PRO-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BALLOT INITIATIVE PENNILESS IN SEATTLE?: The plan to repeal Washington State’s Initiative 200, which prohibited discrimination and preferential treatment based on race, sex, color, or ethnicity in public education, public employment and public contracting, has hit a snag. The repealers evidently have no money. And they owe lots to the folks who collected the signatures to get them on the ballot.

I hope the new initiation–called Initiative 1000—fails. Efforts to repeal Proposition 209 in California have failed, which is a good thing, since Proposition 209 was initially very successful and continues to have some good effects.