Political Quotes

“I would like to bring up correspondence which I received from the City of Carlyle. Mayor Schmitz wrote to me in support of the post-census review and included a memorandum from one of his staff, Ms. Jean Parson, which discusses this issue in detail. Ms. Parson, in her memo to Mayor Schmitz writes: "In the old program, the Census Bureau conducted the census and then we had an opportunity to review the count and challenge anything that didn't quite look correct to us. Under this program, as I understand it, our only input is in the formulation of an address list." She goes on, "I have spent many hours reviewing their list. I spent time with the postmaster comparing our lists, and then made corrections to the census list. This entire process was extremely confusing and I have had my doubts if my changes will even be made. I also am sure that I didn't pick up every problem in the list. It is just too complicated and time-consuming. "I guess I'm just getting old, but the old way seemed to work. If we have no opportunity to review the final list, we will not have an accurate count." One final quote from Ms. Parson: "Communities are not well represented at the meetings I attended, and I have spoken to many community leaders who were not even aware of the changes." "I'm sure this is because of mailings not reaching the appropriate people. Anyway, this process could be very damaging to those communities who did not participate in the address review process.…”