You be a 2016 MAYDAY candidate

MAYDAY's stated goal is to elect a reform minded Congress by 2016.

Lawrence Lessig, who previously headed up MAYDAY, has left that in order to prosecute MAYDAY's mission at the Presidential election level.

Professor Lessig is running for President on the single issue that, if elected President, he will serve only as long as it takes to get Congress to pass the reforms necessary to fix our corrupt political system, and then he will resign. For more information, go to Lessig2016.

With Lawrence Lessig on this new course, it is unclear what actions MAYDAY will take regarding the 2016 Congressional elections.

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.

I recently tried to ask MAYDAY whether it could give an estimate about when it would decide, and no response has been forthcoming. https://www.reddit.com/r/MaydayPAC/comments/3jemqn/when_will_mayday_decide_about_2016/

I ran for Congress in 2014 in the Alabama 6th Congressional district. My candidacy was a single issue candidacy of fixing Congress first, as Professor Lessig is now trying to do at the Presidential election level.

I don't know whether Professor Lessig would consider it helpful to his campaign if there were Congressional candidates running in the 2016 elections who conduct similar, single issue campaigns about fixing Congress first.

Any Congressional candidate running such a single issue campaign probably has no chance of winning.

Such candidates, however, could contribute to publicizing the issue in their Congressional districts, and that alone could be a sufficient reason for being a Congressional candidate.

I have been urging, and I continue to urge, that persons who deeply believe in #FixDemocracyFirst should consider putting themselves forward as a Congressional candidate in their district.

This may not be as daunting as you think.

Please review my blog entry You be a Congressional candidate from April, and consider what I say there.

Edit 9/20: My attention has just been called to this August 24th Huffington Post article, in which Professor Lessig talks about "referendum" Congressional candidates. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/the-plan-part-2-referendu_b_8033838.html

Addendum for Sanders supporters

Getting Big Money Out of Politics is the number 2 listed issue on the Bernie Sanders list of issues https://berniesanders.com/issues/.

Candidate Lessig's position is that nothing can be done until democracy is fixed.

Candidate Sanders is pressing numerous other issues in his campaign, and these are very important to many of his supporters.

Anyone who want to fix democracy first should be desirous of there being many Congressional candidates publicizing the corruption issue to the voters. Sanders supporters should want that as well.

I think Sanders supporters as well can consider putting themselves out as Congressional candidates