sunlightlabs/openstates — Issue #124: All MA legislators are showing up republican
Author: paultag
Created: 2011-12-16 20:03:26+00:00
State: open

See:

http://openstates.org/api/v1/legislators/?state=ma&apikey=$KEY

grep for "Democratic" - none found

Compare to:

http://www.malegislature.gov/People/House

Let's take "James Arciero" (D)

{
"active": true,
"chamber": "lower",
"country": "us",
"created_at": "2011-07-08 21:34:37",
"district": "Second Middlesex",
"email": "James.Arciero@mahouse.gov",
"first_name": "James",
"full_name": "James Arciero",
"id": "MAL000044",
"last_name": "Arciero",
"leg_id": "MAL000044",
"level": "state",
"middle_name": "",
"party": "Republican",
"photo_url": "http://www.malegislature.gov/Images/MemberProfile/Web/jarciero.jpg",
"state": "ma",
"suffixes": "",
"transparencydata_id": "3b8bf5cfb0c24bb495abb6de145c8219",
"updated_at": "2011-12-16 04:16:51",
"url": "http://www.malegislature.gov/People/Profile/J_A1",
"votesmart_id": "109539"
}