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Meanwhile, leaders in the Portuguese-speaking community are encouraging members to write “Portuguese” as their ethnicity on census forms, instead of White, Black, or Latino. Leaders hope that the write-in campaign will result in a census that represents a more accurate count of a population that, while large, has been invisible in federal statistics...
...they alone. Arabs, who would seem to have an even stronger race claim than Hispanics do, are trumpeting their own write-in campaign because the Census by default counts them as white - and the bureau announced this week that it has no intention of changing that policy in 2010. Incredibly, the term Arab doesn't even appear on the census form, though other Asian ethnicities, like Indian, are listed as races. (Ironically, part of the problem is that Arab immigrants a century ago petitioned the Federal Government to be categorized as white to avoid discrimination. Today, Arab-American leaders realize...
Decker’s campaign Manager Jeni M. Wheeler said that “Marjorie does not back down from a fight,” pointing to her exhaustive write-in campaign that won her a sixth term on the City Council in November. Decker had failed to file her paperwork in time for her name to appear on the ballot...
Decker, who won her sixth term as a write-in candidate in November after missing the deadline to turn in nomination signatures, said she would focus on improving public education, affordable housing, and employment opportunities as State Senator...
...wicked proud of Marjorie, considering all she’s been through—especially with the write-in election,” she said...