A Brilliant Plan To Give Billionaires Who Try To Buy U.S. Elections A Taste Of Their Own Medicine

[applegrove]

A Brilliant Plan To Give Billionaires Who Try To Buy U.S. Elections A Taste Of Their Own Medicine

by Mansur Gidfar at Upworthy

http://www.upworthy.com/a-brilliant-plan-to-give-billionaires-who-try-to-buy-us-elections-a-taste-of-their-own-medicine?c=fea

"SNIP......................

How bad has the money-in-politics situation gotten? A new study by researchers at Princeton and Northwestern universities found that, and I'm quoting directly here: "When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”

In other words, if you can't afford to hire a lobbyist or raise money for politicians, your opinion literally does not matter.

But don't go into a hopeless despair spiral just yet. On May 1, Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig launched Mayday PAC: a crowdfunded Super PAC with the sole mission of forcing Congress to get money out of politics. The response so far has been overwhelming: They've raised over a half-million dollars in the first week alone.

.....................SNIP"

[postulater]

1. I didn't see a plan. I just saw 'I'm gonna collect some money."

What is going to happen to the money?

[uponit7771]

2. Yeap

[ProfessorPlum]

3. They are going to use it against politicians that are corrupt/encourage corruption

like any PAC, it is for political ads, mostly