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...Ancheta said minority populations at many other schools would drop significantly if the court rules against Michigan, as has already happened at the University of California, where a state referendum prohibited the use of affirmative action in admissions decisions...
...Mexico A BUREAUCRAT BY ANY NAME A referendum sought to change the name of the state highway commission to the state transportation commission. Passed...
This election was a referendum on the direction of the Democratic Party, and the voters were clearly disappointed by the Democrats’ lack of vision. Frustrated by the absence of a compelling Democratic agenda, voters refused to support candidates whose only message was that their opponents were wrong. Democrats must now heed the voters’ demands for a new definition of what the party stands for—a new set of independent Democratic ideas. No longer can the Democrats be the negative image of a Republican agenda, standing only for criticism of conservative positions. Democrats must have...
Voters rejected Question 3, a non-binding initiative on Clean Elections, by a three-to-one margin. The vote, which effectively urges state legislators to stop funding political campaigns with public money, will likely undo a law that the electorate widely approved in a referendum only four years...
Other speakers at the rally commented on Question 3, a non-binding referendum on the 1998 Clean Elections law, which provides for public financing of political campaigns...