Affirmative Action Petition Misses Deadline
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St. Louis Post Dispatch: A group seeking to bar many state affirmative action programs has 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. The Missouri effort was lead by Tim Asher, a former admissions director at North Central Missouri College in Trenton. Asher said it became obvious on Saturday that there were not enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, and he pledged to try again in 2010. Asher estimated supporters gathered 170,000 signatures - which is enough to make the ballot. But he said it wasn't high enough because many signatures are later disqualified. Arriving within 15 minutes of each other Sunday were groups pushing petitions to change the state constitution to restrict the use of eminent domain and to require the use of more renewable energy. And earlier in the week, petitions to allow home health care providers to unionize and to repeal the state's cap on gambling losses while barring the construction of new casinos were submitted. Connerly said cold, rainy weather and "blockers" who trailed signature-gatherers also made it difficult to get enough Missourians to sign.
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