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Could Iowa Lose a House Seat?

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Storm Lake (Iowa) Pilot Tribune, January 12, 2009

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Fifth District fellow Republican Congressman Steve King says he’s heard a number of analysts boldly predict that Iowa would lose a seat and he says others have said they’re not certain. “I want to see the numbers before I draw a conclusion,” he says.

King expressed a concern about not everyone included in the census is a U.S. Citizen. King says the census does not count just “U.S. Citizens,” but persons in the United States including non-citizens and illegal aliens. King says he supports an amendment, introduced in 2007, that reads “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the number of persons in each State who are citizens of the United States.” King said if the amendment passes it may mean loss of seats for states like Florida, Texas and California and says hopefully other states like Iowa would gain a seat or keep all current seats intact. King says every single U.S. Citizen needs to be counted in the census and said that only U.S. Citizens should be represented in Congress.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, “Remaking the Political Landscape—The Impact of Illegal and Legal Immigration on Congressional Apportionment,” a study was done after the 2000 census to measure illegal immigration’s impact. {snip}

The report found that illegal immigration has an impact on how seats are redistributed in the house. The study found that with the presence of illegal aliens in other states meant a loss of one house seat in Indiana, Michigan and Mississippi in 2000. {snip}

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(Posted on January 13, 2009)

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1 — Question Diversity wrote at 5:50 PM on January 13:

So, what will Iowa’s notorious New England-style liberal Democrats propose? More immigration into Iowa, to keep its population up.

Also, I have never understood the need to keep the number of U.S. House members at 435. That number was solidified a number of decades ago; the net effect is that states losing seats have to draw districts in a way that wind up being advantageous to liberal Democrats. My proposal is to mandate a rep for every 500,000 people in a state or part thereof, and my impromptu numbers would mean that there is a 725-member House. Also, racial gerrymandering should return, because without black voters, white liberals cannot beat white conservatives in white districts. Undoing the gerrymandered districts (at the demand of many “conservative” Republicans, ironically) might have a lot to do with the undoing of the GOP in the House.

2 — Butch wrote at 6:11 PM on January 13:

I live in Iowa if you can call that living. I wish they would lose all their seats. These are the idiots who got the ball rolling for Obama. They need to hop in their corn cob beds cover up their heads and ask god to forgive them for what they have done?

3 — Anonymous wrote at 7:35 PM on January 13:

Another step toward the break up of the US. Normal states are going to be feel abused by the tax negative states and demand that they leave the Union.

4 — Dave wrote at 8:39 PM on January 13:

King says he supports an amendment, introduced in 2007, that reads “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the number of persons in each State who are citizens of the United States.”

How about we compromise, and say that illegals count as three-fifths of a person?

5 — Anonymous wrote at 9:42 PM on January 13:

Yes Virginia, there really is a “Menace of the Mexicans!”

6 — GetBackJack wrote at 10:27 PM on January 13:

I hope it loses lots of seats. This is the state that started the whole Obama thing. I no longer like Iowa. I no longer feel a “kinship” with Iowa (wink, wink.)

7 — Butch wrote at 10:06 AM on January 14:

I see references made to Steve King and knowing much about him since I live in Iowa I can tell you this Mr. King is a True Conservative who is often ridiculed by the local Liberals and Pot Heads for his Logical Stands. I wish he could move up to higher power but I don’t know IF this will happen. Borders, Language and Culture seems to be what he stands for and speaks out for. But he is fighting an Uphill Battle here in the corn state as they call it.

8 — dude wrote at 10:56 AM on January 14:

Now that our country is sinking into another Great Depression, it’s time for some serious deliberation on the presence and crimes of the tens of millions of illegal aliens in our country, who are bankrupting the very social programs we need most, and to which we are legally entitled.

All citizens have a stake in the Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Subsidized Housing, Employment and Education programs in this country, because most of us need them to retire on, or to fall back on in economic hard times, which is exactly what those programs were set up for by our ancestors during the last Great Depression.

Now that we are lapsing into another Great Depression, those programs we were promised we could rely on are being gutted and bankrupted by illegal aliens… people who have no legal right to be in this country in the first place.

Yet these criminal aliens and their defenders have the nerve to smear and slander us for wanting what is legally ours to begin with?

It’s time to put an end to the shamnesty scam, and to the widespread lawbreaking and benefits theft by these tens of millions of illegal aliens who are in this country in violation of our laws, and expand efforts to apprehend, prosecute, incarcerate and deport them.

That’s what you do to criminals and thieves… you prosecute and punish them.

9 — Anonymous wrote at 11:42 AM on January 14:

“King said if the amendment passes it may mean loss of seats for states like Florida, Texas and California and says hopefully other states like Iowa would gain a seat or keep all current seats intact. King says every single U.S. Citizen needs to be counted in the census and said that only U.S. Citizens should be represented in Congress.”

Hispanics, Africans and Asians will continue pouring into California. California presently has 55 votes, about 1/5 of the totall electoral votes needed to win a Presidential election. A new census starts in just 12 months. With all the foreigners, legal and illegal who have invaded California in the last 10 years, who knows how many electorial votes California will have in 2012 It could be as high as 70 electoral votes., all pledged to the Democrats for eternity.

Not that I am a Republican. Republicans want to exterminate whites as much as do the Drmocrats. But at least Republicans do not openly express hatred of whites the way Democrats do.

I’d love to see this amendment pass. We could get rid of several southwestern LARAZA congress critters.

10 — Anonymous wrote at 1:54 PM on January 14:

Who Are Citizens Of The United States? What madness, what racism, how can YOU even say such a thing? Are you trying to tell ME that the people who are Legal Residents and Have Built this Great Country should have more say than a transient Illegal Invader? That sounds like INSANITY? Obama will straighten out your thinking Or else?

11 — Anonymous wrote at 6:51 PM on January 14:

Every White person in Iowa who voted for Barack Hussein Obama should be required to assume full responsibility for a “disadvantaged Black youth” and his family as part of a prison release program for a minimum of three years.

Perhaps if such Iowans bring home the urban areas to live with them in their homes in Iowa for a few years, the gravity of their misguided ideas about race will finally become apparent to them.



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