Starting last week, redistricting commissioners in Washington State have been releasing proposed maps for legislative and congressional districts. Democratic appointees April Sims and Brady Piñero Walkinshaw and Republican appointees Paul Graves and Jo Fain have taken different approaches to moving borders in Thurston County and around Olympia. In this post I’ll take a look at…
Month: September 2021
What the network graph of campaign contributions tells us about the Olympia City Council races
Over the last few days, I’ve been pulling down Public Disclosure Commission data and putting together a network graph of financial contributions among city council candidates. This illustrates the flow of individual contributions to campaigns and between candidates. This shows, in a broad sense, of how candidates are connected by who is contributing to them….