Chavez, Linda

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Linda Chavez writes a weekly syndicated column that appears in conservative newspapers across the country, and a political analyst for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fox_News" title="Fox News" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Fox News</a> Channel. She is noted for her strident opposition to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Affirmative_action&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Affirmative action (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">affirmative action</a>.

Chavez was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">George W. Bush</a>'s original nominee to head the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Department_of_Labor" title="Department of Labor" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Department of Labor</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_Administration" title="Bush Administration" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bush Administration</a>, but she withdrew her name from consideration after controversy arose over an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who lived in her home in the early 1990s.

Chavez ran unsuccessfully as the Republican nominee for the United States Senate for the state of Maryland in 1986.

After her failed Senate bid, Chavez "became the president of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/U.S._English" title="U.S. English" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">U.S. English</a>, a private non-profit organization lobbying to make English the official national language. In late 1988 she resigned from U.S. English; her reasoning was that she could not work with its founder <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_Tanton" title="John Tanton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John Tanton</a>, who, in Chavez's estimation, had demonstrated an "anti-Hispanic" and "anti-Catholic" bias". <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/chavez_profile010201.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">[1]</a>

Since 1985, Chavez has served as President of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity" title="Center for Equal Opportunity" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Center for Equal Opportunity</a>, a non-profit public policy research organization in Washington, DC.

She is married to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Christopher_Gersten&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Christopher Gersten (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Christopher Gersten</a>, who heads the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Religious_Values" title="Institute for Religious Values" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Institute for Religious Values</a>.

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<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_for_the_New_American_Century" title="Project for the New American Century" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Project for the New American Century</a>, Signatory</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity" title="Center for Equal Opportunity" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Equal Opportunity</a>, President and Founder</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Campaign_to_Prevent_Teen_Pregnancy" title="National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy</a>, Board of Directors</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research" title="Manhattan Institute for Policy Research" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</a>, Research Fellow</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Capital_Research_Center" title="Capital Research Center" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Capital Research Center</a>, Board of Advisors</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Council on Foreign Relations</a>, Member</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Civil_Rights_Union" title="American Civil Rights Union" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">American Civil Rights Union</a>, Emerita Policy Board Member</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_of_the_American_Experiment" title="Center of the American Experiment" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center of the American Experiment</a>, Board of Advisors</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Independent_Women%27s_Forum" title="Independent Women's Forum" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Independent Women's Forum</a>, Member, (Former Advisory Board member)</li>

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The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) is a small conservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">think tank</a> vigorously opposed to affirmative action and bilingual education. CEO favors immigration but is concerned with illegal immigration and poor assimilation policies.

Founded by commentator and former Reagan Administration Civil Rights Director <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Linda_Chavez" title="Linda Chavez" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Linda Chavez</a> in 1995, the Center's small staff of five employees includes two of Chavez's adult children. Initially and primarily funded with a founding grant from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_M._Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Olin Foundation</a>, the Center exists largely on grants from the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bradley_Foundation" title="Bradley Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bradley Foundation</a>, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" title="Sarah Scaife Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a>.

The Center's most noteworthy accomplishment is the publication of a series of guidebooks promoting English Immersion including the Parents' Guide to Bilingual Education. CEO has published numerous studies examining the use of racial preferences in education, hiring, and contracting. With ties to the current administration, CEO has filed complaints with agencies challenging preferences given on the basis of race.

Note: The Center for Equal Opportunity is sometimes referred to as the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Equal_Opportunity_Foundation" title="Equal Opportunity Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Equal Opportunity Foundation</a>.

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#CEO_Report_on_UW-Madison_Race-Conscious_Admissions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 CEO Report on UW-Madison Race-Conscious Admissions</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#Funders" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Funders</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#Staff" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Staff</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#Board_of_Directors" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Board of Directors</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 External links</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 References</a></li>

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<p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In September 2011, the CEO released a report alleging that the University of Wisconsin-Madison engaged in "severe racial discrimination" in its admissions policies. The report created an odds ratio for admissions on the basis of differences in test scores and class ranks between admitted whites, African-Americans, and Hispanics. For African-Americans the ratio was 576-to-1, and for Hispanics it was 504-to-1. The report incited large protests from students. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a>Roger Clegg, president and General counsel of the CEO, held a public debate at the University about the conclusions of the report with University of Wisconsin Law School professor Larry Church. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>

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<p style="font-style: normal; margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Media_Matters" title="Media Matters" class="mw-redirect" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background: none;">Media Matters</a>, CEO has received funding from the following organizations:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Castle_Rock_Foundation" title="Castle Rock Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Castle Rock Foundation</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Claude_R._Lambe_Charitable_Foundation" title="Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Earhart_Foundation" title="Earhart Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Earhart Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/F.M._Kirby_Foundation" title="F.M. Kirby Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">F.M. Kirby Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hickory_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hickory Foundation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Hickory Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/JM_Foundation" title="JM Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">JM Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jacquelin_Hume_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jacquelin Hume Foundation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jacquelin Hume Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/John_M._Olin_Foundation" title="John M. Olin Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">John M. Olin Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation" title="Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Philip_M._Mckenna_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Philip M. Mckenna Foundation (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Philip M. Mckenna Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Randolph_Foundation" title="Randolph Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Randolph Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sarah_Scaife_Foundation" title="Sarah Scaife Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sarah Scaife Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scaife_Family_Foundation" title="Scaife Family Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Scaife Family Foundation</a></li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Smith_Richardson_Foundation" title="Smith Richardson Foundation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Smith Richardson Foundation</a></li>

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<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Linda Chavez, President</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roger_Clegg" title="Roger Clegg" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Roger Clegg</a>, legal counsel</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Edward_Blum" title="Edward Blum" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Edward Blum</a>, variously described as "policy analyst" and "adjunct scholar"</li>

<li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Gersten" title="David Gersten" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">David Gersten</a>, Executive Director</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rudy_Gersten" title="Rudy Gersten" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Rudy Gersten</a>, office manager</li>

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<li style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Linda Chavez, President</li>

<li style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Abigail_Thernstrom" title="Abigail Thernstrom" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Abigail Thernstrom</a></li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">John Miller, former vice president of the Center and now a reporter for National Review</li>

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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/ceo.php" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">Rightweb profile: Center for Equal Opportunity</a>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Brendan Fischer,<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/09/11019/group-alleges-university-wisconsins-diversity-policies-are-discriminatory-protest" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">[1]</a>, PR Watch, Spetember 13, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Brendan Fischer,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/09/11024/wisconsin-students-rally-debate-affirmative-action" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">Wisconsin Students Rally at Debate On Affirmative Action</a>, PR Watch, September 14, 2011</li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> Media Matters Action Network, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity/funders" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">Center for Equal Opportunity Funders List</a></li>

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Roger Clegg is legal counsel for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Linda_Chavez" title="Linda Chavez" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Linda Chavez</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Equal_Opportunity" title="Center for Equal Opportunity" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Center for Equal Opportunity</a>, a small vehemently anti-affirmative action group. Clegg was a former Deputy Assistant Attorney in the General Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in the Reagan and Bush administrations from 1987 to 1991.

Clegg is a conservative political opportunist, simultaneously supporting racial profiling <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/contributors/clegg091801.shtml" style="background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px;">[1]</a> as well supporting California's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Racial_Privacy_Initiative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Racial Privacy Initiative (page does not exist)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Racial Privacy Initiative</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.racialprivacy.org/" style="background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px;">[2]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.multiracial.com/archives/000341.html" style="background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px;">[3]</a>

Clegg has also taken strong stands against permitting convicted felons to vote, claiming "People have to have a certain level of trustworthiness and loyalty to be allowed to vote. It makes sense that somebody who has been convicted of a serious crime does not have that loyalty and trustworthiness." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.time.com/time/2002/inmate/rights.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">[4]</a> He has also stated "People who are not willing to follow the law should not be allowed to make the law for others, which is what voting is". <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1008-2004Jun23.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat;">[5]</a>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Center for Equal Opportunity, general counsel</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/National_Legal_Center_for_the_Public_Interest" title="National Legal Center for the Public Interest" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">National Legal Center for the Public Interest</a>, former general counsel</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federalist_Society" title="Federalist Society" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Federalist Society</a>, Civil Rights Practice group, Chairman <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1082923350901" style="background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") 100% 50% no-repeat; text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px;">[6]</a></li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division (1991-93)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division (1987-91)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice (1985-87)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice (1984-85)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Acting Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Office of Legal Policy (1984)</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Yale University Law School, 1981</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rice University, undergraduate degree</li>

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<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/170/000052014/" style="">Center for Equal Opportunity</a> President and Founder

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/media/866/000044734/" style="">USA Today</a> Columnist

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/media/198/000052042/" style="">American Educator</a> Editor (1977-83)

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/media/048/000051892/" style="">Crisis</a> Contributing Editor

Member of the Board of <a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/413/000125038/" style="">ABM Industries</a> (1997-)

Member of the Board of <a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/167/000052011/" style="">Greyhound</a> (1995-)

Member of the Board of <a href="http://www.nndb.com/company/437/000124065/" style="">Pilgrim's Pride</a> (2004-)

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/168/000052012/" style="">American Civil Rights Union</a> Policy Board

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/297/000110964/" style="">Bruin Alumni Association</a> Advisory Board Member

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/169/000052013/" style="">Capital Research Center</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/336/000085081/" style="">Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights</a> Board of Advisors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/171/000052015/" style="">Center of the American Experiment</a> Board of Advisors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/124/000133722/" style="">Center for Military Readiness</a> Board of Advisors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/505/000042379/" style="">Council on Foreign Relations</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/496/000042370/" style="">Federalist Society</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/083/000167579/" style="">George W. Bush for President</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/687/000051534/" style="">Independent Women's Forum</a> Board of Advisors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/658/000051505/" style="">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</a> Research Fellow (1989-84)

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/589/000126211/" style="">National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy</a> Board of Directors

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/821/000043692/" style="">Project for the New American Century</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/173/000052017/" style="">Stop Union Political Abuse</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/174/000052018/" style="">US English</a> President (1987-88, resigned)

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/085/000122716/" style="">American Federation of Teachers</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/790/000080550/" style="">Congress of Racial Equality</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/org/813/000041690/" style="">NAACP</a>

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/honors/050/000206429/" style="">Library of Congress Living Legend</a> 2000

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/936/000043807/" style="">Irish Ancestry</a> Maternal

<a href="http://www.nndb.com/lists/199/000048055/" style="">Mexican Ancestry</a> Paternal

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