I sure hope not. As I just said in another post, I can’t wait for the HDOH to tell Bennett they don’t have to respond to him because he’s a “vexatious requestor”. lol.
What’s funny, IMHO, is that the whole bluster with Abercrombie in Dec of 2010 was to try to keep Arizona’s newly-elected state legislature from thinking they needed to pass an eligibility bill. That’s basically what Abercrombie implied in his public statements - that there was going to be a problem with the eligibility bills and he wanted to avert those problems ahead-of-time.
Abercrombie was going to use the media to bring out a forgery that wouldn’t be subject to evidentiary requirements. But his own HDOH Director, Neal Palafox, apparently balked. There’s one person in Hawaii who has integrity. Yay!! So Abercrombie wasn’t ready to release a forgery when the Star-Advertiser columnist asked how the investigation was going, and he balked badly, afraid of making claims he could never live up to and which could land him in jail - which caused Mike Evans to say WTH? and call up his buddy Abercrombie for the scoop. Abercrombie must have assumed that Mike Evans had gotten the memo, that the media is supposed to protect Obama. But somebody forgot to give Evans the memo - he sincerely bought into the media’s BS about Obama being eligible - and there was still at least one media member with integrity. Yay!!! (Of course, he changed his tune very soon afterwards but he’s denials were clearly known from the actual audio of what he had said). And that all led to Trump...
So it was the threat of Arizona having balls that got us this far. And now I’m praying that Arizona really does have balls. They are fast becoming my favorite state, and that’s hard to say coming from a Husker. =)
Arizona SOS: ‘I am not a birther’
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/05/arizona-sos-i-am-not-a-birther-123897.html
This afternoon, his office released a statement from the Republican seeking to tamp down the controversy — though not really walking back the core of his original comments.
“First, I have been on record since 2009 that I believe the President was born in Hawaii. I am not a birther,” Bennett said. “At the request of a constituent, I asked the state of Hawaii for a Verification in lieu of certified copy. We’re merely asking them to officially confirm they have the President’s birth certificate in their possession and are awaiting a response.”
Check this article out:
Sec. of State: Citizen requests require asking for Obama birth verification
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/arizona/politics/article_43041898-a11f-11e1-909e-001a4bcf887a.html
Bennett, who is the state’s chief election official, said he has had multiple requests from constituents to verify the president is a “natural born citizen” and therefore eligible to hold the highest office in the land. Those requests, he said, included that he demand to see the actual birth certificate and even to go to Hawaii to do a forensic examination of it to determine its authenticity.
He said he rejected those requests. But Bennett said he learned that Hawaii has a law which allows that state to do a verification for any officials from other states who have the need.
“I downloaded the form off of Hawaii’s web site, I got a $5 money order and filled it out and basically sent it in,” he explained. “What you’re asking for really is for them to say, yes we have — or do you have — a certificate for Barack Hussein Obama II born on Aug. 4, 1961 to these parents at this place and on and on and on.”
Bennett said if he eventually gets the verification, end of the matter. And if he does not?
“I don’t think it does anyone any good to speculate the worst case scenario,” he said.
“I think Hawaii will, one way or the other ... will confirm or verify that they have a certificate for the president,” Bennett continued. “And it’s done.”