[GPSCC-chat] Lessig: Campaign finance is not the most important issue but the first that must be solved before we can deal with the more important

[Spencer Graves]

Hello, All:


       Yesterday, Drew Johnson, Brian Good, and I plus roughly 500 
others gathered at San Francisco State for the "Conference to Restore 
the Republic", organized by Rootstrikers.org and their founder, Harvard 
Law Prof. Lawrence Lessig, author of "Republic, Lost", and other related 
work (www.rootstrikers.org/conference 
<http://www.rootstrikers.org/conference>). The conference included 
presentations by a dozen leading figures including David Cobb of Move to 
Amend and Buddy Roemer, former governor of Louisiana and presidential 
candidate, to name only 2.


       Lessig says that whatever your primary concern is, liberal, 
conservative, environmental, economic, business climate, unemployment, 
government deficit, schools, law enforcement, etc., we must fix the 
problem of campaign finance before we begin to honestly deal with any of 
these other problems.  He says that campaign finance is not the most 
important problem, but it must be the first problem we solve -- because 
it prevents us as a nation from addressing any of the other, more 
important problems.


       If you haven't already seen Lessig's TED talk on "We the People, 
and the Republic we must reclaim", I encourage you to vew it at 
"http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html". 
It's 18:19 (mm:ss), which is longer than I like to devote to watching 
videos, but it includes some quite useful information, in addition to 
being highly motivational (which it must be for TED) and informative.


       Best Wishes,
       Spencer


-- 
Spencer Graves, PE, PhD
President and Chief Technology Officer
Structure Inspection and Monitoring, Inc.
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