Mayday PAC will support indie for KS senate if supporters donate $200K by Monday http://t.co/JrTIAKJPxS pic.twitter.com/gZG7jIENss
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) October 11, 2014
From the BoingBoing link:
…”We are now considering entering one final race. All eyes are on the Kansas Senate race. Greg Orman is an Independent — not a Republican, not a Democrat — and he could decide who controls the Senate. He is actively campaigning as a reformer against an entrenched incumbent who has taken millions from special interests.
Should we do this? If we raise $200,000 by Monday at 11:59pm, we will be in a place to firmly say: Yes, we’re in.”
Brian continues, “To me (and I have no inside knowledge of the board’s decisions – I’m just a volunteer at this point) – this seems to be a test of whether or not Mayday PAC supporters think it is worth the risk of devoting resources an independent candidate, albeit one that is slightly ahead in the polls and which FiveThirtyEight gives a ’67 percent chance’ of Orman winning.”…
I’ll admit I’m suspicious of Lessig’s “non-partisan” PAC, because I don’t trust the GOP to be honest about a funding disarmament treaty. (And that’s even about from my reservations about “independent” Greg Orman.) But maybe that’s just me?