Party Tracker
By B.J. Reyes
It’s not all committee hearings and floor votes for members of Congress.
As a new website from the Sunlight Foundation points out, there are parties to get to, too! And not just social gatherings — the fund-raising kind.
The Foundation — which bills itself as a non-partisan, non-profit organization with the goal of using new and emerging technologies to provide transparency in government — offers a site called Party Time (http://politicalpartytime.org), which tracks the Washington, D.C., party circuit.
It features a search engine that lets you query by beneficiary, host, venue name, entertainment type or other lawmakers mentioned.
From it, we find that U.S. Rep. Charles Djou has two fundraisers this week with the National Republican Congressional Committee.
His House colleague, U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono, has a fund-raising dinner coming up next month at Democratic National Headquarters.
Nothing on the radar for U.S. Sens. Dan Inouye and Dan Akaka.
One note about the invitations posted on the website:
The Sunlight Foundation posts invitations we receive from reputable anonymous sources. These documents are posted here as a public service in the interest of creating more transparency about the relationships between lobbyists and lawmakers. Sunlight is not responsible for the content of the invitations themselves (including erroneous information) or for verifying whether the events advertised in the invitations actually occurred.



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September 23rd, 2010 at 4:58 pm
How can an “anonymous source” be deemed “reputable” (or not)? Do they mean a “source known to us and found to be reputable but whose anonymity we have agreed to preserve”?
I know — too many words — but, still . . . .