If Amendment 46 is such a good idea, why do backers have to lie about it?
June 11th, 2008, 7:44 am · Post a Comment · posted by bnoreen
California activist Ward Connerly has brought his anti-affirmative action show to Colorado. For now, it’s on the ballot for November, but there is a pending lawsuit over alleged deceptive practices used to obtain signatures for the petitions. The court challenge could be viewed as just a stalling tactic by Amendment 46 opponents if not for the fact that the carpetbagging Connerly’s tactics have been found to be supect elsehwhere in the past. A court in Michgan found that petition circulators there engaged in the same kind of election fraud that’s being alleged in Colorado — namely that circulators are misrepresenting what the measure is all about.
The Colorado court challenge may succeed in removing some suspect signatures from petitions, but it appears likely the measure will remain on the ballot for November. Even after criticizing the petition effort in Michigan, the court allowed themeasure to go forward and voters approved it. To read more about all this, check out:
– http://www.diversityinc.com/public/1365.cfm
– http://www.campusprogress.org/tools/230/
– http://www.racialicious.com/2008/01/29/evil-ward/
