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Lessig Campaign and the Change Congress Movement
GoldenShale wrote a follow up to last week's discussion about Lessig running for congress. He writes "Larry Lessig has created a Lessig08 website, and it looks like he is getting serious about running for congress. In his introduction video he proposes the creation of a national "Change Congress" movement which would try to limit the influence of money in the electoral and legislative processes. Having a technologically savvy representative and a clear intellectual leader to head this kind of movement is exactly what we need to counter the last 8 years of corporate dominance in government."
And will we limit the financial influence of non-corporate groups? The environmental lobby for instance. Of course not. That would be silly, right? We only limit the influence of people acting in their own interests, ironically. Fortunately, non-corporate entities never have a vested interest in the power the influence gives them.