Recall's strange bedfellow

SF Chronicle ^ | 7/29/03 | Tanya Schevitz, Chronicle Staff Writer

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Renegade University of California Regent Ward Connerly didn't plan it this way, but his Oct. 7 ballot initiative promoting a "colorblind society" could end up helping Gov. Gray Davis fight off a recall attempt on the same ballot.

At least that's the conclusion of two political analysts who have been studying the issue at California State University at Sacramento. Both believe Connerly's Proposition 54, embraced by conservatives but widely condemned by Democrats, could spark a big opposition turnout of minority and liberal voters -- a development that they say would benefit the embattled governor.

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A Field Poll released last Wednesday showed voters supporting the initiative, 50 percent to 29 percent.

I'd say this is a winner.

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Let's remind people of the liberals who are bringing back Jim Crow in New York City.

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"He is trying to be the one-man anti-civil rights campaign. The new civil rights movement is going to take him on," said Yvette Felarca, a UC Berkeley graduate student and a national organizer for the pro-affirmative action group, By Any Means Necessary.

By Any Means Necessary eh?