[Vision2020] Census not delegating to ACORN (was: Sonia v. Sarah)

[lfalen]

Thats good news
Roger
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From: Kenneth Marcy kmmos1 at verizon.net
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:00:39 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Census not delegating to ACORN (was: Sonia v. Sarah)

> On Thursday 16 July 2009 10:24:33 lfalen wrote:
> <snip>
> > It is of concern however that ACORN may be in charge of the census. illegal 
> > alians maybe given amnesty, and the vote, and that people may be allowed to 
> > vote with out antiquate proof of citizenship.
> 
> No.
> 
> At a hearing on April 23 before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on 
> Commerce, Justice and Science, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke responded to 
> concerns about ACORN's role voiced by a Republican senator:
> 
>      "Locke, April 23, 2009: [T]he Census will not be hiring anyone from 
> ACORN. We use these so-called partners to get the word out and to spread the 
> word about the need for people to respond and answer the 
> questionnaires. ...We control the hiring. We do not use any government funds 
> to subcontract with any organization to do any activity. ...We are not 
> delegating anything to ACORN."
> 
> The quote above is taken from an article by FactCheck.org on the Annenberg 
> Political Fact Check site:
> 
> http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_acorn_providing_workers_for_the_2010.html 
> 
> "QUESTION: Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) sign 
> on as a "national partner" with the U.S. Census Bureau to sign up over 1 
> million temporary workers to help with the 2010 census?
> 
> ANSWER: No. ACORN employees will not be taking the census. The group is one of 
> more than 30,000 "partners" that will help publicize the event.
> 
> ACORN has indeed signed on to partner with the Census Bureau in connection 
> with the 2010 census, along with about 30,000 other groups at the time of 
> this writing. Others under "A" include, for example, the American Statistical 
> Association, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Avon Products Inc. and 
> 57 additional organizations and corporations. The Census Bureau's Web site 
> includes an open invitation to sign on, and the agency says it expects to 
> have more than 100,000 partners by the time the process is over. That may 
> even be an underestimate: In 2000, it signed up 140,000 partners.
> 
> We've received questions about ACORN's activities in connection with the 
> headcount ever since a Fox News story, headlined "ACORN to play role in 2010 
> census," appeared in March. As retold by and filtered through blogs and chain 
> e-mails, the news left some people with the impression that ACORN, the 
> liberal community organizing group whose voter registration activities became 
> an issue in last year's presidential campaign, would be a big player in 
> running the census effort.
> 
> ACORN "will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the 
> American public," said Rep. Michele Bachmann in mid-June. "This is very 
> concerning." Saying she was worried about ACORN's supposed involvement in 
> gathering census data, the Minnesota Republican announced that she won't 
> participate in the census beyond answering how many individuals reside in her 
> household, "because," she maintained, "the Constitution doesn't require any 
> information beyond that." Actually, the Constitution, under Article 1, 
> Section 2, simply requires that an "enumeration" be done every 10 years to 
> apportion the members of the House, but that it be done "in such manner" as 
> Congress "shall by law direct." And Congress has seen fit to require everyone 
> to answer truthfully whatever census questions they are asked, under threat 
> of a $100 penalty for failure to answer and $500 for lying.
> 
> And Bachmann is flat wrong about ACORN going door-to-door and gathering data. 
> Being "partners" with the Census Bureau doesn't entail as close a 
> relationship as one might think. For the most part it involves getting the 
> word out that it's important for everyone to participate in the decennial 
> event that helps determine where federal money goes and how House of 
> Representatives district boundaries are redrawn."
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
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