Once a state becomes TOO diverse these things turn into a brawl over who gets to be first in the pecking order.
Whenever the language is unclear, vote NO!
Asians don’t get any affirmative action help, obviously.
As a voter in Washington State, it truly was doublespeak. It had the kind of double negative logic that required you to carefully think about the words before you voted.
The voters ended discrimination, but special interests appealed to politicians from start to reinstate racial preferences for “marginalized” groups. The Legislature and those that wrote the initiative understood that the word “quota” should be avoided at all cost. But the allowed “preferences” based on percentages of the population were in essence quotas.
I hope this and $30 car tabs never has to see itself back on the ballot. For that to happen the politicians and the special interest groups will need to accept the will of the people.
Racial preferences are illegal and unconstitutional, even if there’s a law that “allows” them. That law is invalid and not binding.
Oh fudge.
Just waiting for the Judge.
He needs to say
“You are a bunch of racists”
And affirmative action will STAY.
Now go AWAY.
Democrats run Washington so this issue is not dead. I expect to see it addressed in the next legislative session.
Don’t start the celebrations yet.
Current numbers...
“Rejection” leads by 13,000 votes.
At least 82,000 ballots still to be counted.
Washington state has mail in ballots.
We “count” for weeks after an election when a Hard Left candidate or ballot measure still has a chance to win.
I read an article a few days back in the Seattle Times in which a reporter wrote: “Late ballots always seem to favor the most Progressive candidates and measures.”
The reporter has no curiosity as to “why” that happens - it’s just accepted as a “fact.”