Republican Votes on Census Count
* In the name of party unity the California Republican delegation to Congress voted down the census sample method (“House Balks on Census Count by ‘Sample’ Method,” Oct. 1). The new method is more accurate, faster and would save taxpayers nationwide $1 billion. But California Republicans followed party orders, even after Census Bureau officials estimated that in 1990 they had undercounted California by 1 million people and using the old method they will probably do it again in the year 2000. That will cost California taxpayers another $1 billion of their own money over the first decade of the next century.
But California Republicans evidently feel that California tax dollars will be better spent someplace else, such as Georgia, and I’ll bet much of it in House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s district. If California Republicans love Georgia that much, why don’t they move there?
Evidently the taxpayers of California will only get the best government that California Republican Party unity can afford to give us.
KIMIT A. MUSTON
North Hollywood
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