AZ Sec of State claims he is not a birther but caves into the demands of 0.0185% of AZ population.

[LynneSin]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/20/ken-bennett-birther-hawaii-responds_n_1531740.html

Ken Bennett, Arizona Secretary Of State, Gets Response From Hawaii On Obama Birth Certificate Request


Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has reportedly received a response from the state of Hawaii regarding his request for verification that President Obama was born in the United States.

According to KTVK in Phoenix, the Hawaii attorney general's office told Bennett that he must take a number of steps, including proving that the confirmation is necessary to update his office's records, in order to receive the verification.

Bennett, in a radio interview last week, said he had petitioned the Aloha State to verify the existence of the president's long-form birth certificate, which the White House released last spring. According to Bennett, the request was made on behalf of over 1,200 Arizonans who had emailed him with concerns over Obama's eligibility for office.

Bennett further fanned the flames of birther rumors by threatening to keep Obama off his state's ballot if Hawaii failed to comply.

"I'm not a birther. I believe the president was born in Hawaii -- or at least I hope he was," Bennett said. "But my responsibility as secretary of state is to make sure that the ballots in Arizona are correct and that those people whose names are on the ballot have met the qualifications for the office they are seeking."

Really? 1200 people out of the 6.5 million folks and you make a stink about a birth certificate. I'm sure there are better ways to spend your time that have a greater impact on the state of Arizona that dealing with a dead issue like 'where was Obama born?'. If you buy into what 0.0185% of your population believes then that pretty much makes you a birther too.

[Lionessa]

1. Except you're wrong about the 0.0185%. "Birther" Bill Is a Favorite....

"Birther" Bill Is a Favorite of Arizona Voters, According to Poll
By Matthew Hendley Fri., May 11 2012 at 11:08 AM
Categories: Birthers (sigh), Poll of the Day

According to this poll, that's your average Arizona voter.
Of some of the more controversial ideas tossed around the Arizona Legislature, the "birther" bill is the most popular to voters, according to a recent poll.

The Morrison Institute for Public Policy quizzed Arizona voters on five of the more controversial bills brought up by the right-hand side of the Legislature, including the citizen militia, religious objections to contraception, bringing guns to public places, stronger abortion regulations, and of course, the "birther" bill.

Just one of those ideas had more support than opposition -- the "birther" bill.

Sixty percent of the voters polled supported the bill "that would require presidential candidates to come to sign an affidavit that they are an American citizen," while 36 percent opposed it.

Just over one-third of the poll respondents said they "strongly support" the idea.

In another indication that Arizona's state representatives and senators may not exactly be representative of their constituents, a couple of the more popular of these controversial pieces of legislation were the ones killed at the Legislature.

The "birther" bill, pushed during the most recent legislative session by state Representative Carl Seel, was killed pretty quickly.

The third-most popular piece of legislation in the poll, the citizen militia -- "creating an armed volunteer citizen militia to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border" -- wasn't even voted on in the House.

Forty percent of those polled wanted to see the citizen militia.

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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2012/05/birther_bill_is_a_favorite_of.php

Which goes to show how really screwed up AZ seems to be.

[randome]

2. I would say, then, that he is capable of feeling SOME embarrassment.

But then he had to go public and make AZ look, again, like a State of Fools.

[Lionessa]

3. Read my post above, AZ IS a State of Fools, no one is making them look that way but themselves.