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Groups vow to defeat initiative banning racial data collection
OPPONENTS SAY MONEY NEEDED TO FIGHT PROPOSITION 54 IN OCT. 7 VOTE
By Katherine Corcoran
Mercury News
A coalition of education, civil rights and health care groups vowed Thursday to defeat an initiative banning the collection of racial and ethnic data in California with the help of the state's most powerful labor unions.
Longtime civil liberties lawyer Eva Patterson also called on the Democratic Party to give $1 million toward the effort.