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<title>
Nov. 19, 1990: Election Notes:Arizona
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 19, 1990 The Untouchables
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 46
Election Notes
ARIZONA
The Cost of Snubbing King
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<p> What price bigotry? Arizona voters discovered that their
rejection of two proposals to create a Martin Luther King Jr.
holiday could cost the state $350 million in lost revenue from
the 1993 football Super Bowl and the N.B.A. All-Star game, and
millions more from other canceled sporting events and
conventions. Shortly after the results were known, N.F.L.
commissioner Paul Tagliabue recommended moving the game
elsewhere. About 60% of the league's players are black.
</p>
<p> The promoters of the holiday apparently were caught by
surprise. They had hoped to remove Arizona from the list of
three states (the others are New Hampshire and Montana) that do
not observe the civil rights leader's birthday as a holiday. A
major reason for the rejection: voter confusion. One proposal
called for trading Columbus Day for the King holiday; it lost 3
to 1. The other would have simply added King's birthday to the
list of state holidays; it failed by only 17,000 out of 1
million votes cast.
</p>
<p> State Senator Carolyn Walker, an outspoken black
legislator, says, "It's sad to say this state is racist, and I
keep saying we are not. But when you turn down a holiday that
deals with honoring civil and human rights, the numbers show we
are."
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