Balls. I see no agenda here, right or left. There IS no stated political agenda as of yet. If you think that the current method of electing official is a healthy one, John, then by all means stick with it. But thr fact remains that anyone seeking high office is forced under the current system to raise huge amounts of money, and thus indebt himself to PACs and other lobbyists to achieve their goal.
This an approach that may work, and is damn well worth looking at for the rest of us who don't like the way the process currently works. It's a better one in my eyes than launching a third party as a protest vote (see Ralph Nader), because it shows sign of rising from a mutual consensus.