"Co-sponsor" House Legislation: There's an app for that

Well, it is a Facebook app sponsored by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Called Citizen CoSponsor, it allows users to track  and comment on House legislation. Citizen CoSponsor also "provides the majority leader's office with an interesting new grassroots marketing tool for the Republican party's ideas." Quoting from Sarah Lai Stirland's TechPresident story. She adds "For now, the list of legislation that citizens can choose to support is controlled, of course, by Cantor's office and is listed on a section of his web site." (Meaning MajorityLeader.gov.)

This could backfire. All one has to do is "co-sponsor" a bill one opposes and speak one's mind by adding comments. [JH]