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12.12.2008 9:19 am

Anti-affirmative action push now eyeing 2010 ballot

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Backers of an unsuccessful push to get an anti-affirmative action measure on the ballot this year will return in 2010.

Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced Thursday her office has approved for circulation a new petition from the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative.

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05.05.2008 12:19 am

ACORN celebrates failure of anti-affirmative action measure

Special to the Post-Dispatch

Leaders of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) happily sent out a release Sunday evening lauding that “organizers of the so-called Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, led by rich California political operative Ward Connerly, failed to turn in signatures…

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01.18.2008 11:01 pm

Temporiti, Mo Democratic Party, blast effort to eliminate affirmative-action

Special to the Post-Dispatch

The Missouri Democratic Party issued a statement this afternoon emphasizing its objections to “a proposed ballot initiative that would deny opportunities to Missouri women, students and minorities.

 ”The initiative would eliminate all affirmative action programs that currently exist in Missouri and that…

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