Welcome to the No on 46 website. The No on 46 campaign is a statewide coalition of business, community, faith, student and education leaders who believe that carpetbaggers like Ward Connerly and organizations like the KKK should keep their divisive issues out of Colorado.
"Amendment 46 undercuts Colorado and destroys years of progress in education, in health care, in work force development, all efforts that are important to Colorado’s hard working families and family owned business.”Colorado Governor Bill Ritter
Ward Connerly is using language directly out of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to eliminate equal opportunity in Colorado. His deceptive ballot language is the secret to his success. Further, Connerly's confusing language and deceptive circulators may have fraudulently obtained signatures by promising to protect opportunity programs, when his Amendment would do the opposite.
The proposed Amendment 46 would alter the Colorado Constitution as it
relates to civil rights. This would result in an unfavorable
precedent, eroding equal opportunity and diversity practices that are
important and valid concepts for business and the structure of our
society.
This would cause our colleges and universities to worry about being
sued for any program that seeks to increase diversity, or encourage
women or minorities to pursue fields in which they are currently
under-represented.
Connerly was accused of defrauding Michigan voters by using deceptive
language and dirty signature-gathering tricks to confuse them into
signing his petitions in 2006. In a lawsuit filed against Connerly
after the Michigan signatures were submitted, Judge Arthur Tarnow ruled
that "The Court finds that MCRI engaged in systematic voter fraud by
telling voters that they were signing a petition supporting affirmative
action. ..."
