Affirmative-Action Ban on Ballots in Colorado and Nebraska
Posted on August 25, 2008
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There is a movement underway in Nebraska and Colorado to allow its citizens to ban the unnecessary and discriminatory Affirmative-Action program:
Nebraska on Friday joined Colorado as one of two places where voters will decide whether to end programs that increase minority and female participation in government and education.
Chief proponent Ward Connerly, a California management consultant who successfully ran similar campaigns in California, Washington and Michigan, says he expects the fight will be tougher in Colorado.
Connerly says the campaign has spent about $3 million to place the initiative on ballots in the five states.
He is sending national staff from his advocacy group, American Civil Rights Institute, to review signatures that Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer disqualified Thursday.
Connerly plans to return to Missouri next year to try to get an amendment back on the ballot there. He says he believes in offering more opportunities to individuals based on socioeconomic conditions, not gender or race.
“For those who say, ‘Look, the measure did not make the ballots in all those states,’ they are clearly not looking at the big picture,” he says. “This is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.”
Now of course there are groups out there trying to prevent these initiatives of being on the ballots. Why? Are they afraid that the citizens of Colorado and Nebraska see through the racket that is Affirmative-Action?
Isn’t this a country “of the People, by the People, and for the People?” Then let’s allow the People to decide if they want Affirmative-Action, not some liberal lawyer, judge, or special interest group backed by the Affirmative-Action hucksters.
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