Annual dues are $10,000 (for the New Majority group).
Sounds like a bunch of fat-cat, elitist Third Way types. Now that I know Schwarzennegger is one of these "New Majority" (really Third Way) types, I understand better why he governs the way he does.
There have been many "third way" movements around the world. The modern one is nothing more than an attempt to repackage socialism by shoring up its economic weaknesses while still adhering to a "progressive" governmental and social agenda. Third Way types are Leftists who cherry pick elements of Rightist fiscal policies. Then they try to marginalize both traditional Leftists and people on the Right by characterizing themselves as pragmatists and centrists.
Remember the Democratic Leadership Council that pushed Bill Clinton to the White House? It's a Third Way group. Remember the group founded by Warren Rudman and Paul Tsongas in the early 1990's? Same thing. Even Newt Gingrich was pushing the Third Way for awhile, because he was a friend of someone who wrote a book about the Third Way. (I don't know if he still adheres to that philosophy though.)
If you Google "Third Way," you'll find many references. There's even an official Third Way website. Here's a link.
Here's a link to the Democratic Leadership Council's website. You'll easily see the commonalities between the Third Way's site and the DLC's site.
I think this is the book Newt was pushing several years ago.
Here's a snippet of Amazon's review of this book:
The idea of finding a third way in politics has been widely discussed - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern politics. The third way represents the renewal of social democracy in a world where the views of the old left have become obsolete, while those of the new right are inadequate and contradictory.
Here's an excerpt from the description of Third Way on Wikipedia:
The term was appropriated by politicians in the 1990s who wished to incorporate Thatcher and Reagan's projects of economic deregulation, privatization, and globalization into the mainstream centre-left political parties (following the crisis of socialism after the fall of the Berlin Wall) so that in this context the Third Way is usually understood as a nickname for neoliberal social-economic policy. As such, it has become an important ideology in modern European democracies, especially by some Social-Democratic parties, as well as for some members of the United States Democratic Party (particularly, the Democratic Leadership Council). It gets its name from its alleged role as an alternative to both pure, free market capitalism and the kind of economic order represented by strong welfare states such as the Scandinavian countries and Germany, which are held to be too regulated and taxed at rates that are too high to compete with economies run on free-market principles.