Minnesota lawmaker vows not to complete Census

Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's so worried that information from next year's national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household.

In an interview Wednesday morning with The Washington Times "America's Morning News," Mrs. Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said the questions have become "very intricate, very personal" and she also fears ACORN, the community organizing group that came under fire for its voter registration efforts last year, will be part of the Census Bureau's door-to-door information collection efforts.

"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 argument that the many details required of the current long questionnaire are to properly identify potential benefits recipients is questionable, at best (and begs the question, is it healthy for our government to work so hard at giving tax dollars away).

Less arguable to my mind is the usefulness such profiling could have at identify the political ideology of households, which can then be used to fine tune gerrymandering of voting districts such as was so successfully done in California after 2000 and resulted in a virtually permanent state Democrat majority (which explains their overt defiance re: cutting state spending; they're no longer concerned about losing their jobs).]

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