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Professor Lawrence Lessig is quoted in a Washington Internet Daily article about the Democratic National Congress' refusal to take Political Action Committee money:
Removing money from the political chessboard leaves technology companies no worse off, said Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford University law professor and founder of Change Congress: "Silicon Valley has been very bad at... leveraging financial resources." Instead, Lessig suggested, lessening PAC and lobbyist financial sway with the Democrats assures that "the playing field is about ideas, not about money."
Lessig is less optimistic about House and Senate candidates doing as the DNC has, he said. "I haven't yet seen that the party, as opposed to Obama, has the same view about this," he said. A strategy of small contributions will have a harder time working its way "down the political chain," he added.