President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
50%
50%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
70%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
November 17, 2009 05:58 PM UTC
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It seems the problem is not with Recovery.gov, but with the data entry website. Good info:
http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2…
I know it’s fun to play partisan games and throw around hackneyed, ideological epithets about government, but the private sector is no better. In fact it’s worse in almost every respect. There are no sunshine laws regarding corporate contracting. Even the shareholders are in the dark.
I’ve worked in information technology for a couple of decades, and I could tell you about actually life-threatening data disasters–not just embarrassing ones–if I weren’t still covered by forever confidentiality agreements.
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who was #2 in the Bush OMB/ OFPP ?
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wishes now that they had never signed up for ARRA.
Recovery.gov shows that, within the state of Colorado, they’ve netted -$147,922,152, a loss.
And one of the companies providing mercenary services in Iraq got less than $5K for ARRA in Colorado.
And another contractor who does “development” in Afghanistan somehow did $1M of it in Colorado.
For a $9 Million website that just reposts data posted elsewhere, it doesn’t appear to add a lot of value. I’m guessing the contract went to a friend of a friend.
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I dont recall that Republicans much cared for accounting from Jan 2001 to Jan 2009
This is a website you’re ripping on, right?
There is a WONDERFUL and COMPETENT thing that people who spend time on the web trying to inform others do, and that’s called linking to the source!
It’s wonderfully competent. I think you could be in wonder about how competent clicking on this link will make you.
There may be some errors in the data. It seems that they are blindly posting what people have written in their filings and not back-checking it very well. Apparently, the administration had too much faith in America’s business leaders assuming they knew what Congressional District they lived in. Or how to fill out a simple form.
However, despite some reporting errors, you have to give the administration credit. Every dollar they have spent from the stimulus is accounted for and has been made public. You might get some funny results when you search specific things like singling out a congressional district, but the money is all there. And the jobs are all there. And it is always easy to look at a handful of cases amongst the entire program. The funding you cited makes up .00009% of the overall program.
It is a far cry from anything any previous administration has done. It is the first time such a tracking system has been used for a large program like ARRA, so cut them some slack. I doubt you could do much better.
And really, if criticizing them on a website that is meant for YOUR convenience is the best you’ve got, Obama must be doing something right.
Real-time data, not information that’s sequestered and tucked away until someone files a FOIA request and they release a redacted copy.
Real transparency means sunlight on the successes as well as the failures. And if it exposes a couple of morons who need to brush up on their civics and geography, all the better.