The Census is a huge issue for Republicans and the extremists believe in its control. The Extremists of the Right Wing will stop at nothing. "Fed" equates to McVeigh's understanding of the government. If one census worker dies a horrible death supposedly that will stop the census as a threat to all census workers.
How correct does Janet Napolitanio have to be for the nation to realize there is an organized and armed element within its borders that license themselves to be bigots and war mongers?
From archives:
Ex-Aide Says Republicans Killed Census Adjustment; Undercount of Blacks, Hispanics Expected
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[FINAL Edition]
Spencer Rich
Jan 15, 1988
Barbara Bailar said yesterday that she quit her post as a high-ranking Census Bureau official last month because she believes Republicans in the Commerce Department had political motives in killing a plan to compensate for an expected severe undercount of blacks and Hispanics in the 1990 census.
Adjusting the official census to compensate for blacks and Hispanics missed by counters on April 1 would benefit Democrats in reapportionment and redistricting of the House and the state legislatures, according to many analysts. The reasoning is that most blacks and Hispanics live in areas that usually vote Democratic. An undercount adjustment would increase the official population of those areas.
[Robert Ortner] said senior officials of the Commerce Department decided against the undercount adjustment because there was no unanimity, even within the Census Bureau, on whether the proposed methodology was adequate, practical and would improve accuracy. "You can't say there was an absolute, airtight case in favor of adjustment," he said.
Expert on Undercount Quits Census Bureau (click here)
[FINAL Edition]
Spencer Rich
Dec 18, 1987
A top Census Bureau official who has supervised the government's effort to develop a way to adjust 1990 census figures to correct an anticipated undercount of blacks, Hispanics and others has abruptly resigned her post and will retire.
According to the methodology worked out under [Barbara Bailar]'s direction, the Census Bureau could adjust the undercount by taking a survey of 300,000 representative households nationwide shortly after the April 1 census, and then comparing the results to see how many people were missed the first time.
TerriAnn Lowenthal, staff director of [Mervyn M. Dymally]'s House subcommittee on the census, said, "We have an awful lot of respect for Barbara Bailar. If, in fact, her resignation was prompted by dissatisfaction with the decision not to adjust, it is a further indication that the decision was made at higher levels of the administration and not by professionals at the Census Bureau."
The decadonal USA Census has been a method of control for the Republican Party as a political strategy to winning elections. They gerrymander and play this idiotic game as if people were cattle to be herded. They have lauded over the Census for a long, long time.
Published on Thursday, May 19, 2005
by CommonDreams.org
The Texas Nexus: Where Racial and Partisan Gerrymandering Came Together (click here)
by Karyn Strickler
Naive American voters still believe that they select their Congressional representatives. Texans are under no such illusion after the bitter redistricting battle that took place there. Partisan and racial gerrymandering has created a situation in Texas and across the nation, where very few U.S. Congressional seats are competitive today -- in effect allowing Congressmen to choose their voters.
U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay (R-TX), led the way for Republican Congressmen in Texas to pick their voters. The untold story of DeLay’s belligerent power grab in Texas redistricting involves partisan political domination, intrigue, alleged corruption and perhaps most significantly -- minority disenfranchisement.
U.S. Congressional redistricting takes place in state legislatures once per decade, following the decennial census to reflect population shifts, as mandated by the U.S. Constitution. Tom DeLay led the effort to violate all historical precedent by drawing the Congressional district lines in Texas -- twice....
