to both Democrats and Republicans in the Missouri legislature, who killed Phase I of Governor Matt Blunt's Insure Missouri program. While this proposal was not perfect, it would have enabled 54,000 low-income working parents to obtain health care coverage beginning in the middle of March.
January, 2008
To Ward Connerly, chair of the so-called "American Civil Rights Institute," who is backing and bankrolling an effort to get signatures on the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, a proposed amendment to the Missouri Constitution. The proposal, under the guise of "civil rights," would actually end most affirmative-action programs in the state.
To all those who have exposed Connerly's intent to wage a racist campaign to strike down an important justice-making tool, and to all those who will decline to sign the petitions to get this issue on the 2008 ballot in Missouri.