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Ward Connerly, who's leading the charge to eliminate affirmative action programs, has allegedly been paid millions of dollars by lucrative contracting firms who stand to benefit directly from these civil rights rollbacks.
Reports from a number of states indicate that Ward Connerly's paid signature gatherer, Edee Baggett, is up to her old tricks. In a manner eerily similar to what was witnessed in Michigan during the 2006 cycle, complaints are already being filed alleging that voters have been tricked by National Ballot Access into signing Connerly's so-called "civil rights initiative."
With rampant cases of fraud and forgery throughout the years leading to investigations, lawsuits and disqualifications, this firm has been a leader in cultivating deceptive signature gathering practices.
Howie Rich's 2006 effort to put his three-headed monster-Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR), pay-or-waive schemes, and judicial attacks-on the ballot was anything but pretty.
Connerly claims supporters of affirmative action are racist, yet the only organization that supported him in 2006 was the Ku Klux Klan. Connerly was even videotaped praising the KKK’s endorsement of his civil rights rollback in Michigan.
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