Up North Progressive

Larry Lessig wants to be included in the Democratic Party debates. There’s a better chance Brian Boyko, his former May Day PAC marketer/CTO, will actually do something that makes him appear sane. No, Brian Boyko is not working on Lessig’s campaign, although he is a moderator on the campaign’s subreddit. He’s been busy doing other things this election season:

That’s right, our boy Boyko is too busy with another PAC to really help out with a campaign. Have you noticed a trend with Larry Lessig and Brian Boyko? Their political campaigns always focus on raising money through small private donations, but there is never any plan with how they will effectively use that money. Does anyone honestly think Lessig’s Equal Citizens proposal has a chance? This is why the Up North Progressive jokingly suggested Lessig wanted to be elected so he could retire and collect the lifelong compensation for being even less effective as president than William Henry Harrison.

That didn’t sit too well with this person from Carbondale, Illinois, because he even made up an email address and screen name to rant about it. Meet 1234f***you@gmail.com aka DownSouthProgressive:

You honestly believe that he wants to be president for the retirement benefits? You have got to be fucking shitting me

Yes, I was kidding about running for president for the White House pay. The problem is Lessig is not kidding about running for president and then resigning as soon as he waves his magic copyright law wand over Congress and they give him everything he wants, because that’s what Congress does, right? So now instead of give us money so we can get money out of politics, it’s give me money so I can get elected and get money out of politics, somehow. Have you ever noticed how vague these plans of Lessig’s are with no real methodology of how he is going to accomplish his grand ideas?

He raised a million dollars on September 6, then offered golden tickets “fora chance” to join him in Nevada to watch the first debate. “Give me even more money and I will invite you to something I haven’t even been invited to yet.”

Let’s cleanse the palate with a little more performance art from Brian Boyko.

If that’s not enough, here are some powerpoint presentations made by Boyko on various ideas to make lots of money. The best one is “An Insane Plan” that he came up with before May Day PAC.

So what are Lessig’s real motives for running for president and demanding to be allowed to debate the other Democratic candidates? He gives a hint to what he’s really thinking the point of him running for president in the last quoted sentence in this New York Times article:

If he is shut out of the first two debates, however, Mr. Lessig acknowledged that it would most likely be time to pack it in and write about the experience.

“I didn’t intend this as a research project, but I’m sure after it’s over I’ll be reflecting on the craziness of it,” he said.

And there you have it from the presidential candidate’s own mouth. He knows this was over before it ever started. Convince people to give him money so he can gather research and write another book about it. Up North Progressive eagerly awaits more expletives in the comment section.

Here, have another Brian Boyko video, this time he berates John McCain for hatin’ on Dungeons and Dragons.