to the Defend Oregon group as of October 23 include: $5.2 million from the Oregon Education Association. $1.2 million from SEIU. $450,000, American Federation of Teachers $600,000, AFSCME. $100,000 from School Employees Exercising Democracy (SEED) $100,000 from the AFL-CIO. $50,000 from Oregon AFSCME Council 75. Citizens' Initiative Review - 9 for, 14 against A 23-member Oregon Citizens Initiative Review panel examined this ballot measure in-depth in September 2008. They spent five days listening to advocates for and against the measure, and independent experts on language education. In the end, 14 were opposed to the measure, and nine were in support, and both groups wrote up their recommendation. Final analysis and statement Path to the ballot What became Oregon Ballot Measure 50 started out as Oregon Initiative Petition 19; it was originally approved for petition circulation on August 30, 2006. The office of the Oregon Secretary of State announced on June 16, 2008 that its unofficial signature verification process showed that the initiative's supporters had turned in 83,248 valid signatures, versus a requirement of 82,769 signatures. This represented a validity rate of 66.88% calculated over the 124,476 signatures turned in. A union-funded watchdog group asked the Oregon Secretary of State to conduct an investigation into how some signatures on the measure were collected. Bill Bradbury, the Secretary of State has said, ""...most all of the initiatives Oregon voters will decide this fall got there through practices that are now illegal. But those practices were legal at the time most of the signatures were submitted." The state Elections Division is currently investigating the claims. Basic information Oregon Voters' Pamphlet for Measures includes Official Explanatory Statement and Financial Estimate Summary Full text of the initiative Certified ballot title letter from the Oregon Attorney General Letters received from Oregon residents during the ballot title designation period Citizens' Initiative Review Analysis and Statement Supporters Bill Sizemore's official website Opponents Campaign website for Parents And Teachers Know Better, the No on Measure 58 campaign Website for Defend Oregon "Vote No on 58" from the Oregon Education Association Notes External links Note:: This article was taken from Ballotpedia's article about Oregon Ballot Measure 58 Further reading "Oregon’s Anti-ESL Measure Debated", CAUSA Oregon, July 15, 2008 "Measure Limiting English Learning to Cost Oregonians a Quarter of a Billion Dollars", CAUSA Oregon has voted against him, but Sizemore fights on, The Oregonian, September 6, 2008 Committee majority finds fault