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Posted on 10/07/2009 2:24:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Census Director Robert Groves is a by-the-books statistician, but he recently made a heartfelt plea to a congressional subcommittee: If politics taint the census, "we're in deep trouble ... as a Census Bureau, as a census and as a country."
Days later, politics were back in the forefront when that panel's ranking Republican came to Chicago to urge the census officials to end a partnership with the Service Employees International Union, which has traditionally backed Democrats. Partnering with the union "undermines the integrity of the census," said U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina.
From ACORN to illegal Immigration, the census has become a flash point for partisan bickering, a trend that worries officials and experts who say it could harm confidence in the count.
After weeks of GOP criticism, the census cut ties with ACORN, a community activist organization that faced allegations of vote fraud and the release of a videotape showing ACORN workers counseling undercover operatives about how to run a child prostitution ring.
Now some lawmakers, including Republican U.S. Reps. Mark Kirk and Peter Roskam of Illinois, say SEIU has close financial and operative ties with ACORN and cannot be trusted to conduct census outreach.
Census officials say they have confidence the union can be a reliable partner and went ahead with a scheduled announcement of a campaign geared to Latinos that includes the union and Spanish-language media.
Union officials say they have received no funding from the census and dismissed the complaints.(continued)
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ACORN/SEIU both have the same daddy.
They can say what they want about SEIU or ACORN being involved or not. Those are still going to be the folks running things so that the districts get gerrymandered based on the census results. It will take years to put the stats together after collecting it in 2010, but the Dems will make the numbers do what they want them to do.
The current administration needs a tally of America’s Useful Idiots in order better to gauge the chances for a final descent into out-and-out communism.
Are there no patriots in the seiu? please come forward and expose the corruption.
Wife and i kicked Mr. Groves’ representative off our property two months ago.
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Thanks for the ping.
The Dems will begin by stealing elections again ala Norm Coleman in 2010. But, first, they will steal NJ and Corzine could still win by a few points. So, can you imagine when the redistricting takes place with Dems in charge???? The end of the Republican Party unless the House flips.
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