Convio eCRM Advocacy Legislative Data Update for 2009

Joseph Poirier

Elected official data for 2009 legislators went live on the Convio platform Monday evening 1/5/09. This includes data for newly elected legislators in the 111th Congress that will be sworn in today, as well as data for state legislators and state officials such as state governors, state lt. governors, etc. Federal and state committee data is still very sparse and will be updated as more information becomes known as to the composition of those committees.

Many newly elected legislators do not have complete contact information (web sites, email addresses or webforms) yet. Legislator information will be updated as further data becomes available through our data vendor or our own data analysis.

The U.S. Senate offices for Illinois and Minnesota are currently listed as Vacant within our data. As the outcome of the seating and swearing-in of legislators for those offices becomes finalized, our data will be updated to include those new legislators.

Some state officials, such as state governors, will be officially sworn into office at later dates in January, however, our data now reflects all new state officials for 2009.

Legislators who are still within their term but are expected to leave office will continue to be listed as holding their office until their resignation.

You can read more about these procedures by reading this post:

Joseph Poirier

Overnight Tuesday the Convio Advocacy data was updated to include further new web sites and email addresses and/or webform URLs for federal Senators and Representatives sworn in to the 111th Congress on Tuesday. Previously, some of the legislators in the U.S. Congress did not have websites and electronic contact information (email addresses or webforms) defined.

We noticed a few webforms this morning that were failing for various legislators, at both the federal and state levels. Those will be updated overnight.

Additionally, we updated contact information (email addresses) for state senators and state representatives in the Colorado legislature.

We will be continuing to update federal and state information this week and next as more information comes in from our data vendor and our own internal data analysis.

Joseph Poirier

Overnight Monday the Convio Advocacy data was updated to include

a President record for President Obama and a Vice-President record for Vice-President Biden, who are being sworn in on Tuesday. Additionally, a record was added for incoming First Lady Michelle Obama.

NOTE: As of Tuesday morning, we do not have electronic contact information for President Obama or Vice-President Biden, since their web pages and email addresses have not officially gone live. Once their new web pages go live later today, we will update our electronic contact information. Updated data will go into effect overnight Tuesday.

The Federal Cabinet entries for President Obama are currently limited to Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, since other officials have not yet been officially confirmed. As they are confirmed, new records will be added to the Federal Cabinet folder within the Target List page.

New federal Senator records for Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) and Senator Ed Kaufman (D-DE) have also been added.

Finally, hundreds of other federal and state legislator and federal and state committee records have been updated in various ways, primarily with postal address, phone and fax numbers.

We will be continuing to update federal and state information this week

and next as more information comes in from our data vendor and our own

internal data analysis.

Joseph Poirier

Following up on my January 20 comment, we now have configured our system to submit comments to President Obama through his new webform located at .

It took a few days to work out some issues with the webform submission, so the new Obama webform was not fully operational until mid-day Tuesday, January 27. Prior to that time, most deliveries to President Obama would have failed and shown up as failures in the Advocacy Delivery Failure Report.

If you are a Convio admin with access to Advocacy reports and are seeing failures in your Advocacy reports for President Obama, you can click the "Retry" link for those failures. The deliveries will be re-queued and should go through successfully now.

Finally, we are in the process of finishing up another advocacy data update which will include all the Federal Cabinet officers sworn in to this point. It will also remove the change.gov target from the Advocacy Target List. That target ( ) is now defunct... and visitors who go to that URL are encouraged to submit comments to the Contact page on whitehouse.gov instead. I will update this thread when that new data update is installed to production.

Joseph Poirier

As additional followup, late last week we deployed further data updates to the Convio eCRM advocacy data.

These updates primarily resolved around new records for President Obama's Cabinet. Previous to this update, the following Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials were available:

Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff

Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense

New records were added for several officials sworn in recently. These include:

Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State

Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education

Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury

Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative

Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation

Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security

Peter Orszag, Director, OMB

Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA

Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior

Eric Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture

Some federal Cabinet positions remain to be confirmed by the Senate. Until such time as those secretaries-designee have been confirmed, the following acting secretaries will be listed:

Mark Filip, Acting Attorney General

Charles Johnson, Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services

Howard Radzely, Acting Secretary of Labor

Patrick Ward, Acting Secretary of National Drug Control Policy

For legislators above who vacated seats or offices, we now list their replacements, when available. A few vacated positions remained Vacant due to replacements not being officially sworn into office late last week.

For all the above officials, phone numbers and fax numbers are available. However, at this time, we do not have email addresses or web form URLs yet defined. Convio will continue to work on obtaining and configuring that information as data becomes available.

We also removed the record for change.gov, since the Contact webform for that site is now defunct.

Many other updates to address, phone, fax, email and webform data were made to other legislators, and additional committee representation was added for several states.

Convio will continue to make further data updates and monitor our systems for successful deliveries of action alert messages.

Joseph Poirier

Here is another follow-up on our advocacy data updates.

Back on February 6, we updated our advocacy data to bring in some new Federal Cabinet positions and other new legislators, as well as a number of improvements to state-level legislators and committee assignments.

This past Tuesday night, February 24, we updated our advocacy data again to the latest data we have available. Most of the Federal Cabinet is now in place, though there are still a few individuals in Acting positions as we wait for President Obama's official picks for those positions to be confirmed. We will be adding the "Director, National Drug Control Policy" position back in as a Cabinet-level position in the near future. Additionally, many legislator records - mostly at the state level - were updated to reflect more accurate phone, fax, email, web site and web form information.

Convio will continue to make further data updates and monitor our systems for successful deliveries of action alert messages.

Information for phone, fax, email, web site and web form are being updated daily.

New records for legislators and officials are being added roughly weekly, as we get such new data from our data vendor.

Joseph Poirier

Late last week we updated our advocacy data to bring in some additional new Federal Cabinet positions and other new legislators. The following new legislators were added to our data:

Federal Cabinet

Hilda Solis - Federal Secretary of Labor

Federal Representatives
Vacant - California U.S. House district 32

State Executives

Bill Mims - Virginia State Attorney General

State Senators

Kyle McCarter - Illinois State Senate district 51

David Argall - Pennsylvania State Senate district 29

Vacant - Alaska State Senate district B

Vacant - New Hampshire State Senate district 3

Vacant - Ohio State Senate district 5

State Representatives

Rod Scott - Alabama State House district 55

Rosa Rebimbas - Connecticut State House district 70

Gwyndolen Clarke-Reed - FL State House district 92

Buddy Carter - Georgia State House district 159

Denny Coffman - Hawaii State House district 6

Anthony DeLuca - Illinois State House district 80

Elizabeth Hannig - Illinois State House district 98

Don Navinsky - Kansas State House district 40

Gregory Ernst - Louisiana State House district 94

Larry DeShazor - Michigan State House district 61

John Hackney - North Carolina State House district 54

John Dimaio - New Jersey State House district 23

Celeste Riley - New Jersey State House district 3

Carmen Cruz Soto - Puerto Rico State House district 0

Brenda Lopez de Arraras - Puerto Rico State House district 0

Julissa Nolasco Ortiz - Puerto Rico State House district 23

Sylvia Rodríguez Aponte - Puerto Rico State House district 31

Ed Iron Cloud - South Dakota State House district 27

Gerald Reis - Vermont State House district 16

Kitty Toll - Vermont State House district 18

Jeffrey Young - Vermont State House district 46

Laura Gant-Herriot - Washington State House district 16

Penny Bernard Schaber - Wisconsin State House district 57

Robert McKim - Wyoming State House district 21

Vacant - Alabama State House district 6

Vacant - Pennsylvania State House district 124

Vacant - Washington State House district 15

Convio will continue to make further data updates and monitor our systems for successful deliveries of action alert messages.

Information for existing legislators for phone, fax, email, web site and web form fields are being updated daily.

Chris Burley

Joseph Poirier:

As additional followup, late last week we deployed further data updates to the Convio eCRM advocacy data.

These updates primarily resolved around new records for President Obama's Cabinet. Previous to this update, the following Cabinet members and other high-ranking officials were available:

Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff

Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense

New records were added for several officials sworn in recently. These include:

Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State

Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education

Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury

Ron Kirk, U.S. Trade Representative

Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation

Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security

Peter Orszag, Director, OMB

Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the EPA

Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior

Eric Shinseki, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture

Some federal Cabinet positions remain to be confirmed by the Senate. Until such time as those secretaries-designee have been confirmed, the following acting secretaries will be listed:

Mark Filip, Acting Attorney General

Charles Johnson, Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services

Howard Radzely, Acting Secretary of Labor

Patrick Ward, Acting Secretary of National Drug Control Policy

For legislators above who vacated seats or offices, we now list their replacements, when available. A few vacated positions remained Vacant due to replacements not being officially sworn into office late last week.

For all the above officials, phone numbers and fax numbers are available. However, at this time, we do not have email addresses or web form URLs yet defined. Convio will continue to work on obtaining and configuring that information as data becomes available.

We also removed the record for change.gov, since the Contact webform for that site is now defunct.

Many other updates to address, phone, fax, email and webform data were made to other legislators, and additional committee representation was added for several states.

Convio will continue to make further data updates and monitor our systems for successful deliveries of action alert messages.

How is Convio submitting email to Sec. of the Interior Salazar? Is there a target address or are you passing data through a contact form?

Joseph Poirier

Chris Burley:

How is Convio submitting email to Sec. of the Interior Salazar? Is there a target address or are you passing data through a contact form?

cburley,

RE: How we are submitting to Federal Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar?

We are currently submitting a webform through http://www.doi.gov/contact.html.

Cheers,

Joseph

Joseph Poirier

On Monday, we updated our Convio eCRM advocacy data with the latest legislator data from our vendor.

Most importantly, this update also included our quarterly zip-to-district update. Many ZIP+4 codes were added, and other pre-existing codes were updated to map to correct districts.

For legislators, the following new legislators were added:

Federal Cabinet

Gary Locke - Federal Secretary of Commerce

State Senators

Fred Strahorn - Ohio State Senate district 5

State Representatives

Daniel Kagan - Colorado State House district 3

David Baram - Connecticut State House district 15

Ann-Margaret Ferrante - Massachusetts State House district 29

Albert Pearce - Vermont State House district 49

Lawrence Townsend - Vermont State House district 58

Therese Taylor - Vermont State House district 80

Vacant - New Hampshire State House district 33

Joseph Poirier

On Thursday, May 7, we updated our Convio eCRM advocacy data with the latest legislator data from our vendor.

For legislators, the following new legislators were added:

Federal Cabinet

Kathleen Sebelius - Federal Secretary of Health and Human Services

Demetrois Marantis - Nominee Deputy U.S. Trade Representative

State Governors and State Lieutenant Governors

Mark Parkinson - Kansas state governor

Vacant - Kansas state lieutenant governor

State Officials

Richard Svobodny - Alaska state attorney general

State Senators

Dennis Egan - Alaska state senator district B

Dan Claitor - Louisiana state senator district 16

Jeb Bradley - New Hampshire state senator district 3

Vacant - North Carolina state senator district 14

State Representatives

Bobby Parham - Georgia state representative district 141

Mike Quigley - Illinois federal representative district 5

Charles Young - Mississippi state representative district 82

Scott Murphy - New York federal representative district 20

Steve Moss - South Carolina state representative district 30

Dan Taylor - Washington state representative district 15

Vacant - Vinginia state representative district 69

Joseph Poirier

On Thursday, May 21, we updated our Convio eCRM advocacy data with the latest legislator data from our vendor.

For legislators, the following new legislators were added:

Federal Representatives

J. Randy Forbes - Virginia federal representative district 4

State Governors and State Lieutenant Governors

Troy Findley - Kansas state lieutenant governor

State Senators

Gaoteote Palaie Tofau - American Samoa state senator at-large

Mike Johnston - Colorado state senator district 33

Elbert Guillory - Louisiana state senator district 24

Sonia Chang-Díaz - Massachusetts state senator district 32

Roberto Arango - Puerto Rico state senator district 1

State Representatives

Jared Brossett - Louisiana state representative district 97

Michael Colona - Missouri state representative district 67

Susan Allen - Missouri state representative district 92

Nancy Munoz - New Jersey state representative district 21

Vacant - Georgia state representative district 58

Vacant - New Hampshire state representative district 71

Joseph Poirier

Earlier this week, on Wednesday, July 8, we updated our Convio eCRM advocacy data with the latest legislator data from our vendor.

We corrected an issue where certain legislators were being listed twice in our Vote Center scorecards.

For legislators, the following new legislators were added:

Federal Senators
Al Franken - Minnesota federal senator

Federal Representatives
Vacant Vacant - California federal representative district 10

State Officials
Daniel Sullivan - Alaska state attorney general

Teresa Miller - Oregon state insurance commissioner

Vacant Vacant - New York state insurance commissioner

State Senators
Priscilla Dunn - Alabama state senator district 19

Marc Keahey - Alabama state senator district 22

Paul Sanford - Alabama state senator district 7

Gaoteote Tofau - American Samoa state senator district 0

Curren Price - California state senator district 26

Pat Steadman - Colorado state senator district 31

Edward Reilly - Maryland state senator district 33

Daniel Blue - North Carolina state senator district 14

Louis DiPalma - Rhode Island state senator district 12

Frank DeVall - Rhode Island state senator district 18

Frank Deem - West Virginia state senator district 3

Vacant Vacant - Delaware state senator district 19

Vacant Vacant - Indiana state senator district 30

Vacant Vacant - Nevada state senator district 12

Vacant Vacant - Ohio state senator district 7

Vacant Vacant - Wyoming state senator district 11

Vacant Vacant - Alabama state representative district 56

State Representatives
Vailoata Amituanai - American Samoa state representative district 7

Max Tyler - Colorado state representative district 23

Aaron Michlewitz - Massachusetts state representative district 126

Frank Iler - North Carolina state representative district 17

Rosa Gill - North Carolina state representative district 33

Dan Ingle - North Carolina state representative district 64

Vanessa Gibson - New York state representative district 77

Marcos Crespo - New York state representative district 85

Jerry Knowles - PA state representative district 124

Karen MacBeth - Rhode Island state representative district 52

Roberto DaSilva - Rhode Island state representative district 63

Vacant Vacant - California state representative district 51

Vacant Vacant - Georgia state representative district 129

Vacant Vacant - New York state representative district 38

Vacant Vacant - Tennessee state representative district 62

Vacant Vacant - Virginia state representative district 80