WeGov has recently launched a state and congressional "contact congress" tool that is integrated into CiviCRM.
This tool allows administrators to create an issue specific campaign that allows their constituents to send issue specific email to their state and federal legislators. Administrators can associate these campaigns with state or federal legislation and include form paragraphs for their users to use. We have been refining this tool for awhile and we are very pleased to offer it inside of a Drupel/CiviCRM install.
Additionall, the tool has social aspects and is avialble as a facebook tab. For example,
http://www.facebook.com/WeGov?v=app_126514070717070
After a campaign is launched we give users the ability to a full set of anaylitics to use in an organizations PR and lobbying efforts.
Due to the large cost of licencing and aggrigating state and federal data, all of our advocacy tools are only availbile as part of the WeGov hosted solution. Our code is independent from CiviCRM and interacts with it via the REST API.
Please go to WeGov.com for more information on our CiviCRM hosting package. It is WeGov's goal to provide a wholesale hosting and service provider model to the CiviCRM community. We want to make it as easy for you too quickly delpoy sites as well have access to powerful advocacy tools that will hopefully help level the cost playing field in the e-advocacy space.
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This sounds interesting but I don't get it? Is the code a publicly available module? Going into core? Only available for your customers?
Thanks for the question updated the post to hopefully anwser your quesiton. Our code is independent from CiviCRM and interacts with it via the REST API.
"Due to the large cost of licencing and aggrigating state and federal data, all of our advocacy tools are only availbile as part of the WeGov hosted solution."
This doesn't make any sense to me:
http://services.sunlightlabs.com/docs/Sunlight_Congress_API/
http://openstates.sunlightlabs.com/api.html
http://drupal.org/project/cd_sunlight
Dalin,
Great comment. I wish that all the state data was less of commodity and states did more to make legislative data more public (would save us considerable amount of money). The sunlight projects currently only have five states in thier API.
http://openstates.sunlightlabs.com/api.status.html
Best,
David