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'Savings' on California initiative challenged - California Civil Rights Initiative - Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

by Roberto Rodriguez , June 18, 2007

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Jennifer Nelson, spokeswoman for the CCRI initiative, says that her organization has not conducted its own cost analysis. However, she adds, the focus of proponents is not on the cost issue, but on the moral issue.

"There will be a savings, but what's driving the issue is, should the government be discriminating? The purpose of the initiative is to promote equal opportunity and equal treatment. We can no longer be correcting the wrongs that they [whites] or their grandparents did not commit."

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