How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs

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Post by aaronlifshin » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 5:08 PM UTC

How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs
washingtonpost.com

Re: How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs

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Post by jparker165 » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

This is incredibly important. For all the really impassioned conversation about the broken state of US politics (on HN and elsewhere), the Mayday PAC is one of the very few legitimate plans-of-action. It's no silver bullet, but 1000% a needed step toward reform and worth your support.

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Post by viggity » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 5:51 PM UTC

Everyone hates Washington Special Interests, unless of course it is their special interest. Then it is righteous.

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Post by jgj » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 5:57 PM UTC

Slightly relevant: Lessig is currently doing an AMA (with Jack Abramoff) over on reddit [1].It's only an hour old so there's still a chance that your question might be answered.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/29nq9p/lawrence_lessig...

Re: How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs

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Post by dang » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 5:59 PM UTC

The submission title ("Larry Lessig's PAC is fighting big money in politics with crowdsourced Bitcoin") was not only highly editorialized, it was linkbaity (Bitcoin is barely mentioned). Submitters: this is against the HN guidelines. Please don't do it.

The article title isn't great either. We can change it if someone suggests an accurate, neutral replacement, preferably using language from the article. Usually an article contains a natural such title in its first paragraph, but I don't see one here.

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Post by robrenaud » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 6:01 PM UTC

My wife pointed this out to me today and said she wanted to give $200 because the issue is very important to her. We gave $500.

Re: How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 6:02 PM UTC

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Post by fleitz » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 6:10 PM UTC

Said every SuperPAC ever.

What politician isn't for fixing broken government?

Who is standing up for broken government?

What congress isn't committed to fundamental reform?

Re: How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs

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Post by spiek » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 6:11 PM UTC

They raised ~1 mil in 2 weeks. So they thought they could then raise 5x that amount in 2x the time? How is that a rational conclusion?

Re: How to use a super PAC to kill super PACs

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Post by fleitz » Wed, Jul 02, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC

jparker165 wrote: post #2

This is incredibly important. For all the really impassioned conversation about the broken state of US politics (on HN and elsewhere), the Mayday PAC is one of the very few legitimate plans-of-action. It's no silver bullet, but 1000% a needed step toward reform and worth your support.

It might be interesting if they had more of a platform, than 'fixing broken government', or 'fundamental reform', everyone wants that.

The entire point of government is to figure out what those statements really mean...