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The Other Question -- A week from today Californians will settle the recall. And decide who has to deal with Proposition 54, the Racial Privacy Initiative. WHAT IF TIGER WOODS, frustrated by his inability of late to win one of golf's majors, enrolled at UC-Berkeley to finish the degree he started years ago at Stanford? Tiger would have to identify himself by race, and that would land him in the rough. Woods calls himself a "Cablanasian" (Caucasian, black, Native American, and Asian). But because his father is African American, that's how Berkeley would categorize him. If Tiger enrolled in California's...

In July 2002, the California secretary of state certified that enough signatures had been submitted to qualify the "Racial Privacy Initiative" (RPI) — an initiative to ban government classification based on race and skin color — for the ballot in the next statewide California election. Little did anyone know at the time that the next statewide election in California would be a special election in October 2003 to recall Governor Gray Davis. According to California's election code, any ballot initiative that has qualified for the ballot is automatically rolled over to the next statewide election, a fact that doomed RPI.A...

The most hated man on America's college campuses is George W. Bush. On many campuses, Ward Connerly ranks a close second. Connerly, who is black, is founder and chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute. In March 1993, he was appointed by Gov. Pete Wilson to the University of California Board of Regents for a 12-year term. He chaired the Proposition 209 campaign in California; the proposition, which banned the use of race in government employment, education and contracting, passed by an overwhelming majority in November 1996. He designed Proposition 54, the Racial Privacy Initiative, which would have banned the state...

“Light” as in light weight Joe Guzzardi October 20, 2003 California’s most tarnished politician is Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante. He is the only man in the state more discredited than Gray Davis. Having run an inept, lifeless campaign Bustamante not only failed to win over prospective voters, he instead made a long list of new enemies. To understand the totality of Bustamante’s failure, read the column by Steve Sailer on the webzine VDARE. Com. Political analysts agree that Bustamante is terminally damaged goods. According to Tony Quinn, “It's almost impossible two months ago to have thought of any way that...

An lucid explanation, please, on CA voters choosing Schwarzenegger by a huge margin while at the same time choosing to keep pimping for race-mongers by defeating the prop to end collection of racial data. There seems to be quite a disconnect here...

<p>Proposition 54, a constitutional amendment proposed by UC Regent Ward Connerly to ban most state agencies from collecting racial and ethnic data died Tuesday night after opponents successfully focused the attention on its possible effects on health care.</p> <p>Connerly proposed the initiative, he said, because the practice of classifying people by race is antiquated and divisive.</p>

Yesterday the people of California chose a new Governor and as a result set a course that will affect the future of the state and our country in profound ways. This thread was created to keep you informed of the important developments. I invite you to post all the major recall stories here or if it has already been posted, then add links to these posts. We welcome discussions of the candidates, the issues, campaign strategy, the polls, etc. Please be civil in your comments. If you want to be added to a ping list on the recall please freepmail...

California voters rejected a contentious ballot initiative Tuesday that would have banned state and local governments from tracking race in everything from preschools to police work.

THIS IS THE PART in the movie when the battering rams smash through the besieged town's much-reinforced-but-nevertheless-crumbling wooden gates, and the outsiders pour through the breach and then over the walls to loot and pillage at will. Arnold and his forces are at Sacramento's gates. Think Alexander and Thebes. The gutter politics of the last few days won't make the hand-over pretty. Gray Davis's allies knew better, but they threw in with a small-minded man whose greatest talents were fundraising and a seemingly limitless capability to hit low. And these allies have clung to their old tactics even to the...

Today the people of California will choose a Governor and as a result set a course that will affect the future of the state and our country in profound ways. This thread has been created to keep us all informed of the important developments. I invite you to post all the major recall stories here or if it has already been posted, then add links to these posts. We welcome discussions of the candidates, the issues, campaign strategy, the polls, etc. Please be civil in your comments. If you want to be added to a ping list on the recall...

THE NEWS out of New England is vandals have defaced Robert Frost's farmhouse in Derry, New Hampshire, spray-painting the south side of the poet's house--a national landmark--with swastikas and the slogans "Arnold is a racist" and "Arnold is a Nazi." That makes it official: recall has taken the road more traveled--by partisan nimrods. There are thing two things you should know about the controversies involving Arnold Schwarzenegger and his alleged groping of women and his supposed "admiration" of Adolph Hitler--well, three if you include the fact that Arnold apparently is guilty of some remarkably boorish behavior. The past few days...

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 5 -- The "Remarkable Women for Arnold" came in all ages, from both major political parties and from no political party at all. They lined up for the "Remarkable Women" signs that Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign volunteers were giving out, bought "Total Recall" campaign buttons and "Terminator for Governor" T-shirts, and looked with disdain, even disgust, at the women at the edge of the rally carrying "No Groper for Governor" signs. The women made up at least half of the supporters at Schwarzenegger's rally here today. And they defended him as a mother would against allegations that he groped...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MON OCT 06, 2003 17:14:02 ET XXXXX The executive producer of Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent film COLLATERAL DAMAGE is warning colleagues in a purported email: "Please be sure to vote NO on the recall. I know Arnold personally. He is in no way qualified to govern anybody or anything." An email claimed to be written by producer Hawk Koch began circulating in top studio circles on Monday, THE DRUDGE REPORT has learned. "Friends, Please be sure to vote on Tuesday. Please be sure to vote NO on the recall. I know Arnold personally. He is in no...

Tomorrow the people of California will choose a Governor and as a result set a course that will affect the future of the state and our country in profound ways. This thread has been created to keep us all informed of the important developments. I invite you to post all the major recall stories here or if it has already been posted, then add links to these posts. We welcome discussions of the candidates, the issues, campaign strategy, the polls, etc. Please be civil in your comments. If you want to be added to a ping list on the recall...

In just 2 days the people of California will choose a Governor and as a result set a course that will affect the future of the state and our country in profound ways. This thread has been created to keep us all informed of the important developments. I invite you to post all the major recall stories here or if it has already been posted, then add links to these posts. We welcome discussions of the candidates, the issues, campaign strategy, the polls, etc. Please be civil in your comments. If you want to be added to a ping list...

In just 3 days the people of California will choose a Governor and as a result set a course that will affect the future of the state and our country in profound ways. This thread has been created to keep us all informed of the important developments. I invite you to post all the major recall stories here or if it has already been posted, then add links to these posts. We welcome discussions of the candidates, the issues, campaign strategy, the polls, etc. Please be civil in your comments. If you want to be added to a ping list...

Fox News just reported on the KABC "snap poll" conducted after Arnold's apology. They reported that 10% of those who were planning on voting for Arnold have now changed their minds and are voting for someone else. But, 12% who were not planning on voting for Arnold prior to the apology have now decided to vote for Arnold. This gives Arnold a 2% net boost in his support.

In just 4 days the people of California will choose a Governor and as a result set a course that will affect the future of the state and our country in profound ways. This thread has been created to keep us all informed of the important developments. I invite you to post all the major recall stories here or if it has already been posted, then add links to these posts. We welcome discussions of the candidates, the issues, campaign strategy, the polls, etc. Please be civil in your comments. If you want to be added to a ping list...

KABC just reported on its 11:00PM broadcast that after Arnold's apology this morning in San Diego he has gained 2% from people who were previously not planning on voting for him.

Rehashing Old GroundProp. 54 and the 1960 Census. By M. Royce Van Tassell Opponents of Proposition 54 paint a doomsday portrait of California under the Racial Privacy Initiative. Without the racial data Prop. 54 would prevent California from collecting, they argue, the Golden State would be plunged back into those benighted days when Bull Connor lumbered through the streets of Birmingham while the Ku Klux Klan ravaged the "negroes" at will. The debate today over Prop. 54 parallels almost exactly the 1957 debate over what questions to include on the 1960 Census, though that earlier debate focused on religious data....