How do the campaign finance `Committee` and core `Organization` models overlap? about python-opencivicdata HOT 1 OPEN

1 (and also 2, I guess): So Organization is in the core module and defined generically, but it's non-abstract? I'm far out of my depth re: Popolo and OCD classifications, but those seem like reasons it'd be a fair candidate for subclassing.

3: Yes, for sure. Though, since it's not always clear from a disclosure whether a donor is a person, company or even committee, would it be better to have a generic donor entity with flags for person, committee or organization? Not sure how to distinguish between the latter two; companies are clearly organizations and not committees; on the other hand, the entity doing the donating on behalf of a company is often a committee set up by that company. Some disclosures in some jurisdictions, filed by some campaigns, make it (reasonably) clear which is which, but many do not.

4: Yeah, there can be fairly intricate relationships between different types of committees and organizations. In WA, the state D and R parties have specific committees who fundraise and make donations to candidates in each chamber of the legislature (Kennedy Fund, Truman Fund, etc). Those committees are essentially controlled by the state parties, but nominally different entities.

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