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Uh, the PAC he started does the candidate support, but he can't be associated with it while running as president.

• Bud 11y ago
  Great. I agree with that, of course. And perhaps if he wasn't wasting millions of dollars of donor money on running for President, his PAC could do more good. What if Lessig actually won? It wouldn't matter at all. You think the Republican Congress is going to pass sweeping campaign finance reform? Jesus Christ could return and be President and he wouldn't be able to make that happen, either. Lessig surely understands our system well enough to know this. So why is he doing this very expensive pretending that him being President will cause any change? If a Democrat in the White House could magically fix this, Obama would fix it right now.
  • zeckalpha 11y ago
    What would he need congress for? Some people run just to change the conversation, not to win.
    • hga 11y ago
      In fact, that's been a successful third party tactic in times past: get successful enough and one or the other major parties will absorb it and much of its platform.
• tptacek 11y ago
  Zephyr Teachout took over the PAC because Lessig's management of the PAC --- and the PAC itself --- was widely regarded as a total failure. That's not my opinion; it's the reporting on Mayday PAC.