Breaking News: After weeks of speculation as to who would actually be campaigning for the mayor’s charter reform package, word comes that a political action committee is finally being filed.

The PAC is called Citizens to Reform City Hall. (The website is here, although it’s currently under construction.) It’s composed of seven of the former Charter Review Commission Members—including real estate developer Bob Ball, who headed up a failed “strong mayor” campaign in 2002.

So far, the public face of the pro-reform camp has been limited to the Portland Business Alliance, Mayor Potter, and the Oregonian editorial board—not exactly the populist face of a campaign that normally rules elections in Portland. Among their many challenges to convince Portlanders to vote to change our form of government, the initial one will be for the Citizens to Reform City Hall to distance themselves from the moneyed power brokers who are influential, but politically unpopular.

The campaign is being billed as citizen-led, and “up against the establishment.”

How “against the establishment” you can be with the PBA and Oregonian on your side is a question that will be fun to see answered.