ACORN is back! – Do you want them involved in the census?

When the Constitution was ratified and adopted it was important to always accurately know what the population of the States was in order to establish the correct representation in the House of Representatives and the correct number of electors from each state in the Electoral College.  The cornerstone of our nation’s republican government – not to be confused with the Republican Party – is a census free of White House manipulation.  The Constitution requires this head count to occur every ten years.  Since this census is the cornerstone of our form of government, the census absolutely must be free of politics.  Up till now the free of politics requirement has not been perfect, but has been close enough to make the census work.

Never in the history of this great land has the foundation of our government been at such risk.  We now hear that the community action group well known to be attached to the hip of our President, ACORN, will be asked to partner with the Census Bureau, along with other organizations, to recruit staff for the decennial census.   Fox News reports on Acorn.   Remember, ACORN was not only a major supporter of Mr. Obama, but that he had been an attorney providing guidance on their community organization methods – he actually advised them on how to challenge banks under the Community Reinvestment Act – that law suit opened the doors to sub-prime lending. 

Again, remember that it was barely six months ago that ACORN was under investigation in a host of states for voter fraud – mostly for registering voters multiple times and ineligible voters, in violation of election law.  ACORN had buried the Secretaries of State in those states with thousands of bogus voter registrations, severely limiting the effectiveness of these offices to properly police the presidential election.  Tell me that this is not a political move by the White House to steer the 2010 census.

There is a process to sign on to the Census Bureau as a census taker, actually a number of positions exist with the most prominent being the enumerator position.  These are temporary positions and they pay very nicely.  There is a website - Census Jobs - that clearly describes how to go about signing up for the census test.  Yes there is a test.  Do we really need ACORN, when we are experiencing an 8% plus unemployment rate and a pool of retired citizens who have seen their retirement nest eggs sliced in half, and now need to work?  All the Census Bureau needs to do is to heavily publicize the process and it will have access to an enormous legitimate labor pool.  So why are ACORN and other community organization groups involved or needed?  Is ACORN being asked to provide its brand of voter recruitment?  Is ACORN needed to ensure the recruitment of census takers, with a history of playing fast and lose with rules, who will have no problem filling out thousands of bogus forms to skew the census, as they did with voter registration?

If you have ever pressured your Congressman or Congresswoman or your Senators!  Now is the time!  With the current state of the economy and our unemployment, we do not need to find organizations to recruit.  All the Census Bureau needs to do is get the word out and they will find census takers to get the job done.  The White House has already been challenged for attempting to take over the census and now they are trying to skew the census through a back door.  Just tell them to keep community organizers and community organizing groups away from the census.

Here is a webpage that tells you all about the census hiring.

 http://2010.census.gov/2010censusjobs/

We do not need ACORN or White House involvement.  We need a clean non-political census, since – and I cannot say this often enough - it is the cornerstone of our democratic republic.  Without a clean census, we are just another third world country.