San Fran NanPelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...on Monday blasted President Trump’s push for a citizenship question on the 2020 census as an effort to "Make America White Again" ‐ claiming, "it’s not what our founders had in mind."
"They want to make sure that people, certain people, are counted," Pelosi said at a presser in the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
that focused on election security.
"Just their people vote and not the general population," said the Democratic politician. "That’s why they’re fighting the census."
White House officials did not immediately return requests for comment from The Post on the statements.
Pelosi, who was visiting her home district Monday, repeatedly called the idea of adding a citizenship question to next year’s survey "disgraceful."
"This is about keeping ‐ you know ... his hat ‐ Make America White Again," she said.
The Trump administration has said the proposed citizenship question would help the government enforce the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters’ access to the ballot box.
2020 Census may have citizenship question after all
According to Pelosi, what they really want to do "is put a chilling effect so certain populations will not answer the form."
"It’s really disgraceful. And it’s not what our founders had in mind," Pelosi said.
The president has vowed to continue his efforts to get the citizenship question added to next year’s census. The Supreme Court recently rejected the idea, saying the Trump administration needs to provide a further explanation of why it should be included.
Experts at the Census Bureau believe the question would likely discourage im
The Justice Department has appointed a new team of Civil Division lawyers to handle all census-related cases, including Trump’s push for the census update.
| They were going on about this on NPR today. The expert was very concerned that voting districts and state and federal representation would be reorganized to reflect only citizen numbers, leaving non-citizens without political representation. Also, all the various funds for the needy would be reduced to match only the number of citizens in need, shortchanging everyone when the smaller amount was divided among the actual recipient population. |