Horowitz should check to see if Arianna Huffington is on the board.
Arianna Huffington was (at least) on the Advisory Committee
when McCain first established the Institute.
(along with a bunch of other lefties).
The Reform Institute
From archive.org cache of www.reforminstitute.org/about/advisorycommittee.shtml (as of July 2001)
The Advisory Committee
Senator John McCain, Chair of Advisory Committee
Michael Alvarez Associate Professor of voting and elections at California Institute of Technology
Former U.S. Senator David Boren President of University of Oklahoma
Tami Buhr Director of Research at the Joan Shorenstein Center at Harvard University
Professor Anthony Corrado Professor and Government Department Chair, Colby College
U.S. Representative Lindsey Graham
U.S. Representative Amo Houghton
Arianna Huffington Nationally syndicated columnist and author
Marion Just Professor of politics and mass media at Wellesley College
Former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey President of New School University
Charles Kolb President of the Committee for Economic Development
Thomas Mann Brookings Institute Senior Scholar
Ron Michaelson Executive Director of Illinois State Board of Elections
Norm Ornstein Senior Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute
Cameron Quinn Director of the Elections Board for the State of Virginia
Raymond Wolfinger Heller Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley
Curtis Gans Executive Director of the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, election reform advisor.