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Stark Democrats

Kristina Wilfore is executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which supports ?progressive? ballot initiatives. In an address to the Take Back America conference in Washington (presumably they are trying to take back America from the people who are trying to take back their states via initiatives BISC doesn?t like), she described supporters of initiatives prohibiting racial preference as mere pawns of a right-wing agenda.

?Social issues ? they?re the dog whistle to their base,? said Wilfore, who posited that these ballot initiatives serve as wedge issues that force Democrats to divert money and force candidates to define themselves in stark ways.

Well, at least we right-wing extremists must have good hearing. And as for the Democrats, why does Wilfore regard it as ?stark? for the Democrats to have to defend the racial and ethnic preferences they support?

Full post as published by Discriminations on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).