Posted on 03/03/2011 7:19:13 PM PST by jamese777
Some Georgia lawmakers couldn’t backpedal fast enough Thursday on a “birther” bill supported earlier this week by a majority of House members.
First to block out his name with a heavy black marker on House Bill 401 was John Meadows, chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee.
A steady stream of legislators followed all day. By 5 p.m., at least 23 of the original 93 backers were gone from a proposal requiring presidential and vice presidential candidates prove they were born in the United States. Among them was the bill's lone Democratic supporter, Glenn Baker of Jonesboro.
Seventy sponsors is still a sizable chunk of the 180-member chamber, but is an abrupt about-face from just 48 hours before. Why?
“We’ve got state problems we’ve got to take care of,” said Meadows, R-Calhoun, who said he heard complaints from constituents.
Many of those removing their names said they hadn’t read the bill and disagreed with how far it goes in making a candidate prove eligibility. Others simply said they’d been told to take their names off but declined to say by whom.
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There has GOT to be more here than meets the eye...
I suspect the Democrat party bosses ordered their minions to remove their names so they tucked their tails between their legs and did.
Must have slithered out after the vote....spineless, ya know.
They spit on our Constitution and WE pay THEIR salaries.
I, for one, won’t forget this.
The final sentence is most encouraging.
Still, the proposal is far from dead, despite the flight of so many co-sponsors. An elections subcommittee is scheduled to take the issue up at its next meeting, which has not yet been set.
The smallest amount of common sense says that. ALL OF US have to produce a BC when we do major purchases or registrations in our life. NOBODY spends a million bucks to keep it sealed. I say forget the BC. I want to know one thing:did Barak (last name) apply to Columbia as a US resident or foreign student?
Or why did Illinois take away his (and her) law license?
I suspect the Democrat party bosses ordered their minions to remove their names so they tucked their tails between their legs and did.
In most states the Secretary of State is the final authority over who can and cannot appear on statewide ballots.
Up to the 2008 Presidential election cycle there was no legal guidance as to what kind of proof the candidates had to submit. In 49 of the 50 states the Secretary of States received a letter form the DNC with the phrase “conditionally qualified” included. Previous copies of similar letters had similar phrases.
The 50th state, Hawaii, did not have the phrase.
So now we have a question - why did Hawaii have lower requirements than the other 49 states?
Now the various state legislatures are trying to come up with the same criteria nation wide.
Wonder why or whom forced the change in mind?
Or all the rest are spineless.
Hey, they were told to take their names off. God knows our leaders have become a nation of slaves, just doing the massah’s bidding. Easier than thinking, easier than being free, easier than preserving for our kids what our parents delivered to us through their blood, sweat, and tears.
These people are not worthy of any trust placed in them.
They do what they’re told by the massah.
This is fascinating. I am not a “birther.” I have, however, said right along that for Obama to spend so much time and effort to keep his long form birth certificate hidden away in Hawaii, and to allow all this speculation and tumult, means that he is hiding SOMETHING he doesn’t want the world to see.
Oh, I think he was born in the US, and that he is a “citizen,” but something on that certificate isn’t what we he has lead the world to believe.
And now, this bill comes along, and is being introduced to a goodly number of State Legislatures. Why? because it MAKES SENSE. There’s no reason why candidates for national office should HAVE TO PROVE they meet the Constitutional qualifications to fill the office — including that they are a natural born citizen, by submitting a certified, official copy of their long for birth certificate.
That’s common sense! And now, more than TWENTY Legislators have ceased to SUPPORT this common sense, obviously necessary legislation?? And ALL BUT ONE are Republicans?? My response is: (1) What do the Democrats have on you? OR (2) How much did the Democrats pay you? OR (3) Why didn’t you tell us from the start you are a RINO?
This legislation should PASS — and it shouldn’t even be close. It is IRRESPONSIBLE of ANY Republicans to vote against it (and it’s simply silly to expect ANY Democrats to be responsible enough to vote for it). Folks in these members districts ought to be burning up their phone, fax and email lines pitching a fit to find out what in Sam Hill is WRONG with them!
You would think they have to as a fiduciary responsibility at a minimum from the state level...
Don’t get discouraged. The OP is an Alinksy propagandist, and he’s been trying to discourage us from the beginning. Also, bear in mind the Atlanta Urinal is as far left as they can get, so naturally they put the worst possible spin on it. Even so, they had to admit the bill still has a lot of sponsors.
I have a friend who is very active in the state GOP. I’ll contact him tomorrow, and I bet he’ll have a positive take on it. I’ll let you know what he says. My prediction is that the Urinal is whistling past the graveyard. We shall see.
I hope you’re right. I worry about the GOP, fearful that folks like Rove etc will try to push their own contempt for the rule of law onto the state and local leaders as well. As somebody noted, it is republicans who took their names off the list, after somebody told them to do it. If the GOP controls the campaign money maybe they can be the master of even the state and local people. I don’t know.
Regarding that rag, I agree with your assessment, from what I’ve seen. I e-mailed this Jim Galloway asking him to correct his inaccuracies and he never responded in any way. I think if I found an honest journalist I would die of a heart attack. Sadly, I don’t think I’m in any danger of dying that way anytime soon. Despicable.
I wouldn’t even count on the Urinal and Constipation to get the number of defections right. I read elsewhere there may have been far less. In any event, the number of sponsors and the number who will vote yes on a bill are not the same. There are usually far more yes votes than sponsors. As I said, the OP has worked relentlessly to undermine eligibility efforts. [No bias in the Urinal’s title, btw, is there? /s] He pounced on a heavily slanted piece from a leftist fish-wrap in hopes of unsettling some of our minds. Lets see to it that it’s a FAIL.
Either Zilch was a US citizen a defrauded Columbia by claiming he was a foreigner or he is a foreigner and he rightfully was admitted to Columbia as a foreign student. These are the only two choices.
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