Terhune v. Myers

This ballot title review proceeding brought under ORS 250.085(2) concerns the Attorney General’s certified ballot title for an initiative petition, denominated by the Secretary of State as Initiative Petition 20 (2006). Initiative Petition 20, if adopted, would add to Oregon statutes a section whose substantive purpose is set out in its first paragraph:

“Except for money spent on the preparation, printing and distribution of an official voters pamphlet or money spent conducting an election, no public resource shall be used to collect or help collect money that will be used for a political…