Huntsman, 'Americans Elect', and Soros

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Just to be clear, this is less about following the money and more about following the ideology. As another freeper posted here, Americans Elect has seemingly been corrupted from within by big wigs and power brokers.

Enter John Huntsman, who is being courted by Christine Todd Whitman to run on an Americans Elect ticket.

I'm getting red flags about this. Below is some of what's in the original posting about the Soros - Americans Elect connection:

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

What is curious about this group is the number of connections it has with another group. Just for the sake of curiosity, I compared the folks listed on the Who Are We page for Americans Elect to another group: The International Crisis Group. So who what do these two groups have in common? Well, Douglas Schoen and Carla Hills, but also an interesting tidbit: Joanne Leedom-Ackerman is part of this group. As we remember from above, that’s Elliot’s mother. This is a happy coincidence, with father and son working in one group with Doug Schoen and Carla Hills, along with many other elites, and wife and mother working in another group with Doug Schoen and Carla Hills, along with many other global elites.

Now while young Mr. Ackerman wouldn’t tell us who is contributing to the Americans Elect group operations, it could be interesting, for comparison only, of course, to take a look at who is funding ICG. According to Wikipedia:

Philanthropist George Soros who is chairman of the Open Society Institute is on the Board of Trustees.

Isn’t that just the most amazing thing? Just like clockwork, in walks the villain. Now of course, since the young Mr. Ackerman declined to tell us who is bankrolling Americans Elect, we’ll have to leave that to our imaginations for the moment. Ahem.

Now I don’t mean to tell you anything in particular about Americans Elect, but before a single person involves themselves with this organization, I would encourage them to ask the leadership to disclose who has funded their operations to date. In short, I believe in full disclosure, particularly if an organization’s stated intention is to elect the next President of the United States. In that spirit, here’s a little more about Pappy[Peter] Ackerman: Founder of Americans Elect Used Tax Shelter Scheme

[Cicero]

Thanks for the info. I’ve been expecting the Dem operatives to run a third party candidate, to syphon off GOP votes. It worked great to get clinton into the White House.

Donald Trump is one possibility. Ron Paul is another. And now, you suggest, Jon Huntsman. Huntsman is a hippy child of privilege, somewhere to the left of Mitt Romney.

This might explain why he is in the Republican race, although he never stood a chance. It gives him an excuse to go third party when he is rejected, as he certainly will be.

And, once again, the only remaining GOP candidates are midgets and losers and corrupt RINOs more interested in their own power than the good of our country.

Every Sunday I pray to God to bring our country back to Him, which now seems about the only chance we have of saving this sorry situation.

Clinton won with less than half the vote, so it’s possible Obama can do it again despite his poor numbers—if we don’t somehow get our act together.

[cripplecreek]

I saw Whitman on the news earlier today. As far as I can tell she was promoting the idea of running a separate primary to elect a vice president and seemed to be encouraging electing someone from the opposition to do it.

A quick look at history shows that a two party white house was a disaster.

[Semper]

This is about both ideology and money. Americans Elect was conceived by democrats to help Obama’s reelection. And disclosure of funding sources is in conflict with democrat core principles.

[pallis]

The worst kind of socialist is a progressive Republican like Huntsman. He would regulate us to death, worse than Nixon did, if that is possible. The thing about Huntsman going third party is that he might pull left leaning Independents and some Democrats who are looking for any excuse not to support obama. For certain he won’t be like Perot spoiling for Clinton. He might turn it the other way, but probably not enough to make a significant difference.

[Sudetenland]

I don’t think you can call Huntsman to the left of Romney. He has been a solid conservative on most issues other than AGW. I don’t know exactly why he’s the darling of the liberals, because on issues like gun control and right to life, he’s been very consistent.

[Vigilanteman]

There are two things which Clinton and Woodrow Wilson had in common:

1. Both won consecutive elections with less than 50% of the popular vote.
   
2. Both had wandering willies in the white house.

[PieterCasparzen]

From the americanselect.org website

(wow, what a GRASSROOTS movement):

Leadership
Last Updated: October 31, 2011
Elliot L. Ackerman

Chief Operations Officer, Americans Elect; former Marine Corps Officer and veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan
Peter Ackerman

Chairman, Americans Elect
Jackie Adams

Chief External Relations Officer and Executive Editor of Africa.com; former Emmy Award®-winning correspondent for CBS News
David Albertson

President, Albertson International, Inc.
Judy Albertson

President, Judy Albertson Art Consultants, LLC
Melvin T. Andrews

President and Co-Founder of Lakeside Capital Partners
Kellen Arno

National Field Director, Americans Elect
Michael Arno

Ballot Access Advisor, Americans Elect; President, Arno Political Consultants
Dr. F. Christopher Arterton

Director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, George Washington University
Daren Bascome

Managing Director, Proverb Ltd.
Dennis Blair*

Former Director of National Intelligence
Gerald W. Blakeley Jr.

President, Blakeley Investment Company
Stephen W. Bosworth*

Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Arturo Brillembourg

President, Farmington Asset Management
Hilda Ochoa Brillembourg

President and CEO, Strategic Investment Group
John H. Burbank III

Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer, Passport Capital, LLC
Kahlil Byrd

Chief Executive Officer, Americans Elect; former Communications Director, Deval Patrick campaign for governor of Massachusetts
Denis A. Cortese, M.D.

Foundation Professor, Arizona State University and Director of the ASU Healthcare Delivery and Policy Program; Emeritus President and CEO, Mayo Clinic
Roger Craver

Founder, Craver, Matthews, Smith and Company
Eliot R. Cutler*

Chairman, OneMaine
W. Bowman Cutter

Senior Fellow and Director Economic Policy Initiative, Roosevelt Institute
Charles H. Dallara

Managing Director, Institute of International Finance
Larry Diamond

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University
Wendy Drake

Chief Leadership Officer, Americans Elect; President, The Webster Group
Jessica Einhorn

Dean of SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
The Honorable
Mark Erwin

United States Ambassador, Retired
Brian M. Findlay

Policy Director, Americans Elect
Lynn Forester
de Rothschild

CEO, E.L. Rothschild
Les Francis

Principal/Senior Advisor, Washington Media Group; former Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
The Honorable
Carla Hills

Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company; former U.S. Trade Representative
Roderick M. Hills

Partner, Hills, Stern & Morley, LLP; former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Irvine O. Hockaday Jr.*

Retired President and Chief Executive Officer, Hallmark Cards
Jim Jonas

Founding Partner, Category One Partners
Dale E. Jones

Vice Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles
David King

Lecturer in public policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Gary Krisel

Former President, Walt Disney Animation
W. David Lawson

Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Joshua S. Levine

Chief Technology Officer, Americans Elect; former Chief Technology and Operations Officer of E*TRADE
Dr. Aaron Lobel

Founder and President, America Abroad Media
Lee Lowenstein

Managing Director, Lionstone Capital Management
Bertil Lundqvist

General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Starr Companies
Sarah Malm

Chief Communications Officer, Americans Elect; former Managing Director, Public Strategies, Inc.
Will Marshall

President, Progressive Policy Institute
Dale P. Mathias
Rafael Mayer

Managing Partner, Khronos, LLC
Cara Brown McCormick

President and CEO, Smart Campaigns, Inc.
Mark McKinnon

President, Maverick Media; former Advisor to President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain
Morton H. Meyerson

Chair, 2M Companies
Michael R. Nelson

Visiting Professor, Communications, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University
Ambassador Mark Palmer

President, Capital Development Company, LLC
Jordan H. Rednor

Partner, Protagonist, LLC
Peter Alan Rinfret

Chief Executive Officer, Iris Wireless
Nancy E. Roman
Kirk T. Rostron

Managing Partner, The Mount Vernon Group
Richard Salomon

Managing Director, East End Advisors
Tom Sansonetti

Partner, Holland & Hart; former General Counsel, Republican National Committee
Douglas Schoen

Douglas E Schoen LLC; Author and Commentator
Tom Serres

CEO, Piryx, Inc.
Darry Sragow

Strategic Advisor, Americans Elect, Managing Partner, Los Angeles Office of SNR Denton US, LLP
Henry A. Sweetbaum

Chairman, ICSR
Nick Troiano

National Campus Director, Americans Elect; Student, Georgetown University
George Vradenburg

President, Vradenburg Foundation
Ileana Wachtel

Press Secretary Americans Elect; Campaign Research and Press Strategist
Lynda C. Webster

Chairman and CEO, The Webster Group
The Honorable
William H. Webster

Former director, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency; Chairman, Homeland Security Advisory Council; Retired Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

[Tredegar]

Bit of a tenous link to Huntsman though, isn’t it? Christine Todd Whitman could have claimed that a zombie version of Teddy Roosevelt was her ideal candidate, doesn’t mean he’s going to oblige.

Huntsman has already said he isn’t going to run as an independent.