Ethics

Bachmann and ACORN: Debunked

By Ed Brayton

Politifact does a nice job of debunking Michelle Bachmann's silly claim that ACORN will be in charge of the census. Here's what she said:

"Now ACORN has been named one of the national partners, which will be a recipient again of federal money," Bachmann said. "And they will be in charge of going door-to-door and collecting data from the American public. This is very concerning because the motherload of all data information will be from the census. And, of course, we think of the census as just counting how many people live in your home. Unfortunately, the census data has become very intricate, very personal (with) a lot of the questions that are asked.

"And I know for my family the only question that we will be answering is how many people are in our home. We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 30, 2009 (boomark / email).