By The Anaheim Blog
March 20, 2014

Earlier this week, Assembly Speaker John Perez pulled Senate Constitutional Amendment 5from the Assembly…

…Perez’s shelving of SCA 5 was a political move driven by panic in the ranks Democratic legislators of Asian-American and those with significant Asian-American constituencies like Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva – whose AD65 (which includes a large chunk of West Anaheim) has a sizable number of Asian-American voters. She’s also facing an Asian-American Republican opponent in Young Kim, who was poised to make SCA 5 an issue in the campaign.

“I’m opposed to the fact that SCA 5 will allow discrimination in the contracting and admissions process to our schools,” said Young Kim. “This is against the basic fundamental rights we have as Americans and that is why I’m opposed to this proposal. If anything, preferential treatment should be given to hardworking students based on merit”…

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