Missouri: Group fails to get enough signatures for anti-affirmative action amendment

by E Wayne Ross on May 5, 2008

Kansas City Star: Group fails to get enough signatures for anti-affirmative action amendment

JEFFERSON CITY | A group seeking to bar many state affirmative action programs missed a Sunday deadline to submit its initiative petition.

Missouri had been one of five states California businessman Ward Connerly and his supporters had targeted for an effort to strike down affirmative action laws.