GOP Colleagues Ask Rep. Bachmann to End Census Boycott

[Moby]

Are these 3 RINOs for thinking for themselves or is she just too nuts for the party.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/07/02/gop-colleagues-ask-rep-bachmann-to-end-census-boycott/
Jake Sherman reports on the 2010 Census.

Three Republicans on the House panel that oversees the Census Bureau have asked fellow GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota to end her plans to boycott next year’s count.

Reps. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and John Mica of Florida issued a statement saying every elected representative has a “responsibility” to encourage participation in the 2010 Census. “Boycotting the constitutionally mandated census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country,” they stated.

Bachmann has said she will answer only certain questions on the 2010 Census form because the Census Bureau has signed up Acorn, the liberal-leaning community group, to help publicize the census and recruit enumerators. The group, she has said, will skew the results. Click here for a Wall Street Journal article on the census fight.

McHenry, Westmoreland and Mica – no fans of Acorn – pointed out an “unfortunate irony” in Bachmann’s boycott, saying it “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.”

Acorn is one of 40,000 Census Bureau partners in the count, and a Census Bureau official said its primary responsibility is educating hard-to-count urban populations about the importance of an accurate headcount.

Bachmann spokesman Dave Dziok said the congresswoman isn’t changing her position. “We appreciate their views and hope to be able to work with them to keep Acorn – which has earned public mistrust through its repeated voter registration fraud – out of the census,” Dziok said.

[The_Limit]

Bachmann is a nut.

[Mr. Blue]

She's coo coo for coco pebbles.

[The_Limit]

Isn't she the lady who wanted an inquiry into whether U.S. representatives were Anti-American or not?

[Moby]

Isn't she the lady who wanted an inquiry into whether U.S. representatives were Anti-American or not?
Yes she is.

[radioguy]

ACORN is a corrupt organization that shouldn't be involved in any government sponsored activities, nor receive government funding of any kind.

Protesting their involvement in census taking is a righteous and noble thing to do.

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[bluejunk44]

I hope she does boycott it and that many follow her example. The result will be hilarious.

[doctordog]

ACORN is a corrupt organization that shouldn't be involved in any government sponsored activities, nor receive government funding of any kind.

Protesting their involvement in census taking is a righteous and noble thing to do.

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Agreed, we are suffering the result of too much PC, Affirmative Action, and uninformed voters and it hasn't even been 1 year yet.

[bairdi]

ACORN is a corrupt organization that shouldn't be involved in any government sponsored activities, nor receive government funding of any kind.

Protesting their involvement in census taking is a righteous and noble thing to do.

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They have no involvement in census taking. Census partners are not involved in census taking. There is nothing to protest, regardless of the propaganda Beck spreads.

[radioguy]

They have no involvement in census taking. Census partners are not involved in census taking. There is nothing to protest, regardless of the propaganda Beck spreads.

They are a corrupt organization and should not be involved in any way with government sponsored activities.

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[Moby]

ACORN is a corrupt organization that shouldn't be involved in any government sponsored activities, nor receive government funding of any kind.

Protesting their involvement in census taking is a righteous and noble thing to do.

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Have you and the prof figured out how many cases of voter fraud that they've committed? :lmao2: He too believed the bloggers without facts.

Two peas in a pod or should I sat straight jacket?

[Hog Trash]

They have no involvement in census taking. Census partners are not involved in census taking. There is nothing to protest, regardless of the propaganda Beck spreads."Propaganda" is what the main stream liberal press spread over your airways and print media for the last 18 months telling you how wonderful the Obama's are.

Beck presents facts and voices his opinions concerning them, of which most people agree with...To realize this all you need do is check out his Radio and TV shows ratings and book sales.

[bairdi]

"Propaganda" is what the main stream liberal press spread over your airways and print media for the last 18 months telling you how wonderful the Obama's are.

Beck presents facts and voices his opinions concerning them, of which most people agree with...To realize this all you need do is check out his Radio and TV shows ratings and book sales.
Congratulations hawg, you are certifiably brainwashed. Like a well programmed robot you have taken up the right wing call to not listen to and not accept anything but their version of the truth. Rush Limbaugh repeatedly tells his dittoheads that he is the one that will tell them the truth. I have heard Beck too distort fact. For example he said that ACORN is conducting the census which is an out and out lie. But go ahead and repeat what you hear from your media masters. Most of America is on to their game. :lmao2:

[Hog Trash]

Congratulations hawg, you are certifiably brainwashed. Like a well programmed robot you have taken up the right wing call to not listen to and not accept anything but their version of the truth. Rush Limbaugh repeatedly tells his dittoheads that he is the one that will tell them the truth. I have heard Beck too distort fact. For example he said that ACORN is conducting the census which is an out and out lie. But go ahead and repeat what you hear from your media masters. Most of America is on to their game. :lmao2:You play wordgames, twisting fantasy into fact.

If you payed attention you would realize Beck is non-partisan.

I know what Beck said about ACORN and understand completely what he meant.

Wordgames may work for you but not the exceptionally astute Hog....I deal in reality.

[The Professor]

LOLOLOL!

gee, i wonder why acorn---the COMMUNITY ORGANIZERs (LOLOLOL!) would go thru all THIS trouble?

just for the FUN of it?

LOLOLOL!



Recent Fraud

State Year Details
AR 1998 A contractor with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote was arrested for falsifying about 400 voter registration cards.
CO 2005 Two ex-ACORN employees were convicted in Denver of perjury for submitting false voter registrations.
2004 An ACORN employee admitted to forging signatures and registering three of her friends to vote 40 times.
CT 2008 The New York Post reported that ACORN submitted a voter registration card for a 7-year-old Bridgeport girl. Another 8,000 cards from the same city will be scrutinized for possible fraud.
FL 2008 Election officials in Brevard County have given prosecutors more than 23 suspect registrations from ACORN. The state's Division of Elections is also investigating complaints in Orange and Broward Counties.
2004 A Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokesman said ACORN was “singled out” among suspected voter registration groups for a 2004 wage initiative because it was “the common thread” in the agency’s fraud investigations.
IN 2008 Election officials in Indiana have thrown out more than 4,000 ACORN-submitted voter registrations after finding they had identical handwriting and included the names of many deceased Indianans, and even the name of a fast food restaurant.
MI 2008 Clerks in Detroit found a "sizeable number of duplicate and fraudulent [voter] applications" from the Michigan branch of ACORN. Those applications have been turned over to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.
2004 The Detroit Free Press reported that “overzealous or unscrupulous campaign workers in several Michigan counties are under investigation for voter-registration fraud, suspected of attempting to register nonexistent people or forging applications for already-registered voters.” ACORN-affiliate Project Vote was one of two groups suspected of turning in the documents.
MO 2008 Nearly 400 ACORN-submitted registrations in Kansas City have been rejected due to duplication or fake information.
2007 Four ACORN employees were indicted in Kansas City for charges including identity theft and filing false registrations during the 2006 election.
2006 Eight ACORN employees in St. Louis were indicted on federal election fraud charges. Each of the eight faces up to five years in prison for forging signatures and submitting false information.
2003 Of 5,379 voter registration cards ACORN submitted in St. Louis, only 2,013 of those appeared to be valid. At least 1,000 are believed to be attempts to register voters illegally.
MN 2004 During a traffic stop, police found more than 300 voter registration cards in the trunk of a former ACORN employee, who had violated a legal requirements that registration cards be submitted to the Secretary of State within 10 days of being filled out and signed.
NC 2008 County elections officials have sent suspicious voter registration applications to the state Board of Elections. Many of the applications had similar or identical names, but with different addresses or dates of birth.
2004 North Carolina officials investigated ACORN for submitting fake voter registration cards.
NM 2008 Prosecutors are investigating more than 1,100 ACORN-submitted voter registration cards after a county clerk found them to be fraudulent. Many of the cards included duplicate names and slightly altered personal information.
2005 Four ACORN employees submitted as many as 3,000 potentially fraudulent signatures on the group’s Albuquerque ballot initiative. A local sheriff added: “It’s safe to say the forgery was widespread.”
2004 An ACORN employee registered a 13-year-old boy to vote. Citing this and other examples, New Mexico State Representative Joe Thompson stated that ACORN was “manufacturing voters” throughout New Mexico.
NV 2008 Nevada state authorities raided ACORN's Las Vegas headquarters as part of a task force investigation of election fraud. Fraudulent registrations included players from the Dallas Cowboys.
OH 2008 ACORN activists gave Ohio residents cash and cigarettes in exchange for filling out voter registration card, according to the New York Post. Some voters claim to have registered dozens of times, and one man says he signed up on 72 cards.
2007 A man in Reynoldsburg was indicted on two felony counts of illegal voting and false registration, after being registered by ACORN to vote in two separate counties.
2004 A grand jury indicted a Columbus ACORN worker for submitting a false signature and false voter registration form. In Franklin County, two ACORN workers submitted what the director of the board of election supervisors called “blatantly false” forms. In Cuyahoga County, ACORN and its affiliate Project Vote submitted registration cards that had the highest rate of errors for any voter registration group.
PA 2008 State election officials have thrown out 57,435 voter registrations, the majority of which were submitted by ACORN. The registrations were thrown out after officials found "clearly fraudulent" signatures, vacant lots listed as addresses, and other signs of fraud.
2008 An ACORN employee in West Reading, PA, was sentenced to up to 23 months in prison for identity theft and tampering with records. A second ACORN worker pleaded not guilty to the same charges and is free on $10,000 bail.
2004 Reading’s Director of Elections received calls from numerous individuals complaining that ACORN employees deliberately put inaccurate information on their voter registration forms. The Berks County director of elections said voter fraud was “absolutely out of hand,” and added: “Not only do we have unintentional duplication of voter registration but we have blatant duplicate voter registrations.” The Berks County deputy director of elections added that ACORN was under investigation by the Department of Justice.
TX 2008 In Harris County, nearly 10,000 ACORN-submitted registrations were found to be invalid, including many with clearly fraudulent addresses or other personal information.
2008 ACORN turned in the voter registration form of David Young, who told reporters “The signature is not my signature. It’s not even close.” His social security number and date of birth were also incorrect.
VA 2005 In 2005, the Virginia State Board of Elections admonished Project Vote and ACORN for turning in a significant number of faulty voter registrations. An audit revealed that 83% of sampled registrations that were rejected for carrying false or questionable information were submitted by Project Vote. Many of these registrations carried social security numbers that exist for other people, listed non-existent or commercial addresses, or were for convicted felons in violation of state and federal election law.

In a letter to ACORN, the State Board of Elections reported that 56% of the voter registration applications ACORN turned in were ineligible. Further, a full 35% were not submitted in a timely manner, as required by law. The State Board of Elections also commented on what appeared to be evidence of intentional voter fraud. "Additionally,” they wrote, “information appears to have been altered on some applications where information given by the applicant in one color ink has been scratched through and re-entered in another color ink. Any alteration of a voter registration application is a Class 5 Felony in accordance with § 24.2-1009 of the Code of Virginia."
WA 2007 Three ACORN employees pleaded guilty, and four more were charged, in the worst case of voter registration fraud in Washington state history. More than 2,000 fraudulent voter registration cards were submitted by the group during a voter registration drive.
WI 2008 At least 33,000 ACORN-submitted registrations in Milwaukee have been called into question after it was found that the organizations had been using felons as registration workers, in violation of state election rules. Two people involved in the ongoing Wisconsin voter fraud investigation have been charged with felonies.
2004 The district attorney’s office investigated seven voter registration applications Project Vote employees filed in the names of people who said the group never contacted them. Former Project Vote employee Robert Marquise Blakely told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that he had not met with any of the people whose voter registration applications he signed, “an apparent violation of state law,” according to the paper.

http://rottenacorn.com/activityMap.html