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A majority of small and midsize business owners and managers surveyed in a Crain’s poll support a state constitutional amendment banning racial, gender and ethnic preferences in state government and universities.The findings mirror another poll by John Bailey & Associates, which was commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber. Crain’s poll, conducted by EPIC-MRA, had a larger sample size. (See box, Page 88.) ... Ward Connerly — a former University of California regent and a nationally known opponent of racial preferences — is backing the Michigan initiative. A group called the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative circulated petitions in the state. Jennifer...

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.-Ward Connerly, campaign chairman of Proposition 54,proudly announced today that Dr. Glynn Custred, co-author of Proposition 209, has strongly endorsed Prop 54 and has pledged his full support in the campaign for the initiative that will bar state government from recognizing, classifying, categorizing or dividing its citizens by race, color or ethnicity. Dr. Custred is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Hayward and a member of the Board of Directors of Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences, an educational organization. He also serves as the President of the California Association of Scholars and is on the Board of...