Oink oink! Crowdsourcing government earmark requests

“People are desperate for fruitcake these days,” says The Cato Institute’s Jim Harper when explaining why he’s giving one away as a prize in his crowdsourced earmark-exposure contest.

Behind the fruitcake lies a serious purpose: crowdsource the compilation of all federal legislators’ “earmark” requests, those specific funding requests to dole out money directly to (hopefully) deserving entities in the legislator’s home district.

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