Ward Connerly smacked down in the AZ

Ward Connerly, former head of the UC Regents, brought his anti-affirmative action show to Arizona and it went down in flames.

As some of you know, he successfully passed Proposition 209 in California way back in the mid-1990s.

In Arizona, his campaign marketed the legislation as the "Civil Rights Initiative" - nice Orwellian overtones - but it was not able to get enough valid signatures to be on the ballot in November.

This is good news; as commentators have noted, this type of legislation hurts the entire system and moves our society in the wrong direction.