Posted on 04/13/2011 2:15:46 PM PDT by IH8DEMS
Arizona Senate approves 'birther' bill
By: ABC15.com staff By: ABC15.com staff By: Associated Press By: Associated Press
PHOENIX - The Arizona Senate has approved a revised bill requiring presidential candidates to prove they are U.S. citizens eligible to run for the office.
The bill approved Wednesday gives candidates additional ways to prove they meet the constitutional requirements to be president.
It was prompted by the ongoing claim by some that there is no proof President Barack Obama was born in the United States and is therefore ineligible to be president.
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A bad day for the anti-birther crowd
In 08 didn’t Michelle say Obama didn’t need the State of Arizona anyway?
It will be great to see him bail out of the Arizona race because he cannot or will not prove his citzenship...
The media will run some idiotic cover story for him and the masses will cheer loudly...
If this clown gets re-elected then the USA is finished....
Ok thanks, mod feel free to pull
Yo. Asking a candidate for President to prove that he fulfills the Constitutional requirement of “natural born citizen” is now racist/lunatic fringe, etc. Bizarro world. It’s amazing to watch the mainstream media work so frantically to delegitimize the simple QUESTION. We all have to show the same underlying document that would answer this question for Obama for all sorts of our own activities, including getting our kid on a Little League team or them being a “carded” soccer player. Yet we can’t ask for this proof from someone who wants to be President?
Lets how long before the SEIU judges stop this along with the 9th circuit .
This law will never be successful in its attempt.
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
RESEARCH STAFF
ELORA DIAZ
LEGISLATIVE INTERN
BILL BOYD
LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH ANALYST
GOVERNMENT REFORM &
BORDER SECURITY, FEDERALISM & STATES' SOVEREIGNTY COMMITTEES
Telephone: (602) 926 -3171
Facsimile: (602) 926 -3833
TO: MEMBERS OF THE SENATE
DATE: March 24, 2011
SUBJECT: Strike everything amendment to H.B. 2177, relating to presidential candidates; qualifications; affidavit
________________________________________________________________________
Purpose
Requires a presidential candidate that is for running for office to prove their eligibility to run and hold office by providing documentation that proves citizenship, age and if the candidate meets residency requirements.
Background
Article II, Section I of the Constitution of the United States, states that no person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Section 16-226 of Arizona Revised Statute defines nonpartisan elections as an election that is held by a special district and that is not held concurrently with the general election.
At a primary election, each political party entitled and intending to make nominations for the ensuing general or special election is required to, if it desires to have the names of its candidates printed on the official ballot at the general or special election, nominate its candidates for all elective, senatorial, congressional, state, judicial, county and precinct offices to be filled at the election (A.R.S. § 16-301). A nomination petition as defined in section 16-314 means the form or forms used for obtaining the required number of signatures of qualified electors, which is circulated by or on behalf of the person wishing to become a candidate for a political office.
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Requires any person submitting a nomination paper for the purposes of being a candidate in a primary or nonpartisan election to include in the affidavit, reference to and attachment of all documents necessary to show that the person will be qualified at the time of the election to hold the office the person seeks.
2. Prohibits the filing officer to accept the nomination paper of a candidate if the person does not provide the affidavit and attachments required in this for proving eligibility to hold office.
3. Requires a national political party committee for a presidential candidate for a party that is entitled to continued representation on the ballot to provide to the Secretary of State, written notice of that political party’s nomination of its candidates for president and vice-president.
4. Requires a national political party committee to submit an affidavit of the presidential candidate in which the presidential candidate states the candidate’s citizenship and age and is required to attach this affidavit to the affidavit documents that prove the candidate’s age, citizenship and if the candidate has been a U.S. resident for fourteen years.
5. Requires the affidavit of the presidential candidate include references to and attachment of the following, which shall be sworn to under penalty of perjury:
a) a sworn statement or form that identifies the presidential candidate’s places of residence in the U.S. for the preceding fourteen years; and
b) a certified birth certificate that includes:
i. the date and place of birth,
ii. the names of the hospital and the attending physician, and
iii. signatures of any witnesses in attendance if applicable.
6. Prohibits the Secretary of State from placing a presidential candidate’s name on the ballot in this state if the candidate or the national political party committee fails to submit and swear to the documents listed in this section.
7. Prohibits the Secretary of State from placing a presidential candidate’s name on the ballot in this state if the Secretary of State believes that the proof of the documents submitted and sworn to do not meet the citizenship, age and residency requirements.
8. Permits a member of the House of Representatives, a member of the Senate or any other citizen of this state to initiate an action to enforce this section.
9. Makes conforming changes.
10. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by Committee
1. Removes parental requirements needed to run for or hold office or to be put on the ballot.
2. Adopted strike everything amendment.
Senate Action
GR 3/23/2011 DPA/SE 5-1-1-0
Wouldn't that be ironic! I law to force any presidential candidate to adhere to the constitution will be found to be...drum roll...unconstitutional.
to be honest, there is no need for such a measure... as it’s written in the founding documents of the country
the fact that we have to pass such a bill goes to show just how far off base we’ve come
>Evening birthers. How are you all doing ...?
we’re doing just fine, mates. It’s just 2 PM in Venice beach, CA.
it is almost 6 pm east coast time...evening to you mate !
b) a certified birth certificate that includes: i. the date and place of birth, ii. the names of the hospital and the attending physician, and iii. signatures of any witnesses in attendance if applicable.
This is not sufficient to demonstrate the candidate is a "natural born citizen". It had better list the parents and whether they are BOTH citizens.
Time for the other 56 states to follow suit.
Are you coming, Texas?
Keep that excerpt of yours in mind. When you put it all together, Obama has a considerable hurdle in AZ. Here the rest of story in breaking news
Here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2704290/posts?page=30#30
What does Arizona have that the GOP doesn’t???
(Leadership, cojones . . . . . . . . . and SPINES!!!!!)
(No, this is NOT a knock-knock joke!!)
If this is signed into law, Obama is toast in 2012. Only one state needs to demand a Birth Certificate. And he either needs to put up or shut up...and go home
A very good idea for now and future. Proactive so this never happens again.
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