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by cereallarceny 4170 days ago
That's a great idea honestly. We hadn't really put in thought as to creating better tools for donors. Of course, this idea would only hold any weight if the donors are of substantial wealth. Being able to tell a donor "here's where to put your money based off of the district's political opinions or sway" would also be incredibly valuable, but is it enough to substantiate paying for a service?

I'd be more surprised if people with large amounts of money didn't already know where they were going to put their hard-earned cash. I'd be equally as surprised if those donors didn't already have connections of their own on the hill, at which point they wouldn't need our service for enlightenment (they'd have their own direct source).

I like the idea though, I would just worry about the ability to generate reliable revenue from this. Perhaps also the issue of ethics I wrote about would come into play here. It somewhat might follow the same path as we did when I talked about selling the data to politicians for use on their campaigns.