Louisiana Governor Says " Bring Me Eligibility Bill I'll Sign It."

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BORN IN THE USA?

This guv says he's ready to sign prez eligibility bill

2 more states take up measures confronting Obama birth records

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Posted: April 18, 2011
7:52 pm Eastern


By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WorldNetDaily




House Bill 2177, Arizona's plan to exercise the state's right to run elections and requiring presidential candidates to prove their eligibility under the Constitution's requirements, has been approved by the Legislature and now is awaiting a decision from Gov. Jan Brewer, who could veto it, sign it or allow it to become law without her.

There's been no word yet on which course she'll choose. But as for a new proposal just announced in Louisiana, House Bill 561 by Rep. Alan Seabaugh and Sen. A.G. Crowe, there would be no such question.

"It's not part of our package, but if the Legislature passes it we'll sign it," Kyle Plotkin, press secretary to Gov. Bobby Jindal, told the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

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Plotkin said Jindal believes Barack Obama is a citizen, but would not object to the plan submitted to the legislature.

It would require candidates who want to appear on Louisiana ballots to file an affidavit attesting to their citizenship, which would have to be accompanied by an "original or certified copy" of their birth certificate.
The plan in Louisiana, along with a similar effort just announced in Pennsylvania, makes it 15 states that have had such proposals pending just this legislative session.

In Louisiana, House Bill 561 would requires the candidates to "prove" they "meet the requirements for president of the United States prescribed in Article II Section I of the Constitution."

Seabaugh told the newspaper that it's a concern that of all of the cases brought to court to try to uncover documents that would reveal whether Obama is, in fact, constitutionally eligible to be president, attorneys representing the president have prevented any from reaching the stage in cases where evidence could be obtained.

"Not one of them has ever been decided on the merits," Seabaugh told the newspaper. "As an attorney, that's offensive to me."

In Pennsylvania, it's House Bill 1350. State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe of the 12th legislative district in Pennsylvania said it's just a matter of the law – and who must follow it.

"This legislation is intended to send the message that even those candidates who are running for our nation's highest office are not above the law," he said in his announcement about the plan. "Final passage of this legislation will provide additional levels of both trust and verification that anyone seeking elected office in Pennsylvania is just as much an American citizen as the voters supporting their candidacy.

"Requiring all candidates for the offices of president and vice president to submit valid proof of natural born citizenship documentation in exchange for statewide ballot access is a fundamental and long-overdue check and balance that must be implemented to further ensure that the Oval Office is never occupied by anyone other than a natural born American citizen," he said.

Arizona's legislative approval of its plan came just days ago. They were the first in the nation to adopt a law having candidates for president document their qualifications as a "natural born Citizen," as required for occupants of that office in the Constitution.

In Oklahoma, Senate Bill 91 already has been approved by one chamber and is moving through committee to the floor in the second.

Not complicated, it requires that all candidates – not just those for president – shall "provide proof of identity and eligibility to hold the office."

It provides that the secretary of state write up rules to specify the documentation that will be required and that such documents will be made available for public inspection.

While opponents cast the idea as a direct attack on Barack Obama, whose long-form birth certificate and other documentation that could shed light on his status has remained concealed, proponents say the 2008 election simply revealed a gap in the election processes in the United States presidential elections and this is meant to address that in future elections.

"America's founding fathers said it best, 'a well-informed electorate taught to know and prize their God-given rights cannot be enslaved,'" Metcalfe said. "As a veteran and an elected official who takes an oath of office, just like every past and future president of the United States, to uphold and defend the constitutional rights of the citizens I represent, 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."

The questions have arisen over Obama because while he has talked about his birth in Hawaii, he's offered no documentation but a "Certification of Live Birth" online image of a document that during the time of Obama's birth was available to any child whose parents would state he or she was born in Hawaii, whether true or not.

The New York Times has contended that Hawaii has "confirmed" that the online document is authentic, however no state official has publicly verified it is Obama's Certification of Live Birth. They have said they have Obama's records, but they haven't detailed what information they include.

WND previously has reported on other state-level efforts to ensure that candidates for the Oval Office meet the requirements established in the U.S. Constitution.

Such plans appeared this year in New Hampshire, Montana, Iowa, Maine, Tennessee, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas. Some efforts are conclusively out of the running this year, and in some states plans already are being made for next year, which still would give states time to impose a requirement for the 2012 election. Others still could be resurrected in the legislative process.

The Arizona plan, the most advanced, would require presidential candidates to document their eligibility with an original birth certificate or alternative documents such as a baptismal or circumcision certificate, a hospital birth record or a postpartum medical record. Also allowed would be a notarized affidavit from at least two people present at the birth.

It was approved in the state House 40-16 and in the state Senate 20-9.

On websites advocating for such laws, such as BirtherReport.com, people were being encouraged to contact the governor's office requesting her signature.

"It's time now to start calling Governor Brewer's office," it instructed. "Now come on Oklahoma, Missouri and everyone else. If any of you have contacts in these states let them know right away that Arizona did it."

At the time the Constitution was written, many analysts suggest, a natural-born citizen was considered to be a citizen born of two citizen parents. If that indeed is correct, Obama never would have been qualified to be president, as he himself has confirmed his father was a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, making Obama a dual citizen with Kenyan and American parentage at his birth.

Other definitions regard a natural-born citizen to be a person born of citizen parents inside the nation.

There have been dozens of lawsuits and challenges over the fact that Obama's natural-born citizen status never has been documented. The controversy stems from the Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, which states, "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."

The challenges to Obama's eligibility allege he does not qualify because he was not born in Hawaii in 1961 as he claims, or that he fails to qualify because he was a dual citizen, through his father, of the U.S. and the United Kingdom's Kenyan territory when he was born and the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from eligibility. There also are claims when he was adopted by an Indonesia stepfather, if ever he had status as a "natural born Citizen," it was compromised at that point.

There are several cases still pending before the courts over Obama's eligibility. Those cases, however, almost all have been facing hurdles created by the courts' interpretation of "standing," meaning someone who is being or could be harmed by the situation. The courts have decided almost unanimously that an individual taxpayer faces no damages different from other taxpayers, therefore doesn't have standing. Judges even have ruled that other presidential candidates are in that position.

The result is that none of the court cases to date has reached the level of discovery, through which Obama's birth documentation could be brought into court.

Obama even continued to withhold the information during a court-martial of a military doctor, Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who challenged his deployment orders on the grounds Obama may not be a legitimate president. Lakin was convicted and sent to prison.

A year ago, polls indicated that roughly half of American voters were aware of a dispute over Obama's eligibility. Recent polls, however, by organizations including CNN, show that roughly six in 10 American voters hold serious doubts that Obama is eligible under the Constitution's demands.



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