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As a fan of Lawrence Lessig's pioneering work on copyright and digital culture, I was saddened when, a few years back, he shifted his focus to congressional corruption and campaign finance. Efforts to take the money out of politicsas opposed to playing the underdog's hand as well as possiblehad long struck me as a sucker's game. Either way, you have to beat the moneyed interests. My skepticism deepened at a dinner where Lessig presented his ideas and, in response to hostile questions, seemed unfamiliar with an extensive academic literature casting doubt on the commonsense theory that campaign contributions buy policy results.
Smart people, it turns out, learn a lot from hostile audiences. Not only does the dinner in question earn a mention in Republic, Lost, the latest fruit of Lessig's work on money in politics; Lessig has also developed a reply that packs a lot of theoretical punch and should be must-reading for anyone who's tuned out the campaign-finance debate.
Lessig moves beyond quid pro quo corruption of the sort that typified the Gilded Age and recently ensnared such congressmen as Duke Cunningham of California and William Jefferson of Louisiana. Taking a broader view of the problem, Lessig develops a concept of dependence and independence that draws on the Founding generation's obsession with the alleged corruption of Parliament at the hands of a monarchy that dispensed pensions and offices to compliant representatives. As part of this analysis, Lessig cites the anthropological concept of a "gift economy" to argue that a person can become indebted to another without any explicit agreement of a quid pro quo.
Socially and psychologically, human beings do favors for people who have done favors for them. Lobbyists, bund-lers, and campaign contributors don't need to bribe anyone to exert influence. They just need to give. By the same token (although what is at stake is often hardly a token), it would be illegal and gauche, not to mention unnecessary, for members of Congress to bargain votes explicitly for post-congressional rewards such as trade-association presidencies. Without anyone necessarily being bribed, Lessig argues, a dangerous and unseemly economy of influence has arisen in Washington that renders legislators dependent on lobbyists and all too independent from their constituents or the national interest.
Lessig takes on the model of lobbying as "legislative subsidy" developed by political scientist Richard Hall and economist Alan Deardorff as an alternative to the naive lobbying-as-bribe model. Legislators come to Washington passionate about several issues. Quickly, though, they come to depend on the economy of influence for help in advancing an agenda. They need the policy expertise, connections, public-relations machine, and all the rest that lobbyists can offer. Since this legislative subsidy is not uniformly available, the people's representatives find themselves devoting more of their time to those aspects of their agenda that moneyed interests also support. No one is bribed, but the political process is corrupted.
At the same time, Lessig argues, fund-raising is not only a way of obtaining campaign cash but a method for members of Congress to live beyond their means. Congressional political action committees engage in massive spending on dinners, parties, retreats at fancy resorts, and other fundraising events with donors. These events enable members to treat themselves to vacations and high-priced meals they couldn't otherwise afford. Abjuring the money hustle would, in practice, entail a psychologically difficult decline in the average member's standard of living in a way that would lead him to shy away from challenging his donors' interests even if the direct electoral stakes were small.
But for all that Lessig impresses with his wide-ranging and theoretically ambitious critique of the status quo, the solution he puts on the table is much less compelling. He argues for the creation of a publicly funded, clean elections system. Every voter would get a $50 "democracy voucher" and would be "free to allocate his or her democracy voucher as he or she wishes." In addition, "voters are free under this system to supplement the voucher contribution with their own contributionup to $100 per candidate." To be eligible for the voucher money, a congressional candidate would have to agree not to accept any money beyond the $50-and-$100 system, meaning "no PAC money and no direct contributions from political parties."
The book, unfortunately, dances rather quickly from a description of this proposal to outlining a number of political strategies that Lessig believes might bring it about. This proposed remedyenough of a heavy lift to prompt questions about its political feasibilityalso seems curiously unsuited to addressing the problems that Lessig has identified.
For starters, the disappointing experience of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance effort (of which this magazine was always, and rightly, skeptical) should remind us that it's extraordinarily difficult to get money out of politics in a manner consistent with freedom of association and expression. Nothing in this proposal would prevent vast sums from being raised and spent by nominally independent groups with an interest in campaigns. Precisely in keeping with Lessig's point about the gift economy, such spending would have a dependencyinducing influence regardless of the technical independence of the spending from the candidate.
The virtue of the voucher scheme is different. If enacted, it would flush more money into campaigns and make it easier for challengers to get off the ground in both primaries and general elections. Making electoral politics more competitive is a desirable outcome, though it might also make members of Congress more attuned than ever to opportunities for postcongressional employment.
A sounder approach would acknowledge that the American political system suffers from multiple ills. Arizona, a state that's adopted an admirable clean-elections campaign-finance law, is hardly free from special-interest influence. Instead, the combination of low-paid, part-time legislators with term limits and meager staff resources (in the Arizona House, some members get a half-time secretary) makes members dangerously dependent on the "legislative subsidy" that savvy lobbyists can provide. Problems of this kind are endemic to American state government, and Congress isn't immune to them. Better ethics rules at all levels should be paired with efforts to professionalize legislative and staff work and provide better pay. Stronger leadership and tighter party discipline, though often bemoaned, also tend to reduce interestgroup power relative to ideological agendas. Lessig cites the many concessions to industry in the Affordable Care Act as examples of interest-group clout in Congress. That they were, but the fact that interest-group support delivered precisely zero Republican votes in favor of the bill highlights the limits of that clout as well. Under conditions of strong discipline, partisan and ideological considerations trump the economy of influence on high-profile bills.
Another issue to consider is the excessive number of veto points in the American political system. It is difficult, though possible, for broad public-interest coalitions to trump concentrated interests in Congress. But the more hurdles a reform needs to clear, the more likely that momentum will dissipate. The fight to create a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, for example, was hard on its own terms and is now being largely undermined by Republican resistance to confirming a director at a time when public attention has moved on.
Some of Lessig's strongest passages remind us of the early candidacy of Barack Obama, who impressed some and frightened others with his emphasis on good government and procedural reform. That figure disappeared after Inauguration Day, replaced by a cynical dealmaker ready to do what it took to get a few key pieces of legislation over the finish line. Under the circumstances, it's striking that he's gone on to spend so much of his administration hamstrung by an increasingly broken Congress. Republic, Lost is a powerful reminder that this problem goes deeper than poor legislative tactics or bad character. As progressives contemplate how best to pick up the pieces after recent setbacks, a robust agenda to change how business gets done in the capital needs to be part of the picture. This time, we'd better mean it.
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Sat, 2011-10-08 08:00
So long as you have legislators and other government officials making decisions that involve big money, people affected by those decisions will attempt to influence them. This has always been and always will be the case.
The only way to limit the power of influence-buyers is to limit the power that they influence. Period.
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This is off topic, but I just had a conversation about how 10 years ago you spelled out to me how the radical Republicans got sold down the river by the country club set. I still remember what you had to say, I still think I learned more from you than in my 10 years in college (at least on this topic), and I still reference that thread all of the time. Thanks again, and I'll buy your book "Heads in the Sand"(it sounds great).
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Sun, 2011-10-23 11:53
Congress embedded with corporations is a recipe for disaster. I think this is becoming more apparent. Topics like this provoke social consciousness and hopefully stimulant critical thinking about the issue. I don't agree with giving people vouchers because there are too many ignorant voters out there and corporations and elected officials will almost always find alternative ways of manipulating the system. Ideally the market and politics will correct itself because people will not put up with this tyranny much longer and something will have to drastically change. The system has not broke yet but it sure is getting close.
Sat, 2012-09-01 17:59
Lessig's analysis of the problem is good, but his solutions seem naive. For example, he acknowledges that money corrupts, and will always find a way around reform, but then proposes 'better' way of pumping insane amounts of it into campaigns. Another example: the 'terrorist' idea, whereby a candidate would promise to pass reform and then promptly quit. Beyond the glaring naiveté of believing that someone would actually follow through on such a promise, imagine the insane governmental chaos that would result if they did. And finally, the constitutional convention idea: what — especially right now — is going to prevent such a thing being subverted by exactly the same forces it's trying to correct?
This book makes me, once again, ask a fundamental question (naive as you may think it is): why do we let the money be spent in the first place? Why do we assume that running for and staying in office should cost anything? Why can't we provide a simple, government-funded media platform to allow candidates to publish their qualifications and positions, and office-holders to enumerate their accomplishments (along with the public record thereof)? If I want to get a job at a company, I compile and present a resume that represents my abilities. I don't need to outspend other candidates for the job. If I get the job, I don't spend money trying to keep it — I do the best job I can, and know that that is what I'll be judged by.
I completely agree that we should pay our representatives, judges, and presidents well — but I find it amazing that Lessig would still have us, as individuals, pay to advance our own interests over someone else's.
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Visit By the People in its new location, and read more about the Center for Democracy and Citizenship on our new web site.
Conditions are primed for organizing and public work, and citizen-driven change has never been more needed.
To be most effective in this environment, the Center for Democracy and Citizenship is developing a partnership with the Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities. Through this network of liberal arts colleges, we will be able to further multiply our work and engage more young people across the Twin Cities in such initiatives as Public Achievement, the Jane Addams School for Democracy, and the Warrior to Citizen Campaign.
As of today, we will be located at Augsburg College in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. We value our long association with the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and other units of the University of Minnesota and will retain these strong ties as we further our work.
Last summer, Larry Simpson says he spent 300 hours on the streets of his St. Paul, Minn., neighborhood, both walking and driving in a white Crown Vic' with "Community Watch" emblazoned on the sides. Simpson bought the car himself on eBay when he decided he couldn't adequately cover the streets on foot.
In January 2007, there were two violent rapes in one week in Simpson's Payne-Phalen neighborhood. Residents were outraged and afraid. At a community meeting, Simpson says he heard "a typical outcry for the chief of police, mayor, and city council representatives to 'solve this problem,' to protect us."
The civic movement in Iran since the election on June 12 inspires all who believe in deep and living democracy. It shows the yearnings for empowerment, bottom up change, and civic agency stirring among young people across the Muslim world, what we also hear and read in the stories of Public Achievement teams in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan.
I believe it also has much in kind with the "different kind of politics" that candidate Barack Obama called for in 2008, a politics which he continues to voice in international statements.
Frank Coyne, associate director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning at the University of Denver, wrote this guest post.
Here at the University of Denver (DU), we just wrapped up our sixth successful year of Public Achievement. This year we worked with six school partners in Denver Public Schools with over 20 teams, over 40 DU coaches, and over 250 K-12 students. The projects ranged in scope from improving school lunches to working on police harassment.
While we could tell you about several success stories this year, I will spend just a minute to tell you about our most unique PA site.
At Denver's South High School, we have been working with the Future Center--a center focused on college access for the high school students. Several DU coaches have been volunteering there for two years, and this year they took what they learned in PA last year and then worked with 15 high school students to improve the college access programs for the students at South. Many of these students are immigrant refugees and never thought of college as even remotely possible before they set foot in the Future Center. PA has helped to turn that notion upside down.
This year, the PA team has worked to develop a peer mentoring program where juniors and seniors are working with underclassmen to create a pipeline to college. These coaches and students worked together to build a strong program that will now be part of the Future Center and the school for years to come.
We are excited about what lies ahead next year at this site and our other six schools. For now, we will spend the summer assessing and planning.
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A recent op-ed by Bill Doherty and Albert Dzur is very helpful, it seems to me, in agitating in a positive way beyond the service frame the Obama administration is using to define citizenship so far.
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Read the op-ed published in Saturday's St. Paul Pioneer Press (or download article)
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Like real embedded journalists, the students will go into the field each day, identify story ideas and conduct interviews, then write, produce and file their work.
The "embed" was the brainchild of Lt. John Hobot, an Iraq War veteran and public affairs officer with the Minnesota National Guard. Lt. Hobot saw firsthand how difficult it was to be exposed to media for the first time during battle and felt soldiers could benefit from media training.
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Charla Agnoletti believes that in order to change the world, one must start at home.
"She literally walked into our office the summer before her freshman year and said, 'I want to do Public Achievement, I want to work with Denver public school students,'" says Frank Coyne, associate director for Denver University's Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning. "And Charla never looked back."
"Through Public Achievement, I've learned that change is a process and it's not something that an individual can do themselves. You have to build relationships and understand what you want to change before you can do it," Agnoletti says. "I've also learned a lot about the U.S. public education system and the realities facing the students and schools."
Agnoletti plans to work in the field of public education reform. She has been accepted into the Teach for America program and will teach language arts for two years at the new Manny Martinez Middle School in Denver.
Lourdes Sanchez is the student leader of a Public Achievement group at Humboldt High School in St. Paul, Minn. As her PA coach, I encouraged her to write this reflection about our team's work over the past school year.
We began in September 2008. We were told by our teacher, Colonel Johnson, that we would do Public Achievement this year. We decided that for a topic we wanted to see changes in our school. Therefore, we wrote a list of ideas of things that needed improvement. Once we agreed on beautifying Humboldt, we needed to get our ideas down into one project. We decided on a mural on our pillar and to put benches outside to make the school more comfortable and friendly looking. At semester change, we were surprised that we lost four students from our group and new ones were put in. We also hit another road block when we found out that the University of Minnesota already had plans for the school grounds.
For a few weeks, we were down, because we did not think we could go through with our plans. After attending a few site council meetings and talking with our principal, we realized that the school was on our side. We pushed forward with the project!


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DATE & TIME: Saturday, Nov. 10, 10:15 p.m. (et).
FACTS & STATS: Site: LaVell Edwards Stadium (63,725) -- Provo, Utah. Television: ESPN U. Home Record: Idaho 1-3, BYU 4-1. Away Record: Idaho 0-5, BYU 1-3. Neutral Record: Idaho 0-0, BYU 0-0. Conference Record: Idaho 1-3, BYU 0-0. Series Record: Series is tied, 2-2.
GAME NOTES: Heading back to the football field after a break in the schedule, the BYU Cougars entertain the Idaho Vandals at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah on Saturday night.
The Cougars have been somewhat enigmatic this season, unable to string together three straight games of consistent play. The team most recently faced off against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on the road on Oct. 27 and managed to deliver a 41-17 victory. The triumph served to snap a two-game slide by the team in which it fell to nationally-ranked Oregon State (42-24) but actually kept pace with Notre Dame (17-14).
With this outing being the 100th in the career of BYU head coach Bronco Mendenhall at the school, the Cougars can celebrate with a victory that would make them bowl eligible for the eighth straight season.
As for the Vandals, members of the Western Athletic Conference, they've won just a single game in nine tries thus far and have already fired head coach Robb Akey because of the disappointing effort. Last weekend, Idaho was again on the losing end of a 42-13 final versus San Jose State at home as offensive coordinator Jason Gesser has assumed the head coaching role for the time being.
In a series that dates back to 1953, these two teams are tied at two games apiece after BYU delivered a convincing 42-7 win over Idaho in Provo last season.
Not only did the Vandals dismiss their former head coach, they also kicked starting quarterback Dominique Blackman off the team for disciplinary reasons which left Logan Bushnell as the starter against San Jose State last week. Bushnell managed to throw a 12-yard TD pass to Najee Lovett to kick off the contest, but the remaining points for Idaho came from kicker Trey Farquhar who knocked through field goals of 41 and 33 yards in the third quarter.
Bushnell finished the outing 14-of-29 for 196 yards and a score, but was sacked five times and had a pass picked off.
Slated as the starter for this week, Bushnell takes over an offense that is dead last among all 120 teams ranked in the Football Bowl Subdivision, producing a mere 15.7 ppg. Three times this season the Vandals have been held to a touchdown or less as the rushing attack generated only 80.6 ypg to rank 117th in the nation this week.
From a defensive standpoint, the news isn't much better for Idaho as the team gives up close to 300 ypg through the air and nearly 500 ypg in total offense, ranking the group tied for 116th in the country. All of those yards have led to a hefty 42.0 ppg and that leaves the Vandals ahead of only two other programs in the FBS (Hawaii and Colorado).
The opposite is true for coach Mendenhall and his bunch as they rank seventh in the country with only 14.3 ppg allowed. Take away Oregon State's scoring burst against BYU and the stats would be even more impressive for the unit. Opponents have gained only 95.8 ypg on the ground and 167.8 ypg through the air which means few teams have had any real success against the Cougars.
Riley Nelson, who was coincidentally knocked out of the game last season versus Idaho with a rib and lung injury, is back under center for the Cougars as they try to move to 9-1 following bye weeks under coach Mendenhall. Named to the Davey O'Brien and Maxwell Award Watch Lists for 2012, Nelson has completed just under 60 percent of his pass attempts for nine touchdowns this season, but he has also tossed 11 interceptions which have proven costly. In the last three games Nelson, who has two outings this season with three picks, has thrown six INTs but just four TDs.
Trying to give Nelson a solid outlet is Cody Hoffman who has registered at least one catch in 28 straight games in order to set the school record. Hoffman, who has 56 grabs for 689 yards and three scores, has the 10th-longest streak in the country.
Moving the ball on the ground is Jamaal Williams who has eight touchdowns on 107 carries and is averaging close to five yards per attempt, not to mention stepping up with 20 receptions for 226 yards and a TD as well.
It doesn't take much analysis to see that Idaho is a team that has almost given up on the season and has lost key components in recent weeks which should make BYU's job that much easier.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: BYU 35, Idaho 6
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The Last of Us from Naughty Dog was a surprise reveal at last year's Video Game Awards. This year it gets another trailer (above), and a release date—May 7, 2013.
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Thought I found the trailer that was show on the VGA's tonight, but it was already removed from YouTube. If anyone else happens to find it, please feel free to post, or else I will do so once it hits.


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Sometimes it pays to listen.
About a month ago, after an especially trying morning show, my on-air partner lovingly tilted her hear like a labradoodle puppy and said "Tony, you were a lot happier when you were working out at Kosama. You should probably go back". Ouch. Truth hurts. I guess I never really thought about my happiness level and the correlation to Kosama.
You see, I made it through three 8 week sessions when Kosama opened…then I retired. I had some added responsibilities at the generic viagra next day delivery office and with the start-up non-profit The Pier Center for Autism. It felt like a good time for a break. I enjoyed having a bit of extra time on my schedule.
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Today was a good day.
Facebook was lit up with blue in support of World Autism Awareness Day. Major buildings from all over the globe shined a glorious blue light putting emphasis on a disorder that has so shaped my life. Autism.
Autism Awareness Day in my family looked a lot like another day. My lovely wife wore her Autism earrings, dressed the boys in blue shirts adorned with puzzle pieces, I chatted with The Pier Center for Autism's Board President Josh Cobbs 4 or 5 times (on and off-air), educational and daycare staff made it their mission to help my son, Trey (9 years old) , in every way possible. Beau (his 7 year old brother) was by Trey's side all night long and he told me he really wants Trey to live with him when he gets older so he can keep an eye on him. Talk about heavy thoughts from a first grader on viagra cheapest price a Tuesday morning. Three people asked me how I thought Trey "got Autism". My response: "I have no clue".
This may come as a shocker to you – in our family - we are well aware of Autism. We see it every waking minute. It weighs on our minds daily. Many questions remained unanswered. Some days are better than others. Some days aren't. You learn to georgiakrawiec.net adapt. You learn to pray. You learn to hope.
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We knew nothing about Autism Spectrum Disorders 8 years ago. We viewed "Rain Man". That was it. The first thing we did when we had concerns was to hop on WebMD. That's a night I never want to relieve. Some of what we read that night came true. Trey is 9 years old. He is non-verbal. He still wears pull-ups. He "flaps" his arms when he gets overly excited. He's different from his peers.
In other ways, WebMD could not have been more wrong for us. Trey is VERY LOVING. His mind is always working in overdrive. He has great eye contact with us. He can melt your heart with a single glance and where to order viagra online giggle.
You just never know.
Since Trey's official diagnosis at the age of viagra tablets 100mg 3, it seems as though society "gets it more". The level of awareness and knowledge base has increased tremendously. Maybe it's because it is top viagra online sales more diagnosed, far more radio/tv stories about the subject, Facebook and Twitter posts, print articles and the like….
I'd like to hope it's because more people meet kiddos like my son. More hearts have been melted by a giggle and a grin.
I appreciate every single question I get about Autism. It means people are trying. I love it when a parent like my buddy Josh from The Pier Center starts an organization that betters the life of those like Trey. It always better to have dreams and an action plan.
Awareness is a great start. Next year, let's have World Autism Action Day!
Tony Michaels
KSUX Program Director / Pier Center for Autism Board member / Autism Dad / Dreamer / Fan of Action
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