Posted on 06/14/2009 6:40:25 PM PDT by george76
Anti-affirmative action advocate Ward Connerly and a Sacramento-based legal foundation today blasted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Barack Obama's administration for a recently-enacted California Department of Transportation policy that awards contracts based on a race- and gender-based quota system.
The Pacific Legal Foundation, an individual rights and limited government watchdog group, said that it is filing a lawsuit today against Caltrans on behalf of Associated General Contractors of America to reverse the department's mandate that 6.75 percent of contracts receiving federal money go to women, African Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans and Native Americans. The foundation says that the policy violates federal and state law, including California's Proposition 209, the measure that voters enacted in 1996 to bar race or gender preferences in public employment, education and contracting.
The policy would affect about $2.57 billion in federally-funded contracts
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
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