Robert Bass: former chair of the Republican State Committee of New Hampshire; former member of the Republican National Committee.

John Bonifaz: Legal Counsel, Voter Action; founder and former President of the National Voting Rights Institute; co-author of "The Wealth Primary: Campaign Fund Raising and the Constitution"; 1999 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Daniel Callaghan, secretary: attorney and partner at Devine Millimet and Branch.

Hodding Carter III: currently the University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina; past president and CEO of the Knight Foundation; spokesman for the US Department of State and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Carter administration; award-winning journalist and commentator.

Martha Fuller Clark: Member of New Hampshire Senate; 12-year Representative to the New Hampshire House of Representatives; nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 and 2002.

John Hennessey: former dean of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College; former provost and interim president of the University of Vermont; chair of the Governance Committee of Americans for Campaign Reform.

David L.K. Jeffrey: chairman of David Jeffrey Associates, Inc.; past vice-president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York; trustee of Englewood Community Foundation; honorary vice chairman of New Jersey SEEDS an organization for the education of economically disadvantaged students.

Joseph Keefe: president of Pax Communications; former chair of the Democratic State Committee of New Hampshire; former member of the Democratic National Committee.

Matt Keller: former legislative director for Common Cause; currently legal counsel to the United Nations World Food Program.

Don Petterson: former Ambassador to Somalia, Tanzania and Sudan; author of "Inside Sudan: Political Islam, Conflict and Catastrophe" and "Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale."

Janet Prince: president of Prince Communications; recent graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

John Rauh, chairman: president and founder of Americans for Campaign Reform.

Paul Sittenfeld: managing director, Robert W. Baird & Co.

Robert Spiegelman, treasurer: former president, BeneTemps Inc.

Betty Tamposi: assistant secretary of state for consular affairs in President George H.W. Bush's Administration; partner at Tamposi Company; currently attending the Harvard University School of Divinity.

Brian F. Walsh: chairman, board of selectmen, Hanover, New Hampshire; founder and original CEO of three technology start-ups including Spectra, Inc; watercolorist. Chair of the Marketing Committee of Americans for Campaign Reform.

Frank Weil: currently chairman of Abacus and Associates, Inc.; headed the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce from 1977 – 1979; past CFO of Paine, Webber Inc.; past chairman of the board of the Smithsonian Institution; served on the Board of the Council for Excellence in Government.