What is your personal CFR plan?

Professor Larry Lessig is certain to get his $1,000,000 to continue his campaign for President in the Democratic primaries, having as its mission to #FixDemocracyFirst, and his candidacy set up as a referendum for the American people to demand that our broken Congress, caused by the corruption of money in politics, be fixed on a first priority basis. For more information, go to Lessig2016.

There is dubiousness about Professor Lessig's single, first, root issue candidacy. He has explained why he believes nothing else can accomplish what is needed. See Frodo Baggins for President and On the Trustee President: Not EITHER/OR but BOTH/AND. Whatever "Hail Mary" Professor Lessig's candidacy is, he has chosen it and is going with it.

What Professor Lessig currently thinks about the 2016 Congressional elections is unclear.

It would seem that Congressional candidates could play a complementary role to Professor Lessig's Presidential candidacy. The campaigns of Congressional candidates could help in publicizing the goal of Professor Lessig's candidacy and why it is important to the American people.

There is a question of what kind of Congressional candidacies would work best for that purpose, and, in particular, whether single issue Congressional candidacies, such as Professor Lessig is endeavoring at the Presidential level, would work better, or whether more normal, multiple issue candidacies would work better.

As Professor Lessig's campaign proceeds, insight about that may develop.

This leads to consideration of where MAYDAY stands in prosecuting its mission to elect a reform minded Congress by 2016.

MAYDAY's most recent pronouncement, from August 12th, is, "We have not yet decided what action MAYDAY will be taking in 2016 races."  http://blog.mayday.us/post/126510302980/mayday-is-a-super-pac-lessig-is-a-candidate.

MAYDAY is not even giving an estimate of when it will decide. Or at least I tried to ask them a couple of days ago, and no response has been forthcoming.  https://www.reddit.com/r/MaydayPAC/comments/3jemqn/when_will_mayday_decide_about_2016/

I don't know what the explanation is for MAYDAY's tarrying at this point in time. I believe there are two or three difficult things that MAYDAY has to decide about, and it is possible MAYDAY has not yet been able to reach decisions about them. See Zephyr Teachout's conundrums.

If you have strong feelings about campaign finance reform, what are your options of things to dedicate personal efforts to?

One option, obviously, is to work on behalf of Lessig2016. (For an idea, please see the tweeting suggestion in the edit I made today on Tweet4Lessig.)

If you believe that supporting Bernie Sanders is a better way to advance campaign finance reform, please consider this Proposed messaging plan re: Congress.

If you are really ambitious, consider being a Congressional candidate yourself. See You be a Congressional candidate.

Without being a candidate yourself, consider trying to organize concerted targeting of the campaign finance reform issue in your own Congressional district. See FL 17th and 18th Cong'l districts picked.

Consider joining the CFR Tweet Squad to do organized tweeting into targeted Congressional districts or in other targeted ways. See Join the CFR Tweet Squad today.

There are several campaign finance reform organizations working in other areas than the Presidential and Congressional elections. These efforts are mainly at municipal and state levels, including to obtain state and municipal calls (or resolutions) for amendments to the U.S. Constitutions or to enact local anti-corruption laws. Your personal CFR plan could include working in these organizations' activities.

I have endeavored to solicit these other organizations to find ways to join forces better and particularly offered my tweeting ideas for adaptation and use in their particular efforts. The organizations have been largely unresponsive to my entreaties. You could consider making personal efforts to help in contacting the organizations.

Offer your own ideas for things that campaign finance reformers can dedicate efforts to from now until Election Day in 2016.

Here's hoping you develop your personal plan for helping advance the cause.