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Stories Posted on May 5, 2008
Affirmative Action Petition Misses Deadline
Category: Affirmative Action · State: Missouri · Source: KMOV News
A group seeking to bar many state affirmative action programs has missed a Sunday deadline to submit its initiative petition. Missouri had been one of five states California businessman Ward Connerly and his supporters had targeted for an effort to strike down affirmative action laws. The Missouri effort was lead by Tim Asher, a former admissions director at North Central Missouri College in Trenton. Asher said it became obvious on Saturday that there were not enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, and he pledged to try again in 2010.
Some Payday-Loan Foes Drop Initiative Support
Category: Arizona · State: Arizona · Source: Arizona Daily Star
An initiative drive to put the payday-loan industry out of business in Arizona may falter because of a split among supporters. Members of an organization dubbed Stop Payday Predators announced Friday that they no longer are backing the initiative. State Sen. Debbie McCune Davis, D-Phoenix, who is chairing that group, said she believes the money being raised to put that measure on the November ballot would be better spent killing an industry-backed initiative that would make payday-loan stores a permanent presence in Arizona. That leaves only the Stop Payday Loans committee, headed by Rep. Marian McClure, R-Tucson, to pursue the initiative to abolish the industry. McClure said Friday that she is counting the signatures already collected and will decide in the next two weeks whether to pursue the ballot measure.