Posted on 04/18/2011 7:24:39 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Not the only veto she issued tonight, either. She also rejected a bill that would have allowed people to carry guns on state college campuses on grounds that it was “poorly written.” Not a total surprise given the political climate in the state after Gabby Giffords’s shooting, but a mild surprise given the grassroots conservative cred Brewer built for herself by championing Arizona’s immigration law.
This one’s a genuine surprise, though.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed a bill to require President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names can appear on the state’s ballot…
“I do not support designating one person [i.e. the secretary of state] as the gatekeeper to the ballot for a candidate, which could lead to arbitrary or politically motivated decisions,” said Brewer, who was secretary of state until she became governor in 2009.
“In addition, I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth to submit their ‘early baptismal circumcision certificates’ among other records to the Arizona secretary of state,” she said. “This is a bridge too far.
I’m guessing there’s some local political angle that explains this, but I can’t figure out what it is and some furious googling reveals nothing. Any Arizonans willing and able to explain? She just started her new term so electoral politics is immaterial. Is there some core agenda item that she needs Democratic help to pass? Or is she trying to build goodwill with Obama for better cooperation on immigration? Or, just maybe, did she genuinely believe that the bill was stupid and embarrassing to Arizona? All theories welcome.
It seems everyone on the right seem to forget its the party's responsibility to properly vet their candidate yet I have heard of no one going after the democrats for proof that the candidate they ran was qualified and documents showing such....
Of course, getting a passport does not require you to be a natural born citizen. If an illegal was smuggled in as a baby, he could easily have early records of living in the U.S. A person born in the U.S. 99.99% of the time has a birth certificate.
LOL. And you want to use the word of Obama to support your assertion that Barack Obama Sr. was his father. We need to see the long form period. Everything else is hearsay.
Agreed. We should not depend on the word of any official. We need to see the primary source material, i.e., the long form birth certificate.
The rules governing the issuance of a passport allow for other secondary sources to prove that someone was born in this country, but you must have several of them. And those sources will be scrutinized closely.
If there is no gatekeeper, then what prevents a teen from running for President? Or Arnuld...
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It wasn't my assertion it was 0bama's. There is nothing else to go on. Except the pics of Sr. with Stanley Ann and BO. And the divorce decree. And the witnesses that Sr. and SA were together. And some correspondence between them. Other than that there is nothing.
Everything else is hearsay.
Thank you for making my point in advance.
Also thank you for ignoring the points I made so that they can stand unchallenged. Makes debating you simple as pie. LOL
The explanation is quite simple. She was never the conservative people thought. Prior to her big run of “conservatism” she refused to sign a budget that balanced but didn’t include any possibility of a tax hike, in order to get that tax hike past the people she threatened to slash the education budget if it didn’t get passed (then managed to re-sell that message as the tax hike “saving” schools). She was very unpopular across the board, especially within her own party. Then she started rubberstamping everything the GOP controlled legislature put on her desk just in time to start campaigning for election (remember she was appointed to replace Nappy). But it was all smoke and mirrors, and now that she’s safely in office via election she’s reverting to form.
No marriage papers. Pictures? Why not go to the long form of the birth certificate and see who was listed as the father?
Also thank you for ignoring the points I made so that they can stand unchallenged. Makes debating you simple as pie. LOL
LOL. Points? The bottom line is that we need to see Obama's long form BC regardless.
I've been saying that for three years.
Points?
Yeah, you know, the points I made that you are trying to deflect from with your non-sequitur BS about 0bama's father and the LFBC.
The idea that the long form of the birth certificate is irrelevant to the issue described above is patently false. It is absolutely essential to press the case, if anyone has the standing to do so. As of now, no one is stepping forward.
Next two straw men?
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