Initial Mich. response supports end to race, gender preferences
Published December 4, 2003
BY RUBY BAILEY
FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF
Two-thirds of Michigan residents favor a constitutional amendment banning discrimination or preferential treatment for minorities, a Free Press poll shows.
The poll also suggests that a proposed amendment’s wording and campaign ads attacking it could make for a much closer outcome than the two-thirds margin.
Supporters plan to present language for a constitutional amendment today to a state elections board in Lansing. They want to put it before Michigan voters in November. They seek to limit affirmative action. Their group, an offshoot of Ward Connerly’s American Civil Rights Institute in California, needs 320,000 signatures to put a proposed amendment onthe ballot.