Archives for: December 2007, 05
For those of you following the SuperTuesday of Equality by Ward Connerly, you'll note many of the opponents in the new five states suggest that there is no preference anywhere in their state governments, and hence the CRI's are "unnecessary" (of course, that begs the question, why oppose them).
In Arizona, at least 30-some programs do exist, in the report by Clint Bolick.
Appropriately, the question has been raised whether the initiative is a solution in search of a problem. This paper documents more than three dozen such classifications in Arizona government programs at the state, local, and university levels. Given that governmental entities are rarely candid about whether and the extent to which they confer preferences on the basis of race, color, or sex, the fact that three dozen visible programs were easily discovered suggests that the programs identified in this paper may represent only the tip of the Arizona preference iceberg.








