Lessig's ChangeCongress Launch
From CongressDaily's PM edition on Wednesday:
Stanford Law Professor Takes Aim At Political Corruption
Intellectual property innovator Lawrence Lessig will unveil his campaign Thursday to combat the influence of money in American politics. The Stanford Law School professor's ChangeCongress project aims to mobilize candidates, citizens and lawmakers to help curb what he views is a political corruption pandemic.
Lessig late last month considered running for the seat of the late Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., and making government transparency a tenet of the campaign. But he decided his chances for winning were slim and he could better advance his agenda through a bipartisan effort outside Congress.
"Rather than tar the movement with one pretty substantial defeat right away, I'm pursuing it in another way," he told CongressDaily on the eve of his speech at the National Press Club. [Read the full story here]
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