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MayDay PAC, The Good Fight with Ben Wikler

New Good Fight On Lessig’s MayDay PAC; After the Elections

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What $10 million buys you in U.S. politics

(November 11, 2014) Mayday SuperPAC, Lawrence Lessig’s anti-corruption moonshot, lost nearly all of its races in the 2014 midterm election. Does that mean it failed? Did Politico’s screamer headline, “How to waste $10 million,” tell the whole story? Or does the shadow of money in politics extend beyond mere wins and losses?

Professor Lessig and the Progressive Campaign Change Committee’s Adam Green take us behind the vote tally and into the heart of the campaign-finance darkness for part 3 of The Good Fight’s Mayday 2014 trilogy.

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Lessig Announces The MayDay PAC’s Next Move

Lessig has announced the first two candidates that MayDay PAC is supporting!

One is Staci Appel, a Democrat running for a congressional seat in Iowa.

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The other is Jim Rubens, a Republican in the New Hampshire senate race.

It’s in the NY Times:

Spending Big to Fight Big Donors in Campaigns

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JULY 28, 2014

From the article:

A major part of the effort, which will first take shape in Iowa and New Hampshire, is to fight money with money. The Mayday PAC will begin buying up to a total of $4 million in advertising for both states, where voters are historically receptive to the anti-big-money message, advertising is relatively cheap and any victories are likely to be noticed by both parties’ future presidential aspirants…

Officials said the PAC is expected announce its next three targets in August.

The ultimate goal is to reverse a series of defeats that advocates of tighter restrictions on campaign money have suffered since the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision. That decision freed corporations and unions to engage in unlimited independent political spending on behalf of candidates. In the past four years, court rulings and regulatory decisions have only expanded the influence and reach of big donors at the federal and state level…