We have been in contact with this organization, and feel they are worthy of watching. This is a blast from their media coordinator.
We’re going to try something a little different today, and we hope you’ll join us.
As Republican and Democratic leaders come together to debate health care in a televised forum, Sunlight is going to provide an alternative to the mainstream media’s coverage. Instead of simply watching the debate on C-SPAN, we’d love it if you tune in with us on online and participate.
We’re going to be hosting a comprehensive, real-time one-stop shop for information on the debate and on the attendees – and for it to work, we’re actually going to need your help.
We’re calling it Sunlight Live and it’s going to bring together live blogging by our policy experts, Twitter conversations from across the country and relevant facts on congressional members in attendance at the Summit. Some of the things you can expect to see displayed on Sunlight Live as the politicians debate are campaign contributions that the person speaking has received, their connections to lobbyists and industry, personal finances, and key votes that the leaders have made on health care in the past.
We’ll also be coming up with new ideas throughout the day. We won’t know everything we’ll want to do until we hear what our leaders have to say.
The idea behind this is that we want to provide a greater understanding of why the elected officials have staked out their positions on health care, and let the data do more of the the talking.
We’re going to be going from the Summit’s beginning at 10:00 a.m. to whenever it ends (perhaps as late as 6:00 p.m.)
It’d mean a lot to us if you participate in the conversation, help us research, or simply tune in and spread the word about what we’re doing during the day.
This is our opportunity to demonstrate why transparency and open government data is so important.
See you on Sunlight Live!
Jake
PS For those that haven’t been following along as our campaign develops, Sunlight Live is ultimately the kind of thing that we hope can be replicated across the country. Check out how many folks are already stepping up to be leaders.
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