Come on, Arizona, let's crack this birther coconut!

[struggle4progress]

Laurie Roberts is a columnist for The Arizona Republic

... And so our intrepid sheriff, Joe Arpaio -- not content with Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s electoral probe -- has dispatched a deputy and his posse to Hawaii as part of his criminal investigation into the curious matter of Barack Obama's birth certificate. Arpaio says his investigators showed up on Monday at the Hawaii Department of Health but couldn’t get past the lobby ...

“The two gentlemen who showed up at the State Department of Health yesterday and represented themselves as being from Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office were not turned away,” Joshua Wisch, special assistant to the Hawaii attorney general, wrote in an e-mail. “They met in a conference room with the Deputy Director of Health and a Deputy Attorney General. … The registrar was not available at the time, so his supervisor, the Deputy Director took the time to meet with the gentlemen. The statutory process was explained at the meeting and all publicly available documentation was provided” ...

Or as Arpaio puts it ... “We feel that that document is a forgery ... We’re trying to figure out who did it. That’s good police work” ...

“You think I’m dropping it?” he asked ...

http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LaurieRoberts/162827

[Bluzmann57]

1. Are Arpaio and co. using taxpayer money?

If so, they should be investigated for ripping off the people of Arizona. Wait, he should be anyway.

[Kali]

2. our state mascot

should be a circus clown

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