Here's the skinny on "Americans Elect"

[annabanana]

Last week, Rachel was wondering just who these guys were. . .
I found this article that lets us know where all their muscle is coming from. Time to round up he usual suspects!

http://www.ouroregon.org/sockeye/blog/americans-elect-part-iii-astroturf-organization

As we’ve written in previous posts, Americans Elect is gathering signatures in Oregon in an attempt to qualify as a minor party. Their goal is to hold an internet-only primary election to nominate a candidate for President of the United States.

The group describes itself in grassroots terms, but in reality, they’re anything but grassroots. Their “Leadership” team and Board of Directors is largely composed of hedge fund operators and wealth managers, and there’s strong evidence that most of their funding has come from leaders in the financial industry.

We’ve previously explored their funding and their alarmingly undemocratic bylaws. Today, we’ll look more closely at some of the people who are behind this effort. (Huge credit goes to Jim Cook at Irregular Times for pulling all of this evidence together).

see:
Peter Ackerman
Daniel Winslow
Mark McKinnon
Douglas Schoen (D - FOX)
(and a host of hedge fund managers)

[TheWraith]

1. Douglas Schoen of Penn, Schoen, and Berland.

Also known as arguably the most disgusting and evil political consulting firm on the planet, whose output reads like they employ a flock of Karl Rove clones.

[OregonBlue]

2. Just another bunch of big money political insiders pretending to be a grass roots organization.

[ladywnch]

3. should forward this info off to Colbert. I think it was him (could have been Stewart, I guess)

who had the 'head' of this organization on their show. I bet they didn't know anything about this....

[annabanana]

4. shameless self kick for visibility. . . . .n/t

[Donnachaidh]

5. I really wish we could start frogmarching a few of these corpocrats to Gitmo

Kicked and recced!

[Jim Lane]

6. I really wonder what their agenda is.

If their "alternative nominating process" produced a ticket along the lines of Michael Bloomberg/Evan Bayh, then that would probably take more votes from the Republican than from Obama. So what do these right-wing corporadoes plan? Are they going to contrive to nominate someone like Rocky Anderson or Ralph Nader, in the hope of hurting Obama?