On the heels of Obama win, that didn’t take long.
“Affirmative action is something often done on the front end of thehiring process to make sure you have a job description that doesn’tlimit candidates, and that you have a recruitment process,” Soto said.”Ninety percent of affirmative action has nothing to do with … usingrace or gender to make a hiring decision. It’s to provide open accessto opportunities.”
Ward Connerly, the black businessman andformer University of California regent who orchestrated the effort toban affirmative action in Nebraska, said the win could give momentum tohis state-by-state campaign against affirmative action.
But the Election Day victory for Connerly and his supporters in Nebraska is being challenged.
Opponents of the ban have filed a lawsuit arguing that petitionsignatures needed to put the issue on the ballot were gathered using a”pattern of fraud and illegality.”
If successful, the lawsuit couldinvalidate the results of Tuesday’s vote.