Oregon's Largest Measure 37 Claimant Donates $200k to Fight Measure 49

Stimson Lumber is Oregon's largest Measure 37 claimant, demanding over $250 million from Oregon taxpayers if they are not allowed to develop subdivisions on over 100,000 acres of forest and farm land that was protected before Measure 37.

The wildest thing about all of this is that Stimson Lumber was one of the largest contributors to the Yes on 37 campaign back when voters approved the measure in 2004.

Once Measure 37 passed, Stimson proceeded to file claims to develop housing subdivisions that impact over 100,000 acres, and the timber company demands over $250 million in compensation if they are not allowed to develop these subdivisions.  Stimson could not have developed this land before Measure 37 passed - because the vast majority of the claims are on protected forest and farm use land.

Read more about Stimson Lumber's Measure 37 claims here.

Read more about their contribution to the 'No on Measure 49' campaign here.

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[Measure 37 Watch]

KGW report on how big timber companies are teaming up to defeat Measure 49

[eagle]

Oh Pleze...the 'I've got daddy's big bucks' wine guy has donated how many $100,000.00 to yes on 49??? Seems to me I read 300 of them...$300,000.00

http://measure49.blogspot.com/2007/10/measure-49-paying-school-yard-bully-to.html

Read that and stop being a thrall!

[Jeff]

How are these two things related exactly? Stimson Lumber has Measure 37 development claims on over 108,000 acres in Oregon and has demanded $269 million in compensation from taxpayers if they are not allowed to develop this land in ways that were not allowed before Stimson Lumber and a host of other timber companies financed the deceptive Ballot Measure 37 in 2004.

The vast majority of claims by Measure 37 donors ($700 million in claims by donors so far) are to build housing subdivisions on forest and farm land that was protected before Measure 37. Stimson was one of the single largest contributors to Measure 37.

These 'wine guys' you talk about, who are some of the 1000s of contributors to Measure 49, are part of a coalition of nearly every farm organization in Oregon. These organizations support Measure 49 because it brings some sanity to Measure 37, a deceptive ballot measure funded almost entirely by developers and timber companies in 2004 - because Measure 37 could destroy Oregon's $4 billion per year agricultural industry - and that effects all of us.