Census prep - going nuts?

Mississippi-based OneNewsNow is reporting on the Census's recent "nutty" actions. From ONN - "2010 Census attracting nuts"... They are, of course, referring to controversial group ACORN.

From the story:
A conservative congressman is concerned that liberal special-interest groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, will be allowed to "gerrymander" the 2010 census. ACORN recently signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau to assist with recruiting temporary census workers.

Last week in a House Judiciary Committee hearing, a Pittsburgh Republican lawyer accused ACORN of violating tax and campaign-finance laws by, among other things, using the Obama campaign's list of "maxed-out" campaign donors so ACORN could seek money from the Obama donors for a get-out-the-vote drive. During the 2008 presidential campaign, numerous allegations of voter registration fraud were swirling around ACORN.

Congressman Lynn Westmoreland (R-Georgia) is a member of the House census subcommittee and chairs a census task force created by Minority Leader John Boehner. Westmoreland says ACORN's involvement in the census is due in large part to the fact that their former attorney has taken up residence in the White House.

"You have to realize that President Obama used to represent ACORN," he notes. "In fact, he represented them in an Illinois case that said certain banks in Illinois were not doing enough lending to people who could not afford a mortgage, and therefore [he] is one of the main reasons that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lowered their guidelines for people to get loans under this Community Redevelopment Act."