Earlier this year, a reporter at NBC News posted on X that she’s “not sure [she] will ever recover from learning” that a colleague gets restaurant recommendations from Federal Election Commission filings, the periodic reports that reveal how candidates for Congress and the White House spend their campaign dollars.
Her colleague tweeted in reply: “If one of the 535 people who run our legislature is gonna spend thousands of dollars at a barbecue place I’ve never heard of, you better believe I’m gonna go to there.” Immediately, we had questions.
Do political campaigns know something about America’s restaurant scene that we don’t? Do Republicans and Democrats dine differently?
Thus began our effort to glean gems of dining wisdom from the seemingly mundane depths of the nation’s campaign finance reports.
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