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.
Thanks for the answer Laz. Don’t really know why someone has a problem with such a simple question.
I am an American citizen who doesn’t give a crap what any foreigner has to say about Cruz’s eligibility.
Because, with my race, you must define what 'living' is. As you know, Zelorians have five stages: Egg, larvae, hibernation, adult, and transdimensional ascendence. In hibernation and transdimensional ascendence phases, we cannot be thought to be 'living' as Terrans think of it, but we are very much alive.
That is a smaller subset of Americans, if you define yourself in that manner. I have the same issue, I am a Zelorian who prefers not to create quantum black holes in neighboring galaxies. That is a subset of the Zelorian race.
Be my guest and discuss with Whiskey all you like.
Every thread is a Trump thread, it’s amazing.
Obsession.
Me too, especially cannot believe how many people here seem to be ok with it.
I tell you what, when I went to school, you would have failed the test if you understood NBC the way it is being used today.
“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”
That is nonsense. There is an exception for them in the language of the Constitution. Perhaps you should read it.
Read it. Fifty of Fifty States that allow Ted to run read it too.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is a “natural born citizen” according to the Illinois Board of Elections.bookmark
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.None of that matters as long as your mother was once an American citizen, you're eligible to be President.< /sarcasm>
Cruz is too creepy to win the general. Looks and acts like a vampire.
I can actually picture him sleeping upside down, lol!
In other news, the Earth is round, water is wet, and the sky is blue.
So now all the birthers can just zip it!
Are you sure you’re not thinking about Nashville TN?
LoL!
“Are you sure you’re not thinking about Nashville TN?”
Memphis is worse, except for my now deceased Republican cousin amidst a nest of Democrats.
Nashville hasn’t changed much since Andy Jackson, has it?
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