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Stories Posted on December 2, 2007
Crusade against Sizemore smacks of revenge
Category: Bill Sizemore · State: Oregon · Source: Albany Democrat Herald
Bill Sizemore isn’t the potent political force in Oregon he once was, but the teachers’ union is still after him. It smacks of retribution. In the 1990s Sizemore sponsored initiatives to limit public spending, and the Oregon Education Association and another union went to court to fight him with a lawsuit charging racketeering. In 2002 they won a $2.5 million judgment against his political organization, Oregon Taxpayers United. More recently they also won a court order for attorney fees in another case. Now they’ve sued him again, charging that he was getting money indirectly and hiding assets in his wife’s name.
Fairway prevails in lawsuit over development, city hall sites
Category: City Government · State: Missouri · Source: Kansas City Star
Fairway has successfully defended itself against a lawsuit filed by three residents. The residents — Mike McAlister, Klaus Ulrich and James Kernell — filed the suit last year after the city declined to adopt or put on the ballot two ordinances that would have restricted where Fairway could build a new city hall and allow commercial development.
Change of government drive stalls, ballot measure won't happen
Category: City Government · State: Wisconsin · Source: TheNorthwesterner.com
A citizens group has decided that it will not pursue an April referendum that would ask voters if they want to change the city's form of government.
Newport sued over city hall ballot
Category: City Government · State: California · Source: Daily Pilot
A local activist suing Newport Beach to keep a measure off the February ballot to decide whether to build the next City Hall next to the central library said Tuesday he hopes a ruling in the matter will come before the end of the year.