Local and Western North Carolina Republicans are demanding that President Obama not move the authority over the United States Census from the Commerce Department to the White House and is calling on North Carolina’s congressional delegation to resist the president’s efforts by legislative and legal means, if necessary.
11th District Republican Party Chairman Stephen G. Duncan released an official resolution today on behalf of the leadership of all fifteen counties in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, which voted unanimously in support of the resolution at its monthly meeting on Monday, February 9.
“This is clearly a power grab by the president and his minions to change the rules of the game,” said Duncan. “Asking Rahm Emmanuel to be in charge of the Census is like trusting Bernie Madoff with your grandmother’s Social Security check. Not only is it foolish, it’s downright dangerous. In a democracy, you can’t trust partisans to fairly apply the rules; it’s an attack on the very integrity of the system.”
The U.S. Census, which is conducted every ten years by mandate of the United States Constitution, is essential in determining how congressional districts are drawn and how federal funds are allocated.
Republicans across the country have expressed outrage at the president’s actions, causing even Senator Judd Gregg to withdraw his nomination in protest to be President Obama’s new Secretary of Commerce. House Republican leaders have also threatened to take the matter to court if Obama does not reconsider.
For more information, please contact Stephen Duncan, 11th District Republican Party Chairman, at (828) 777-5718 or the 11th District Republican Party at communications@wncgop.org
North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District includes Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, and Yancey Counties.
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution (as amended by the 14th Amendment) gives the Congress of the United States the power and duty to conduct a decennial census, and
WHEREAS information obtained by the United States Census is used to determine the number and geographic boundaries of congressional districts, and
WHEREAS the constitutional mandate of the United States Census is a mechanism to guarantee the fair representation of our citizens in the United States Congress and,
WHEREAS the information obtained by the United States Census is used by various departments and agencies of federal, state and local governments in the determination and allocation of appropriations, as well as in the proper apportionment of the Electoral College, and
WHEREAS the President of the United States has expressed his desire that the 2010 census be conducted and administered under the purview of his own White House Chief of Staff, and
WHEREAS allowing the President of the United States to unduly assert authority in this regard presents a strong appearance of impropriety and partisanship, inconsistent with the separation of powers both embodied in the United States Constitution and inherent within the American tradition,
THEREFORE:
It is HEREBY RESOLVED BY ACCLAMATION that the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of the Eleventh District of North Carolina urges the President of the United States to resist any attempts at politicization of the United States Census and subverting it for political gain and partisan advantage;
It is FURTHER RESOLVED BY ACCLAMATION that the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of he Eleventh District of North Carolina urges the entire congressional delegation of North Carolina to oppose any attempt to allow the president to compromise the objective administration of the United States Census and, if necessary, that our delegation and its Members file suit in the appropriate court of law to enjoin the President of the United States from any further action which would adversely affect the integrity, objectivity, and non-ideological nature of the United States Census;
It is FURTHER RESOLVED BY ACCLAMATION that the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of the Eleventh District of North Carolina urges Senator Richard Burr and Senator Kay Hagan to bring to bear such pressure as they may assert on the President of the United States, including the rejection of all executive appointments, until the president shall renounce his stated intention to place the administration and execution of the United States Census in the hands of political appointees;
It is FURTHER RESOLVED BY ACCLAMATION that the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of the Eleventh District of North Carolina be authorized to publish and declare this Resolution to whomever may hear it, to have it reproduced through the free press, read over the airwaves, declared to the electorate, and disseminated in any and all manner he deems necessary and appropriate;
It is FURTHER RESOLVED BY ACCLAMATION that the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Republican Party of the Eleventh District of North Carolina be authorized to enlist the support of any other citizen or group to encourage other citizens and groups of all political persuasions to join in this Resolution, and to petition for the prevention and redress of the president’s announced plan to inappropriately manipulate the 2010 Census.
Signed by and for the entire Executive Committee of the Republican Party of the Eleventh District of North Carolina by its duly elected chairman on this thirteenth day of February, 2009 at Asheville, North Carolina.
Stephen G. Duncan
Chairman, Republican Party
11th Congressional District of North Carolina
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Sen. Gregg withdrew because (1) Obama’s chutzpah crossed the line and (2) Obama CANNOT put away his “birth certificate” issue.
1. Here’s the chutzpah: The Republicans didn’t get their act together enough to challenge Obama for not being constitutionally qualified to be President as an Article 2 “natural born citizen” so Obama’s White House steals the census from the Commerce Department against the specific instructions of the constitution itself — “actual enumeration” under Article 1.
2. Here’s the “birth certificate” issue: Since Obama’s earnest drive to convince the nation to weaken its economic strength through redistribution as well as weaken its national defense, COUPLED WITH HIS UNPRECEDENTED WHITE HOUSE TAKEOVER OF DECENNIAL CENSUS TAKING FROM THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT, has confirmed the very threats to our Republic’s survival that the Constitution was designed to avert, it no longer is sustainable for the United States Supreme Court to refrain from exercising WHAT IS ITS ABSOLUTE CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY TO DEFEND THE NATION FROM UNLAWFUL USURPATION. The questions of Obama’s Kenyan birth and his father’s Kenyan/British citizenship (admitted on his own website) have been conflated by his sustained unwillingnes to supply his long form birth certificate now under seal, and compounded by his internet posting of a discredited ‘after-the-fact’ short form ‘certificate’. In the absence of these issues being acknowledged and addressed, IT IS MANIFEST THAT OBAMA REMAINS INELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT UNDER ARTICLE 2 OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. Being a 14th Amendment ‘citizen’ is not sufficient. A ‘President’ MUST BE an Article 2 ‘natural born citizen’ AS DEFINED BY THE FRAMERS’ INTENT.