Three Republican members of the House Census Oversight Subcommittee, Rep. Patrick McHenry (NC), Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (GA), and Rep. John Mica (FL) released a statement today urging Rep. Michele Bachmann to end her boycott of the 2010 Census. They said, “Boycotting the constitutionally-mandated census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country.”
The statement said, “Every elected representative in this country should feel a responsibility to encourage full participation in the census. To do otherwise is to advocate for a smaller share of federal funding for our constituents. Boycotting the constitutionally-mandated census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country.”
Being Republicans, they also worried about ACORN, “The unfortunate irony is that Ms. Bachmann’s boycott only increases the likelihood that ACORN-recruited census takers will be dispatched to her constituents’ homes. Anyone who completes and returns their census form will remove any need for a census taker to visit their residence.”
The House members also warned that partisans could manipulate the data, “Furthermore, a boycott opens the door for partisans to statistically adjust census results. The partisan manipulation of census data would irreparably transform the census from being the baseline of our entire statistical system into a tool used to wield political power in Washington.”
For the one millionth time, ACORN is not recruiting all of the Census takers. ACORN is not training the Census takers. It was a good move by these Republicans to try to talk some sense into Bachmann, but this ACORN nonsense has got to stop. You would think that members of the Census Oversight Subcommittee would understand that ACORN is not going to be taking the Census. As usual with the Republicans it is 1 step forward and 100 steps back.
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When are the Republicans going to crack down on the parade of mental midgets setting their rudderless agenda? Don’t they realize that when the moderates see these people like Bachmann with her patently illegal Census crappola, Boehner with his empty budget folder, Palin with her amazing front porch views of Russia, Sanford’s rambling admissions of adultery, Darth Cheney’s hopes for the end of America to score political points? I am amused that they don’t even seemed concerned that their numbers of Americans who are willing to state that they are republicans are well below 30%. They are just becomming breathlessly clueless.
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Democrats across the country today urged Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-Pluto) to keep speaking out against participating in the next year’s U.S. Census. In the past several weeks Bachmann has appeared on national radio and television news program linking the 2010 census to the WWII-era federal program of interring ethnic Japanese Americans in displacement camps. Saying the 1940 census was used to “round up ethnic Japanese,” a charged which has not been proven, Bachman said she feared the upcoming census could be used to round up today’s Americans, and then added she was not saying that she was saying that.
During last year’s election, Bachmann gained widespread attention when she called on reporters to determine which Congressmen are “anti-America” and which Congressmen are “pro-America” during a taping of MSNBC’s “Hardball” program with Chris Matthews. Bachmann later denied making the comments while being shown a tape of her making the comments.
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The Constitution provides for an “actual enumeration” every ten years. It does not provide for the citizens to be queried about their religion, gender, ethnicity, plumbing, sexual arrangements. or any other happy horseshit government snoops may feel like adding on.
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All Conservative Americans need to stand their ground and do what is legally required regarding the census, but nothing more. I intend to verify who lives in my home, basically my name, rank, and serial number, but nothing more. The Constitution requires a “count” of the population, but not intimate questions regarding our personal lives. I believe the ACORN organization – and all of its off-shoot groups and whatever they call themselves now- is corrupt and has no business being involved in any activity that requires honesty and decretion. This group is under investigation, for breaking the law, their use of federal funds should be audited and their association with Obama should be questioned.
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Census, do your homework, and check out the provisions of the Constitution. It provides for an enumeration AND any questions the government feels are important. The data is provided to local, tribal, state and federal agencies for practical purposes, including planning of infrastructure, such as roads, schools, etc.
The Bureau of the Census reports to Congress about what questions are being asked, for whom, and why. They report what questions were previously asked, that are being discontinued, and why. The Census Bureau is held accountable, and has to justify EVERY question to Congress, and Congres gets the chance to weigh in on them. The last such report was in spring of 2007, while Bachmann held elective office, representative from Minnesota’s 6th district.
Want to take bets on her having boo-all to say about those questions THEN, when she was in a position to influence what questions were and were not included?
And as for ACORN’s role – as a ‘partner’, one of MANY MANY MANY entities that are partners, they get zero, zip, nada $$$$ for that function. There IS NO MONEY in the stimulus bill that is designated for ACORN. Absolutely NONE. Read it for yourself.
And while you are scaring yourself over ACORN and the Census, you might want to also consider that anyone applying to be an enumerator / census taker has to pass a proficiency test, AND an extensive background check, AND provide photo ID, among other qualifications. Penalties for violating the Census confidentiality are considerable; check them out for yourself on the Census website, along with the other ACCURATE Census information. That website also details at some length the many, many ways that the Census data is VERIFIED; which makes it very difficult for ANYONE to manipulate the data to provide false statistics.
Coincidentally, Steele and the RNC AND the Minnesota GOP are using their campaign of misinformation about ACORN and the Census as a fundraising tool. Politifact.com gave Bachmann not one but TWO ‘pants on fire’ ratings for her Census bull ‘manure’, in other words, her story is – yet again – outright, full-blown, calculated, manipulative lies.
Anyone who gives this lunatic a dime or a vote without doing their own factchecking – REAL fact checking that goes to original sources, not Rush Limbaugh or Fox news – is the worst kind of a lazy, ignorant fool.
And before you try to excuse her lies as well meaning misunderstandings, add this to your evaluation. Bachmann has a degree from Winona State in MN, a JD from the law school that was a part of Oral Roberts University, an LLM from William and Mary (an LLM is a type of masters in law, an academic / research degree) and was a litigator for the U. S. Treasury Department for five years. The woman KNOWS how to check out facts; when she presents inaccurate facts, especially in conjunction with asking for money, it is NO ACCIDENT.
The loon is suposed to be the state bird of Minnesota; not it’s representation in the U. S. House of Representatives.
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I find it odd, many wingnuts support for Bachmann such as……”All Conservative Americans need to stand their ground and do what is legally required regarding the census, but nothing more”. But, didn’t give a shit when Bush/Cheney were reading your e mails.
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