Richmond Sunlight put to work by interest group.

The Shenandoah Pure Water Forum is using Richmond Sunlight’s RSS feeds to display bills related to clean water on their website. They’re simply subscribing to tags like “water,” “environment,” “pollution,” and “conservation” and displaying the results. It’s great seeing Richmond Sunlight used for things like this.

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3 replies on “Richmond Sunlight put to work by interest group.”

  1. I did hear Richmond Sunlight mentioned on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU last week when someone in Virginia was asking about how to find out how their members voted on bills. The outrage over the abuser fees seems to have gotten a lot more Virginians interested in tracking legislative votes.

  2. KCinDC,
    I was on that show Thursday and it was Sean O’Brien, director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at UVa, who brought up the value of using Richmond Sunlight to find the voting records of lawmakers on the “abusive driving” legislation. Also on the show, the police chief of Prince William County said that county’s new anti-illegal immigrant law would tax his police department — and Sen. Jeannemarie Devolites Davis said that one cent on the state gas tax might make more sense than abusive driving fees. When I asked her how she would vote, up or down, on the fees alone, she said she’d vote them down. Of course, she voted for the overall transportation compromise package that contained them.

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