Census

Investigators have determined that Bill Sparkman, the census worker who was found dead with an anti-federal government message scrawled on his body, committed suicide. There’s some political news here: Coming as it did the day of the taxpayer march on Washington, days after Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) became the most prominent Republican to urge non-compliance [...]

One of the lower-key workshops at the How to Take Back America conference was “How to Deal With Vote Fraud, the Census, and ACORN,” where Republican pols Kris Kobach and Ed Martin talked about the threat groups like ACORN posed to elections. (Kobach is running for Secretary of State in Kansas; Martin is running for [...]

ST. LOUIS — Speaking to a packed hotel ballroom at the conservative How to Take Back America Conference, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said that exposes of “criminal tomfoolery” inside of ACORN could kick off a campaign to “defund the left.”
Bachmann was introduced warmly by Phyllis Schlafly, the iconic conservative activist whose Eagle Forum was the [...]

The changing demographics of the United States suggest that there would be a lot of support for comprehensive immigration reform that includes legalization of undocumented immigrants who pay a fine and pay their taxes. But both parties have failed to present a comprehensive immigration bill so far and risk losing the support of a key [...]

From The Minnesota Independent:
“The Census has a profound impact on Minnesota’s communities,” [Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)] said in a statement. “It’s important that every Minnesotan is counted, so we get our fair share of congressional seats and federal funding.”
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has vowed not to fill out a full census because the Association of [...]

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) has spent several months trying to draw attention to the issue of whether the census will be fair — that is, whether it will exclude sampling and whether it will be conducted by the Department of Commerce. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (R-Minn.) recent and repeated claims that she will not participate in [...]

If you find yourself without a job and running low on cash, one alternative is to move back to your hometown, get some help from your parents, (even though you are a fully grown adult),  and hope that local ties will lead to a new career. That’s becoming the new plan for increasing numbers of [...]

Yesterday morning, before Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) pulled out from consideration for commerce secretary, House Republicans announced the formation of a special Census Task Force, headed by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) and freshman Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.). According to Lungren spokesman Brian Seitchik, Gregg’s departure hasn’t changed a thing.

Byron York had been working the sleepy “Census controversy” beat yesterday, so it makes sense for his story today to focus on how Republicans were fretting about the issue before Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) withdrew his nomination for commerce secretary.
“I think he had buyer’s remorse,” one GOP senator told me.  “After he looked into it [...]

Politico’s spin-crunching machine busts a gear in this analysis of what Republicans are saying about Sen. Judd Gregg’s (R-N.H.) withdrawal of his nomination for commerce secretary.
Nevertheless, for a Republican Party desperately careening from message to message, from “Drill Baby Drill” to “The Future is Cao,” Gregg’s move has rallied the troops and provided them with [...]