New Jersey Nears Historic Legislation Banning Money From Politics

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New Jersey is set to become the third state to call for a constitutional convention to get money out of politics, joining Vermont and California. Wolf-Pac and its army of volunteers have already achieved great victories but the movement is just getting started. Our victory is not just possible, it’s inevitable. And we need your help.

A hearing is being held in the Senate State Government Committee Thursday, October 16th at 1pm (details below). If you live close, BE THERE. This is your opportunity to make a difference. This is your chance to get up, get out, get loud and get money out of politics.

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event info:
Thursday, October 16 at 1:00pm
Senate State Government Committee
Committee Room 7, 2nd Floor,
State House Annex, Trenton, NJ

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“Last spring, Lawrence Lessig, a fifty-three-year-old Harvard legal theorist who opposes the influence of money in politics, launched a counterintuitive experiment: the Mayday PAC, a political-action committee that would spend millions of dollars in an attempt to elect congressional candidates who are intent on passing campaign-finance reform—and to defeat those who are not. It was a super PAC designed to drive its own species into extinction. Lessig adopted the motto “Embrace the irony.”

Others had tried pouring money into politics in order to end the pouring of money into politics, but never on the scale that Lessig wanted. In 2012, Jonathan Soros, a son of George Soros, the billionaire and liberal donor, raised and spent $2.7 million to help nine candidates committed to campaign-finance reform. Lessig and his co-founder, the Republican consultant Mark McKinnon, planned to spend more than four times that amount in the six months leading up to midterm elections, on November 4th. If their efforts succeeded, they aimed to raise hundreds of millions of dollars on as many as eighty races in the 2016 election.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Evan Osnos / New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/embrace-irony

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