{"id":135399,"date":"2017-11-21T19:57:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T02:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135399"},"modified":"2017-11-21T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T04:08:16","slug":"trump-administration-2020-census-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/trump-administration-2020-census-go-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Administration and the 2020 Census: What Could Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because why worry because Donald Trump has named a Republican activist around gerrymandering, who’s written a book about how “Competitive Elections Are Bad for the United States,” who has no federal statistical background, to be Deputy Director of the Census Bureau?<\/i> The Census Bureau, that will run the US Census, that will be the basis for electoral redistricting?<\/p>\n

Or that the guy was named Deputy Director because the actual<\/i> Director requires Senate approval, so Trump can just name a Deputy Director and leave the Director position vacant?<\/p>\n

I mean, there’s being blatant, and there’s being Trump<\/i> blatant.<\/p>\n


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\nLeading Trump Census pick causes alarm – POLITICO<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Because why worry because Donald Trump has named a Republican activist around gerrymandering, who’s written a book about how “Competitive Elections Are Bad for the United States,” who has no federal statistical background, to be Deputy Director of the Census Bureau? The Census Bureau, that will run the US Census, that will be the basis … Continue reading “The Trump Administration and the 2020 Census: What Could Go Wrong?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,1071,347],"tags":[1328,1275],"class_list":["post-135399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump","category-voting-rights","tag-gerrymander","tag-votingrights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-8.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136030,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/census-data-abused.html","url_meta":{"origin":135399,"position":0},"title":"When Census Data Was Abused","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Apr-18 11:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The inclusion of a \"citizenship\" question in the 2020 US Census has been highly contentious -- but supporters note that census information could never, ever be used to identify individuals, and so any concern by resident aliens or even illegally present aliens -- who are actually supposed to be counted\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/internment.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":133535,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/24\/whoever-the-new-fbi-director-will-be-it-wont-be-joe-lieberman.html","url_meta":{"origin":135399,"position":1},"title":"Whoever the new FBI Director will be, it won't be Joe Lieberman","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-May-17 12:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently enough people told Trump and Sessions, \"Um, he doesn't know anything about the Justice Dept. or the FBI.\" Either that, or nobody trusted Lieberman to be sufficiently loyal to anyone.So there's that good news today. 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