Lawrence Lessig, Joe Trippi, and their Change Congress movement have introduced a new way for small political donors to join forces to put pressure on congress, where it hurts them most – financially. The Change Congress Donor Strike is underway and they are asking you to withhold financial contributions to any candidates that do not pledge to eliminate special interest money in congress. In their words…
Right now, special interests have more influence over our political system than regular folks because of our broken campaign finance laws. These special interests pump millions of dollars into congressional campaigns each cycle, and as a result, they block real change on issue after issue.
Here at Change Congress, we believe that politicians should work for the people, not special interests. But it’s not enough to push politicians to stay out of the system of corruption—we have to reform the system itself. That’s why we support a hybrid of small-dollar donations and public financing, to keep big money out of politics.
Lawrence Lessig founded Change Congress to find innovative ways to make government more transparent, and to eliminate special interest money in politics. Joe Trippi was Howard Dean’s campaign manager and is a pioneer in using the Internet as a tool for political activism and fundraising. Trippi’s blog looks a lot like mine, demonstrating that we both have a minimal grasp of CSS style content sheets. Cool.
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