Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard professor and democratic theorist, is thinking of running for president.
On Tuesday morning, Mr. Lessig will announce that he will explore a protest bid for the Democratic nomination. If he can raise $1 million in small donations by Labor Day, Mr. Lessig said, he will run.
The effort follows years of more conventional activism, including New Hampshire protest marches that gave Mr. Lessig a following in liberal circles and a “super PAC” that in 2014 tried to elect Democratic and Republican candidates who would back efforts to empower small donors in politics. The effort mostly failed.
“The reason I’ve been driven to this is the constant ’emperor wears no clothes’ feeling about this election,” said Mr. Lessig, who will also campaign against gerrymandering and restrictive voting laws. “We need a plan for un-rigging the system first, and none of the candidates have given us that plan.”
He added: “You want to rail against Wall Street, as O’Malley does or Bernie Sanders does? Great” But, he continued, “unless you fix the way we fund campaigns, we’re not going to take on the largest funders of congressional campaigns in America.”
Mr. Lessig said if he could raise enough money, he would campaign “24 hours a day” for the Democratic nomination. He also said there were “a hundred successes short of” winning the White House.
Citizen Equality Act of 2017
1. Equal freedom to vote. Stop voter id and other similar laws making it harder to register and vote.
2. Equal Representation. Change in representation to something like the use of ranked choice voting (Larry speaks favorably of Fairvote in this context.
3. Citizen funded elections
CLICK HERE for Lessig For President website.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker
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