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Just sent this to the author of the article:

Hi. In your article you said, “But before his election and since, numerous websites and a few lawsuits have questioned his truthfulness and the validity of documents issued by Hawaii that show his date and place of birth.”

That statement doesn’t seem to acknowledge what is in the rest of the article - namely, that nobody has seen “documents issued by Hawaii that show his date and place of birth.”

The Hawaii Department of Health has indirectly confirmed that what Obama posted on his website could not have been from their office, since Obama paid to amend his BC in 2006 and anything they print out has to note that amendment but what Obama has posted doesn’t note the amendment. Because Obama’s BC has been amended it is not legally valid, according to HRS 338-17. IOW, the HDOH has indirectly confirmed that they have no LEGALLY VALID birth certificate for Obama. No Hawaii official has ever claimed to have seen a legally valid birth certificate for Obama.

And in fact, Obama’s friend HI Governor Neil Abercrombie made a big stir when he said he would find the birth certificate and present it publicly in order to refute the “birthers”. But when a Star-Advertiser reporter asked him how his search for the BC was going he said the investigation showed there was something “actually written down” in the State Archive. Birth certificates are not kept in the State Archive; they are kept at the Vital Records Office. The only vital records allowed by the retention schedule to be stored at the State Archive are Certificates of Hawaiian Birth that are at least 75 years old, and registrations of foreign birth. Abercrombie told his friend Mike Evans that he had searched the 2 hospitals looking for a birth certificate for Obama and found nothing; the only reason to look in EITHER the hospitals OR the State Archive is if there wasn’t anything in the Vital Records Office. Abercrombie told Evans there is no proof of a Hawaii birth for Obama.

And Tim Adams has signed an affidavit saying his supervisor at the Hawaii Elections Office told him it was common knowledge that Obama had no birth certificate.in Hawaii.

So we have 3 Hawaii officials who have said that Hawaii doesn’t even HAVE a legally valid birth record for Obama, and that what Obama posted is definitely not from Hawaii’s vital records office.

These are very, very pertinent facts, and I would appreciate it if you would correct the misleading language from the quote in the first paragraph of this e-mail and add the clarifying information.

Rep Joe Fallert would do well to know another fact, regarding his comment that it’s “like a solution looking for a problem”. Roger Calero - who is not even a US citizen, but a greencard holder born in Nicaragua - was placed on the Presidential ballot of several states including New Jersey, where the SOS is required to verify Presidential eligibility. When Leo Donofrio sued the SOS for putting Calero on the ballot the court ruled that he had no standing - IOW, it was none of his business. It was NOBODY’s business that somebody who is not even a US citizen (much less a “natural born citizen”) got on a ballot even though the SOS was required to verify eligibility.

IOW, we KNOW that ineligible candidates have made it onto the ballot.

Furthermore, he needs to be informed that it is not the federal government who implements Presidential elections. The Constitution only gives that job/authority to the States. The STATES have the responsibility of deciding how their Presidential electors are chosen - including who those electors can or can’t vote for, and on what basis that decision is made. The States cannot violate the requirements of the Constitution (like the NJ SOS did, ahem!), but they are the ones who are authorized to implement the Presidential requirements. So of course nobody has ever been disqualified under federal law; there IS no federal law, and if this Rep doesn’t even know that much then he is so uninformed about the basic facts of the eligibility situation that he needs an education.

A story that gives the basic facts about the eligibility issue would be very, very helpful in light of the apparent unawareness of even the most basic facts regarding the process or why there is a need for a STATE law. I encourage you to write a follow-up story laying out the basic facts.

I am willing to help steer you toward those facts or sources for those facts if you would like help. Feel free to e-mail me any time.

Nellie