Romney's birth certificate evokes his father's controversy(released today! evokes O's BC)

Chicago Tribune/Reuters ^ | May 29, 2012 | Mark Hosenball

[Seizethecarp]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not.

Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney's birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947.

His mother, Lenore, was born in Utah and his father, former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate George Romney, was born in Mexico.

So on a day when real estate and media mogul Donald Trump was trying to help Mitt Romney by stirring up a new round of questions about whether Democratic President Barack Obama was born in the United States, Romney's own birth record became a reminder that in the 1968 presidential campaign, his father had faced his own "birther" controversy.

[Praxeologue]

I searched www.opencrs.com and found no trace of the November 1967 CRS opinion.

[sten]

did i say Mitt wasn’t eligible? no. i stated the obvious.

if both parents were citizens at the time of his birth, Mitt is eligible.

if not... then he isn’t

the same basic criteria MUST be applied to any that wish to be on the ballot for POTUS or VPOTUS

there really isn’t anything to argue

unless you’re saying Mitt’s parents weren’t both US citizens at the time of his birth... and you’re feeling exposed as you support him (i honestly don’t know whether his parents were or not)

and no, just because his father was born in mexico doesn’t automatically disqualify Mitt... his father could have picked up US citizenship before Mitt was born.

[freekitty]

Why do you think the powers that be chose Romney for us just like they did McCain only it backfired with MCCain; well sort of.

[Seizethecarp]

“George could have become a US citizen on reaching age of majority and executing naturalization procedures.”

IIRC, by returning to the US at age 7 naturalization was not required for him to reclaim US citizenship.

[little jeremiah]

Interesting info on Romney and NBC status.

So Romney’s grandfather renounced his US citizenship when he fled to Mexico? So Romney’s grandfather was a Mexican citizen when George Romney was born, is that what you are saying?

That is quite fascinating.

[Brown Deer]

release of Willard’s BC!

Fantastic timing, which lefties at Reuters are spinning as exposing “for the first time” proof of the ineligibility of Willard’s father, rather than clearing the decks for a forensic comparison of Willard’s BC vs. Barry’s BC.

[Tennessee Nana]

OH NOEZ !!!

[Brown Deer]

when did George Romney become a US citizen?

On the day he was born.

[W. W. SMITH]

BS>>>>BS>>>>BS>>>>BS

Needs be born on US soil. Romney not qualified!

He is not a NBC.

[Brown Deer]

The rules in effect when George was born did not make him a US citizen. It gave him dual citizenship till age of majority, at which time he could apply for US citizenship. Otherwise he was a Mexican citizen.

Really, then I'm sure that you can show us a copy.

There is also the issue of his father renouncing his US citizenship when he fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution in the US for polygamy.

That's interesting, since his father wasn't a polygamist.

[W. W. SMITH]

So angry I got in a hurry.
George Romney born in Mexico needs to be naturalized before Mitts birth to make Mitt a NBC. If George was not a US citizen before Mitt’s birth then Mitt is not qualified.

[little jeremiah]

If as stated above (I have no idea of the facts personally) George Romney’s father rencounced his US citizendhip when he fled to Mexico, and then George was therefore born in MX to a father who was not a US citizen, his status seems quite dubious.

[Forty-Niner]

“The rules in effect when George was born did not make him a US citizen.”

Link?????

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

"I hereby CERTIFY that the above is a true and correct representation of the birth FACTS on file with the Division for Vital Records, Michigan Department of Community Health."

Funny, I didn't see anything on there about it being an "abstract."

As to the "VoidVoidVoidVoid" markings up the right and left side of the document, others here can correct me if wrong, but I suspect that those markings only show up on a photocopy of the document, resulting from watermark protection of some kind to prevent unofficial duplicates (Xerox copies) from being used in lieu of the original, for official purposes.

Thanks, RS, and thanks BD for the Ping.

[Brown Deer]

George Romney's father Gaskell was born in Utah in 1871, lived in Colonia Dublán from around 1890 until about 1910, and died in Salt Lake City in 1955. He was not a polygamist. His wife Anna died in 1926 in Salt Lake City and he married her younger sister Amy in 1927 in Salt Lake City.

[RedMDer]

Freepers, Just a little note. Where is the GREEN? Git-R-Done!

Freepers, Just a little note. Where is the GREEN? Git-R-Done!

[thecodont]

Thanks for the ping.

[wrench]

Referring to George’s father, not Mit.

[Red Steel]

but I suspect that those markings only show up on a photocopy of the document, resulting from watermark protection

Correct. ;-)

[Brown Deer]

Referring to George’s father, not Mit.

ME TOO!