A complaint filed with state elections officials July 7 alleges the campaign gathering signatures for a ballot initiative that would use 25% of the Portland Clean Energy Fund to hire police officers violated Oregon law more than a dozen times.
The complaint, filed by Portland lawyer Alan Kessler, a longtime police watchdog and fierce opponent of the initiative, alleges that in over a dozen instances, canvassers were not carrying copies of the initiative’s complete text and repeatedly made false statements about who exactly would be hired by the initiative, among other violations.
“What’s pretty clear is the promoters of this initiative feel like they’re better off if the public is deceived as to what it does,” Kessler tells WW…