Lessig 2016. Equal Citizens First.
Channel: Lessig2016.us
Date: 11/08/2015

82% of Americans believe the system is rigged. Before we listen to more politicians’ promises, we must find a way to un-rig that rigged system. Here is our plan. https://lessigforpresident.com/the-plan/

There is one issue we must address first in the 2016 election…

Four years ago, Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks told Netroots Nation, “There is only one issue in this country,” and he was referring to the corrupt funding of public elections.

That corruption is part of a more fundamental inequality that we’ve allowed the politicians to create: we don’t have a Congress that represents us equally.

Every issue — from climate change to gun safety, from Wall Street reform to defense spending — is tied to this “one issue.” Achieving citizens equality in America is our one mission.

A Plan to Restore Citizen Equality

Step 1. First, we need to raise enough to mount a credible campaign in the Democratic Presidential Primary. We’re doing that in the Internet way: kickstarting a campaign, with a goal we must hit to keep the money that’s been pledged. If we hit that goal, then Lessig will run.

Step 2. With funding in place to run a real campaign, Lessig will dedicate himself full-time to running for president. He’ll focus on the early Presidential Primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina, but also travel across country to press for citizen equality. If he garner 1% in three national polls in the weeks leading up to the debates, he will appear alongside the other Democratic candidates for the nationally televised Presidential debates. 

Step 3. Lessig will make fixing this corrupt system by achieving citizen equality the central issue in the Democratic Primary debates. If he can win those debates, rise in the polls, and win either the New Hampshire Primary or the Iowa Caucuses, then he will be one of the top candidates running for President. Even if he doesn’t win, his participation in the Democratic debates gives us the chance to connect our system of corrupted equality to every issue that matters. We can make the politicians face this truth, and give us a way to fix it. 

Step 4. Once sworn into office as the President, Lessig will use every power of the office - and the mandate of the election - to get Congress to pass the Equal Citizens Act of 2017 9https://lessigforpresident.com/the-act/). When it does, he will sign it, and submit his letter of resignation on the same day. After he resigns, the Vice President will become President, and we will have taken the most important step toward a Congress that is free to represent us since Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. 

One Mission: https://lessigforpresident.com/one-mission/

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