Pennsylvania

News

 * What I concluded from the call is that the big organizing centers in Pennsylvania are; Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. There is a great opportunity to compare the two cities to move motivation to make things better. “If it can be done in Philly it can be done anywhere.” etc. There are great projects going on in both cities right now and we should find ways to contribute content.
 * Disclosure in PA means that there are a ton of non searchable PDFs put online and the disclosure laws are not very strong. There is no real data that can be used and any data isn’t in one place and most things are hard to find.
 * Campaign finance docs for instance are sloppily written and not electronically filed. Also cities destroy disclosure docs every 5 years and don’t digitalize them.

Moving forward

 * Governor’s Race – Common Cause debate, we have an opportunity to get transparency related questions asked.
 * Shale Project – Noah will have a follow up email
 * Collect political Allies – Elected officials who are about the cause
 * Projects and movement in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and how we can connect the two cities.