The complaint at issue in yesterday's post about Sen. John Whitmire came after an ethics watchdog pored over raw campaign-finance data — in this case the Houston Democrat's expenditures. 

We have 10 years of this data available on our Web site. To do your own search, go to the app, which is located on our data landing page. There you'll find many ways to slice out data submitted by a specific lawmaker, or expenditure type, or campaign vendor. 

For example, below is a search for the senator's last name and pro sports vendors, as mentioned in the ...

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