Here's some good news: Even the sponsor of California's controversial Prop 54--the bill that would ban the collection of racial and ethnic data -- concedes passage is unlikely.

Both Bustamante and Scwarzenegger oppose the bill. (Arnold is a new convert, only declaring his opposition yesterday.) Bustamante has said he will use his $4 million advertising campaign money in tv ads to defeat it.

Here is the text of Prop 54. Here are some reasons why it should be opposed.

Bustamante will make a major speech today --in it he will say:

...Proposition 54 is "an attack on our public health system, and it must defeated....No matter how you vote on the recall please join me and the California nurses and doctors in voting no on Proposition 54. It's more important than politics."

Bustamante will also say that he has "decided to resolve the questions raised by the Republicans about my campaign finances" by devoting the bulk of his contributions from unions and tribes to defeat the initiative rather than in his gubernatorial effort.

In other recall news, Arnold has picked up the endorsement of the California Farm Bureau Federation in Sacramento with "88,000 farming and ranching families, and the Western Growers Assn., whose members grow, pack or ship most of the state's fresh fruit and vegetables."

Yet, Arnold was also dis-invited by organizers from participating in today's Mexican Independence Day parade in East Los Angeles. He had been invited to be Grand Marshal. The organizers say that " sponsors and unidentified members of the Los Angeles City Council had threatened to drop out of the parade if Schwarzenegger participated. "