jajasayeed

Hi Senator Sanders,

I was wondering if you were familiar with the work of Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard Law School professor who has been working towards enacting fundamental campaign finance reform. He has recently launched a citizens' funded and crowd sourced superPAC, MayDayPAC, with the ultimate goal of ending superPACs, and enacting fundamental campaign finance reform.

Specifically, I'd like to know if you agree with Lessig's assertion that no sensible reform is ever going to be possible, on almost any issue, climate change, food safety, financial reform, etc., without first addressing the way campaigns are funded and the dependence of our legislature on the tiniest fraction of the wealthy for funding. In this sense, the corruptive and corrosive influence of unlimited funding by the tiniest fraction of wealthiest among us is at the root of much of the issues our country currently faces.

P.S. Lessig has some truly inspiring TED talks on the subject of campaign finance if you are so inclined, and the link to his superPAC can be found at:

mayone.us

Thanks for reading,

Josh

Thanks Senator. His MayDayPAC has been wildly successful since launching on May 1, so I'd encourage anyone interested in checking it out.

For those interested in seeing where their representatives stand on the issue, visit the webpage reform.to so we can all vote as a function of candidates commitments to the type of reform Senator Sanders mentioned above.