Prof. Painter Joins Group to Push for Sweeping Anti-Corruption Legislation

As reported in Roll Call, Bloomberg and other media outlets, Professor Richard Painter, Lawrence Lessig, Trevor Potter, and Theodore Roosevelt IV had a telephonic press conference in which they outlined the proposed American Anti-Corruption Act, a law that would overhaul campaign finance (including by allowing taxpayers to allocate a $100 tax rebate to political campaigns of their choice), impose strict lobbying and conflict of interest laws, and end secret political money. They and other lawyers, lobbyists, businesspeople and public interest advocates devoted considerable effort to discussing and drafting different parts of this proposed legislation. The text of the Act can be found at http://represent.us/about. (Click on "Read the Act.")