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A citizen-funded super PAC, to end all super PACs.
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Mayday PAC in the Media
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# Mayday PAC in the Media
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###[The Atlantic: A Real Step to Fix Democracy](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/a-real-step-to-fix-democracy/371898/)
> In January, Gallup found that Americans from across the political spectrum picked the failure of “government” as the top problem facing America today. The vast majority link that failure to the influence of money in politics. Yet more than 90 percent of us don’t see how that influence could be reduced. Washington won’t fix itself, so who else could fix it?
> It turns out the framers of our Constitution thought about this problem precisely. Two days before the Constitution was complete, they noticed a bug. In the version they were considering, only Congress could propose amendments to the Constitution. That led Virginia’s George Mason to ask, what if Congress itself was the problem?
> It was an obvious flaw, and it led the drafters to add a second path to amendment that Congress couldn’t control: If 34 states demand it, Congress must call “a convention for proposing Amendments.”
###[LA Times: Harvard professor's 'super PAC' aims to end power of 'super PACs'](http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-harvard-professor-super-pac-big-money-politics-20140523-story.html)
> Is it possible to create a "super PAC" that would end the power of super PACs by drawing enough Americans into the system to limit the influence of big money in politics? And is it possible to get voters excited about a subject as dry as campaign finance? Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig is leading a crusade to answer both those questions with a yes.
> If the Mayday PAC is able to take out five members of Congress this cycle “who are on the wrong side of this issue,” Lessig said, “then when 2016 comes around, magically a whole bunch of members of Congress would be on the right side of this issue, and we would have a narrower range of people that we would have to be going after, and we would have very good data
###[The Huffington Post: The Super PAC To End All Super PACs Gets Off To A Super Start](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/mayone-lawrence-lessig_n_5333020.html)
> WASHINGTON -- On May 1, Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig launched what he calls
a "super PAC to end all super PACs." Lessig, one of a new breed of campaign
finance reformers, wants to change the corrupted system by which politicians
now raise money for their campaigns.
> The irony is to get money out of politics, reformers must raise money of their own.
On that measure, Lessig's new organization has gotten off to a super start.
### [Washington Post Opinions: Matt Miller: “A ‘money bomb’ for 2016″](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/matt-miller-a-money-bomb-for-2016/2013/05/29/c01d0e88-c85c-11e2-8da7-d274bc611a47_story.html)
> Just when you were fed up with our petty, craven politics and were ready to
write off the next few years as a circus of filibusters, gridlock and
investigations, comes an idea so simple yet subversive that it offers a
glorious ray of hope.
> Call it [Lawrence Lessig's](http://www.lessig.org/) "money bomb." It’s an
ingenious plan to make the drive for small-dollar publicly funded elections a
central issue in 2016. With a little luck, the Harvard law professor’s idea
could help save the republic.
### [Moyers & Company: "Lawrence Lessig Has a 'Moonshot' Plan to Halt Our Slide Toward Plutocracy"](http://billmoyers.com/2014/04/25/lawrence-lessig-has-a-moonshot-plan-to-halt-our-slide-toward-plutocracy/)
> Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, the crusader for campaign finance reform, feels
that his fellow reformers don’t think big or boldly enough to inspire the kind
of grassroots campaign that might break elite donors’ stranglehold on
America’s political system.
> In a recent piece in [*The
Atlantic*](http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/campaign-finance-and-the-nihilist-politics-of-resignation/360437/),
Lessig argues that public cynicism about the prospect of deep reform actually
working is the only thing keeping widespread outrage at our slide toward
plutocracy in check. And he thinks that only a “moonshot” campaign — an
ambitious, collective, national effort “unlike anything they’ve seen before” —
can “crack this cynicism” and usher in a more democratic system.
### <a href="http://time.com/84556/lawrence-lessig-superpac/" target="_blank">Time: Campaign Finance Reformer Launches Super PAC to End Super PACs</a>
> Mayday PAC was already 8 percent of the way toward its goal by Thursday
afternoon with more than $75,000 pledged and nearly 31 days left to reach its
target.
> To say Mayday PAC faces an uphill fight is an understatement. Proponents of
serious campaign finance reform face strong opponents in both parties, and the
Supreme Court and lower courts have issued rulings in recent years striking
down or throwing into doubt a wide array of restrictions on political
spending.
> If the idea behind Mayday PAC sounds absurd, that’s by design. Cynicism and
defeatism about government run so deep through American politics, Lessig
believes, that the only way to “crack this cynicism” is with an idea so
exceedingly ambitious—a “moonshoot,” he calls it—that people might be roused
to get behind it.
> “We must show Americans something unlike anything they’ve seen before,”
Lessig <a style="color: #0c97d2;"
href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/campaign-finance-and-the-nihilist-politics-of-resignation/360437/">writes</a>.
### <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/05/01/3433006/mayday-super-pac-launches-to-end-super-pacs/" target="_blank">ThinkProgress: Anti-Dark Money Activist Lawrence Lessig Launches A Super PAC To End Super PACs</a>
> <a
href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf"
target="_blank">Recent studies</a> have found that wealthy Americans’
influence over politics has grown significantly over the past few
decades. Just a few hours after the launch, the Super PAC had raised nearly
$50,000 — 5 percent of its $1 million goal.
### <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/88825/there-s-a-new-super-pac-to-end-all-super-pacs-and-it-could-radically-change-politics?utm_source=policymicTWTR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social" target="_blank">PolicyMic: There’s a New “Super PAC to End All Super PACs” — And It Could Radically Change Politics</a>
> **So far, it’s working.** In just a few days, with hardly any publicity,
they’ve managed to raise over $350,000 dollars with a short-term goal of $1
million.
### <a href="http://on.msnbc.com/1iospFz">MSNBC: Ronan Farrow Daily, 5/06/2014</a>
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://on.msnbc.com/1iospFz"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-10167" src="../images/msnbc.png" alt="msnbc" width="640" height="472"></a></p>
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### <a href="http://www.upworthy.com/a-brilliant-plan-to-give-billionaires-who-try-to-buy-us-elections-a-taste-of-their-own-medicine?c=fea" target="_blank">Upworthy: A Brilliant Plan To Give Billionaires Who Try To Buy U.S. Elections A Taste Of Their Own Medicine</a>
> How bad has the money-in-politics situation gotten? A new study by researchers
at Princeton and Northwestern universities found that, and I’m quoting
directly here: “When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of
organized interest groups are controlled for, <em>the preferences of the
average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically
non-significant impact</em> upon public policy.”
### <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/09/_n_5295544.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post: A Brilliant Plan To Give Billionaires Who Try To Buy U.S. Elections A Taste Of Their Own Medicine</a>
### <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4uRSMTCJxw" target="_blank">WGBH News/Greater Boston: Lawrence Lessig’s New Approach to Campaign Finance Reform</a>
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