Ward Connerly Interview – Part 1

Last week, I sat down with Ward Connerly, the controversial founder and chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, a national non-profit organization created to oppose racial and gender preference, commonly known as affirmative action.

In 1996, Connerly was instrumental in getting Proposition 209 passed in California. The controversial initiative amended the state’s constitution to prohibit public institutions, such as universities, from taking race or gender into consideration in hiring or admissions.

Connerly has now come to Missouri. He has been brought in to be the spokesman for a group based out of Grain Valley, Missouri which is organizing to get an initiative passed next year which is very similar to the one passed in California.

The California initiative passed by 54%. In this much more conservative Midwestern state, supporters of affirmative action are up for a fight — one that will likely be settled on the very same ballot that decides who will be the next President of the United States.

And now, part 1 of my interview with Ward Connerly…

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Check back tomorrow for Part 2 of my interview.