Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions About His Mayday PAC, Part 2 (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday July 1, 2014 @08:13AM from the an-important-work-that-only-a-few-people-will-ever-care-about dept.

The original Mayday PAC goal was to raise $1 million. Now Larry is working on a second -- and more ambitious -- goal: To raise $5 million by July 4. We called for your questions on June 23, and you sent a bunch of them. This time, instead of using email, we used Google Hangout to ask via video, with an attached transcript for those who can't or won't watch the video. In today's video, Larry tells us that some of the impetus for Mayday PAC came from the late Aaron Swartz, and goes deeper into the group's goals and hopes than he did in yesterday's video. (Alternate Video Link)

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Re:Good idea by timrod · 2014-07-01 07:24 · Score: 3, Informative

From what I understand, the difference between Mayday and Wolf-PAC Is that Wolf-PAC is specifically calling for an Article V Constitutional Convention, while Mayday plans to fund politicians to get campaign finance reform legislation passed without the use of a constitutional amendment. Same basic goal, very different methods.
Re:Good idea by guises · 2014-07-01 09:47 · Score: 3, Informative

No, that's wholly inaccurate. Mayday is strictly about campaign finance reform and nothing else. It's not about a return to constitutional values, it has nothing to do with the constitution, and it's not right or left wing.