Jerry Brito is an expert in open government issues at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Brito was the driving force behind the excellent Stimulus Watch website. With the help of some other notable experts, he’s now turned his efforts toward earmarks, another area of government badly in need of transparency and public accountability:

Since the White House has not delivered on their promise to provide a unified database of earmarks, Brito and colleagues, Jim Harper (WashingtonWatch.com) and Gunnar Helleckson (Red Hat), have organized EarmarkData.org.