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California: Judge Upholds Racial Quotas for Highway Contracts
thenewspaper.com ^ | 04/08/2011 | n/a

Posted on 04/09/2011 7:35:42 AM PDT by Ken H

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1 posted on 04/09/2011 7:35:43 AM PDT by Ken H
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The quality of the work means nothing. It’s the skin tone of the workers that really matters. No wonder our “infrastructure” is going to hell. This “judge” needs his ass kicked.


2 posted on 04/09/2011 7:40:47 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't wait until the next "threatened" government shut down! Visit a National Park today!!!)
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To: Ken H

The libs aren’t going to let a little thing like a voter-approved proposition or, Heaven Forbid, the Constitution, from interfering with their agenda.


3 posted on 04/09/2011 7:40:55 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Obamacare: Not just dreck. Unconstitutional dreck.)
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To: Ken H

Caltrans is a racist organization.


4 posted on 04/09/2011 7:41:58 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000 (The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government,)
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To: Ken H
Mendez, John A.
Born 1955 in Oakland, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of California
Nominated by George W. Bush on September 6, 2007, to a seat vacated by David F. Levi; Confirmed by the Senate on April 10, 2008, and received commission on April 17, 2008.

Education:
Stanford University, B.A., 1977
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1980

Professional Career:
Private practice, California, 1980-1984, 1986-1992, 1993-2001
Assistant U.S. attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of California, 1984-1986
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, 1992-1993
Judge, Sacramento County Superior Court, California, 2001-2008

5 posted on 04/09/2011 7:42:51 AM PDT by SmithL (No one puts the func in dysfunctional like the California Legislature)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

California deserves highways build by gangs of black lesbian illegal aliens. As long as they are proud union members of course.


6 posted on 04/09/2011 7:43:13 AM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: Ken H

UNKO, when the laws are written with caviats that completely over ride their meaning, you have no law. So, let me get this straight, the (.)bama DOT said they would lose federal funding if they did not have a race discriminatory contracting letting procedure. So, the judge says, ok, therefore our state constitution has no say in this. When did federal REGULATION supercede a state’s constitution, yeah I know state law is below federal law BUT, this is not a law, it is a regulation. Somehow the 10th should be supreme here. Anyway, day by day we keep getting closer to Rev 2, in fact, we are in the final seconds count down.


7 posted on 04/09/2011 7:44:09 AM PDT by Mouton (Government expands to fill any voids in freedom.)
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To: Mouton

We have no law and we have no courts.


8 posted on 04/09/2011 7:49:11 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Ken H

Does this even make the news? I live and work in L.A. It’s pretty much wets vs whites here. Thank you so much white-guilt ridden liberals. You gave up our country to foreigners who hate us.


9 posted on 04/09/2011 7:50:29 AM PDT by max americana ( NF)
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To: Mouton

“Assistant U.S. attorney, United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California, 1984-1986”...I wonder where he went off the rails...he worked, for a short time, for the best US Attorney I ever had the pleasure of working with: Joe Russinello. Had Russinello not taken on Bush I, Noriega would have walked.


10 posted on 04/09/2011 7:51:16 AM PDT by Mouton (Government expands to fill any voids in freedom.)
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To: Ken H
Maybe they should build lanes by race with each group benefiting by the efforts of their own. sarc/ Isn't multiculturalism great?
11 posted on 04/09/2011 7:54:02 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Ken H

Here’s a novel concept. How about the company that does the best work for the best possible price gets the job.


12 posted on 04/09/2011 7:58:06 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (We live two lives, the life we learn and the life we live with after that.)
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To: Ken H
In the case, Pigs vs. Animal Farm Critters, the judge ruled that "while all animals are created equal, some are more equal than others."
13 posted on 04/09/2011 7:58:42 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: Mouton

This decision will now be appealed to the 9th Circuit, where it will be upheld. Then, God Willing, it will be heard by the Supreme Court which will vote 5-4 to dump.


14 posted on 04/09/2011 8:00:29 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: Ken H
Same ol' shit:

Get Whitey's money, and give it to the minorities....nothing ever changes.

15 posted on 04/09/2011 8:01:13 AM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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Well, this explains the highway 92 / 880 interchange that’s been a construction nightmare for years now.

Where the Japanese had their roads repaired in 6 DAYS after the tsunami, we have to go year, after year, after year of traffic jams and no perceptible progress on this heavily traveled route.

We are no longer a state that can do anything. Ugh.


16 posted on 04/09/2011 8:01:41 AM PDT by Tigerized (pursuingliberty.com)
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To: Melchior

From your keyboard to God’s ears.


17 posted on 04/09/2011 8:16:27 AM PDT by Mouton (Government expands to fill any voids in freedom.)
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To: Ken H

Just more liberal activism from the bench in Taxifornia. The state is dead — just another liberal crap-pot, overrun by illegals and deadbeats that want to steal from what producers are left in the state. Businesses and taxpayers are leaving the state in record numbers, and the libs in Sacramento do not care. Sales taxes are well over 10% in some areas.

The Midas touch of liberalism has destroyed Taxifornia. And the scumbags that are left keep voting the liberals back into control. RIP Taxifornia. Once a great state.


18 posted on 04/09/2011 8:17:46 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Caltrans argued it was remedying discrimination against minorities and women with the DBE program because these groups only received three percent of the contracts under race-neutral policies

So when contracts are awarded fairly, they don't like the outcome.We truly are living in an insane asylum.

19 posted on 04/09/2011 8:22:35 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Ken H

“disadvantaged businesses”

Same as “business that suck?”


20 posted on 04/09/2011 8:26:24 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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