PORTLAND (AP) — For many Oregonians these days ballot measures fall into two categories: those that are backed by anti-tax activist Bill Sizemore and those that are not.

He has five on Tuesday’s ballot and said he already has filed 13 more for 2010.

The 2010 proposals would, among other things, curb the reach of labor unions, suspend land use laws for building homes, grant a homestead tax exemption for seniors and give juries the power to ignore “bad” laws.

“His main goal is to keep filing dozens of initiatives for which he gets paid a lot of money,” said Scott Moore, a spokesman for Defend Oregon, a coalition fighting Sizemore’s current list of measures.

“As long as this is his career, and it seems to be a fairly good one for him, he’ll keep filing no matter what voters say.”

His measures on this year’s ballot would limit bilingual education classes, allow Oregon taxpayers to deduct all federal taxes they pay when filing their state tax returns and base pay raises for teachers on classroom performance.

Two others would exempt residential projects of less than $35,000 from building permits and bar public employees from using payroll deduction to support nonprofits with political causes, including environmental organizations and charities helping families.

In all 30 initiative proposals already are on file for 2010 but most need approval before their backers can start gathering signatures and typically, only a few make it onto the ballot. State Elections Division officials say the list for 2010 is only about half the size of the one on hand two years ago for this election.

Sizemore has declined to say much about his proposals for 2010.

With an efficient army of signature-gatherers, he does little himself to campaign for his measures.

Opponents, especially public employee unions, spend millions of dollars opposing his measures.

In a civil suit brought by teachers unions, a jury in 2002 found Sizemore-run political operations engaged in racketeering by using forged initiative petition signatures and filing falsified tax returns and campaign finance reports.

A judge is considering whether Sizemore should be held in contempt for the fourth time for violating an injunction resulting from the verdict.

One of the measures on this year’s ballot, Measure 56, would repeal the “double majority” rule. Currently, no property tax measure can pass unless more than half of registered voters cast ballots, regardless of the outcome at the ballot box. The exception is general elections in even-numbered years.

Measure 56 would simply allow a majority of voters to decide on property tax measures in May and November elections.

Sizemore already has filed a 2010 measure that would raise the turnout minimum from 50 percent to 60 percent. Oregon’s 50 percent turnout requirement already is the nation’s highest.

He also is co-sponsor of two measures that would overturn a measure voters approved in 1994 and upheld two years later to ban hunters from using dogs to track bears and cougars.

“It’s yet another example of Sizemore’s low regard for the will of Oregon voters,” said Scott Beckstead, the Oregon director for the Humane Society of the United States and an author of the 1994 measure.

“We’d rather not have to fight this all over again, and it’s ridiculous if voters have to consider this a third time, but we’ll be more than ready to confront it.”