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By CHRISTINA JACOBSON/Missourian
May 12, 2008 | 12:00 a.m. CDT
Tim Asher, executive director of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, debated with Roger Worthington about the plan. The proposed initiative sought to ban statewide and local affirmative action programs granting preferential treatment based upon race, gender, ethnicity or origin in public education, employment and contracting.