Lessig Might Run For Congress
Stanford Law School professor and former Wired magazine columnist Larry Lessig said Tuesday he will decide by March 1 whether to enter the race for the 12th District seat of the late Democrat Rep. Tom Lantos. Lessig released a video on his Web site -- www.lessig08.org -- to declare his goal of tackling the influence of money in politics. In the video, he asked members of Congress to form a coalition and pledge three things: Do not take PAC money, ban earmarks and agree to public campaign financing.
"[I thought about politics] lots when I was in high school," Lessig told CongressDaily. "Since 1980, never, till these past couple weeks." Lantos died in this month. Three weeks before his death, he endorsed state Sen. Jackie Speier as his successor. The district is heavily Democratic and so the winner of the special Democratic primary April 8 should be favored in November. Two other Democrats -- Robert Barrows and Jason Lee Jones -- are seeking the nomination while the Republican nomination is being sought by Rodney Edenfield and Mike Moloney.
Read the full CongressDaily story here at TechCentral. Read Lessig's own blog posts on the topic here and here.
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