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“The real problem in Washington today is there’s too much money in the political process. We need to go to public financing of elections.”

“At less than $1 billion per year for all congressional elections, a Fair Elections program could prove the best investment ever made with public money given the $87 billion in annual corporate welfare subsidies to major contributors.”

- Christine Todd Whitman
Former Governor of New Jersey
ACR Advisory Board Member

Advisory Committee

Bruce Babbitt – Chairman, World Wildlife Fund; former Secretary of the Interior under President Clinton; former Governor of Arizona

Nancy Kassebaum Baker – former Senator from Kansas; on Advisory Board of Partnership for a Secure America, dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security & foreign policy

Max Bazerman – Professor, Harvard Business School; honorary doctorate, University of London; author, including, “Negotiation Genius”

Julie Belaga – former Chief Operating Officer, the Export-Import Bank; Chair, Connecticut League of Conservation Voters

John Bonifaz – Legal Counsel, Voter Action; co-author of “The Wealth Primary: Campaign Fund Raising and the Constitution”; 1999 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Bill Brock – former US Senator and Congressman (R-TN); former Chair of the Republican party and US Trade Representative; Manager, Senator Bob Dole’s 1988 Presidential campaign

Frank Carlucci – former Secretary of Defense and Deputy Director of the CIA; currently Chair Emeritus, the Carlyle Group

Hodding Carter III – currently University Professor of Leadership & Public Policy at UNC; past President & CEO of the Knight Foundation; Spokesman for the US Department of State & Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

Michael Castle – Former Congressman (R-DE), Governor of Delaware, and U.S. Senate candidate

Donald K. Clifford, Jr – former Partner, McKinsey & Co.; President, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks; Honorary Trustee, American Museum of Natural History

John Degnan – Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, The Chubb Corporation; former Attorney General of New Jersey

William H. Donaldson – former Chairman & CEO of Aetna; former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Founder and Dean of the Yale School of Management

T.J. Dermot Dunphy – former CEO, Sealed Air Corporation; currently Chair, Kildare Enterprises, LLC; Cofounder of the Volunteer Consulting Group to provide management assistance to minority business owners

Peter Edelman – Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Past President the New Israel Fund; former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services; Author, “Searching for America’s Heart: RFK and the Renewal of Hope”

Lewis Feldstein – former President, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation; former senior staff member for Mayor John V. Lindsay of New York; co-author with Robert Putnam of, “Better Together: Restoring the American Community”

Wesley Foster – Founder and CEO of Long and Foster Companies, the largest privately-owned real estate company in America; board member of the George C. Marshall Foundation

Harold Ford, Jr. –  former Congressman from Tennessee; past Chair of the Democratic Leadership Council; currently a Managing Partner at Morgan Stanley; NBC Analyst; teacher at the Wagner School of Public Policy, NYU

Douglas I. Foy – President of DIF Enterprises; served as Massachusetts’ Governor Romney’s Secretary of Development; President of the Conservation Law Foundation; recipient of the President’s Environmental and Conservation Challenge Award

Charles Fried - Solicitor General under President Reagan; Professor Harvard Law School

Anthony Grassi – former Chair, The Nature Conservancy; retired Managing Director CS First Boston

Lee Hamilton – President, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives; Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission

Wade Henderson – President of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; former Washington Bureau Director of the NAACP; recipient of the Congressional Black Caucus Chair’s Award and the District of Columbia Bar’s William J. Brennan Award

Jack Herney – History Instructor, former Dean of Faculty, Phillips Exeter Academy; Board Member, New Hampshire Humanities Council

Carla Hills - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Ford administration, U.S. Trade Representative the George H.W. Bush Administration

Gary Hirshberg – President, Stonyfield Farm; former Executive Director, the New Alchemy Institute; former Co-Chair, the Social Venture Network; former Business NH Magazine’s Business Leader of the Year

Phil Hoff – former Governor of Vermont, former President of the Board of Trustees, Vermont Law School

Jeffrey Hollender – President, Seventh Generation Inc.; Board Member, Greenpeace International

Amory Houghton – Former Member of Congress (R-NY); former CEO and Chairman, Corning Glass; Director, Proctor & Gamble, IBM, and Genentech

Bill Hudnut – former Mayor of Indianapolis; President of the National League of Cities; member of Congress and clergyman; author, including “The Minister Mayor”; currently teaching at Georgetown University and consulting

Ed Kangas – Chairman, Tenet Healthcare; Director, United Technologies and Intuit Corporation; former Global Chairman & CEO, Deloitte

Stephen Kay – Senior Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Vice-Chair, Boston Symphony Orchestra; former Chair of the Board of Trustees, Brandeis University; member of the Board of Overseers, Harvard University

Madeleine Kunin – former Governor of Vermont; Deputy Secretary of Education; and Ambassador to Switzerland

Alonzo McDonald – former Assistant to the President and White House Staff Director, Acting Special Trade Representative, Managing Director, McKinsey & Co.; Founding Chair, The Trinity Forum

Walter Mondale – former Vice Presdient of the United States; former Senator from Minnesota

Paul Montrone – Former CEO, Fisher Scientific International; President Emeritus, the Metropolitan Opera; Treasurer, The Foundation of the National Institutes of Health

Sam Nunn – co-chairman and Chief Executive Office of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI); former Senator from Georgia

Peter G. Peterson – Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group; President, The Concord Coalition; Secretary of Commerce in the Nixon administration; former Chair, The Council on Foreign Relations and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

James Brian Quinn – retired Professor, Tuck School of Business; author, including ‘Intelligent Enterprise’

Arthur Rock – Venture Capitalist; Board member Teach for America; founder Harvard’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Stanford’s Rock Center for Corporate Governance

Dan Rose – Chairman, Rose Associates; former Director, U.S. Trust Corporation and founding Board Member, EastWest Institute

George Rupp – President, International Rescue Committee; former President, Rice University; former President, Columbia University; ordained Presbyterian minister; author, including “Globalization Challenged”

Kevin Ryan – CEO of Alley Corporation; former CEO of DoubleClick; board member, Human Rights Watch; member Yale International Council

Ron Shaich – Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Panera Bread; Co-Founder and former Chief Executive Officer, Au Bon Pain Company

Robert Shamansky – former member of Congress; former Special Agent in the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps; partner at Benesch, Friedlander, Coplin, and Aronoff, LLP

James Gustave Speth – Dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Co-founder, Natural Resources Defense Council: Administrator, United Nations Development Programme; author, including “The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability”

Sandra Swan – President Emerita, Episcopal Relief and Development; former President, Junior League of New York

Paul Volcker – Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve and Chairman of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board

Christine Todd Whitman – former Governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the EPA; currently Co-Chair of the Republican Leadership Council; principal of the Whitman Group an energy and environment government relations firm

Roger Wilkins – Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University; former Assistant Attorney General; Board Member of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; editorial board member The New York Times; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism