RE: "My first thought was that David Duke and Tom Metzger had put the things together."
Maybe they did. Did you know that the opposition offered David Duke a large amount of money to come to California to speak for Prop 187? Virtually their entire campaign was race, race, race.
That's a pretty serious charge. Bet you cannot back it up -- with valid sources.
"Why Latinos Supported Proposition 187," Lina Yvette Newton University of California, Irvine. 1998
http://hypatia.ss.uci.edu/democ//papers/lina.htm
This study suggests that the proponents did too little to counter the opposition lies. Americans of Hispanic origin support dropped to about 30 percent by election day -- which is about their average support for Republicans, I believe.
I have omitted Mr. Hogue's name. Why bother. He's too obsessed with that other talk show host's campaign and continues with the silly -- and VERY insulting -- chant, "don't be fooled by a rumor started by Gil Cedillo!"
He does not have the courtesy to read anything we write.
A whole of lot o projectin' going one our ther'. Mr Hogue, et al. say we blindly follow dem Rats' lies -- look how they do the Rats' work vis-a-vis Prop 187.