Posted on 02/03/2016 7:14:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a “natural born citizen” according to the Illinois Board of Elections.
The state’s BOE ruled that Cruz met the citizenship criteria to appear on the state’s primary ballot.
Two state residents, William Graham and Lawrence Joyce, challenged Cruz’s eligibility with the board, claiming his name should not appear on the March 15 primary ballot because his candidacy did not comply with Article II of the U.S. Constitution. :
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen
of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been Fourteen Years
a Resident within the United States.”
The board rejected the objections, The Huffington Post first reported. According to HuffPo, Joyce does not plan to appeal the decision due to lack of resources but hopes someone else will.
“The Candidate is a natural born citizen by virtue of being born in Canada to his mother who was a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth,” the board stated, saying that Cruz “did not have to take any steps or go through a naturalization process at some point after birth,” adding, “Further discussion on this issue is unnecessary.”
Graham also filed a separate challenge to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio ‘s eligibility for the presidency.
New York billionaire and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump whacked Cruz repeatedly over whether the Texas senator qualified to be on the presidential ballot for the last month and urged Cruz to go to the courts to be declared a natural born citizen.
“It’s not anything that’s going to happen, and I’m not going to be taking legal advice anytime soon from Donald Trump,” Cruz said in response to Trump’s accusations at the January 14 Republican debate.
The Illinois Board Of Elections accepted the “didn’t go through any procedure to be recognized as an American” argument. They ignored the fact that Ted Cruz had to go through a procedure to renounce his natural-born Canadian citizenship. So they are also accepting the argument that you can be a natural-born citizen of two countries at once.
In other news:
Meet Chad C. Sweet, Ted Cruz’s campaign chairman, former DoD/CIA/Goldman Sachs/Homeland Security.
Sweet co-founded the Chertoff Group with former Bush and Obama administration Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff.
As a leader of the Chertoff Group, Sweet “advocated for expanding NSA metadata collection.”
http://www.chertoffgroup.com/bios/chad-sweet.php
Meet Ted’s ex-CIA PR guy, Dan P. Gabriel. Gabriel is involved in SIGINT aka interception - which is turned into propaganda. His twitter handle is @danpgabriel and he was one of the people pushing the angle that it was confirmed to the Cruz campaign that Carson was dropping out. After called out on the lie, the agent deleted the tweet and denies everything in typical spook fashion:
Ted Cruz PR CONFIRMED government agent! Actively working for Soros & US Army! Rabbit hole time...
Not with a Cuban daddy, he isn’t!
Actually know that and proves what they had in mind as circumstances.
Fifty of Fifty States that allow Cruz to participate in the process says your a total idiot. (That’s the whole country.)
Its beyond me why so many cannot see the precedent this is setting up.
If this holds up then any of the literally millions of legitimate and illegitimate children born to US Servicemen all over the world are now eligible to run for president. This nonsense must stop! America is lost!!!
Illinois Board of Elections? Now there’s an organization we can put our trust in lol ...
“Not with a Cuban daddy, he isn’t!”
Yep, the exact same reason why Obama is not eligible either. As I said earlier, the march towards removing the natural born clause continues.....
I really don’t care what a foreigner has to say about it.
You know this.
“I really don’t care what a foreigner has to say about it.”
Foreigner?
“Fifty of Fifty States that allow Cruz to participate in the process says your a total idiot. (That’s the whole country.)”
There you go again with meeting facts with empty insults. Try arguing the quoted laws and leaving out the non-productive insults.
And that is supposed to mean precisely what?
And that is supposed to mean precisely what?
I responded to a flame and touched on what the Framers had in mind. Wasn’t even directed at you but I can see you are all ready to settle in and spam me with garbage.
As if they know anything about the subject.
Precisely... I asked you half a dozen times if you are an American and you refused to answer. Was funny considering you came in flaming me as being purposefully deceitful.
“Precisely... I asked you half a dozen times if you are an American....”
I answered you repeatedly, saying I had disclosed that information many times on FR and to go look it up for yourself. So, stop trying to harass and change the subject. If you cannot or will not be bothered to do your own du diligence, tough.
Are you an American?
That is a complicated question. I am a Zelorian of the Forshund sex, and about 12 cycles old. We have a small town called Murika -- which I was hatched in -- in Poluvi Sector, Planet Opilo, Tergarlian Star System, Metrund Quadrant. So, you can say I am an-Murikan, which is close enough to saying I am American.
So yes. I am American.
Are you a Jermehn?
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