The St. Louis American
Monday, December 15, 2008
9:55 AM CST
Ward Connerly, the multi-millionaire California political operative has initiated again his plan to re-write Missouri’s state constitution and outlaw equal opportunity programs after failing in four of five states that he attempted to pass his divisive and deception “civil rights” initiative. On Thursday, the Missouri Secretary of State's office announced that it had approved for circulation Connerly’s proposed initiative.“The people of Missouri joined three other states this year in rejecting Ward Connerly’s out-of state campaign to re-write state constitutions and outlaw equal opportunity programs but he hasn’t learned any lessons from his failure,” said Kristina Wilfore, Executive Director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, “Before he gets started again he needs to take responsibility for the trail of fraud he has left in his path.”This year Connerly spent over $3 million in out-of-state funding to re-write constitutions in five states- Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. As a result, he failed to qualify for the ballot in Arizona, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Connerly’s initiative was defeated in Colorado 51%-49% but passed in Nebraska 58%-42%. However a court decision is still pending on a legal challenge that questions whether Connerly’s campaign broke the law to in order to place the initiative on the ballot in Nebraska.He chose to employ an out-of-state, paid signature gathering firm with a shady past to collect petitions for his initiatives, and was plagued by charges of fraud and deception in every state.
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