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Courtesy Flush

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 09:36 AM Jun 2014

Anybody know anything about MAYDAY PAC?

Read about it here. http://www.vice.com/read/we-talked-to-larry-lessig-about-the-super-pac-to-end-all-super-pacs?utm_source=vicenewsletter

Harvard Professor Larry Lessig, friend of the late hactivist Aaron Swartz and a longtime advocate for net neutrality and ending political corruption, has been on a tear. This winter, he led the New Hampshire Rebellion, a 185-mile walk across the freezing Granite State intended to draw attention to the problem of money infecting everything our government does. He recently celebrated his birthday with likeminded activists in California, where he joined the March for Democracy, a 480-mile hike through the state in protest of what the group calls America's current "plutocracy"-based government.

Now Lessig is talking the talk as well as walking the walk—he's starting a Super PAC to end them all, a sort of Kickstarter campaign he hopes will raise enough unregulated cash to oust some of the entrenched assholes who run Congress with an eye toward making themselves rich. He plans on collecting $12 million by November in order to unseat a handful of legislators who are particularly in the thrall of big money, and intends to seriously step up his game come the 2016 election and radically change what Washington looks like—potentially complicating the ascent of Wall Street favorite Hillary Clinton. I called up Lessig to find out whether this is different from all those other lofty bipartisan reform projects that seem to inevitably flame out.


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Anybody know anything about MAYDAY PAC? (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Jun 2014 OP
Lessig's one of the Good Guys Moliere Jun 2014 #1
Out of Everything else fredamae Jun 2014 #2
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