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Article: OUTLOOK GRIM FOR RACE DATA INITIATIVE CALIF. RECALL TRUMPS PUSH FOR `PRIVACY'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 6, 2003
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SACRAMENTO - Backers of a ballot initiative to virtually ban state
and local governments from collecting racial data were all but
conceding defeat in the final days before California's election
tomorrow.
The campaign for the initiative, known as Proposition 54, has run
out of cash and out of steam in a state that at the moment seems less
preoccupied with the issue of race than the possible recall of
Governor Gray Davis, the main issue on the ballot in the special
election. The initiative's sponsors have been vastly outspent by its
organized opponents, a coalition of minority, labor, and health
groups.
"We won't be running any ads. We're broke - capital B-R-O-K-E,"
said Ward Connerly, a ...