Prominent Democrat Endorses Third-Party Group
Even as Republicans wage a bitter, intra-party feud for the right to challenge President Obama, a group called Americans Elect is steadily building support — and a 50-state infrastructure — for a bipartisan ticket that could challenge both parties for the White House.
That effort will get a fresh push on Tuesday from David Boren, a former Democratic senator and governor from Oklahoma who backed Mr. Obama in 2008 but says he is now looking for a way to provide “electric shock therapy” to the political system.
“The country is going to really be in deep trouble if we don’t act soon,” Mr. Boren, who is now president of the University of Oklahoma, said in an interview with The Caucus. “I think this is really a cry from many of us who are really concerned for the future of the country.”
Mr. Boren is part of a small, but growing cadre of politicians from both sides of the aisle who are expressing displeasure with the political system — and the political gridlock it is producing. Just last week, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, voiced support for a third party, saying that the two-party system was broken.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/prominent-democrat-endorses-third-party-group/
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Prominent? David Boren?
"Section 4.12 of the Americans Elect bylaws requires that the Board of Directors now punish Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild for her violation of the neutrality of Americans Elect. Her Ladyship doesn’t seem concerned, however, given that she has special elite status within Americans Elect. Besides, Lady de Rothschild appears to believe that a title of European aristocracy gives her permission to violate whatever rules she likes.
Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild’s high society campaign fundraiser for Jon Huntsman shows that Americans Elect is no grassroots organization. The only grassroots that would have been seen at Her Ladyship’s Jon Huntsman fundraiser would have been dangling from the turf brought in by her servants to create a simulation of a pastoral scene on the balcony, so guests could see how we simple folk live."
And VERY funny.
