Fake intellectual property law "reformer" and fanboy favorite Larry Lessig has chickened out of running for Tom Lantos' old House seat (CA 12). Lessig announced his non-candidacy in one of his signature long, tedious, virtually unwatchable, and curiously low-tech videos.

http://lessig.org/blog/

Lessig purports to advocate some sort of anti-copyright "free culture," dedicated to egalitarian and democratic access to knowledge and information, while at the same time drawing a six figure income from a private, closed to the public, billion dollar endowment, elitist university (Stanford), that could serve as the epitome for a class-based monopoly on learning and knowledge.

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2006/11/ea t-my-ass-lawrence-lessig.html

For more of Lessig's hypocricy, see here:

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/03/la rry-lessig-coin-operated-legal-expert_18 .html

Lessig claimed that he wanted to run for Congress because of his opposition to PACs and "corruption" in politics. Now that he has cancelled his bid, however, he will not be refunding his donors' campaign contributions. Instead, without a trace of shame (or even appreciation of the irony of it), Lessig has announced that "all [of the money] will go to (the yet to be established) Change Congress organization." Whenever Lessig gets around to "establishing" this august body, please do not be surprized to learn that it is in fact a PAC, with either Lessig, or one of his toadies, in charge. In other words, Mr. Reform is going to take the money donated to his campaign to "clean up Congress" and use it instead to establish his own personal slush fund. Nice.