Giuliani Picks Up Support of Leading Affirmative-Action Critics

Chronicle of Higher Education
Campaign U
January 8, 2008

Rudolph W. Giuliani’s campaign yesterday released a list of the delegate candidates representing him in California’s Republican primary. It includes Ward Connerly, who helped lead the successful campaigns to limit affirmative action in California, Michigan, and Washington and is working to put similar measures before voters in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma this November.
Mr. Connerly is hardly the only prominent critic of affirmative action lending his support to the former New York mayor. The panel that Mr. Giuliani has assembled to advise him on education-policy matters includes Clint Bolick, who has frequently spoken out against affirmative-action preferences in his former position as vice president of the Institute for Justice and current position as director of the Goldwater Institute Center for Constitutional Litigation; Brian W. Jones, who has challenged such preferences in his past positions as the Education Department’s general counsel under President Bush and president of the Center for New Black Leadership; and Gerald A. Reynolds, who has taken similar stands in his current post as chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and in past stints as assistant secretary of education for civil rights under President Bush, president of the Center for New Black Leadership, and legal analyst for the Center for Equal Opportunity. http://chronicle.com/blogs/election/1354/giuliani-picks-up-support-of-leading-affirmative-action-critics