Cal-Access was built during the Clinton administration and was innovative for it's time: it provides a way for anybody to look up campaign finance and lobbying expenditure activity. Together, these two data sets represent a large part of the influence buying going on in California's government. It's a rickety yet useful website. Starting with the positive, there are some things I adore about Cal-Access: URLs are stable and meaningful. The site is not interactive - HTML is returned from the se...
