Posted on 04/15/2010 11:40:39 AM PDT by Mozilla
Several California Republican political candidates, including Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore, were scheduled to share the stage this week with one of the leaders of the "birther" movement that claims President Obama was not born in this country and is thus ineligible for his elected office.
Orly Taitz, an Orange County attorney who has gone to court many times to try to disqualify Obama, was invited to speak Thursday at a Tax Day Tea Party rally in Pleasanton, Calif., that is expected to draw thousands of people. Late Tuesday, organizers said that they had rescinded Taitz's invitation after questions were raised about her presence by candidates who had been contacted by The Times.
Bridget Melson, founder and president of the Pleasanton Tea Party, said the organization had been "getting calls from candidates like crazy."
"It's not worth it," she said. "She's too controversial. This is not what the tea party is about at this point."
Taitz's lawsuits have been thrown out and lambasted by judges and she has been fined $20,000 for filing frivolous lawsuits. But Taitz, who is now running for secretary of state, was nonetheless invited to speak at Thursday's event, which is expected to be among the largest Tax Day events in the state.
Taitz's invitation -- and uninvitation -- are examples of the complications facing Republicans this year as they try to capture the enthusiasm of the tea party movement without getting sucked into its conspiracy-tinged fringes.
In a phone interview Tuesday before her invitation was pulled, Taitz dismissed the dust-up over her planned appearance.
"Look, the truth is the truth," she said. "It is important for the public to know. Just like it took some time but Watergate was investigated and there was resolution. By the same token, Obama needs to be investigated."
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Good. We can’t have Tea Party rallies start to look like loony lefty war protests.
Pleasanton Tea Party - run by RINOs, for RINOs. Utter SCUM who hate the Constitution. Those two GOP candidates ... also RINOs.
The 9/11 truther issue, besides being BS, isn’t about Constitutional issues. The Tea Party is a constitutionalist movement, and the negro-in-chief’s eligibility IS A CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE.
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