Immigration initiative won’t make (CA) ballot

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http://www.dailybreeze.com/content/regstate/nmwebmrsrs.html

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An initiative that would bar undocumented immigrants from obtaining driver’s licenses and most public services has failed to qualify for the ballot.

The “Save Our State Initiative” fell about 115,000 short of the 598,105 needed to qualify for the November ballot, organizers said Monday.

The initiative never got the support and funding it needed from the Republican leaders. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger never took a position on it.

Republicans were hurt at the polls for their support of a similar initiative in 1994. Proposition 187 was approved by 60 percent of voters but it was challenged in court and never took effect. The measure alienated many Hispanic voters from the Republican Party.

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1. Finally, some good news. CA has had enough immigrant-bashing.

Prop 187 was a piece of shit that never should've seen the light of day.