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Thursday, April 1, 2010

CENSUS and Sensibility

Seriously, this is no "April Fools" joke.
WHERE will you be counted?

At a recent meeting of the Quartzsite Town Council, a crafty gentleman from La Paz County extolled the virtues of counting winter visitors as RESIDENTS in the upcoming census. He stated emphatically "If they are here on April 1st, then they WILL be counted HERE!"

If you haven't heard, WHERE  you are counted determines WHICH community gets the FINANCIAL CREDIT from the government.Over 400 BILLION dollars of Federal funding is earmarked for infrastructure and services like:
  • Hospitals
  • Job training centers
  • Schools
  • Senior centers
  • Bridges, tunnels and other-public works projects
  • Emergency services
Divide that by the "120 million households" that the census questionnaire was mailed to and start estimating what your corporeal body may be worth in US dollars. (About $1,300.)The data collected by the census also help determine the number of seats your state has in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Now I'm certainly not suggesting that the Federal money in play here wouldn't help to offset a little of the gigantic debt that Quartzsite and La Paz County officials have incurred...but so many winter visitors will still be here on April 1st because it is still too cold at "home". If the community where you spend the majority of your time and probably own property is elsewhere, do you want these funds to go to La Paz County? Or do you want these projects, services and representation where you really live?

http://www.newswithviews.com/Betty/Freauf160.htm

Hey, be counted (or not) wherever you please, but if your mail is received elsewhere, or hasn't caught up to you etc. and you wish to be counted, then visit a Questionnaire Assistance Center or Be Counted center: These are sites where you can obtain a questionnaire. A “Be Counted” questionnaire asks you to put down a full description of your address, and then contains the same 10 questions as the other Census form. You can complete a Be Counted questionnaire if you have not received your form. Beginning March 19 through April 19, Be Counted questionnaires will be available in public locations, such as libraries, within your community and at Questionnaire Assistance Centers where census workers will be available to answer questions. Beginning March 18, these locations will be posted on 2010Census.gov. If you still have not received your form by April 12, then you may contact the 2010 Census Toll-free help line at 1-866-872-6868 if you speak English. For more information, go to:

http://blogs.census.gov/2010census/2010/01/how-two-homes-breed-duplicate-counts.html#comments

How To Protect Your Rights Against Unconstitutional Census Ta... 


To Census taker ;
To Whom it May Concern,
Pursuant to Article I, Section 2, Clause 3 of the Constitution, the only information you are empowered to request is the total number of occupants at this address. My "name, sex, age, date of birth, race, ethnicity, telephone number, relationship and housing tenure" have absolutely nothing to do with apportioning direct taxes or determining the number of representatives in the House of Representatives. Therefore, neither Congress nor the Census Bureau have the constitutional authority to make that information request a component of the enumeration outlined in Article I, Section 2, Clause 3. In addition, I cannot be subject to a fine for basing my conduct on the Constitution because that document trumps laws passed by Congress.
Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson, 154 U.S. 447, 479 (May 26, 1894)
"Neither branch of the legislative department [House of Representatives or Senate], still less any merely administrative body [such as the Census Bureau], established by congress, possesses, or can be invested with, a general power of making inquiry into the private affairs of the citizen. Kilbourn v. Thompson, 103 U.S. 168, 190. We said in Boyd v. U.S., 116 U. S. 616, 630, 6 Sup. Ct. 524,―and it cannot be too often repeated,―that the principles that embody the essence of constitutional liberty and security forbid all invasions on the part of government and it's employees of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of his life. As said by Mr. Justice Field in Re Pacific Ry. Commission, 32 Fed. 241, 250, 'of all the rights of the citizen, few are of greater importance or more essential to his peace and happiness than the right of personal security, and that involves, not merely protection of his person from assault, but exemption of his private affairs, books, and papers from inspection and scrutiny of others. Without the enjoyment of this right, all others would lose half their value.'"
Note: This United States Supreme Court case has never been overturned.
Respectfully,
 


10 comments:

  1. So, if our snowbirds are counted in Q, the witch gets her nasty little hands on more money to piss away as she sees fit. Great.

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  2. Assuming shes not gone, along with her appointed enablers on the council.. and the various trolls appointed to various "boards"..

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  3. A most interesting story appears in Sunday's Arizona Republic starting on page B1 about how to fire a city/town manager. Great reading. Lends hope to even the most jilted and jaded of us.

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  4. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/04/20100404arizona-city-managers.html

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  5. To be counted also means to come out to vote or do your early vote to make sure trouble-makers who want the old style of government for Quartzsite to NOT get in. The past Councils and such were greasy, cover your back, and slide the fees that are due the Town are hidden and swept under the table... Please vote for the current Council who do not mind taking the heat of these negative naysayers to make sure this Town becomes and stays clean! It is a tough road to clean up the messes of the past who got us all into the messes we are now in. But they are helping us get out these old problems to be whole and self-sufficient. Those who oppose are the very ones who have soiled this town, please be counted and help this Town go forward in this century with proper procedures, self-sufficiency and all are counted evenly (even those who owe a lot of back taxes and levied fees who are disruptive to our beloved Quartzsite). Please vote for Huntley, Anderson, Kelley and Lukkasson, for they will help lead the way to a good Town for all of us (the year-round locals, snowbirds, vendors, other businesses, and especially our youth which are our future). And, hurray for the current Council voting the Grant money to build a Community Center for all!

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  6. GEE, ANONYMOUS, WHY DON'T YOU SIGN YOUR NAME TO THAT SICKENING DIATRIBE THAT'S NOTHING MORE THAN THE PROPAGANDA OF THE SITTING COUNCIL?

    THEY ARE THE ONES BLOCKING AN AUDIT TO DETERMINE HOW ALL THOSE MILLIONS CAME TO BE STOLEN.

    THEY ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS AND CAUSED THE TOWN TO BE BROKE.

    THEY ARE THE ONES THAT REFUSE TO ALLOW AN INVESTIGATION. [NOT THAT THAT WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN.]

    THEY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE PROTECTING THE MOST GUILTY.

    HUNTLEY AS MAYOR? A REAL MAYOR? PLEASE.
    HUNTLEY CAN'T OPEN HIS MOUTH WITHOUT AGAIN THANKING ALEX TAFT FOR RUNNING HIM. HE HAS BEEN IN THERE FOR A LOOOOOOOOOOONG TIME AND HE HAS PROTECTED THOSE THAT LOOTED THE TOWN.

    ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS: WHY WAS CHEN PROHIBITED BY THE COUNCIL FROM DOING THE SAME THINGS LUKKASON NOW DOES OPENLY?

    HOW DID BOB KELLY COME TO CUT A SPECIAL WATER AND SEWER DEAL FOR Q MOUNTAIN RESIDENTS?

    WHY IS ANDERSON DEFENDING THE TOWN IN THE DESERT MESSENGER WHILE ADMITTING THAT THE BOOKS ARE A DISASTER?

    WHY DID THE ENTIRE COUNCIL VOTE TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM RUNNING BY SAYING THEY OWE AND COOKING UP DEBTS THEY CAN'T EVEN PROVE?

    SHOW ME A CLEAN CANDIDATE ON THAT COUNCIL EXCEPT FOR LIZARAGA WHO MOST PEOPLE RESPECT AND WILL UNTIL HE REFUSES TO STAND UP AGAINST THEM.

    AND ABOUT YOUR COMMUNITY CENTER -- DO THE RESEARCH ON HOW MANY TIMES BUILDINGS WERE BUILT ONLY TO HAVE QUARTZSITE'S COUNCIL VOTE TO HAND THEM OVER TO ONE OF THEIR TOWN OFFICIALS.

    IT'S CALLED RESEARCH. TRY IT SOMETIME.

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  7. Yes, in a typical move for the sitting council, the "community center" CDBG grant money is now going to be administered by QAC (See:
    http://quartzsitearizona.blogspot.com/2010/03/hey-willpower-inc-wheres-pool.html

    So the whole drama pageant was just for show and they town mismanager convinced her puppets to award her $240,000 of federal money.

    Their moral compass is so far off its a wonder they can differentiate between their "north pole" and their "south pole"!

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  8. Anonymous asking another Anonymous to sign their name yet doesn't reveal their own? Strange.

    All I ask and I believe many would ask:

    If you are to make such accusations, where is the proof? All I see here is hearsay, rumors and innuendo. No facts backed by substantiations, no facts by anything registered or written and notarized. All I see is negative fluff.

    Where's the proof?

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  9. Maybe someday both sides will back up their claims. Why does this community have to live in such fear of signing their names?(Maybe after the election a forensic audit will reveal the facts...)

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  10. Yes, I agree. An unbiased, unrelated forensic audit could reveal the facts, but mainly they will find the reform slate and their members here with nothing but rumors...to stir up trouble with nothing backing them up, again.

    Your group tries to muddy the existing Council, do you want to list all of the former Mayors and Council Members and tell me there are NO skeletons in their closets or possibly any other dirty laundry or secrets? We all know better, don't we? We've seen how much worse things have gotten several years ago under prior Councils. Finally, many of us see that things are cleaning up and are grateful that the present Council thinks and acts for the Town of Quartzsite, NOT for personal agendas as in the past. This is as it should be.

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