The Fund for the Public Interest raises money for all kinds of liberal causes, but a lawsuit has forced it to pay millions of dollars in overtime to its legions of idealistic door-knockers.
Luke Rosiak, an investigative and computer-assisted reporter at the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, DC, is a former reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle and researcher for the Center for Responsive Politics. He has written about money in politics for publications such as Politico.