Today marked the deadline for initiative campaigns to submit signatures to the Secretary of State for the November general election. Six waited to the last day, but all insist they will have garnered enough valid signatures to make the ballot.
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Anti-46 spokeswoman's 'overprivileged' comments spark dialogue
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October 23, 2008Appearing on 850 KOA's Mike Rosen Show Tuesday, Melissa Hart, co-chair of the "No on 46" campaign, said that without race and gender preferences, schools would admit classes of "overprivileged" students who "all look the same."
FTS Humor: Tonight's homework assignment: Destroy Sarah Palin
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September 26, 2008If you’re a student who wears a shirt critical of Barack Obama, you’ll get suspended. This is something you definitely don’t want to happen, because then you’ll probably fall behind on very important homework assignments - such as the one where you’re supposed to write an essay tearing apart Sarah Palin.
CU Law hosts heated Amendment 46 debate
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September 21, 2008The future of Colorado's equal opportunity programs was the source of a two-hour debate Thursday night at the University of Colorado’s law school in Boulder. Experts representing both sides of Amendment 46, a measure that would prohibit race and gender preferences in public education, hiring and contracting presented their case to an audience of about 70 people, mostly law students.
Initiative 82 fails to make ballot
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September 4, 2008Initiative 82, a ballot measure designed to preserve race and gender preferences in public hiring, contracting, and education, failed to make November’s ballot after coming up short by nearly 8,000 signatures, the Secretary of State’s office announced Wednesday afternoon.
Campaigns submit petitions at the 11th hour
August 4, 2008Colorado affirmative action initiative garners national attention
A Face the State Staff Report
June 30, 2008While the November election is still months away, public attention is already heating up around Amendment 46, known as the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, with two debates televised over the last two days.
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