In all the brouhaha surrounding the initiative making it to the ballot, I erred in not reading things more closely.
Sizemore used Tim Trickey's Democracy Direct to gather up his signatures. DD in turn subcontracted out the work to other companies--turning the signature gathering process into a messy maze of almost-impossible-to-follow events. No doubt this was done deliberately to thwart Measure 26, including an especially slimy pay-by-the-signature scheme with homeless people in Portland.
A close look at the contract reveals a clause that appears to allow DD to worm out of paying the subcontractors:
Section1.2: The validity rate of the aggregate of signatures turned in to DDI by (name withheld) must not fall below 70%.
IP 14 achieved a 65.9% validity rate.
Sizemore's other initiative that's made the fall ballot is IP23, which 66.3% signature validity rate.
It looks to me like Trickey gets to keep his money..and a bunch of subcontractors who were probably violating Measure 26 aren't going to get paid.