Hispanic lawyers pull conference from Arizona

[ChazII]

56. Correct but back then

it wasalso put to vote of the people. It was not only the legislature that denied a state holiday for MLK. The second time it was put up for a state wide vote it was passed. However, the legislature did screw up but not letting it stay in committee.

November 6, 1990 Arizona voters rejected Proposition 301 which would have established the third Monday in January as Martin Luther King, Jr./Civil Rights Day, a paid holiday for state employees and would have made Columbus Day an unpaid observance on the second Sunday in October. Arizona voters also rejected by a narrow margin Proposition 302 which would have established the third Monday in January as Martin Luther King, Jr./Civil Rights Day, a paid holiday for state employees and retained Columbus Day as a paid holiday on the second Monday of October. (Pat Flannery "King Day Narrowly Defeated: Angered Backers Cite Report on CBS" Phoenix Gazette, November 7, 1990, p. A1).

http://www.azlibrary.gov/links/Kingholiday.aspx