Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s Census information will remain private; at least that’s what the Rep. from Minnesota said in an interview with the Washington Times on Wednesday. Michele Bachmann, who is no stranger to arrows from the left, says that ACORN’s involvement in the 2010 census has her worried.
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Bachmann, who has been in congress since 2007, says that she is worried that the information gained in the 2010 census will be abused. Michele Bachmann says that she will give nothing more than the number of people living in her household. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Bachmann says that the questions on the census have become “very intricate”, “very personal”, she also fears what role the community organizing group ACORN will play in gleaning that information. ACORN is under investigation in multiple states, as well as staffers being indicted, for their role in the 2008 elections. Bachmann said in the Times interview:
“I know for my family the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home,” she said. “We won’t be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn’t require any information beyond that.”
The Constitution of the United States does require that a census be taken every 10 years, a spokesperson for the U.S. Census bureau said that anyone over 18 years of age who doesn’t answer questions could be subject to a $5000 dollar fine. I guess we’ll see how much that $5000 dollars means to me when one of those red shirt clad thugs from ACORN shows up at my door. Michele Bachmann said about ACORN:
“They will be in charge of going door to door and collecting data from the American public,” she said. “This is very concerning.”
Michele Bachmann’s Census boycott will likely be another point of contention between her and the left wing media, which has tried to hammer away at her since she’s been in congress. Acorn’s involvement in the census should be worrisome to all American’s; at least those who are intellectually honest.
Our Friends at the Daily Kos are at it again.
Michele Bachmann ACORN
June 19th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
My response to the census will be the same as Michelle’s…for the same reason. That’s IF i decide to answer my door. I think I still have the right to not answer my door…………
June 19th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
On the DailyKos, some woman was complaining that census takers risk their lives knocking on doors… not knowing who’s on the other side. With ACORN involved in the census, neither do we.
Another person was delighted that so many conservatives would not be giving personal information in the census… estatic that so many “right-wing nut jobs” wouldn’t be counted. Aside from not being “right-wing-nut-jobs”… we’re not going to be counted anyway. So who cares!
June 19th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Oh, we’ll be counted Barry, it just might not be in the 2010 census!
June 20th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Michelle’s good idea is a crime.
Oh well. So what? That’s just a technicality, I guess. They are all a bunch of criminals anyway.
June 20th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Oh, I see Klo, you have a problem with that, but not ACORN’s criminal activities and their ties to Obama?
Typical liberal hypocrisy.
June 20th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Klo has no problem giving away personal information if it means getting something FREE from the government.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Klo, a crime? Doesn’t look like a criminal offense… Looks like a violation of US Code, Section 13-221 (a) with a fine of no more than $100. The below is US Code, Section 13 - 221(a) copied from the Cornell online Law Library. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, and provide references.
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
[...] wonder Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is refusing to take part in this travesty, other than to provide the information warranted by the Constitution: how many people live in the [...]
June 29th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Well now, if I give out my personal info, it won’t be personal anymore. Mr. President, my life and how I live it is none of your damned business!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Hey grayjohn - we THINK its our personal info - but as per communist ideology, everything is everyones (except the elite, of course, they live by a different set of rules because they are special). So, from that point of view, the president would view your personal information as his (though his isn’t yours). Besides, how can they control the population if they don’t enslave us all to the federal government overseers?
June 30th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Lets look at some facts that Michelle either willfully ignores or is just too stupid to know:
Acorn is one of 30,000 organizations participating in the census, they are not “in charge of the census”.
ACORN will not have any role in collecting Census responses. ACORN is simply one of thousands of partners who have agreed to help promote the fact that the Census bureau will soon have many job openings.
The census data that was used was used when Congress suspended its’ confidentiality clause in 1942 in part by the War Powers Act. The confidentiality clause was restored in 1947, which makes it a federal offense to reveal any data.
Phone numbers are asked for in case you do not fill out the census correctly, and it is not required by law to give one.
She is confusing the census with the American Community Survey, started in 1996, which is sent to 1 in 40 US households. It collects more detailed data used to distribute more than $300 billion in federal funds to local communities.
Michelle Bachmann is clearly a moron, if you take the time to do a little fact checking, you can avoid looking like one too.
September 23rd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
hooray for michele. i’ve heard that these so-caled sinsus workers are nothing more than communinissts disguised as REAL AMERICANS! i thnk its a shame that they can get away with this nonsense. they take your credit card info and then go to walmart and splurge! i thnk they should be arrested and i thinik we need a amendment to the CONSTITUTION outlawing these sinsus stuff.
will you please bring this to the senate floor michele?