24 Facts About Bill Sizemore

Bill Sizemore was born on June 2,1951 and is an American political activist and writer in Redmond, Oregon, United States.

Bill Sizemore is considered one of the main proponents of the Oregon tax revolt, a movement that seeks to reduce taxes in the state.

Bill Sizemore made an unsuccessful run for Governor of Oregon in 1998.

Bill Sizemore announced his intention to run for governor in 2010, but was indicted by the state on charges of tax evasion.

Bill Sizemore was born in Aberdeen, Washington on June 2,1951.

Bill Sizemore graduated from Montesano High School in Montesano, Washington where he played varsity basketball and was voted by his teammates as the best defensive player and most inspirational player.

Bill Sizemore earned a degree in theology from Portland Bible College in 1976.

In 1993, Bill Sizemore founded Oregon Taxpayers United and became its executive director.

Bill Sizemore is noted as the author and driving force behind a number of ballot initiatives in Oregon.

In 2000, Bill Sizemore drafted and placed on the ballot Measure 7, which required governments to pay just compensation to property owners when a government-imposed regulation reduced the fair market value of their property.

Bill Sizemore ran for Governor of Oregon as a Republican in 1998.

Bill Sizemore won his party's primary, defeating the Republican Party Chairman and three other candidates who had little or no name recognition.

Bill Sizemore said he did not check the boxes on the loan application relating to bankruptcy and that the loan officer who submitted the application did that on his own.

Bill Sizemore was not named personally as a defendant or party to the case.

Bill Sizemore refused to pay the fines and attempted to continue doing business by changing the name of his organizations to Oregon Taxpayers Association and carrying on with business as usual.

In 2006, Sizemore broke with his pattern of anti-tax measures by filing Measure 42, a consumer-oriented bill that would have denied insurance companies the ability to take credit scores into account when setting insurance premiums.

The campaign to defeat the measure, which focused heavily on Bill Sizemore's credibility, was successful.

On December 1,2008, Bill Sizemore was sent to jail after a Multnomah County judge found him in contempt of court for the fourth time in his long-running legal battle with two Oregon teachers unions.

Bill Sizemore was released the next day on December 2,2008.

On November 23, Bill Sizemore announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor of Oregon in 2010.

Bill Sizemore called the charges politically inspired and said he had paid $51,000 in estimated taxes for 2006 and 2007, but could not file actual returns until an ongoing civil case resolved the amount of his income for the years in question.

Teachers union and Department of Justice lawyers had claimed in court that Bill Sizemore had personally taken $850,000 from a nonprofit he had been running, but a later audit by the Oregon Department of Revenue determined that Bill Sizemore's income for the three years in question was $392,000, $500,000 less than the teachers unions and Oregon DOJ lawyers had claimed.

Three years later Marion County Judge Claudia Burton retroactively converted the felonies to misdemeanors and all of Bill Sizemore's rights were restored.

Bill Sizemore continues to be a featured writer on a number of Web sites, such as.