Zephyr Teachout takes over Larry Lessig's PAC

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Source: Politico

Law professor and former New York gubernatorial candidate Zephyr Teachout is taking over Mayday PAC, the pro-campaign finance reform group founded by Harvard law professor Larry Lessig.

Teachout announced the news on Twitter Monday, writing, “I’m taking over from Lawrence Lessig @lessig as CEO and Board Chair of @MAYDAYUS. Getting ready for 2016!”

Lessig started Mayday PAC in 2014 to help elect politicians who support overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision and passing comprehensive campaign finance reform. It was supposed to be the PAC to end all PACs, in other words. The group employed the motto “embrace the irony” and doled out more than $10 million on candidates in the 2014 midterm elections.

But it was a miserable failure, as Lessig himself admitted afterward: Only one candidate backed by Mayday PAC, Republican Walter Jones of North Carolina, ultimately won his or her race last November.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/zephyr-teachout-larry-lessig-mayday-pac-2016-120660.html

[Freddie Stubbs]

1. Jones won by a landslide against an underfunded opponent

[iandhr]

2. Teachout will do a good job.

I met her. She is pretty cool