Information on Scott Maxwell, FAIR and the Census in Lake Worth

There is reason to be very concerned with Maxwell's unstated position on the census and the firing of City employees working towards a complete count of Lake Worth's population. Maxwell has been supporting the Federation For American on Immigration Reform (FAIR), which has been deemed a hate group since 2007 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, for at least the last 7 years. Maxwell is well aware that the hired employees who were deemed controversial, based on their political positions in the CIty, was committed to working with the immigrant population.

He likely also knowns it is Federal Law that all people are counted in the census regardless of their status here however, so he has remained silent on the matter (or been openly deceitful). But FAIR has articulated its position quite clearly on the census; and Maxwell has yet to stray from their position in any of his anti-immigrant rhetoric prior to being re-elected. Below is the link to FAIR's position on immigrants in the census:

“Illegal Immigrants Distort Congressional Representation and Federal Programs” This is their stance on Census reporting and Illegal residence and their impact on census..
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters5cbd

Maxwell is using this as an opportunity to further his personal agenda which was very clear in his 9 hours of radio shows which were posted online where FAIR was mentioned over and over again and was a prominent link on his website.

Allowing Scott's supporters, which were the people to initiate complaints regarding the City's census-support staff, to drive census-related decisions is allowing the agenda of a hate group to seep into our local government. (Mary Lindsey and Brandon Lynch filed the initial complaints regarding the census employee; both were featured in a recent article as Scott Maxwell's most vocal proponents: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2009/10/scott_maxwell_rally_environmental_coalition.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter )