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Secretive out-of-state group pushes bill that makes it harder to get a voter initiative on the ballot Supporters say they’re trying to weaken the influence of dark money in Utah. (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Sierra Holmes signs a tax referendum petition, during an event to meet the legislators that represent the west side of Salt Lake City, and sign the Utah Tax Referendum petition at West High School, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020.   | March 11, 2021, 1:00 p.m. This legislative sessio...

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By any means necessary. >> they point to the numbers as proponents of affirmative action always do and they say that, look, back before they had this law, proposition 2, the university of michigan campus had 6.5% black students in 05. since the law, only 4.7% are black so they say once they passed this law banning affirmative action black students suffered. >> you know, im a big fan of diversity. we need it on college campuses and across the country and we need to do a better job in michigan and...

By any means necessary. >> they point to the numbers as proponents of affirmative action always do and they say that, look, back before they had this law, proposition 2, the university of michigan campus had 6.5% black students in 05. since the law, only 4.7% are black so they say once they passed this law banning affirmative action black students suffered. >> you know, im a big fan of diversity. we need it on college campuses and across the country and we need to do a better job in michigan and...

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There was going to be an effort to get it passed. >> proposal two would have put collective bargaining in the state proposition. problem 2 failed. in michigan, home of united auto worker, how does it fail and does it open the door to right to work legislation? >> we think it was coming anyway. we tried to do a block of that doing proposition 2. we didnt do a good enough job on proposition 2. a lot of reasons, maybe. three bills were dealing with labor. there were things we could have or should h...

Have someone who has the ability to opt out of that union and not pay his dues, you whittle away at the power of the unions and their ability to bargain collectively for all of the people that you see out here demonstrating right now, gregg. rick: governor snyder had said, mike, that he wasnt interested in getting involved with union legislation. what changed his mind? >> reporter: its interesting. something called proposition 2. you hear them chanting again, dont sign the bill. proposition 2 wo...

Pop significance proposition 2, the union initiative, got about 500,000 more votes than president obama did in the state and even more votes than mitt romney. and what that tells us is that the moderates and democratic support for the unions and their interests in michigan may be weakening, thats something significant and key for michigans state lawmakers, too, going forward if they start to look at things, like, oh, say, right to work. >> right to work initiative. and the biggest probably resul...

Pop significance proposition 2, the union initiative, got about 500,000 more votes than president obama did in the state and even more votes than mitt romney. and what that tells us is that the moderates and democratic support for the unions and their interests in michigan may be weakening, thats something significant and key for michigans state lawmakers, too, going forward if they start to look at things, like, oh, say, right to work. >> right to work initiative. and the biggest probably resul...