US Senate candidate "Leaky Pete" Hoekstra (NUTS-MI) wants CIA and FBI to create new birther dept [View all]

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So much for the smaller government crowd.



Hoekstra wants new group to verify presidential candidates' eligibility, including birth certificates
1:53 PM, May 30, 2012
By Kathleen Gray
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer


The birther movement was in full bloom this week on two different fronts, including one that sprang up in Michigan.

Business mogul Donald Trump reignited the birther controversy Tuesday with continued claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is not qualified to be president. That claim has been debunked by the Secretary of State in Hawaii, which has certified Obama's birth certificate. Obama also released his long form birth certificate.

But the controversy doesn't seem to die. At a tea party gathering in Lapeer earlier this month, U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra said he'd like to create a federal office in Washington that would verify that presidential candidates meet the minimum requirements to hold the office.

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“You can’t get much further outside the mainstream than calling for the creation of a birther office staffed by the CIA and FBI," said state Democratic Party chairman Mark Brewer. "Our leaders should be focused on creating jobs, not on creating a new federal bureaucracy to comb through birth certificates."

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