Follow The Money ... to ... uh ... Someplace.

The newish website Maplight won some recognition today from Netsquared. Netsquared's one of those techno social change-o thinktanky sites that does something progressive, but we can't tell what. Fortunately, Maplight's purpose is a bit more concrete. They correlate politicians' donations and votes, showing where someone might be motivated more by money than by duty to the citizens.

Alas, there's nothing too damning that we could find on our local pols. Leland Yee got a lot of money from firefighters and voted in their interests 97% of the time. But was it the money that made him do it? Or was it because SF voters just tend to like firefighters? Same for Jackie Speier, who got lots of money from and usually sided with civil servants; and Mark Leno, who has a close relationship with physicians.

Thomas Oller's the only one who sided against all his donors, which proves -- what, exactly? He's ornery?