It also isn't binding on future Health directors. Since black people are disproportionately affected by smoking-related diseases, black legislators think they should have gotten more specific consideration than the relatively small amount set aside for minority outreach. This unhappiness probably doesn't spell defeat for the spending plan should it reach the ballot. There's no other organized opposition and a TV campaign will be mounted in its behalf. A unified black community is unlikely anyway.
Some black legislators have state jobs and are vulnerable to political pressure.
They'll be tempted to keep low profiles. A few even support the plan. A long-range question concerns Huckabee's fierce devotion to passing this spending initiative. He could live to regret the obligation if voters also slash state revenue by repealing the used goods tax. And then there's that unhappiness in the black community.