ACA7 Update: Don't Get Cocky, Kid

Unlike Prop 16, ACA7 would not repeal 209 outright.  Instead, it would allow the governor to make as many EXCEPTIONS as he pleases, so the end result would be the same.

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I’ve mainly been lobbing practical arguments at the senators:  You will lose.   And you will lose more than just ACA7.  Your party is already hemorrhaging Asian American voters.  ACA7 will cause even more to take the red pill.  If you put ACA7 on the ballot, it will assure that Republicans retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives and perhaps even tighten their grip on it (since California has several evenly balanced Congressional districts with high numbers of Asian voters).

The first senator I tried to talk to told me pointblank, “This is going to pass.”  She was not encouraging.  But by March I’d spoken to several senators who were smart enough to understand that passing ACA7 was not in their interest.  Heading it off in the Senate started to seem like a very real possibility.

Ed Morrissey

Declaring victory at this point would rest on the assumption that California's progressive ruling clique recognize that they have some boundaries and accountability for their actions. I would not take that bet, at least not at the moment. Keep the pressure on California legislators and remind them that voters have already spoken about affirmative action with Prop 209, and it would not be that difficult to arrange another message. 

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