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Ward Connerly
Ward Connerly is a right-wing opponent of affirmative action. He's putting a million and a half bucks into an anti-affirmative action campaign and hopes to put initiatives on the ballot in November.
Ward Connerly's efforts to place anti-affirmative action initiatives of the November ballots in five states have hit roadblocks.
- Ward Connerly, Colorado Civil Rights Anti-Affirmative Action... (rss.topix.net)
- Supporters withdraw anti-affirmative action initiative petition (rss.topix.net)
- Arizona ground zero in anti-affirmative-action group's fight (rss.topix.net)
FAIL: Ward Connerly came all the way from California to stop all the affirmative action in Missouri, and now he's going back home a spent, miserable failure of a man.
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Missouri Organizers Defeat Ward Connerly's Initiative; US May Punish Countries that Refuse Deportees
Ward Connerly Fails in Missouri
WeCAN, ACORN, and Missouri Jobs for Justice successfully organized against Connerly's efforts to ban affirmative action in the state. Not gathering enough signatures for a petition to get the initiative on the ballot in Missouri, Connerly still works in several...
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With a U.S. Supreme Court hearing due to take place later this week, SAG and its former director of affirmative action have reached a settlement on a long-running legal dispute.
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Among other things, [AA for conservatives] would require universities to define who counts as a "conservative" for affirmative action purposes, a task that they aren't likely to do well.
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The faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder is apparently quite left-leaning, like the faculty at many academic institutions.
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Richard Kahlenberg, who's been campaigning for class-based affirmative action for years, has an article on InsideHigherEd yesterday arguing, quite persuasively, that nothing could carry more potent symbolic ...
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Ward Connerly has been forced to cross a second state off the list of five where he had hoped to get proposals on this fall's ballot to curtail racial, ethnic, and gender preferences.
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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.
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The campaign to place a ban on affirmative action on Missouri's November state ballot failed to produce enough signatures by the required deadline on Sunday.
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- Anti-affirmative action initiative discussed at forum (columbiamissourian.com)
- Affirmative-action supporters call petition drive misleading (kansascity.com)
- Group challenges affirmative-action initiative (denverpost.com)
Image from The Black Commentator This is part of a black conservatives on Obama series at The Black Snob. Previous entries were done on Amy Holmes and Condoleezza Rice. When it comes to white hot hatred towards any black conservative Ward Connerly probably raises the most hackles. Possibly even more than Clarence Thomas who’s had to endure a-many Judas calls in the black community. Connerly is the Affirmative Action defeating warrior declaring the time of race-based preferences has past. That...
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Ward Connerly, the chief backer of a campaign to ban affirmative action in five states, said that he was abandoning the Oklahoma campaign due to a lack of signatures on petitions to get the issue on the November voting ballot. This is, essentially, a blow for his campaign. Connerly opponents, a coalition of traditional civil rights advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, hailed the his camp's decision, filed in court papers last...
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Ward ConnerlyPeople in Colorado who signed an anti-affirmative action ballot initiative petition are charging that petition circulators deceived them about the measure's real purpose and intent. The signature-gathering effort is part of a push by African-American conservative Ward Connerly to qualify ballot initiatives in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma that would end affirmative action policies and programs in those states. Signature-gatherers for Connerly's measure, which...
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Opponents of affirmative action are pushing to ban the practice in five states, initially inspired by citizens voting to cut affirmative action in Michigan. Advocates are hunting for signatures in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, while supporters of affirmative action are increasing efforts to keep the ban from passing. Ward Connerly is the nation's most prominent opponent of affirmative action: Connerly contends that the success of Obama and Clinton shows that...
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