New ballot measure operation targets the Democratic coalition in Salem

The Oregon state Capitol through cherry blossoms. (Photo by Julia Shumway/Oregon Capital Chronicle)

It looks like we’re about to enter another cycle of ballot measure warfare in Oregon.

From the mid-1990s through the early 2000s, Oregon voters confronted dozens of initiatives on every general election ballot, most of them devised to advance a limited-government, low-tax and anti-union agenda championed by Republican Bill Sizemore and a handful of big donors…

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