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Ward Connerly's 'Equal Rights' con

Conservative philanthropy  product Connerly launching 'Super Tuesday for
Equal Rights' -- a series of  November 2008 anti-affirmative action
initiatives

Bill  Berkowitz, September 7,  2007

http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=210

In the  aftermath of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling severely limiting
the use of  race in K-12 integration plans, Ward Connerly is feeling his oats.
"I believe  that we are now poised for a coup de grbce to say that race
preferences in the  eyes of the public should not be used," Connerly, the
chairman
of the  Sacramento, California-based American Civil Rights Institute, said in
response  to the Supreme Court's decision.

If Connerly's new Super Tuesday for  Equal Rights campaign is successful, the
day after the November 2008  presidential election affirmative action will be
one giant step closer to  oblivion. The mastermind behind anti-affirmative
action initiatives in  California, Michigan, and Washington, has set his
sights
on five new states --  Missouri, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.
"This is going to be Super  Tuesday for equal rights," Connerly said. "I think
it's very clear that we are  witnessing an end to an era."

In 1997, Connerly along with Thomas 'Dusty'  Rhodes, co-founded the American
Civil Rights Institute (website), a national  non-profit organization
pro-actively opposed to affirmative action. Connerly  rocketed into the
national
spotlight -- and the hearts of conservatives -- with  Proposition 209, the
1996
California ballot initiative that outlawed race and  gender preferences in
state
hiring and university  admissions

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