Thursday, May 01, 2014

SuperPAC to end all SuperPacs

Lawrence Lessig has launched MayOne.us, a SuperPAC to end all SuperPacs. They're raising money Kickstarter-style to make campaign funding a central issue in 5 congressional races in 2014 with more to come in 2016. They're trying to raise $1 million in May and then $5 million in June, both of which will be matched. 100% of the funds raised will go to the cause, all overhead is covered.

"Any candidate for Congress who has pledged to co-sponsor one of these reforms will be safe from the Mayday PAC. At this point, we will only target candidates who have not committed to co-sponsoring fundamental reform."

Here's the plan in Larry's own words:

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