Wu-Tang is for campaign finance

Contributions Rule Everything Around Me - C.R.E.A.M.

Protect Ya Seats

I bet $1 million U.S. that you can’t find a more frustrating website to use than ORESTAR. It’s built like a damn Geocities site circa 1997.

But the information it unlocks is synonymously amazing & depressing. ORESTAR is essentially a running list of receipts documenting the disastrous state of campaign finance in Oregon.

It’s more than that, though.

It’s an unassailable arbiter of which interests have purchased what candidates.

A ledger of legalized bribery.

Let’s dig around, shall we?

Couple of things to keep in mind when looking at ORESTAR data: