"Colorado is one step closer to ending state-sponsored discrimination through race preferences"

Contact: Valery Pech Orr, 303-968-7077 cell

DENVER, Sept. 14 /Standard Newswire/ -- The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the Title Board decision and agreed that the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative language met all necessary requirements. With this ruling the people of Colorado will have the opportunity to petition the government and ultimately vote to end state-sponsored discrimination through race and gender preferences in the operation of public employment, public contracting, and public education.

Ward Connerly, Chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute and national spokesperson was delighted by the ruling, "The decision of the Colorado Supreme Court clears the path for the people to have their say about the importance of fairness and equal rights" said Connerly.

Valery Pech Orr, Executive Director of the initiative said, "I am thrilled by the Supreme Court's decision. The true winners are the people of Colorado. For the first time in our state's history, Colorado citizens will be the ones to decide where our state stands on the issue of fairness and equality."

Now that the Supreme Court has approved the language of the Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, petitions will be circulated for signatures of registered voters.

The Colorado Civil Rights Initiative (CoCRI) is dedicated to giving the people of Colorado the opportunity to end preferential treatment based on race, gender, ethnicity, or national origin by state and local governments. CoCRI will make Colorado a place of equal opportunity for all, not a state that uses preferential treatment as a tool to create "diversity." Achieving "diversity" should never be an excuse to discriminate!