Updating how we grade members of Congress
Now including trades, earmarks, donation sizes, and much more.
When Nico started asking the basic question “Is your member of Congress a piece of sh**” just over a year ago he relied on a basic formula to determine someone’s sh****iness.
V1.0 of the Political Integrity formula tracked three key metrics:
Do they take corporate PAC money?
Do they hold individual stocks?
Does most of their money come from rich donors?
It was never meant to be a hard test to pass but yet there were a lot of failing grades.
Now, we are launching V2.0 of our formula, a massive overhaul to how we grade members of Congress.
Instead of just tracking the big three categories, our grading formula now includes:
Total amount of earmarked funds
Total number of trades and value of those trades
Support for a basic set of anti-corruption bills
Whether they have taken our Political Integrity Pledge to help get money out of politics
Percentage of donations from small, medium, large, XL, and XXL donors
Percentage of fundraising from PACs
And much, much, more…
You can review the updated methodology on any candidate’s profile page.
Soon we will be launching grades for candidates as well as Political Integrity Scorecards and much, much, more.
More to come,
Nico + Daniel