Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs

An anonymous reader writes "Lawrence Lessig has announced plans to kickstart a SuperPAC big enough to make it possible to win a Congress committed to fundamental reform by 2016. From the article: 'If you can’t beat them, join them. Then take them down from the inside. That’s the basic idea behind a super PAC launching Thursday that wants to destroy super PACs for good. The Mayday PAC, as it’s called, seeks to raise enough money to sway five House elections in 2014 and elect representatives who have committed to pressing for serious reform of the campaign finance system. If that endeavor—a sort of test case—is successful, the PAC will then try to raise an enormous amount of money for the 2016 cycle—enough, PAC organizers hope, to buy Congress."

Comments

Re: What is the point?

[xevioso]

Probably, yes, because they will do intelligent things with it, like support health care, fund NASA, or provide food stamps.

I wouldn't mind the token republican or two, preferably from a NE state. Got any ideas?

Re:What is the point?

[Nimey]

It's true and I hope that someone better wins the D nomination in '16, but if it comes down to her and a Republican I'm going to have to vote against the Republican; as much as HC would be a bad choice it's a cinch that the other guy would be worse.

Don't natter at me about third parties; thanks to first-past-the-post voting for them really is a wasted vote, because you'll never convince enough people to vote for a minor party most of them have never heard of.