Talk:Mayday PAC

Floated May 2014
Probably needs a photo or something. Should expand categories. Stub.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 13:07, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Some corrections
Howdy. This is Brian Boyko, CTO of the Mayday PAC.

We saw the article that you guys made, and we're flattered, but there are some inaccuracies that we hope you can correct. I'd do them myself but I'm not a disinterested party.


 * The official name of the PAC is the "Mayday PAC," and "May Day PAC" should redirect there.


 * ✅.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:07, 10 May 2014 (UTC)


 * The name of the website is MayOne.US. (It's kinda like how "Burger King" is the name of the company, and the "Whopper" is the name of the burger.)
 * ✅. Thank you for your beefy marketing analogy. Us Wikipedians realize it is important in marketing to establish a unique term with a consistent spelling; FYI several sources used different spellings (eg May Day PAC) and this can lead to confusion; good idea to insist that reporters get the exact spelling. Sometimes your outfit is termed a Super PAC (a whopper, to continue your analogy?), sometimes a plain old burger. Even on the contributions website, the organization name MayOne is spelled in all capital letters, with two different background colors for the words MAY and ONE; this, too, can cause confusion. Again, why not simply call the website Mayday PAC? Such is my beef with Monsieur Lessig.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:07, 10 May 2014 (UTC)


 * We can also tell you that we've raised $250k in the first 24 hours, and $750k to date (May 9, 2014).
 * Great, although it seems a bit much to spend on a date.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:07, 10 May 2014 (UTC)


 * There's no mention of the Tech First Responders, the people who responded to our own technical call for aid when our servers had trouble keeping up with the demand during the first 48 hours.
 * Source? Btw, they sound heroic. It would be cool if they were wearing tights and capes when performing their rescue, maybe had utility belts like Batman (I can lend an extra handyman toolbelt if any of you guys are in New Jersey.) Do you have photos for us? Of your Responders? Or volunteers? Or whatever? My preference is for color and pizzazz, something visually interesting, maybe even a moving image file? Upload them here, then write the exact names of the photos here on this talk page, and we can see about inclusions.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:07, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

When we hit $1M this page is likely to get hit by journalists looking for more info, so accuracy is important. I'm willing to answer any questions at webmaster@mayone.us


 * Any question? Hmmmm. Okay, when doing crown molding, how do you handle corners when the walls and ceilings are not exactly square? Any ideas?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:07, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help!

Brian Boyko (talk) 04:29, 10 May 2014 (UTC) CTO, Mayday PAC


 * You're welcome.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:07, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Updating the Introduction (Here's the old one for convenience)
Mayday PAC is a crowd-funded political action committee in the United States created by Harvard Law School professor and activist Lawrence Lessig to elect candidates to the United States Congress to pass campaign finance reform. Although a report in Time noted there was tremendous opposition to substantive reform from both political parties, Mayday PAC will try to raise funds to unseat five congresspersons who are on the "wrong side of this issue" in 2014, according to Lessig. The PAC and its associated website, Mayday.US, whose purpose is to "end the disproportionate influence of all SuperPACs", raised $1.1 million in the first thirteen days, surpassing its self-imposed goal. The PAC plans to raise $12 million by the end of June 2014, by raising $5 million which is boosted by matching contributions. To generate media attention, Lessig led 200 people on a walk from Dixville Notch to Nashua in the state of New Hampshire, stopping at coffee shops and small events to talk with people about money in politics; further walks are planned.

Fundraising Table
Seems like this was a good idea that didn't quite work out, and now it's a bit of a cumbersome way to present a little bit of data. So I'm thinking of replacing it with something much simpler. Any ideas? Steven Stoft (talk) 17:15, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Maybe just try write approximately the same information but not in table form. It seems there is too little in the table for it to be a table, Second Quantization (talk) 19:19, 27 August 2014 (UTC)

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Strategy section
Hi Tom - I'm Amy (aka acwein). I see that you've edited the first paragraph of the MaydayPAC page, making it more concise. You also incorporated the Strategic Plan section which is good, but including a strategy section seems essential. Being new to writing for Wikipedia, I looked up how to write the lead section of a page and found that it "serves as an introduction ... and a summary of its most important aspects." But if there is no strategy section, the last sentence doesn't introduce or summarize anything in the article; it is the only mention of the plan in the whole article. Enumerating the four stages makes it accurately reflect Mayday's stated plan. It also gives the space to describe the four stages.They clearly consider Stage Four important: Securing reform through constitutional amendment. BTW, the plan (on the Mayday.us website) makes no mention of 2018. Maybe you are trying to make their plan appear more realistic by saying 2018, if so I would agree, but I'm not comfortable adding something that isn't in the plan.

I'd like to see the strategy section back in. It was short, clear and informative and has the essential information a reader needs to understand where Mayday is headed. I think you agree since you moved much of this info into the high priority lead. Acwein (talk) 00:56, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Ok, Amy, go ahead.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 02:35, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Eight Races, Six Candidates
The article says Mayday would target eight races, but only six candidates are listed. It might be useful to explain the discrepancy within the article, or, if there were an additional two, to list them. Might also be useful to update with who won or lost yesterday. 38.88.212.34 (talk) 16:42, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * There were 8 candidates, the article was just not updated. More info on the PAC's website. --ssd (talk) 00:49, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

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