Measure 49 Fixes Measure 37

Oregonians In Action File Measure 37 Compensation Claims for About $5 Million

In 2004, the Oregonians in Action PAC gave $96,589 to help support the Measure 37 campaign. The campaign contribution was far from ideological: once Measure 37 passed, Oregonians in Action president Frank Nims, and Nims Family LTD Partnership (the contact for the two claims was Ross Day, director of legal affairs for OIA) filed claims adding up to about 5 million dollars!

In order to pay the claims, the counties that the claims were filed under would have to pull 5 million dollars of taxpayers’ money to compensate Mr. Nims and the Nims Family LTD Partnership, who would stand to ultimately gain a total of 5077% return on their initial investment.