Missourians won a major victory in the fight for fairness and equal opportunity on May 6 when the so-called Missouri Civil Rights Initiative (MoCRI) failed to qualify for the November ballot, the ACLU announced in the press release issued yesterday. One of a series of ballot proposals California businessman Ward Connerly has spearheaded across theContinueContinue reading “Backers of Anti-Affirmative Action Initiative Fail Signature Drive in Missouri”
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Barb Shelly: ‘Good riddance to the anti-affirmative action drive in Missouri’
Kansas City Star editorial board member Barb Shelly posted this earlier today in response to the failed attempt by the Missouri campaign to erode equal opportunity in that state:Nice to see the cynically named “Civil Rights Initiative” fall short of the petition signature requirements in Missouri.This was, in my mind, the most offensive of severalContinueContinue reading “Barb Shelly: ‘Good riddance to the anti-affirmative action drive in Missouri’”