Capital Cartel Notes

ongoing battle between self-determination vs. state sovereignty invest in CivicSpace and civic narrative there should be institutional incentives for public organizations and public employees the noise to signal ratio is untenable (filter!) stitch into public knowledge and outcomes how to distill knowledge? cross jurisdictional issues (hard to hear, hard to address) how to present in the world? influence? campaigning vs. governance w/ technology give people the political capital to be champions gChat office hours for public officials politicians are looking for safe ways to convene constituents (after Gifford in AZ) how to get people to interact politically?

$3.8 trillion per year federal budget 10.469 bills introduced in the last session of Congress bill monitoring > direct lobbying tip: package an item before sending it to a staffer a staffer's main objective "never get quoted' information does equal power. understand this! come to a politician with people or money (or both) Marci Harris "we provide no content on the site whatsoever" popvox @state level (KAP in Washington) congressional correspondent system until we understand power differently: no more coercion. more persuasion. fedspending (cold war spending in #CA) CIVIC NARRATIVE we're staring to catch-on as people voterpunch.org progressivepunch.org