Posted on 04/13/2011 8:46:51 PM PDT by Smokeyblue
If President Barack Obama wants to win Pennsylvania in his bid for a second term in the White House next year, he might be asked to produce his birth certificate.
Two dozen legislators, including one from Lancaster County, want to force presidential hopefuls, including Obama, to cough up proof that they're natural born citizens to get on the state's ballot.
The bill's author, Republican state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe of Butler County, said he drafted the measure in response to persistent questions about Obama's citizenship — even though the president released a copy of his birth certificate, showing he was born in Hawaii, during his first campaign.
"I was shocked that somebody's running for president and there's this question," Metcalfe said. "Why doesn't our process thoroughly ensure we don't have that question?"
Rep. Tom Creighton, a Republican from Rapho Township, is one of 23 cosponsors of the bill, which was introduced in the House on Wednesday. A previous attempt to pass the legislation failed during the last two-year session.
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Asked whether documentation already made public by the Obama campaign, a "certification of live birth," would suffice under his legislation, Metcalfe said: "I'm not familiar with that certificate and what that certificate's issuance actually claims."
Metcalfe said Obama has not provided enough documentation to satisfy "most people" to put an end to the controversy. In a statement announcing his legislation, though, Metcalfe goes a step further and says he, too, doesn't believe the president has proved his was born in the country.
"It is beyond perplexing and greatly troubling that a political candidate can ascend to the highest levels of government without providing sufficient documentation verifying his or her place of birth or American citizenship," Metcalfe said.
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