Monthly Archive for Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action Stories Posted in April 2008
Affirmative Action is Target of Missouri Petition Drive
Category: Affirmative Action · State: Missouri · Source: The Kansas City Star
To get contracts with Kansas City government, a company must make a good-faith effort at sharing the contract with businesses owned by minorities or women. To Bill Torres, a Hispanic owner of an engineering consulting business, that requirement forces companies to do the right thing: Share the pie with businesspeople often discriminated against in a world dominated by white men. But to opponents of affirmative action, the requirement is itself a form of discrimination they want to eliminate. The battle over affirmative action programs like the city’s has moved front and center. Missouri residents heading to the store or going to the polls on Tuesday may find themselves being asked to sign a petition aimed at changing the Missouri Constitution to prohibit state-related affirmative action programs.
Breaking News: Connerly's Oklahoma Petition Drive Withdrawn - Post-mortem
Category: Affirmative Action · State: Oklahoma · Source: OutsideLansing.com
Don't go into a gun fight with knives is an old piece of wisdom. Perhaps it was invented in the old West or even Oklahoma. Today, Ward Connerly's group in Oklahoma withdrew its application to the Oklahoma Supreme Court to consider roughly 141,000 signatures for a ballot proposal similar to the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (see the Chronicle of Higher Education here, or the Tulsa World here). They need roughly 139,000 valid signatures, which is way too slim of a margin given that some signatures are people have moved, made errors in filling technical parts out, or otherwise rejected for technical reasons. So Connerly did the right thing and withdrew, rather than trying to squeeze out the signatures in a protracted legal battle that would have cost the taxpayer (and Ward) more money.
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