Database of Cities/Counties and How They Handle Campaign Finance Data

[bayreporta]

Making this a separate issue for those who want to discuss this more. Master spreadsheet with data being collected below. Feel free to contribute.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n4z58GA_yTZbqyGrZhmOCGV9BBhX8nD-6NE5Lq5Qi_g/edit#gid=0

[rkiddy]

I have added some data to the spreadsheet. Much that I was going to add was already there. This is, IMHO, a great way to handle the tracking we want to do. I removed a TBD_Cities.txt and TBD_Counties.txt from the CaliforniaETL repository after I added the information I had to this spreadsheet.

I am looking forward to seeing someone who manages code for importing data from NetFile exports to add some of that code to the extractors in the CaliforniaETL repo. I have cluttered the repo up a bit with my CA stuff but it should all live in different directories. I hope nobody feels they need to be shy about putting stuff around or even on top of what I have added.

Just FYI, my code is old-school. You know, bash and perl and like that. Sorry, I am just not one of the cool kids. If anyone wants to add the whole python-django-angular-d3-noSQL-shiny smartness bit, please do. I will use anything that works, even if that is not what I would write first.