Court Opinion

ID: 9503497
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 19:47:06.78471+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:03:30.865156
License: Public Domain

LEESON, J.,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I agree with the majority’s holding that the result statements substantially comply with ORS 250.035(2)(b) and (c). However, I disagree with the majority’s holding that the caption that the Attorney General certified must be modified in the way that the majority does.
The majority asserts that the caption fails to comply substantially with ORS 250.035(2)(a) because it does not identify reasonably the subject matter of the proposed initiative measure. According to the majority, the “primary subject” of the measure is “the use of public resources for the collection of political contributions from public employees, particularly through payroll deductions.” 328 Or at 470. Although that may be one result of the measure, the conclusion that limiting the use of the payroll deduction is the subject matter of the proposed measure does not follow from the text of the measure. The measure makes no reference to payroll deductions. Its prohibition is much broader: “No public funds shall be spent to collect or assist in the collection of political funds.”
The majority fails to explain the basis for its conclusion that, notwithstanding the wording of the proposed measure, its subject matter is eliminating the use of political contributions through payroll deductions. Lacking the majority’s unarticulated insight, I am unpersuaded. I believe that the following caption would comply substantially with the requirements of ORS 250.035(2)(a): “PROHIBITS USING *474PUBLIC RESOURCES TO COLLECT POLITICAL FUNDS.”1
Carson, C. J., and Gillette, J., join in this opinion.

 The Attorney General conceded at oral argument that the caption he certified does not comply substantially with the requirements of ORS 250.035(2)(a). I agree and would accept that concession. My proposed caption simply would not import into the caption, as the majority’s does, a concept that is not mentioned in the proposed measure itself.