A trend which is becoming all too common on all ranges of the political spectrum. It's way too easy for anonymous powerful people and organizations to push agendas disguised as grassroots movements. There are loopholes in the laws for certain kinds of activist organizations that allow them to cover their donor tracks, too.

Sometimes you can dig deeply enough to find out who's behind something like this. Their registrations leave tracks, and while they usually end at some obscure company name, you can learn a lot by taking things like addresses and phone numbers, and seeing what other groups share them. You'd be amazed how many seemingly unrelated groups operate out of the same offices.

On a related note, if you want real campaign reform, get rid of all the crap on who can give how much to who, and nail down ironclad transparency requirements instead. Every dollar that goes into a political campaign should have a large and truthful signature on its face.

As for the 22nd Amendment, keep it, and add term limits for Senators and Congressmen, too. Right now, most such positions are practically jobs for life. "What about all the experience?" we're asked. Yeah, but mostly it's experience at keeping their jobs as Senators and Congressmen. Experience at delivering pork, trading influence, gaming the system, and increasing their own power and wealth. Al Capone had a lot of experience, too. That's not always a good thing.