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Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line

Posted by timothy on from the latest-midnight-they-could-find dept.

First time accepted submitter SingleEntendre (1273012) writes "Time is running out for the Mayday PAC to reach its latest crowd funding goal of $5M. The total currently stands at $4.5M. Led by Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, the Mayday PAC seeks to reduce the influence of money in US politics by 2016, primarily by identifying and supporting congressional candidates who share this vision. If phase 2 is successful, with matching funds the total raised will be $12M. A self-imposed deadline arrives at of midnight tonight, July 4th, Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time (HAST)." (And now the total's at $4,700,066.)

4 of 117 comments (clear)

  1. Creative Commons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lessig is the guy who helped get Creative Commons off the ground. He actually does stuff. This isn't the same old story.

    1. Re:Creative Commons by brownerthanu · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yes. He has a long history of general badassery. There are only a few people who I can think of who have the reputation and intelligence to properly navigate a project of this scale, and he is certainly one of them. I really hope that the fund makes it through to the next stage. It looks like it will.

  2. Re: If you take the bait by JWW · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Exactly! I refuse it to support Mayday until they stand up for term limits. I asked a question about this in the "Ask Larry about Mayday" story. Then they used a "new and improved format" for his responses and dumped my +5 rated question.

    Mayday, if they succeed will give us the same thing we have now, lifetime legislators. Their voucher system will end up a Massive advantage to incumbents.

  3. Made it! by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 5, Informative

    The counter just tipped over $5M a moment ago. Let's see what Lessig et al. can do with our (mine and 47K other people's) money.