The Constitution explicitly states apportionment is based on "counting the whole number of persons in each State." If voting preferences of demographic groups are not kept out of the census, then it merely becomes another avenue for the weaponization of political power, a way to manipulate and exploit numbers that matter; numbers that decide where supermarkets, schools, and hospitals are built.
Robert Weiner was a spokesman for the Clinton and Bush White Houses, the House Government Operations Committee under Chairman Rep. John Conyers, and senior staff for U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Rep. Claude Pepper, Rep. Ed Koch and Sen. Ted Kennedy. Charlyn Chu is a policy analyst at Robert Weiner Associates and Solutions for Change.
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