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July 1, 2009
Census Cheating Already Underway in Detroit
Why should the Left wait until 2010 to start fudging numbers on the Census to help advance their agenda? In America's most liberal city, they're at it already:
Eight of 10 Michigan communities experiencing the largest population drops between 2007 and 2008 census estimates are in Wayne County, and the fall may be due in part to a push to bolster numbers for Detroit, officials say.
The Census Bureau estimated Detroit's population at 912,062 for the year ending July 2008, a drop of only 0.5% since July 2007. But the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments estimates Detroit's population at about 831,000 as of April 2009 — about 81,000 fewer people.
Detroit officials protested the city's census estimate in 2006 and got a population boost as a result. At the same time, remaining communities apparently had to account for a larger proportion of Wayne County's drop.
"It's not directly at the expense of those other communities, although it does sort of work out that way," said Greg Harper, U.S. Census Bureau demographer.
Wayne County's July 2008 population was 2,061,162, down 31,725 from 2007. Every Wayne community has lost population in the census since Detroit's correction, something those familiar with population trends doubt.
Why pretend these people live in a largely empty city, instead of the suburbs?
State and federal money to communities, most notably federal Community Development Block Grant funds, are based on population.
So is Congressional representation. This is why Comrade Obama yanked control of the Census away from the Commerce Department, and handed it over to one of the guys who program his teleprompter.
We now live in a country where no one can believe official figures from the government.
Hat tip: The Blogprof.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 1, 2009 8:13 AM
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Detroit: The Crown Jewel of Liberal Socio-Economic Policy
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Posted by: J at July 1, 2009 8:37 AM
This will make it easier for ACORN to bulk up the rolls with imaginary voters.
Posted by: V the K at July 1, 2009 8:38 AM
So-stoned, have you been working for the Census people?
Posted by: Farmer Ted at July 1, 2009 9:08 AM
No surprise here. To conservatives (and normal, honest people) numbers are facts. To liberals, numbers are political tools.
Posted by: mega at July 1, 2009 9:23 AM
I won't be talking to the ACORN enumerators this year other than telling them "there are 3 people living here" before bringing out my .45 ACP and kindly telling them to GTFO my property before they steal anything.
Posted by: Atomic Lib Smasher at July 1, 2009 9:34 AM
BO's census will allocate of billions of dollars to the "non-profit" overtly racist groups that we are being compelled to pay for to conduct the census:
* ACORN (major recipient of millions of federal funds who brought us African American BO and now Air American, Al Frankin)
* 100 Black Men of America
* African American Women’s House of Imagene (sic) Shelter
* American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
* Arab American Institute
* Asian American Federation
* Asian American Justice Center
* Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS
* Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage
* Boat People SOS
* Hispanic Alliance for Prosperity Institute
* Hispanic Federation
* Fundacion Azteca
* Latino Justice PDLDEF
* Mas New Mexico
* Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
* Minority Access
* National Alliance for Hispanic Health
* National Alliance of Black School Educators
* National American Indian Housing Council
* NAACP National Voter Fund
* NAACP (National Association of Colored People)
* National Association for Black Social Workers
* National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs
* National association of Hispanic Federal Executives
* National Association of Hispanic Publications
* National Association of Latino Elected Officials
* National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
* National Black Chamber of Commerce
* National Black Child Development Institute
* National Black Justice Coalition
* National Black Leadership Forum
* National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
* National Congress of Black Women
* National Federation of Filipino American Associations
* National Hispanic Leadership Institute
* National Hispanic Business Information Clearinghouse
* National Latino Research Center
* National Minority AIDS Council
* National Puerto Rican Coalition
* National Puerto Rican Day Parade
* Rainbow Push Coalition
* U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
* Voto Latino
Posted by: Fiberal at July 1, 2009 9:56 AM
They do it because they can. If you don't like it, you're a RAAAAACIST!
Posted by: KHarn at July 1, 2009 10:07 AM
Just think what all the rest of the elections will be like now.
The big 0 make Landslide Annie look like a rookie.
So when will the "President for Life" title be handed to the 0slime0?
How sad.
Posted by: FREE at July 1, 2009 11:06 AM
Honest people, particularly those left in metropolitan Detroit and other areas of high governmental corruption, might as well start preparing evidence of shennanigans by these groups and their corrupt government cronies to use in forthcoming lawsuits against the Census Bureau:
13 USC 209(b) provides that "any person aggrieved by the use of any statistical method in violation of the Constitution or any provision of law ... in connection with the 2000 or any later decennial census to determine the population for purposes of the apportionment or redistricting of Members in Congress, may in a civil action obtain declaratory, injunctive, and any other appropriate relief against the use of such method." An "aggrieved person" includes "any resident of a State whose congressional representation or district could be changed as a result of the use of a statistical method challenged in the civil action."
Detroit has been perpetually embroiled in Census shennanigans in trying to force an overcount of minorities to the detriment of the rest of the white parts of the state in its Congressional delegation. In 1993, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young sued the Census Bureau seeking to force the it to make a statistical adjustment for allegedly undercounting blacks in Detroit in the 1990 official population count of the cities and sub-units of the State of Michigan or, alternatively, to make a new count of certain (black) areas. Finding that the Census Bureau had in fact bent over backwards to accurately count minorities, and that the Mayor's proposal for "statistically adjusting" the proposed undercount was unwarranted and unlawful, both the trial court and appeals court threw out the case on summary judgment. http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/4/4.F3d.1367.92-2113.html
That case was decided when adults ran the Department of Commerce and Census Bureau. Now that leftists run those organizations, and are going to do their level best to employ racist organiztions like ACORN to conduct the 2010 census, expect the Commerce Department to be very receptive to "statistical adjustments" and other devious ploys to alter the numbers and that it will do whatever it needs to do to inflate minority represenation in Congress. Hence decent folks need to be vigilant and ready to sue for violations of the Constitution.
Posted by: ZMarshall at July 1, 2009 12:17 PM
it's so cold in the D
Posted by: 3bus at July 1, 2009 3:43 PM
re: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URoxfkE8VQc
you on MY block mutha f____? :-)))
Posted by: 3bus at July 1, 2009 3:50 PM
Because the Obama administration has its talons in the 2010, I refuse to participate in it, and will slam the door on anyone who comes to my home to inquire as to whether I have completed it.
Why participate in an absolute lie?
I urge more and more Americans to boycott this bogus census!
Posted by: ToddonCapeCod at July 1, 2009 7:33 PM
The 2010 census, I meant to say, above.
D'OH!!
Posted by: ToddonCapeCod at July 1, 2009 7:35 PM
This vote laundering is sort of like money laundering isn't it?
Posted by: oldguy at July 2, 2009 7:31 AM

