SF Gate reports that Moveon has moved on from being a "grassroots" political group to being a large special interest democrat cheerleader.

When it was launched in 1998, the political grassroots group MoveOn. org, based in the Bay Area, decried a presidential election system dominated by big money and pledged to "bring ordinary people back into politics."

But now, as the MoveOn.org Voter Fund and other groups like it emerge as major forces in the presidential election, a large amount of their financial support is coming from sources that are anything but ordinary, and the money is big indeed.

A review of the MoveOn.org fund's first-quarter fund raising shows that nearly half of its $6.98 million came from just two people: Peter Lewis, the chairman of Progressive Corp., a Cleveland insurer, who gave $2 million, and George Soros, the New York fund manager, who gave just over $1 million.

It looks like the soft-money ban that garnered so much bi-partisan support for Campaign Finance Reform is coming back with a vengence. It will be interesting to see if the McCain-Feingold abomination actually increases the influence of money in politics.