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It's 6:30a.m., Tuesday, March24 and I have just prepared a delicious Florentine Omelet for breakfast. Along with the eggs and spinach, I have decided to add some pignoli nuts for extra flavor. As I take a bite of the omelet and taste the nutty flavor , I am reminded of ACORN and POP , I am so worried about the next census that I can't eat another thing. Census numbers influence the allocation of billions of dollars in federal and state funds. The U.S. Congress uses the census total to determine how many seats your particular state will have in the House of Representatives. The states also use census numbers to allocate seats in their law-making bodies.





Given the obvious importance of these numbers and the impact these totals will have on funding and representation , it is inconceivable to me to learn that the Census Bureau has chosen to partner with the group known as ACORN in conducting the census for next year. ACORN will assist with the recruitment of 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every citizen in the United States.





Employees of ACORN have been accused of voter registration fraud and have been investigated in many states. The organization has a very checkered past which is well documented and available to all interested parties. Surely, the Census Bureau has to be aware of questions surrounding this group's activities, so one has to wonder why they would involve ACORN in conducting the census. It seems awfully strange that the bureau whose job it is to count, can't put two and two together!