Posted on 04/23/2016 9:18:43 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
It’s not Alex Jones birther stuff, its discussed by state legislatures in multiple states. Around a dozen or more individual state legislatures have bills (republican sponsored) in various stages of the process to stop Americans born on foreign soil from appearing on the POTUS or VP ballots in their state. Here’s one from Ted’s home state of Texas. It had 3 (R) sponsors and 21 (R) cosponsors:
A Texas state representative, Leo Berman, introduced a bill in the legislature which would amend the state’s election code such that candidates for president and vice president would be required to submit their original birth certificates to the TX SoS in order to have their names placed on the ballot. If adopted, HB 295 would have take effect on September 1, 2011.
Like the Texas bill, nearly all but one of these eligibility bills are just lingering in state capitols. Most were written in 2011 to force ‘44 to cough up an authentic American/Hawaiian BC which would need to be presented to the SoS before he was slated.
Note: Any state with a democrat legislature could effectively bypass the judicial system and give their ole 2011 bill a yea vote in the early fall. If Cruz was the nominee, Ted would need to sue the state to get his name on to the state ballot. According to officials with the National Conference of State Legislatures, 10 states already have some sort of eligibility-proof requirement plan.
There is Arizona’s HB2544, Connecticut’s SB391, Georgia’s HB37, Indiana’s SB114, Maine’s LD34, Missouri’s HB283, Montana’s HB205, Nebraska’s LB654, Oklahoma’s SB91, SB384 and SB540, and Texas; HB295 and HB529. Other plans were considered in SC NC MN ME .
The NCLS said New Hampshire last year adopted HB1245, but it requires only a statement under penalty of perjury that a candidate meets the qualification requirements of the U.S. Constitution, which is something similar to what the political parties already state regarding their candidates.
I can see why he finally chose politics over his other career goal of being a porn star.
Interesting.
Very well put.
What an incredible response to my comments. Thank you. It helps me understand not just Ted Cruz, but so many others of the same mindset.
I will second the formation of a new party as the current uniparty is out of control....laughing at us behind closed doors as they lighting their cigars off our tax dollars.
That being said the path to a saved America will not come through people who’s opinion does not matter. Your opinion matters, the founders would say the citizens opinion mattered most of all.
The current courts are just as bad as the uniparty. Each one of us, since grade school, has known what a natural born citizen was....and it was not synonymous with citizen. Natural born status was a certain citizen, one with no divided loyalties at birth. One cannot be a dual citizen AND a natural born citizen.
So I will ask one more time, as respectful as possible, what is your understanding of the natural born clause. Your opinion matters.
Further proof that you can’t chrome plate a turd!
If he hadn’t gone negative and acted like an ass this wouldn’t have been necessary.
“Ted Cruz has a significant problem with ‘authenticity’.”
I don’t believe that for a minute. He has no problems with authenticity. He’s an authentic creep. It comes across loudly and clearly. No “problem”.
You bring up a good point. The retake film was a disaster.
I never understood letting that get out. One would think he would have sole rights to the edits on the cutting room floor.
The film would have hurt anyone running for office, but with Cruz playing Shakespeare in every speech, the ad material really helped seal the increasing impression of how orchestrated and choreographed he turned out to be.
“Trump comes across warmer, Cruz colder.”
Trump = approachable. Cruz = repulsive.
Can you name those “going on the record” as knowing the negro community organizer organizer from his college days. I have never seen a name but have seen plenty of articles claiming no one knew him.
Great post! Especially this:
“The reason he doesn’t “connect” is that while he perceives many bodies around him, in front of him, they appear to him as inanimate objects. This is the autism / aspergers / antisocial / narcissism / sociopath spectrum trait. It’s not evil - although it causes evil - it just is what it is. Not perceiving others as instances of himself, but rather, other ‘things’ ... there is really no question, I would do the same thing ... you use them and manipulate them so that they will do what you want them to do to forward your aims.”
“The retake film was a disaster. I never understood letting that get out.”
I’ve read that campaigns do that on purpose. Legally, candidates aren’t supposed to communicate one-on-one with their PACS, so they release these kinds of things. The PACs can find them on the internet and then tailor their talking points, etc., around those points. (Not sure if that’s true... just what I read a while back here on FR.)
Thanks for explaining that possibility. That could make sense.
The hate started for me a few weeks ago. Really, I don’t hate him, despise is a better word.
From Conservative Treehouse
In every poll Donald Trump wins the “he-is-who-he-is” factor.
As Lee Atwater would tell you, that’s critically important. Once the broader electorate sense “who you are”, and become comfortable with that sensibility, there is a remarkable shift toward granting the benefit of doubt in policy and change.
[The most recent example of such a benefactor was Bill Clinton in his prime.]
However, in the same polls, Ted Cruz is viewed as the candidate willing to tell you everything you want to hear so long as it benefits him. That’s the “authenticity” issue. Just as there is a long-term benefit in positive authenticity polling, there is a long-term detriment in negative authenticity polling.
Opinions of “authenticity” are almost impossible to change once they embed. The word ‘almost’ is an understatement, because no politician in modern times has ever been able to reverse the authenticity component.
Bernie Sanders also benefits from positive opinions in authenticity, and Hillary Clinton is viewed similarly to Cruz as inherently inauthentic as a matter of mere disposition.
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