This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state.

John von Schlegell wants to shake up the way Oregon governance works.

Von Schlegell, 71, co-founded the Portland private equity firm Endeavour Capital in 1991 and remains a managing director there. On Nov. 5, he filed 11 initiatives aimed at the 2026 ballot.

The initiatives, numbers 57 through 67, can be found here in the Oregon secretary of state’s initiative database . The initiatives touch on a wide variety of hot-button issues. ( Disclosure: Von Schlegell is a member of the Oregon Journalism Project’s board of directors and a donor to OJP. )

Some of the ideas would mark dramatic changes: Initiative Petition 60 , for instance, would impose a 10-year sunset on all new taxes and fe

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