The announcements in the HI newspaper were generated by the HI state agencies once a COLB is granted. Obama’s grandparents do not need to pay for an ad, because the state will make these announcements automaticly and the newspapers will carry it. So far no one in HI gov will announce unequivically that BO long BC exists. Most of the statements were legally couched that if proven that the BC did not exist, they can still claim they did not mispeak. When the HI Dem Party submitted a statement to declare BO eligible to be the Dem candidate, they also deviated from the traditional succinct statement that BO is constitutionally eligible to run.
The Democrat Party of Hawaii refused to certify Obama in 2008, so Nancy Pelosi certified Obama for them.