In what can only be described as a desperate move due to lack of support from Missouri voters, California millionaire Ward Connerly has sent an email calling for more out-of-state mercenaries [1] to help (fraudulently? [2]) gather signatures to change Missouri's constitution and ban affirmative action programs that help women and minorities.

Connerly writes that they need at least 25 individuals and that...

"All expenses will be paid and there is the potential to earn big bucks to collect signatures."

These imported mercenaries will be asked to do "whatever it takes" to qualify the anti-affirmative action initiative, greatly increasing the likelihood that fraudulent tactics will be employed to get the measure on the ballot in Missouri.

Poor Ward, it will probably only be a matter of time before he and the "Civil Rights Initiative" pull the plug on Missouri efforts, just like they did in Oklahoma [2].  But even though Missourians aren't going for it, something tells me that Ward won't suffer financially [3] from an embarrassing loss in Missouri.