Cenk Uygur
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Lessig2016: Referendum Campaign For President
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August 13, 2015
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9:11Now PlayingHarvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig is running for president but he’s not doing it in the typical fashion. He’s running as a referendum candidate focused ONLY on the issue of campaign finance reform/anticorruption. If elected, he would step down immediately upon enacting gamechanging reform.
Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"Larry Lessig, founder of the pro-campaign finance reform group Mayday PAC, announced in a video Tuesday he is exploring a bid centered on campaign finance and voting rights reforms — a month after he wrote a detailed memo to the Sanders campaign, explaining how to more effectively talk about getting money out of politics and making the senator’s bid more credible.
“Citizen equality can’t just be one issue on a list. It has to be the first issue — the one change that makes all other changes believable,” Lessig wrote in the memo, obtained by POLITICO. “For the first time in forever, the Wall Street Journal reports this issue is at the top of voters’ mind. You need to be the leader who makes it top of your platform as well.”*
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