Hawaii Officials Straight up Messing With Birther-ish Arizona Secretary of State

[Horse with no Name]

[link:http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/05/22/hawaii_officials_straight_up_messing_with_birther_ish_arizona_secretary_of_state.html|


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Seeing your government dollars at work in email chains about president Obama’s birth certificate is somewhere between hilarious and exasperating.

On one end, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has suggested the president might not make it onto the November ballot there unless he can surmise whether Obama was truly born in Hawaii. On the other, Hawaii officials have been dealing with similar requests—and answering them along with the president—for years now.

Talking Points Memo obtained the email exchange, in which Bennett and his office are repeatedly rebuffed by the Hawaii Attorney General’s office in requesting further verification of Obama’s birth in Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital in 1961.

The Hawaii office asks for proof of legal authority for the request, and whether Bennett plans to further verify the birthplaces of all the candidates who will be on the ballot. Other emails obtained show Bennett answering birther constituents who question his commitment to questioning the president’s eligibility. If they read his emails, they would probably stop questioning him.

[DearAbby]

1. Link please?

[lamp_shade]

2. Here:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/ken_bennett_birther_hawaii_arizona_emails.php

[Horse with no Name]

3. The link was there when I posted it

Not sure what happened to it

http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/05/22/hawaii_officials_straight_up_messing_with_birther_ish_arizona_secretary_of_state.html

[msongs]

4. president is a federal office. that state morons have no authority nt

[KharmaTrain]

6. Elections Are Still A State/Local Matter...

The President is elected in 50 seperate elections...the only people who do vote in the federal election are the members of the electoral college. In theory those electors vote according to how their state voted but they aren't obligated. It's up to the states on how they conduct elections (remember all the goofy messes in Florida in 2000??). Thus Bennett could make things real messy for President Obama...I'm not sure his jurisdiction of not putting his name on the ballot, but in most states its the SOS who is responsible for the printing of ballots and counting of votes.

[d_r]

5. he is getting ticked off and pissy by the last one

he is all like "I'm secretary of a cowboy state, how dare you freaky Hawaiians mess with me?!?!"

[KamaAina]

7. it won’t happen based on ... pledges to support or oppose me in the 2014 Governor’s race.

Aha! All he's doing is pandering to his teabagger birfer base while ggearing up for a primary campaign.

[Amster Dan]

8. Here's the Video