Affirmative Action Challenge In Michigan
A group called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative is targeting the November 2006 election for its proposal, which would prohibit the use of race and gender preferences in university admissions and government hiring.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Let everybody get admitted or hired based on their ability to perform instead of any other reason.
But here come the lib-bots to try and derail the whole thing!
But an opposition group -- the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (BAMN) -- plans to argue the staff report suggests a full investigation into signature-gathering techniques is warranted.
BAMN says more study is needed to determine what percentage of signatures were gathered through misrepresentation of the proposal's intent.
The staff report reached no conclusion on the legal authority of canvassers to consider misrepresentation as a basis for invalidating signatures. The state attorney general's office is expected to issue an opinion related to that topic, but a copy of the opinion was not available Friday evening.
Hopefully, the ballot initiative will go through. But then again, this is Michigan we're talking about.