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Video: Arizona Rep. Kyrsten Sinema explains her opposition to Republicans' birther bill!
Dittos Rush! ^ | 4-21-10 | James

Posted on 04/21/2010 9:16:51 AM PDT by iloveamerica1980

In response to the Arizona House having given its initial blessing to a bill that would require Barack Obama to show his birth certificate before he can be put on the ballot in 2012, Assistant House Democratic Leader Kyrsten Sinema says the Republicans' birther bill is ridiculous! "Nobody at the Secretary of State office has a copy of my birth certificate". This clip is even funnier due to the fact that Ms. Sinema talks so fast that you might consider playing this clip at half speed.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: certifigate; obama; politics
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To: iloveamerica1980
Dear Ms Sinema:

We don't need your birth certificate. There is no requirement for state representatives to be natural born citizens. This law does not just apply to Obama but also to any and all future candidates for the office of President of the United States.

I know that's difficult for you to understand, would you like me to type slower for you?

21 posted on 04/21/2010 9:38:31 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Have you donated to Free Republic yet? If not you are a Freeploader)
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To: mrmeyer

I would really like to have a bill such as this one here in Florida. I am certain Governor Charlie “The Tan” Crist would sign it right away!


22 posted on 04/21/2010 9:39:18 AM PDT by chris37
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To: mrmeyer
Bills like this one need to be pushed in all states where they have a strong possibility of becoming law, and also where there are significant electoral votes to make any would be candidate’s non-compliance painful.

All that is needed is one of the 57 States, and it doesn't matter if it is deep Red or has only 3 electoral votes. That the POTUS would decline to have his name on the ballot in any of the States would be proof that he is not a NBC.

23 posted on 04/21/2010 9:40:42 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch
The bill would require proof meeting the Constitutional requirements for the Presidency of all candidates, not just Obama.

That's why I've always felt that this was the most effective route to take. The fact that the democrats desperately want to make it about Obama alone tells me that it's the right route to take.

Also, this issue is bigger than Obama. A flaw in our system has been exposed and this law is a means of correcting that flaw. Jenny Granholm has been making noises suggesting that just being young when you immigrate is the same as being born here.
24 posted on 04/21/2010 9:45:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: All

She’d probably be surprised by what the State Deparement has on her.


25 posted on 04/21/2010 9:47:49 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Founding Fathers.....grave....rolling over.)
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To: chris37

I bet that would pass a constitutional amendment process.

(not just a COLB. Why do those even exist? is it to conceal adoptions from children who are adopted?)


26 posted on 04/21/2010 9:48:13 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: iloveamerica1980
Good grief, is she an idiot, or what? Her voice is perhaps the most irritating thing I've ever heard. Play that tape over and over again at Gitmo, and they'll either talk, or they cut-off their own ears.

The Arizona moron legislator doesn't even understand the current Arizona law. Arizona, and every other state in the union already demands that the candidate or the nominating party sign an affidavit attesting to their candidate's fulfilling of the Constitutional criteria for office. The bill is only adding the additional but reasonable burden of the candidate also supply notarized documentation supporting what he's attesting too.

She mentions the "Federal Elections Commission" several times, as to intimate that they would have some problems with the proposed statute. She, apparently failing her 8th grade civics class, must not understand that the FEC has NOTHING to do with state ballot access, and everything to do with fund-raising for national federal office. States solely control their respective ballot access. This is well-settled law. Again, she's an idiot.

27 posted on 04/21/2010 9:49:22 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: iloveamerica1980

bump


28 posted on 04/21/2010 9:50:00 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or ...off..)
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To: All

This requirement is even more important today that it was when the constitution was written. Considering how easy it is to immigrate today.


29 posted on 04/21/2010 9:50:03 AM PDT by Terry Mross (Founding Fathers.....grave....rolling over.)
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To: Terry Mross

Roger Calero is a resident alien and he was on the ballot in several states as a presidential candidate for the socialist party. In a couple of states he had an official citizen “stand in” on the ballot.

We need to fix this whole thing now and not later.


30 posted on 04/21/2010 9:58:20 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

I hadn’t seen that. Shes very much in zero’s pocket. Expect other trial balloons as to how they can retroactively change the requirements.


31 posted on 04/21/2010 10:01:13 AM PDT by wiggen (Government owned slave.)
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To: iloveamerica1980

Were they pumping helium into the Chamber ?
Yikes, the voice !
It’s common sense for every candidate running for every elected position to provide documentation that they meet the requirements of that office.
From local city council seats to school boards , etc.
Many school districts make students show evidence that they physically reside within the boundaries of their districts.
My city requires that we provide copies of our animal’s rabies vaccinations when they get their licenses renewed.
We have to provide evidence of car insurance when we register our vehicles.
All of us have had to provide documentation at various stages of our lives.
It is entirely appropriate that candidates for the highest office in the land provide their bona fides.
What should raise a lot of red flags is the fact that the present POTUS and his enablers ridicule and dismiss the concept of such a simple request.


32 posted on 04/21/2010 10:16:15 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: Cheerio
Is this the Amendment? Why should this be at all controversial?

BURGES FLOOR AMENDMENT

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1024

 

(Reference to Senate engrossed bill)

 

Page 11, line 23, before "When" insert:

"A."

Between lines 34 and 35, insert:

"B.  The national political party committee for a candidate for president for a party that is entitled to continued representation on the ballot shall provide to the secretary of state written notice of that political party's nomination of its candidates for president and vice‑president.  Within ten days after submittal of the names of the candidates, the national political party committee shall submit an affidavit of the presidential candidate in which the presidential candidate states the candidate's citizenship and age and shall append to the affidavit documents that prove that the candidate is a natural born citizen, prove the candidate's age and prove that the candidate meets the residency requirements for President of the United States as prescribed in article II, section 1, Constitution of the United States.

C.  The secretary of state shall review the affidavit and other documents submitted by the national political party committee and, if the secretary of state has reasonable cause to believe that the candidate does not meet the citizenship, age and residency requirements prescribed by law, the secretary of state shall not place that candidate's name on the ballot."

Amend title to conform


 

                                                                             

                                                          JUDY BURGES

 

 

1024-f1-burges

4/8/10

11:35 AM

H:jmb


33 posted on 04/21/2010 10:25:21 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: OldDeckHand

She is just the type of idiot that will sign away her own State’s Rights to the Fed Regime... so long as Dimocrats are in charge.


34 posted on 04/21/2010 10:29:54 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: iloveamerica1980

somebody need to remind this employee of the Arizona state residents, that We the People are speaking....


35 posted on 04/21/2010 10:40:38 AM PDT by mo
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To: hometoroost

reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dChBN_zfofY&feature=player_embedded#at=23


36 posted on 04/21/2010 10:53:19 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
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To: iloveamerica1980

I hope they also require that the candidate for President show that they were born to 2 US citizen parents, as outlined in the US Constitution.


37 posted on 04/21/2010 11:22:25 AM PDT by lwd
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To: cripplecreek
The fact that the democrats desperately want to make it about Obama alone tells me that it's the right route to take.

I have learned that RATS always tell us what is the appropriate route to take. The more they object, conservatives know they are on the right track. They are SQUEALING about this about as loud as the Tea Parties.
38 posted on 04/21/2010 12:21:54 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: lwd
I hope they also require that the candidate for President show that they were born to 2 US citizen parents, as outlined in the US Constitution.

Barry Hussein Soetoro's father was a British Subject - there is no dispute there. So Barry did not get US Citizenship from Barry Sr. His mother was under age for HI law in order to pass citizenship. My read is that Barry is a Kenyan.
39 posted on 04/21/2010 12:26:15 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Crappy Nappy and Kyrsten Sinema
40 posted on 04/21/2010 12:28:12 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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