BAMN claims they can keep civil rights initiatives off the ballot in Nebraska, Arizona and Colorado. They cite initiative opponents “successful” track record: initiative proponent Ward Connerly’s group had to withdraw from efforts in Missouri and Oklahoma, after signatures didn’t come fast enough.

BAMN would do well to remember what happened in Michigan in 2006, when they brought suit in federal court to keep a CRI off the ballot, and lost.

Badly.

If you want to stop a CRI initiative, you can call it fraud, sling it with accusations of “misleading,” or “lies,” or physically get in the way of those excercising their right to support it.

But they tend to get on the ballot anyway, and they tend to be passed.

Overwhelmingly.