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November 27, 2006

Bill Sizemore's Ego Strikes Again

Bill Sizemore has written a letter to the Bend Bulletin reminding Oregonians who are hearing awful things about him of how much money he personally has saved them in property taxes and asking all those who don't like what he has done to drop him a line (at bill@otu.org) so he can tell them how to give their savings back to the government. What I find amusing about his letter is the ego it displays. Sizemore entirely overlooks Don MacIntire's Measure 5, which is primarily responsible for all that property tax savings, and instead claims full credit for your property tax savings because of his role in passing Measure 47, which, by the way, had so many unintended consequences that it was never enacted and was instead replaced by a voter-approved legislative referral known as Measure 50.

Sizemore likes to use the royal "we" when it suits his purposes – like when he's trying to sound like he still has a team behind him – but when it's time to take credit for something, he jumps right back to "I." In claiming credit for the property tax cut and cap, he not only overlooks MacIntire, he pays no mind to the 5,000 or so Oregonians who contributed everywhere from $5 to $500 apiece to Measure 47, the scores of people who circulated petitions without pay, the staff who worked long hours on the campaign, and all the big donors who put it all on the line when they laundered their money through Americans for Tax Reform so nobody would know they were helping Bill Sizemore. I'd really like to know what drove Sizemore to beg for letters right now, but maybe it's just that he is having trouble coming to terms with the fact that someone as important as he is wasn't properly appreciated by the voters on election day when they rejected all of his measures.

Posted by Becky at November 27, 2006 12:48 PM