Thread: Ariz. lawmakers: Verify citizenship of candidates

Ariz. lawmakers: Verify citizenship of candidates
Posted: Feb 23, 2010 8:49 PM CST
Updated: Feb 23, 2010 8:49 PM CST
By JONATHAN J. COOPER

PHOENIX (AP) - Nearly half of the Arizona Legislature wants to force President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election.

A state House committee on Tuesday approved the measure sponsored by 40 of the state's 90 legislators. It would require presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the requirements to be president.

All 40 co-sponsors are Republicans, comprising 75 percent of the GOP caucus. Two of them have since resigned to run for Congress.

The idea was proposed by Skull Valley Republican Rep. Judy Burges. She says if people have to prove their citizenship to apply for a job or get a passport, they should have to prove it to run for president.


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intersting, it means more people have doubts

Not only a proof of birth, but I would request a lie detector test and a psychological exam to see exactly whom we will be dealing with before voting. Oh, well, I can hope for sanity...

Nothing in O's story seems logical. His parentage could be fiction and he refuses to be transparent so people should wonder especially when he puts moslems all in the adm. that are terrorist-sympathizers. Trojan Horse stuff!
In any case the real legal problem is the fact that his sire was a Brit-Kenyan. He inherits this citizenship through the British Nationality Act. The Framers designed article II section I to ensure no foreign infiltration of the executive branch. Statutory Law grants citizenship. Congress lays the rules of this out but Constitutional Law demands that a POTUS be from a SPECIFIC POOL of AMERICANS. American blue-bloods if you will. A Natural Born citizen (nowhere else used in the Constitution) is two citizens parents + US Soil AT BIRTH. If the Framers merely wanted a "citizen" for President they would have written citizen,they understood the differences. O'Really and Beck are misdirecting the public on this by not teaching these differences. There are four Supreme Court cases to back this up. Visit The Obama File to learn more. Our British citizen pretender is not Constitutional...no way,no how!

Updated February 24, 2010
Ariz. Lawmakers Want Presidential Candidates to Verify Citizenship



A state House committee approved a measure that would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.

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PHOENIX - Nearly half of the Arizona Legislature wants to force President Barack Obama to show his birth certificate to state officials if he runs for re-election.

A state House committee on Tuesday approved the measure sponsored by 40 of the state's 90 legislators. It would require U.S. presidential candidates who want to appear on the ballot in Arizona to submit documents proving they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.

Rep. Judy Burges, R-Skull Valley, said she brought forward the idea after being approached by constituents. She said people have to show their birth certificate to enroll in youth sports or get a passport, so they should have to show it to run for president.

One of the constituents, Jeff Lichter of Surprise, said his motive isn't partisan. In fact, he says, he has questions about the eligibility of both Obama and his Republican opponent, Arizona Sen. John McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone.

"The citizens of Arizona have a right to know that any candidate placed on the presidential ballot is qualified to run," Lichter said.

All 40 co-sponsors are Republicans, comprising 75 percent of the GOP caucus, although two of them have since resigned to run for Congress.

Burges said 10 other states are considering similar legislation. Eleven U.S. House Republicans have signed on to a federal bill, but it hasn't received a hearing in the Democrat-controlled House.

So-called "birthers" have contended since the 2008 presidential campaign that Obama was born abroad, even after his official Hawaii birth certificate was made public along with birth notices from two Honolulu newspapers published in August 1961.

The Constitution says that a person must be a "natural-born citizen" to be eligible for the presidency. The so-called "birthers" suggest that Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate is fake and say he was actually born in Kenya, his father's homeland.

The Arizona bill would require the secretary of state to review candidates' documents and withhold a candidate from the ballot if he has "reasonable cause" to believe ineligibility.

Courts have rebuffed lawsuits challenging Obama's eligibility to be president, but the issue hasn't gone away.

Northern Arizona University political science professor Fred Solop described "birthers" as a small fringe group of extremists and said the Arizona lawmakers supporting their cause are walking a political tightrope.

"It would be very easy to go a little too far with this, to be aligned with the fringe and to alienate the more mainstream voters who ultimately you need to win office," he said.

Having lost the presidential race, McCain is now running for re-election in the Senate. His campaign last week sparred with challenger JD Hayworth over Hayworth's calls for Obama to produce his birth certificate.

A former congressman and talk-radio host, Hayworth told CNN's Campbell Brown that he doesn't specifically question Obama's citizenship but said recent concerns about identity theft mean "it would be great that people can confirm who they say they are."


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