Project

The Cost of D.C. Council’s Power Over Contracts

By

WAMU 88.5

Author(s)

Patrick Madden, Chris Baronavski, Rachel Baye, Chris Baronavski and Carrie Moskal

Link

https://wamu.org/projects/paytoplay/#/officials

Published

October 2014

Tool used

dedupe python library

WAMU and the Investigative Reporting Workshop obtained legislative records to analyze more than 1,000 contracts that were sent to the D.C. Council for approval from 2007 through January 2014. The reporters also analyzed more than 100,000 campaign contributions to D.C. officials and candidates from the Office of Campaign Finance from 2005 through January 2014. This allowed us to capture contributions made two years before or two years after votes on the contracts.