Connecticut Birther Bill Emerges In State Legislature

Connecticut recently became the latest state to tackle the Obama "birther" issue, as a GOP state senator introduced a piece of legislation that would require potential presidential and vice-presidential candidates to provide the secretary of state with an "original birth certificate" in order to run.

The bill, sponsored by State Sen. Michael McLachlan, perhaps seems unusual considering the Democratic tilt of Connecticut, which gave Obama nearly 61 percent of the vote in the 2008 presidential election.

Similarly worded bills have cropped up around the country in the current legislative session, albeit in conservative bastions. A Republican state representative in Arizona recently reintroduced a previously failed bill that would require Obama to provide a copy of his birth certificate in order to be placed on the ballot in the state. A state lawmaker in Texas is also seeking to advance a similar bill, while a number of other states are also expected to push their own versions of "birther" legislation following the growth of Republican power that took place in many state legislatures last November.

Meanwhile, Hawaiian lawmakers have proposed their own measure to discourage "birthers," by adding a $100 charge to anyone desiring a copy of President Obama's birth records.

Comments

[TwinX]

04:49 AM on 02/24/2011

The CT Birther Bill appears to be dead.

[BumpyKnight]

05:24 AM on 02/05/2011

The Federal Constitution says nothing about any "long form" anything. If a state decides to add extra-constitutional requirements their electoral votes aught to be thrown into a landfill. What's next? An attack on Ft. Sumter?

[Maria333]

06:37 PM on 02/03/2011

I wish that every reputable paper would ignore these simpletones, that are doing nothing else just disturbing the public and many time for their own gains, Many of them hope to be discovered for Reality Show. We have seen one perfect example with Mrs.Palin .

[Intolerantcentrist]

01:56 AM on 02/06/2011

Because of your (Birther) unconstitutional perspective, you are worthy of ridicule. That’s why.

In fact, one must be blind or ignorant of the Constitution in order to become qualified as a Birther.

[borderraven]

12:57 PM on 02/03/2011

If Barack H Obama II was born in the USA to a US citizen mother and a US citizen father, then he would be a US Natural Born Citizen, therefore his citizenship would not be affected by the British Nationality Act of 1948 or the 1963 Kenyan Constitution.
Barack H Obama II was born in the USA to a US citizen mother and a British citizen so at birth he was a Native Born US/British Dual Citizen, his citizenship was affected by the British Nationality Act of 1948 and later by the 1963 Kenyan Constitution, therefore he is a US Citizen, but not a US Natural Born Citizen. Barack Hussein Obama II, lost foreign citizenships, because he didn’t choose to take them at age 22, but that did not gain him natural born citizenship, which can only be acquired at birth, under the circumstance of two US citizen parents.

[dennisrs]

09:35 AM on 02/03/2011

Now the Hawaii governor weighs in, during a recent interview
with a local paper. It just won't stop until that "archived"
is released.

Q: You stirred up quite a controversy with your comments regarding birthers and your plans to release more information regarding President Barack Obama's birth certificate. How is that coming?

A: I got a letter from someone the other day who was genuinely concerned about it; it is not all just political agenda. They were talking on Olelo last night about this; it has a political implication for 2012 that we simply cannot have.

(Abercrombie said there is a recording of the birth in the State Archives and he wants to use that.)

It was actually written I am told, this is what our investigation is showing, it actually exists in the archives, written down ...

...What I can do, and all I have ever said, is that I am going to see to it as governor that I can verify to anyone who is honest about it that this is the case.

http://www.staradvertiser.com/editorials/20110118_This_is_a_collaborative_endeavor.html

[Sharon Hunt]

07:51 PM on 02/02/2011

I live in CT and besides the budget mess, we are really having a problem with all the snow and ice. Buildings are collapsing and people are getting hurt. This guy thinks this is a priority NOW????? Give me a break!

[Mattea Berry]

01:58 AM on 02/05/2011

I know, right?! Not to mention the fact that Hartford was just rated the city with the highest poverty rate out of the entire country...I have yet to see them even adress that . >:(

[Sharon Hunt]

05:20 PM on 02/05/2011

Hartford is in touch shape

[melobster78]

03:31 PM on 02/02/2011

Just when you think America has finally grown up and accepted the fact that not everyone is the same,we take ten steps back. Considering states like Connecticut are going to need all the money they have/get to cleanup from the worst winter storm in years you would think that they would finally drop this matter. Some people just can't grow up.

[borderraven]

01:00 PM on 02/03/2011

I'll drop it the day the US Constitution is dissolved and the US flag no longer waves o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. When you grow up, what do you aspire to be?

[Mattea Berry]

01:59 AM on 02/05/2011

*yawn*

[Sharon Hunt]

05:21 PM on 02/05/2011

what the heck does this have to do with a birther bill in CT? Head out over to www.humanevents.com where you will feel more comfortable.

[tttt9erfan]

02:40 PM on 02/02/2011

So how does one opposed Obama and/or his policies without being called a racist? How does question Obama and/or his policies without being accused of being a racist?

Let me know so I may express my opinion without being called a racist. Thanks!

[Sharon Hunt]

07:52 PM on 02/02/2011

its a free country. Feel free to express any opinion. I might not agree with it and say so.....

[tttt9erfan]

12:51 AM on 02/03/2011

That's fine, but that's not what I am talking about. How do I disagree with Obama and not be called a racist? They do that because they know people don't like being called racist so it quiets much of the opposition. I am asking the question to all those on this thread that claim anyone asking the birth question is a raciist. I see none of them replied to my question. Hummmmm..

[Pup99]

08:56 PM on 02/01/2011

These idiots latch onto something, and don't know how to let go. Do they not have any idea how idiotic this stuff makes them look? And from Connecticut, yet?

[Sharon Hunt]

07:53 PM on 02/02/2011

I know, I live in Windsor Locks, CT and I just about died knowing this guy comes from my state.

[PWM]

06:14 PM on 02/01/2011

"I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai‛i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawai‘i and is a natural-bo ­rn American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”
source http://haw­­aii.gov/h­e­alth/abo­ut­/pr/200­9/0­9-063.­pdf

[borderraven]

01:08 PM on 02/03/2011

So, if Dr. Fukino has it, then why can't Ambercrombie find it? If it exists, then a photo can be leaked to the Internet, like Lucas Smith did Obama's Kenya birth certificate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Dkfmypcjw
http://russthoughts.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/obama-kenyan-birth-certificate-from-lucas-smith.jpg?w=744&h=1024
http://www.archive.org/details/statesmansyearbo030477mbp

[TwinX]

11:48 PM on 02/04/2011

Abercrombie never said he couldn't 'find' it.

He never said he was 'looking for it' to start with.

[PWM]

05:49 PM on 02/01/2011

The issues is that racists cannot believe a black man could achieve so much and go so far in such a short time. It blows all that rubbish about the superiority of the white race into dust

[Vincent Norte]

06:29 PM on 02/01/2011

You people are far more obsessed w his race than his detractors.
But since you bring up a "black man" and his achievements.
Remember : He is 1/2 white
His alcoholic black father abandoned his white mother (big surprise) and he was raised by his white family (mother and grandmother)
Dreams of his father doncha know

[PWM]

06:47 PM on 02/01/2011

You sure have a low opinion of blacks.

[iCode v2]

10:25 AM on 02/02/2011

What do his father's actions even have to do with Obama's own achievements?

[borderraven]

01:13 PM on 02/03/2011

I would rather vote for a man of character like Dr Martin Luther King Jr, or James David Manning, PhD, rather than a man of color like Barack Hussein Obama II.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHwYJqLshW0

[ContraEgoiste]

02:45 PM on 02/01/2011

LOL

hmmmmm, lets see. In order for Obama to have risen to the presidency without being an American, the institutio­ns and people that would have to be part of the conspiracy would be...

CIA,

FBI,

NSA,

The Pentagon,

Secret Service,

The SCOTUS,

US Congress,

Congress Security,

All (both parties) of Illinois' Government­, Civic and Political members,

All the people that ran against him since entering politics,

All of Hawaii's Civic and Political members,

Harvard,

The Hígh~Schoo­l he attended,

The hospital that issue the BC,

The Social Security office,

And...

the Dept. of Immigratio­n itself.

Never mind that some of these agencies would have dug into his background to find out what he had for lunch on his 3rd birthday before handing over the most secret and sensitive intelligen­ce, making him the "Commander in Chief" and giving him access to that "little red button".

Heh. Just the thought that these people think they discovered something that the first 5 aforementi­oned agencies didn't its laughable.

[infopro]

03:12 PM on 02/01/2011

The trolls know this. They just ignore it.

Oh, BTW, did you know that "ignore" is the new "don't care"? -grin-

[dennisrs]

07:33 PM on 02/01/2011

So then what the big deal about releasing his BC in Hawaii?

[Pup99]

09:04 PM on 02/01/2011

Hey, I like your Don't Tread On Me flag. Really points out your total lack of concern for others right off the bat. Way to go....people don't have to spend a lot of effort to figure out your affiliations.

[ContraEgoiste]

10:44 PM on 02/01/2011

He has.

[hagagaga]

01:19 PM on 02/01/2011

If I was Obama, World Net Daily would have been sued for libel as soon as they started insinuating birtherism. Joseph Farah would have been forced to declare bankruptcy.

[greatalaska]

01:45 PM on 02/01/2011

He would have to show the certificate to win the case.

[infopro]

02:32 PM on 02/01/2011

Uh, surely you haven't forgotten that he already did? ;)

[hagagaga]

04:18 PM on 02/01/2011

He already has.

[dennisrs]

07:35 PM on 02/01/2011

I thought it all started in the hilary clinton presidential campaign?

[derspado]

01:09 PM on 02/01/2011

Did Obama ever change his name? Was he ever known as Barry Soetero? What name was on the passport he used to travel to Pakistan of which he spoke in his book? Why does noone remember ever seeing him at Columbia University?

All these questions on top of where the hell is the Birth Certificate.

[infopro]

02:34 PM on 02/01/2011

Late to the party, are we? -grin-

[PWM]

05:51 PM on 02/01/2011

Feel free to provide evidence to your libel.