :-)