Name: 開放的心態。《開放的心態：為錢，為錢，為錢》--Szelena Gray (The Open Mind: Of, By, For the Money - Szelena Gray)
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I'm Alexander Heffner, your host on The Open Mind.

Harvard Divinity School alum turned campaign

finance reform missionary- my guest today

is at the forefront of democracy and youth empowerment.

Chief Operating Officer of the Mayday PAC,

Szelena Gray advises this Super PAC to defeat

An extension of this campaign is the New Hampshire

big money corruption in the fiercely independent,

poised to restore integrity to a broken political system.

In her newer role, Szelena Gray is developing Run

for America's citizen powered movement to elect

While Mayday's candidates did suffer some bruising

some defeats last cycle, 2016 presents a new opportunity.

how are these organizations going to capitalize

on the profound frustration with American

new and creative opportunities for how to

combat that spending and the corruption that it breeds.

Mayday PAC is very much borne of that irony,

and is the brainchild - as you said - of somebody who

So I think as we look to 2016 and what Mayday PAC

other organizations in the democracy reform space

are trying to do, what we are seeing is a really

creative exploration of how we can use the

political toolkit that is what has bred the corrupt

system that we're in -- in a way that redefines it

and opens up new opportunities to fix it.

So your mentor, Larry Lessig wrote recently

"If the core problem is politicians beholden

to their funders, then giving Congress the power

to limit the amount spent or the amount contributed

would not resolve it..." And he identifies the

movement from Secretary of State Clinton and Senator

Sanders who add a Constitutional Amendment

that would add some restrictions to campaign financing.

even with limits would inevitably reproduce the

world we have now." GRAY: I think Mayday starts

from a very simple place, which is addressing

I think what Larry's getting at and I think

what we all understand is that there is a problem

corruption is something that all members of

leadership and government need to address,

But we also know that Americans don't favor

reforms that require excess spending in a

frankly, where that excess spending is already making

So it's easy for leaders at the Presidential,

to advocate for something like a Constitutional

remedy because that doesn't require thinking

It's hard to advocate for public financing,

So Mayday's mission is to clear a path to reform

in Congress by, um, encouraging members of

Congress both through our direct grassroots work

this year and through, um, making that work dovetail

into electioneering in the election years.

Um, encouraging members of Congress to support

one of a few different remedies that could

create a small-dollar public financing system.

And that is how Mayday seeks to address this problem.

uh, no matter what, if we don't address the system

of public financing, if we don't advocate for small

dollars in our elections, no matter what,

there is no real solution to this problem.

HEFFNER: In terms of the corporate influence...

HEFFNER: How, how do you think that we, that we got here?

GRAY: Campaign finance reform actually has a long

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