Not long ago in earth years, but eons ago in "blog years", Glen Reynolds from the popular
Instapundit.com proposed to idea of aggregating the time, resources, and energy of bloggers to identify wasteful Washington spenders. N.Z. Bear (aka Rob Neppell) from
truthlaidbear.com stepped it up a notch by launching
Porkbusters.org. Together, along with a broad coalition of center-right bloggers, they exposed those who secretly held up the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 and awarded the first recipients of the Porkbusters Hall of Shame.
Glen Reynold's Orginal Blog Post:
September 18, 2005
SO THE EARLIER PORK POST -- in which various bloggers posted and emailed about pork in their states -- looked kind of promising, and N.Z. Bear and I got together to figure out a way to take it up a notch.
How are we going to mobilize the blogosphere in support of cuts in wasteful spending to support Katrina relief? Here's the plan.
Identify some wasteful spending in your state or (even better) Congressional District. Put up a blog post on it. Go to N.Z. Bear's new PorkBusters page and list the pork, and add a link to your post.
Then call your Senators and Representative and ask them if they're willing to support having that program cut or -- failing that -- what else they're willing to cut in order to fund Katrina relief. (Be polite, identify yourself as a local blogger and let them know you're going to post the response on your blog). Post the results. Then go back to NZ Bear's page and post a link to your followup blog post.
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