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Can someone more knowledgable give some specific details about their plan? I've read what I could on their website, but I can't really get a hold of what the specific platform is, if any parties are involed...etc. For example, they want to win 5 races. Who would these candidates be? Is pure election reform their only task?

It's very easy for me to understand the anger. But my pessimism makes me skeptical of yet another political group asking for money to change politics.

I was very disappointed that their website homepage really didn't list any of the details or the specifics, it just detailed the anger. It also had the usual array of celebrity endorsements around that anger. I dunno, at its face this looks very similar to the splinter group party stuff on both sides.

Again. I'm just not someone super versed on this stuff and am looking for info. What makes this different and why will this work?

Here is "the plan" from their website. https://mayday.us/the-plan/

If you are interested, Republic Lost by Lessig is a great read on the reality of campaign finance.

And if you don't feel like shelling out the money, Lessig has posted a PDF of the book online (presumably under a Creative Commons license, but I didn't check into it that far as I already own the book)

http://lesterland.lessig.org/pdf/republic-lost.pdf

I'm with you on this. They don't have a specific plan and I am well on the side of pessimism so far. Especially because they make no attempt at transparancy on the site. If they really wanted me to feel their sincerity, they'd have a section of the site introducing the people (other than Lessig) behind this PAC.

As is, I donated anyway, because I believe in Lessig's commitment, but I want to see some specifics soon.

I know that part of why they can't name specific races they're entering for example is because they don't know how specific midterm races are shaping up. They also need to be very careful at this stage to avoid alienating donors from either party by outright stating they're targeting an incumbent from their party (or worse, district). I just want them to start doing their research on these imminent races and start releasing this info to the public. Otherwise they will be forgetting that the only thing the growing populist sentiment in America hates more than moneyed interests, it's secrecy.

I wish them the best. And as is, they're likely to get it: they raised over a million dollars in the past four hours.

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