Straube/McEvilly v. Myers

These consolidated ballot title review proceedings brought under ORS 250.085(2) concern the Attorney General’s certified ballot title for an initiative petition that the Secretary of State has denominated as Initiative Petition 143 (2006). Initiative Petition 143, if adopted, would increase the taxes paid on tobacco products and put the money derived from that increase into a number of specified programs.

Petitioners are electors who timely submitted written comments to the Secretary of State concerning the content of the Attorney General’s draft ballot title and who therefore are entitled to…