My problem with the whole witch hunt to silence Bill Sizemore ...and the courts complicity with that agenda, is that it represents even further movement down that slippery slope which leads to places we don't want to let our system go. Love him (and alot of people love the guy) or hate him (the rest of Oregon) if he is able to gather enough signatures to qualify a ballot measure for the ballot then he is entitled to have those initiatives put to a vote by the citizens of Oregon. The OEA (Oregon Education Association) is way out of line here. It was their lawsuit under Oregon's civil RICO statutes that started this whole thing. And their use of the courts in such a shameless way to bully and intimidate the people who don't agree with them should make us all mad. Their claim was since once upon a time Sizemore handed in signatures that one of his employees had forged ...even though those forged signatures* were not needed to get him over the threshold to qualify for the ballot *(of which there were very very few- in fact the audit of his signatures by the Sec of State showed a much lower percentage of bad signatures than are considered acceptable) So the Big union; who is no one to talk about their political agendas ....sues Sizemore’s non profit to try to recoup the money they spent attacking his initiave petitions ...from this non profit and after a dirty judge whose own son is a member of the OEA gives them this ridiculous judgment e also tried to tie Sizemore’s personal assets to the case so the union could proceed to collect against him personally ...WTF?? The initiative process is the people’s ability to set the agenda that their elected leaders won't do. Weak leadership spawns the need to do an end run on those weaklings and their policies to let the people vote on some of these important issues ...You may not like the issues he forces us to vote on sometimes but he seems to have no problem gathering enough signatures to qualify those issues for the ballot and the vote is not always against him either. For the State's largest union to use the courts and legal process to bring suit to stifle the very civil rights that make us the envy of the rest of the world is shameful ...the fact that the first Judge in this case refused to act fairly and according to his sworn oath and called this case for the home team ...is equally shameful ...that the Oregon court of appeals had the wisdom to see this red herring which is apparently lost on Judge Wilson gives me hope that our system still has a chance against the corrupt lawyers and judges who prefer to use legal process to snuff out their opposition and to snuff out the public’s ability to vote on these important issues of the day ... I don't agree with everything Bill Sizemore says and does ...I have met Bill Sizemore and I found him to be extremely articulate and I found his ethics to be above reproach ...when we allow the government to intrude into this process like Judge Wilson has done and try to take control of any part of a private PAC or its funds to contaminate the process and is crossing the line that should never be crossed
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