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Larry Lessig Dumps His Promise To Resign The Presidency In An Attempt To Get People To Take His Campaign Seriously
We've written a few times about Larry Lessig's somewhat wacky campaign for President, which was premised on the idea that it was a "referendum" campaign, where his entire focus would be to push Congress into putting in place serious campaign finance reform and then resigning from the Presidency. As we noted, the whole thing was a bit of a gimmick. And apparently that gimmick hasn't been working too well.
Earlier this month, Lessig noted that he was being shut out from the Democratic debates, despite being a Democrat running for President and polling roughly on par with a few of the other nobodies in the campaign. The problem is that the Democratic National Committee apparently chose to ignore the campaign and because it refused to officially "welcome" him to the campaign, pollsters aren't including him and thus he didn't have enough polling data to be invited to the debate.
[...] Late on Friday (not exactly the best time to announce anything but bad news...) Lessig announced that he's dropping the promise to resign, because while it may have gotten some attention as an initial gimmick, it was also dragging him down (including potentially keeping him out of the debates).
(Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:13AM
Yes, heaven forbid we get a moderate Democrat nominated, rather than an another wacko cryptoneocon authoritarian dingbat.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is the decider for the Democratic party, and she's gonna decide either Hillary or Bernie. [theintercept.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:56AM
No one among the current crop of whackos can buy enough weapons or station enough troops on the other side of the globe "for defense".
Ike was to the Left of everybody who has been in this race (except Jill Stein)--but Ike is dead.
What "Moderate" did you have in mind?
-- gewg_
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 24 2015, @12:37PM
Unfortunately I can't answer that -- because it will likely be another third-party protest vote for me this coming election.
(Score: 1) by bornagainpenguin on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:04AM
Can we still vote for Ike any way? I mean it's not like he's going to do more damage, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 25 2015, @01:23AM
"You just keep thinkin', Butch. That's what you're good at."
(Your line is "Boy, I got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals.")
-- gewg_