Here's what we know about the liberal extremists backing the Reform Michigan Government Now constitutional rewrite...

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Oh, they have deep pockets.  We know that much.  In Grand Rapids they're paying circulators $1.50 per signature, even if they have to lie to get them.  There are reports from other parts of the state that circulators are making as much as $2.50 per signature.  No matter which way you figure it we're looking at $1.5 million to $2 million just to make the ballot.

Conventional wisdom holds that it'd cost at least $10 million to sneak the ballot question by the voters in November.  That's $12 million.  Minimum.

The usual suspects (Jon Stryker and the Michigan Trial Lawyers) claim they're not backing the thing which means that money's coming from somewhere else.  But where exactly?  We don't know and they're not telling.  The group's spokesman, former Dem state legislator Diane Byrum says it's a secret.

That led the Detroit News to issue a scathing editorial in the Sunday edition that read in part:

You might think the bankrollers of a campaign so nobly named Reform Michigan Government Now would be proud to stand up and identify themselves.

That they're remaining anonymous should be a big, red flag...

There have been plenty of sleazy attempts to slip self-serving ballot initiatives past unsuspecting Michigan voters -- in fact, few recent referendums have been honest about their true intent, which may explain why voters defeat most of them.

But this drive to enshrine a partisan advantage in the Constitution is the slimiest I've seen.

Very telling.  If the liberal extremists prefer that sort of coverage to actually disclosing their financial backers what does that say about the reaction they expect once the sugar daddy(s) behind this monstrosity are forced to go public?