Harvard Professor Larry Lessig raises $1M for 2016 campaign

The Hill reports:

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig announced on Monday that he has raised $1 million toward his 2016 Democratic presidential campaign in just less than a month.


“Larry Lessig has tapped into a deep vein of discontent among voters who know the current crop of insider political candidates are handcuffed by the status quo,” Steve Jarding, a senior advisor to Lessig’s campaign, said in a statement, adding that Lessig "has a unique strength matched by no one else on the Democratic side."

“As a complete outsider who has never been elected to public office, he is the only candidate who doesn’t owe anyone favors,” Jarding said. “Voters are tired of shallow promises and cheap talk, and Larry is offering the truth about our broken political system.”

"His No. 1 priority is to get big special interest money out of politics first, or nothing else Democrats care about — education, jobs, a clean environment, healthcare — will get fixed,” he added.

It's ironic that some people don't view Harvard as a special interest group!