Aiiiieeeeee! I just realized Buyblue.org is no longer operational.

[gauguin57]

They can no longer provide the campaign-contribution info on various companies, etc. They also provided information about companies' labor and environmental records, etc.

I know there are other sites with similar missions ... but Buyblue was a great one.

I think I will cry.

:cry:

http://www.buyblue.org/

[Maat]

1. I'll miss their fine work.

Sometimes it seems as if we are fighting the tide.

[Straight Shooter]

2. Well, that just ruined my day.

:(

[mcscajun]

3. ARGH. If only someone would pick up (*even if they had to buy it*) the database.

That's too much work to let go into the ether. :(

Very sad news.

Recommending for Visibility.

[guruoo]

4. k&r

[jasmeel]

5. Why is it down? Anyone know?

[shenmue]

6. What happened?

:(

I liked that site. Hope someone puts it back.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

7. I Updated The Wikipedia Entry

Very sad that such a helpful site is no longer in existence.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. This is a true shame. I loved that site. Crap. I wonder why?

:(

[cyberpj]

9. From the buy blue site re possible alternatives:

Thanks for your support!

The BuyBlue team would like to thank you for all of your support over the past 2 years, unfortunately we are shutting our virtual doors.

We hope that we've been able to educate consumers and inspire people to take action and vote with their wallets. Maybe another group will take up this charge in the future, but for now we can no longer do so.

Just because we won't be online any more does not mean that the information we provided cannot be found any longer. You'll want to keep the following information sources in mind. Also, BuyBlue Colorado, an independent organization, will continue to remain operational.

Federal Election Commission: FEC.gov. The FEC was the primary source for all of our information. Federal election law requires that any donation over $250 be recorded and be publicly available at this web site. Therefore if you search for specific individuals or for specific employers you can always find where large political donations are going.

Open Secrets: Opensecrets.org. Open Secrets presents a large variety of data. They use the FEC as their primary source and we found them particularly useful to study and record donations from political action committees (PACs) which many corporations operate with the explicit purpose of influencing legislation and public policy.

The Blue Fund: The Blue Fund. The Blue Fund is the only mutual fund out there which in addition to creating a portfolio of companies based on traditional social responsibility indicators also uses a methodology similar to ours to rate companies on their political giving practices. Necessarily they have to maintain a list of blue companies in their portfolio which can be found here.

Public Integrity: Public Integrity. Public Integrity is a good place to investigate lobbying dollars spent by various companies. Open Secrets also has some of this data.

Finally, we are donating our data and custom developed Drupal modules to Advomatic who may be reconstituting the project in some form in the future. Grab the RSS feed from their blog page to stay up to date there.

[mcscajun]

10. There's the Good News -- at the bottom of the posting.

"Finally, we are donating our data and custom developed Drupal modules to Advomatic who may be reconstituting the project in some form in the future. Grab the RSS feed from their blog page to stay up to date there."

Keeping my fingers crossed for that future project.