Republicans this weekend seized on anti-affirmative action sentiment at public universities to go after Chinese American voters, reports the Mercury News (Photo by Simon Shek).
Several GOP candidates spoke at a forum sponsored by the San Francisco-based Chinese-American Institute for Empowerment in Cupertino.
“Why work hard when that hard work will not be rewarded?” asked Republican Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway (R-Visalia) who said SCA5 “takes away the incentive.”
SCA5 is a proposal to place on the ballot a constitutional amendment to reinstate race as a factor in admission to California public universities.
GOP activist Mei Mei Ho said the only way to safeguard that from happening is to replace the democratic majority in the state legislature with Republicans.
Ward Connerly, the author of Proposition 209 which SCA5 would overturn, also spoke to the gathering.
You can read about that in the Mercury News.
