something
is wrong with our government
some people blame “A”some people blame the B””some people
blame the corporate system and some
people blame the legal system and most of
us feel it's just too complicated to even unravel but
the truth is actually
simple
the majority of our shared problems have a common
root they are the
result of powerful special interest
money being used to corrupt our democracy now now we hear you
saying
tell me something I don't know and so
here it is starting right now citizens have a tool to strike back
we founded
map light to connect the dots between money and politics to help
citizens root
out corruption from their government map
light makes understanding money and
politics easy we combine data on where politicians get their money
with how
they vote to show patterns of influence that you could never see
before
for example say you want to help solve the childhood obesity
crisis well a
pilot program for adding fresh fruit into school breakfast was
proposed in
California to do just that however there
was a problem food processing companies
don't unmanned and processed fruit through their influence the
language in
the bill was changed from fresh fruit to
quote nutritious fruit looking behind-the-scenes reveals of the
food processing industry gave over a
million dollars to 200 state lawmakers in the years before the
vote the result
the bill passed with the changed
language and taxpayer money allotted for fresh fruit was instead
used to serve
kids canned fruit in sugar syrup today
this kind of legalized corruption is happening on an industrial
scale
affecting every aspect of our lives from the air we breathe to the
schools our
kids can attend to the kinds of cars we drive by using our free
tools on map
like you can shine a light on corruption and spread the word to
solve any of our
problems we have to solve our corruption problems first together
we can hold our
representatives accountable and build
the movement to create a democracy that
works for everyone.
