Pennsylvania: Census Bureau

July 24, 2009 - 06:35 am

The Trib Editorial Board vs ACORN. Again.

I guess we gotta do this every few weeks. The last time was July 2.

Here's what they write today:
On the "Watch List": Dan Onorato and Luke Ravenstahl. The Allegheny County chief executive and the mayor of Pittsburgh have begun an eight-month push to bolster census-response rates. Indeed, an accurate count is to the benefit of all. But here's a critical question for them:

Do they support the involvement of ACORN in the survey process? That would be the same ACORN that's accused in a number of states, Pennsylvania included, of voter registration fraud. That would be the same ACORN that aided the subprime mortgage mess by bullying banks to lend to those with dubious financial means.

July 2, 2009 - 05:53 am

ACORN, Bachman and The Trib

Curious how content-free factoids make it through the right wing noise machine, isn't it? Kinda resembles how oats make it through a horse.

First, I stumbled upon this editorial at the Trib. It begins:
If Senate Republicans have to play hardball to force the removal of ACORN from the ranks of "2010 Census Partners," so be it.

There are compelling reasons why the liberal activist group should not help recruit U.S. Census Bureau workers. Among them -- allegations in more than a dozen states that it used illegal voter-registration quotas and its long history of bias that clearly sucks up to all-things-Democrat.