One of my heroes, Larry Lessig, is considering running for the US Congress in order to create his Change Congress bipartisan coalition. Congress members of this coalition will pledge three things:
- Not accept money from lobbyists or PACs
- Work to ban "earmarks"
- Support public finance of political campaigns.
The goal of the Change Congress movement is to take the unethical influence of money out of our political process. As Lessig puts it, this is not the most important problem we need to solve, but it is the first problem we need to solve if we are ever going to correctly solve the other problems.
In his usual pithy and eloquent way, Professor Lessig describes his current thoughts in a video: 10 minutes to announce two ideas. Do you want to see real change? Support Professor Lessig.









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