The 'Super PAC to End Super PACs' Makes a Strategic Retreat
Lawrence Lessig, professor at Harvard Law School, speaks during the 2014 WIRED Business Conference (BizCon) in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, May 13, 2014.
Photographer: Peter Foley/BloombergLarry Lessig did not have a good 2014. The Harvard professor and anti-corruption campaigner's Mayday PAC, launched with great fanfare, saw a cash inflow that exceeded his wildest Little Nemo dreams.
"We raised the initial $1 million in 13 days, rather than 30," Lessig wrote this past weekend at Medium. "That was matched two weeks later, and then we launched the second campaign. Thirty days after that, we crossed the $5 million mark. And over the next months, we got close to matching that $5 million. By the end of our campaign, we had raised $11 million of the $12 million that we had planned, with more than 50,000 donors from almost every state in the union."