When a State Rep Becomes a State Senator

[JonathanCohn]

Walter Timilty was a state rep but is now a state senator. Can we pull his House record into his Senate page?

[aholachek]

This would be a lot easier if we had persistent ids for each legislator. Right now I am trying to assign each person in the csv file their open states id, but as @harmonywho and you have found it can be a brittle process for various reasons, some of them having to do with the limitations of the open states api. I'd like to have a conversation about data normalization and standardization before enhancing the parsing logic on the backend, since otherwise it will involve more custom code than ideally necessary.

[aholachek]

Hmm I just reminded myself how the vote to legislator matching is done and it's actually doable in this case -- but wouldn't the UI be confusing? you'd switch to house bills in the 2015 tab, then senate bills in the 2017 tab, right?

[JonathanCohn]

Yeah, you'd have to do that--maybe just have a way of noting the difference. I'd be happy to meet up with you and @harmonywho sometime over the next week (or, if not the next week, later in the month) about data normalization stuff. Thanks!

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[aholachek]

Great! I'll send you an email and CC Harmony with my availability.