Tom Campbell's Record on Freedom of Association and Civil Rights

On the question of civil rights, Tom Campbell is all over the place.

On the one hand, Campbell was a full-throated co-sponsoring supporter of the 1990 Civil Rights Act, which became a tool for federal regulators pushing discrimination cases based solely on numbers, rather than you know, actual evidence of discrimination. (That bill also says that employers cannot discriminate on the basis of H.I.V. status, which is in itself, a pretty ridiculous . Why shouldn't employers have the right to discriminate against coming into contact with a fatal, communicable disease? Yes, I know the odds of transmission are low, but still.)

On the other hand, he supported Proposition 209, an initiative that ended racial quotas.

The problem, of course, is that there have been many, many, many cases that have been brought under the 1990 Civil Rights Act, exactly none have been brought before the Courts for violating Proposition 209. In fact, Jerry Brown, our would be governor, has said that, as attorney general, he simply won't enforce Proposition 209. That, of course, would have been a great thing to bring up during the gubernatorial primary or, if it came to it, the general election. But now Campbell has switched races and so we've lost that argument.