{"id":5092,"date":"2003-12-11T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T21:11:09","slug":"neither-party-wants-vote-on-preferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/11\/neither-party-wants-vote-on-preferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Neither party wants vote on preferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/news\/metro\/dicker5_20031205.htm\">Neither party wants vote on preferences<\/a><br \/>\nPublished December  5, 2003<br \/>\nBY BRIAN DICKERSON<br \/>\nFREE PRESS COLUMNIST<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this season of partisan discord, there&#8217;s at least one thing the leaders of Michigan&#8217;s Democratic and Republican parties agree on:<\/p>\n<p>Neither party&#8217;s poo-bahs want to see the anti-affirmative action initiative championed by California businessman and regent Ward Connerly come within a million miles of Michigan&#8217;s November 2004 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic leaders fear losing an up-or-down vote on affirmative action.  Republican leaders, who have sent mixed signals on racial and gender preferences,  worry that a ballot question would energize minority voters hostile to Republican candidates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither party wants vote on preferences Published December 5, 2003 BY BRIAN DICKERSON FREE PRESS COLUMNIST In this season of partisan discord, there&#8217;s at least one thing the leaders of Michigan&#8217;s Democratic and Republican&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1k8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions\/7300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}