It’s proving harder than I expected to clean up the campaign contribution data enough to create a relatively reliable list of those individuals who are reported to have contributed the most to candidates during the first six months of the year, and then to go further and aggregate them by employer.
I was ready to post a list this morning, but spotted that the numbers didn’t aggregate properly.
So back to the drawing board.
In the meantime, here are some nice photos from earlier this morning. I know, it’s not what you’re looking for, but it will have to do for now.
By the way, I never did find a good substitute for Filemaker as a database for analyzing large data sets on a Mac, and ended up having to bite the bullet and invest in the latest version of the high-priced software. I’ll consider it a birthday present to myself.
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Hawaii’s state capitol is designed as a Pacific island volcano, with central caldera open to the sky, stairwells for lava tubes, pools around it to symbolize the ocean, and automobiles in the Underworld. Business and union leaders confirm and re-enact its status as a sacred mountain by bringing gifts for the legislators and governors who are believed to inhabit it.