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Oklahoma Stories Posted in April 2008
Breaking News: Connerly's Oklahoma Petition Drive Withdrawn - Post-mortem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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