Developing Hard... Sizemore to turn in signatures
All indications are pointing to Bill Sizemore turning in hundreds of thousands of signatures tomorrow (Tuesday) to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office.
Sizemore has indicated that he will be turning in approximately 125,000 to 130,000 signatures on Initiative #3, the “Double Taxation” measure. He has also indicated that he will be turning in signatures for at least one more measure that he has been circulating as well.
Sizemore said that he has “already had” the requisite number of signatures since April of this year. Yet many Oregonians probably had no idea that Sizemore was even in the game anymore let alone still capable of gathering signatures at such a rate.
The required number of “valid” signatures needed to qualify an initiative for the ballot is 80 some odd thousand so Sizemore will have more than 40,000 signatures over that amount with more than a year left to gather any extra signatures if need be.
Just as an aside, the likelihood that signatures on these measures are of better quality than those turned in late is actually pretty good. In that the most mistakes that are made in signature gathering come at the last minute when many folks start signing petitions in a mad dash and therefore you get people signing out of county or unreadable signatures and such. So there is an even stronger likelihood that the two petitions submitted tomorrow will be approved upon the first review of the Secretary of State’s office.
There is other news in that Sizemore is also concerned with the legislature not playing fair with the drafting of the ballot title as the Democrats try to repeal the “Double Majority” law. The legislature is reportedly considering an attempt at repealing the Double Majority on this November’s ballot. Sizemore is concerned enough that he has drafted two other DM measures and prepared to circulate them for the 2008 ballot.
Currently the DM enjoys a 57% popularity amongst Oregon voters. If the legislature does not play fair with the ballot title they could easily be found with egg on their face merely a year later as voters are reminded of the double cross.
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Sizemore placed a similar measure on the ballot in 2000 and I remember that it did not pass, but did pretty well. Money was tighter then, and that measure would have cut taxes about a billion dollars. With money flowing as freely as it is right now, a billion dollar tax cut would not be so hard to swallow, at least in the real world.
Perfect timing, Bill. Just when the Democrats were feeling omnipotent or should I say drunk with power. Nothing like a good tax cutting measure to shake them back to reality.
Has anyone ever turned in initiative signatures more than a year before the deadline? I don't remember that happening before.
Before you guys piss your pants, you might want to see how the measures do in the election...what's that saying? Don't count your chickens until they're hatched??
Why am I the only person on here who isn't "anonymous".
While I can't say anything about the timing of this actual turn-in, the fact remains that there is never a time in Oregon when a tax-relief, revenue-reducing measure isn't needed .
The "double-taxation" of income is downright sneaky and deceptive public policy, and even with all the attempts of the left to scare voters into voting against it, I believe it has a very good probability of passing.
This particular measure has an inherent fairness built into it that appeals to common sense and reason.
"If you pay money to one government entity and you don't have it left to spend, then it's not really income after all."
Since it was already paid in taxes to the IRS, it should not be counted as "income" that will be taxed again by the State of Oregon.
I am proud to join Bill Sizemore & Russ Walker in supporting this tax reform ("cutting") ballot measure.
The rightness of the double taxation issue is obvious on its face, which is why the unions will focus on the sponsor of the measure.
The public employee unions hate Sizemore. They will spend millions fighting his measure just because it is his and because they do not want him to make a come back.
The millions the union goons will spend fighting this measure will leave them with less money for other stuff and that is always a good thing for the rest of us.
Oregon Democratic legislators seem to have nothing better to do with their time than to conjure up new tax measures and additional fees that reach deeper each year into our pockets. Thank God for anti-tax activists such as Bill Sizemore who tirelessly work to provide a small countermeasure to the continuous onslaught of overtaxation being cooked up in Salem.
Remedial Arithmetic Lesson: 125,000 to 130,000 signatures is not "hundreds of thousands."
Eyepub,
Oh m'gosh, you are NOT really that daft are you? Here is a little remedial, ELEMENTARY arithmetic lesson for you.
125,000(double tax)+ 125,000(English immersion)= 250,000
THAT is "hundreds of thousands."
Wow that was so easy I was almost afraid to lay the smack down out of fear that I was picking on someone that is slow.
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