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PROP 54 CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN WARD CONNERLY TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE TODAY AT SACRAMENTO’S DOWNTOWN HYATT REGENCYSACRAMENTO, CALIF.-Ward Connerly, campaign chairman of Yes on Proposition 54, announced today that he would hold a press conference today at 1 p.m. in the Santa Barbara Room in Sacramento’s downtown Hyatt Regency hotel, located at 1209 L Street. Mr. Connerly will comment on recent developments in the Prop 54 campaign. He will be joined by Prop 54 Northern California chairman and Prop 209 co-author Dr. Glynn Custred.Dr. Custred is a professor of anthropology at California State University, Hayward and a member of the Board...

WALNUT CREEK - Tom Wood and Glynn Custred used to agree on most everything that had to do with race.They agreed that race-based affirmative action was wrong. They agreed on the need to ban racial preferences in state admissions, hiring and public contracting. And so they authored Proposition 209, the initiative that made California the first state to abolish race-based affirmative action.But those lockstep days are over. The two strongly disagree on the latest initiative designed to change the way Californians think about race. Proposition 54, spearheaded by UC Regent Ward Connerly, who campaigned for Prop. 209, is a constitutional...

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...