and one of the lead organizers next to her was jim wallace, one of the guys who is campaigning against this program, surprise, surprise. the idea was to parallel the democratic and republican convention, the shadow convention. huffington said at the time, the message of the shadow convention was not left or right, and the answers to these issues are not going to be found in the old ideas of the past. clearly the great society solution of top down programs has failed. top-down programs. instead, the answers could be found in the raw power quoting of government appropriations. wow! but it was the next election cycle that truly launched the shadow party in 2004, when sor soros didn't mince words. he stated this is not a normal election. these are not normal times. and i do not accept rules imposed by others. if i did, i would not be