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Jan Brewer vetoes Arizona’s “Birther bill” [Any Arizonans willing and able to explain?]
Hot Air ^ | April 18, 2011 | ALLAHPUNDIT

Posted on 04/18/2011 7:24:39 PM PDT by RobinMasters

Not the only veto she issued tonight, either. She also rejected a bill that would have allowed people to carry guns on state college campuses on grounds that it was “poorly written.” Not a total surprise given the political climate in the state after Gabby Giffords’s shooting, but a mild surprise given the grassroots conservative cred Brewer built for herself by championing Arizona’s immigration law.

This one’s a genuine surprise, though.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed a bill to require President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names can appear on the state’s ballot…

“I do not support designating one person [i.e. the secretary of state] as the gatekeeper to the ballot for a candidate, which could lead to arbitrary or politically motivated decisions,” said Brewer, who was secretary of state until she became governor in 2009.

“In addition, I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth to submit their ‘early baptismal circumcision certificates’ among other records to the Arizona secretary of state,” she said. “This is a bridge too far.

I’m guessing there’s some local political angle that explains this, but I can’t figure out what it is and some furious googling reveals nothing. Any Arizonans willing and able to explain? She just started her new term so electoral politics is immaterial. Is there some core agenda item that she needs Democratic help to pass? Or is she trying to build goodwill with Obama for better cooperation on immigration? Or, just maybe, did she genuinely believe that the bill was stupid and embarrassing to Arizona? All theories welcome.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: certifigate; janbrewerbirtherbill
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To: RobinMasters
It seems to me since each party is responsible for vetting their candidate, and not the responsibility of each state, perhaps a law could be enacted, not against the candidate but that each party MUST submit to each state a sworn statement that their candidate is qualified for the office and the official document that shows such....

It seems everyone on the right seem to forget its the party's responsibility to properly vet their candidate yet I have heard of no one going after the democrats for proof that the candidate they ran was qualified and documents showing such....

81 posted on 04/19/2011 1:31:48 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: gardencatz
Whether you support the movement to get Obama to show his long form (I’m one who does), thinking someone was “gotten to” is the kind of thing I expect to see on DU or Alex Jones. Not FR.

Cool! I guess 10 years of Freeping have made me a progressive now? This reminds me of the movie "Being There",and how much one can suppose from 2 words.
82 posted on 04/19/2011 3:29:25 AM PDT by Edgar3 (Don't THREAD on me!)
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To: kabar

Of course, getting a passport does not require you to be a natural born citizen. If an illegal was smuggled in as a baby, he could easily have early records of living in the U.S. A person born in the U.S. 99.99% of the time has a birth certificate.


83 posted on 04/19/2011 5:33:56 AM PDT by Flying right
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To: TigersEye

LOL. And you want to use the word of Obama to support your assertion that Barack Obama Sr. was his father. We need to see the long form period. Everything else is hearsay.


84 posted on 04/19/2011 6:51:56 AM PDT by kabar
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To: edge919

Agreed. We should not depend on the word of any official. We need to see the primary source material, i.e., the long form birth certificate.


85 posted on 04/19/2011 6:53:07 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Flying right
True, but the AZ law covers all office seekers, not just those running for President.

The rules governing the issuance of a passport allow for other secondary sources to prove that someone was born in this country, but you must have several of them. And those sources will be scrutinized closely.

86 posted on 04/19/2011 6:57:01 AM PDT by kabar
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To: mnehring

If there is no gatekeeper, then what prevents a teen from running for President? Or Arnuld...


87 posted on 04/19/2011 7:29:12 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: the irate magistrate

ping


88 posted on 04/19/2011 8:48:46 AM PDT by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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To: kabar
LOL. And you want to use the word of Obama to support your assertion that Barack Obama Sr. was his father.

It wasn't my assertion it was 0bama's. There is nothing else to go on. Except the pics of Sr. with Stanley Ann and BO. And the divorce decree. And the witnesses that Sr. and SA were together. And some correspondence between them. Other than that there is nothing.

Everything else is hearsay.

Thank you for making my point in advance.

Also thank you for ignoring the points I made so that they can stand unchallenged. Makes debating you simple as pie. LOL

89 posted on 04/19/2011 12:31:56 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: RobinMasters

The explanation is quite simple. She was never the conservative people thought. Prior to her big run of “conservatism” she refused to sign a budget that balanced but didn’t include any possibility of a tax hike, in order to get that tax hike past the people she threatened to slash the education budget if it didn’t get passed (then managed to re-sell that message as the tax hike “saving” schools). She was very unpopular across the board, especially within her own party. Then she started rubberstamping everything the GOP controlled legislature put on her desk just in time to start campaigning for election (remember she was appointed to replace Nappy). But it was all smoke and mirrors, and now that she’s safely in office via election she’s reverting to form.


90 posted on 04/19/2011 12:36:41 PM PDT by discostu (Come on Punky, get Funky)
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To: TigersEye
It wasn't my assertion it was 0bama's. There is nothing else to go on.

No marriage papers. Pictures? Why not go to the long form of the birth certificate and see who was listed as the father?

Also thank you for ignoring the points I made so that they can stand unchallenged. Makes debating you simple as pie. LOL

LOL. Points? The bottom line is that we need to see Obama's long form BC regardless.

91 posted on 04/19/2011 1:01:16 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
Why not go to the long form of the birth certificate and see who was listed as the father?

I've been saying that for three years.

Points?

Yeah, you know, the points I made that you are trying to deflect from with your non-sequitur BS about 0bama's father and the LFBC.

92 posted on 04/19/2011 1:16:14 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye
If you propose to do something legally about the purported fact that Obama's father was a British national and hence making Obama ineligible under the Constitution to be President because he is not a "natural born citizen" under the definition in the Constitution, then you need the long form of the birth certificate to support that argument, which has never been tested in the courts.

The idea that the long form of the birth certificate is irrelevant to the issue described above is patently false. It is absolutely essential to press the case, if anyone has the standing to do so. As of now, no one is stepping forward.

93 posted on 04/19/2011 5:06:22 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
I didn't propose doing anything legally about "the purported fact that Obama's father was a British national and hence making Obama ineligible under the Constitution to be President because he is not a "natural born citizen" under the definition in the Constitution" and I never said the LFBC was irrelevant.

Next two straw men?

94 posted on 04/19/2011 5:25:54 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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