You only run a stealth campaign if you have something big and ugly to hide

They say clean intentions create a clean conscience.  So it's worth asking, why does the RMGN petition process continue to be draped in secrecy ten feet thick?  And I'm not even talking about the drive's mystery money men.

When the liberal extremists launched this attempt to switch out the Michigan constitution with a copy of the MDP party platform they went to great lengths to hide their activities.  First they recruited Harland Nye, an 80 year old chicken farmer from rural Barry County.  His entirely unknown name on the committee's organizing papers alone largely kept the drive out of the public eye for several months.  But eventually folks started asking questions.

Enter Joe Lukasiewicz, an only slightly less obscure Democrat from, once again, rural Barry County.  Nye passed press calls off to Joe so that he could take a turn ignoring them.  Neither man would speak with the media, explain their petition, their process, their motivations, describe what the novel sized document actually does or even say hello for that matter.

But eventually the public scrutiny (led by Right Michigan, by the way... I know, shameless plug... don't hate) got to be too much for even Mr. Lukasiewicz to ignore.  The out-of-state interests paying for this monstrosity brought on former Democrat legislator Diane Byrum to handle the press.  Her response to each of their questions?  An even mix of `no comment' and `wait till August.'

We still know zero, zilch and nada about the petition's authors.  They've given us nothing thus far but misdirection.  Hardly the trappings of a clean conscience.  Which begs the question... if they've got nothing to hide why won't they come out of the shadows?