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California this fall is embroiled in the biggest, bitterest, most potentially significant ballot-initiative campaign since Proposition 13, the 1978 property-tax rollback that transformed American politics. The initiative is called Proposition 209, and it would abolish affirmative action in state contracting, education and employment. It has been running consistently ahead in the polls...
...they are not interested in the subject of affirmative action. Clinton is the only American President ever to have devoted a major public address to affirmative-action policy--his "mend it, don't end it" speech of July 1995. Dole is the author of federal legislation to abolish affirmative action, explicitly modeled on the California initiative. Polling shows that the initiative has the clear potential to affect voter behavior in other races, including the presidential race. So why the deafening silence from Clinton and Dole...
...final move to swing the pendulum back to the pitcher would be to abolish the oft-misunderstood infield fly rule. I realize there are reasons why it's there, but if it were gone it would make the game that much more interesting, at times comically so. Think about...
Maddox's initiative put the fate of rent control to a statewide popular vote: a yes for Question Nine meant a vote to abolish rent control...
...early May, Wisconsin began petitioning the Department of Health and Human Services for a waiver allowing implementation of the Wisconsin Works welfare experiment, which would abolish all federal guarantees of cash assistance and instead require welfare recipients to work for their benefits. The White House has been following the state's experiment closely; this is the stuff Clinton likes to read in bed. Clinton also knew that the following Tuesday, Dole would be traveling to Wisconsin to deliver his big welfare address. Knowledge of the Republican choreography, a Clinton strategist says, "drove the timing of our response...