Posted on 06/02/2012 7:29:54 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney scuttled the Massachusetts government's long-standing affirmative action policies with a few strokes of his pen on a sleepy holiday six months after he became governor.
No news conference or news release trumpeted Romney's executive order on Bunker Hill Day, June 17, 2003, in the deserted Statehouse. But when civil rights leaders, black lawmakers and other minority groups learned of Romney's move two months later, it sparked a public furor.
Romney drew criticism for cutting the enforcement teeth out of the law and rolling back more than two decades of affirmative action advances.
Civil rights leaders said his order stripped minorities, women, disabled people and veterans of equal access protections for state government jobs and replaced them with broad guidelines. They complained Romney hadn't consulted them before making the changes, snubbing the very kind of inclusion he professed to support.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Nice try, ignorant press.
Admit it...you are doomed.
Please take your cretin pres with you.
The left doesn’t want equality. The left demands inequality and calls it “equality.”
The more they whine, the happier I am.
Good businessmen tend to prefer qualifications based hires and merit based promotions.
Someone in Miami thinks this article will HURT Romney?
Ha! I doubt that.
Certainly, won’t hurt him around here.
There's one more difference between Romney and Obama.
While far from the ideal candidate, this puts the lie to those who would have us believe that Romney is "no different" than Obama.
I like this move. I am tired of less qualified people getting jobs simply because they are a minority. If I ran a business, I would want to be able to hire the best person for the job regardless of their identity status. Identity doesn’t matter to me. Same goes for voting for the right person. I don’t give a crap about identity/minority status.
I worked with an IT tech in the 90’s who was black. He was also brilliant at what he did. He once told me that he didn’t like AA because people always assumed he was incompetent before they got to know him and realized that he wasn’t hired for skin color.
“The left demands inequality, etc.”
My 8th grade daughter attended her highschool “flyup” day. There was a “diversity” club. A person was supposed to stand up when their niche was called - If that isn’t labeling and the opposite of diversity, then I don’t know what is!
PS - she stood up when they said “who has trouble talking” because she had just gotten braces. The rest clapped and found it very funny - she is pretty and popular BTW, so making it a farce - the club was a farce and the 8th graders seemed to know it
Anyone still saying these two are the same are delusional.
Has romney befriended domestic terrorists and communist radicals?
Mitt beats Obama, and then some.
When the so called "elites" in New York, Washington, or Hollywood look around at their surroundings they see only like minded nodding toward the shibboleths of race preference and the idolization of the minority (ghetto gangster, sodomite, Islamic, whatever). This kind of attack trying to demonize Romney as some sort of arch Conservative in the mold of their favorite image of Sauron the Great, Dick Cheney, will only strengthen him.
Just so. I’ve known a few very smart black people, and they were handicapped by everyone’s assumption that they had gotten where they were because of affirmative action.
I remember writing a grad school recommendation for a black student who was one of the two or three brightest I had ever taught, and trying to figure out how to make that clear in the recommendation letter so the selection committees wouldn’t think I was just doing the usual affirmative action thing.
I must have done it right, because he did get into Yale.
Tell that to some of the obama lovers around here. Remember obama called them Obamicans early on?
Unfortunately, there are a couple of dozen VERY VOCAL posters on this site who fit that category. It makes moving forward much less fun. It's time for us to stop apologizing for soon to be POTUS Romney, and continue emphasizing his strong points.
For me, I will no longer start pro Romney posts with " I would have preferred......., but......."
Sill one of the funniest episodes.
They are recycling old articles?
Holy crap! That’s when the barrel has been scraped dry.
It looks like you are well along the way in the process, if you were ever truly an ABO in the first place.
As for us "couple of dozen" posters who disagree with your capitulation, perhaps you can get this site's owner to ban us all.
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