Lawrence Lessig to Explore a Run for President as a Democrat - First Draft. Political News, Now. - The New York Times
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“The reason I’ve been driven to this is the constant ’emperor wears no clothes’ feeling about this election,” said Mr. Lessig, who will also campaign against gerrymandering and restrictive voting laws. “We need a plan for unrigging the system first, and none of them have given us that plan.”
He added: “You want to rail against Wall Street, as O’Malley does or Bernie Sanders does? Great” But, he continued, “unless you fix the way we fund campaigns, we’re not going to take on the largest funder of congressional campaigns in America.”
Mr. Lessig said if he could raise enough money, he would campaign “24 hours a day” for the Democratic nomination. He also said there were “a hundred successes short of” winning the White (...)