The office that administers this law has already said that the statements made by the Hawaiian Department of Health regarding Obama and his BC, require the release of supporting documentation to any citizen requesting it. Good liuck at getting compliance.
More smoke rising, hopefully some swing state legislature will pass legislation REQUIRING any candidate for President provide copies of their ORIGINAL birth certificate in order to be placed on the ballot.
This is a clever ruse. A birth certificate alone does not qualify one as a Natural Born Citizen. Testing this principle is exactly what Team Obama has managed to keep out of court. Simple is better. South Carolina is considering a state law requiring candidates to prove that they are Natural Born Citizens. That way, the AG can simply keep an impostor off the ballot, forcing a lawsuit and a decision.
Warning: So far, all the talk about defining Natural Born Citizen at the state level is a great deal of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
I think the natural born citizen angle would be argued to death, but the birth certificate angle would be much easy for common folk to understand. I think the reason Barry has not released a long form birth certificate is either that it does not exist (ie grandparents registered his birth and he was not born in Hawaiian hospital), or a long form BC does exist, but there is something on there that is totally at odds with what Barry has been telling people about his life story (multiple theories here).
If either scenario above is true, Barry would be exposed as either a liar or a fraud or both. The voters would disqualify him from re-election, rendering the natural born citizen thing moot.
The law in Hawaii requires that any documentation used by a public official making a public pronouncement be made public. That’s it. Real Simple.
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A good observation.
What if it were applied to the HDP candidate declaration of 2008 signed by Brian Schatz? Schatz is now Lt. Gov under Abercrombie. In 2008 he was head of HDP.
Why apply FOIA to that particular document?
That document did not do what it was supposed to do - provide a declaration of constitutional eligibility. It contained wording indicating the National Democratic Party had named the said candidates but it lacked the legally required wording. That wording was in the 2004 and 2000 HDP candidate documents.
So what background lead Brian Schatz to change the template used in 2004 to specifically avoid declaring Obama eligible under AII?
The ‘backup’ to this document would be interesting.