Strike! Lessig, Trippi's Line in the Sand Draws $1 Million from (un)Donors

Nancy Scola | March 11, 2009 - 11:04am | 4 comments | Email This!

YouTube - Austin Powers - 100 billion dollarsLarry Lessig and Joe Trippi take to Politico to announce that their "Donor Strike" has passed the one-million-dollar mark. Even if you like to play grouchy cynic, the Change Congress campaign is a creative demonstration of how activists can bundle together small caches of political power heretofore scattered amongst the citizenry. The deal is thus. Senators and Representatives either back the Fair Elections Now Act -- a bill that rewards candidates who depend on small-dollar donors -- or find themselves potential targets of a donor strike. Through FEC validation or self-reporting, Change Congress tallies how much strikees kicked in last cycle (and are, in theory, withholding this time around). Change Congress is estimating that Dianne Feinstein is out $260,000, Chuck Schumer is $113,000 poorer, and Nancy Pelosi's coffers are $57,000 lighter.

 

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That's an impressive figure.

by tiredtonto on April 17, 2009 - 1:10pm

That's an impressive figure. I look for activists to use some variation of these tactics in future efforts to procure the necessary funds they require. Times are always changing so fresh new ideas are often what prevail.
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The central place in the politician is occupied with a power problem. Speaking about the power, it is impossible to exaggerate value historical a determinant in its origin. In Marxism it is considered to be, that the power has appeared together with a class inequality, operation and the state. But an inequality - a category not so much sociological, how many ontologic and anthropological. People are individual and consequently initially are not equal each other.
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by wiktor on May 16, 2009 - 7:56am

All the same as all has bothered it, a policy, the government with the governors, in general their conversations have bothered there is nothing, that their experience stops on money, their experiences who will receive more, in general behaviour of a hyena, and who that will think of the people?
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Strikers demand performance

by apexdromn on June 1, 2009 - 2:20pm

Strikers demand performance of requirements of the trade union, concerning increase of the salary and improvements of conditions of health service. Besides it, striking demand to cancel practice of transfer of workplaces in other countries, where expenses for their financing much more low
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