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Posted on 02/07/2012 10:58:20 AM PST by Elderberry
Tea Party of Georgia: You need to remove this guy from office in his next election. Sine Die
What a pantload!
So when Cal kept Eldridge Cleaver off the ballot because he was too young (age beeing a constitutional requirement) Cal was overstepping it’s authority. I call BS.
I just checked and Sec of State is a four-year term. Kemp was elected in 2010, so we have a while to put up with him. I for one will not have a short memory in 2014. Anyone with as little regard for the constitution and no courage to stand up and defend it has no business being paid a salary by the people of the our state.
Call it all you want.
California didn’t make a determination that Eldridge Cleaver was not Constitutionally eligible for a Federal office - just that he was not eligible under California law to be on the California ballot.
As I attempted to point out to you, Georgia CAN and SHOULD pass laws that would help to determine eligibility - TO BE ON THE GEORGIA BALLOT - that could (but currently does not) demand the issuing of a birth certificate indicating that the person was a U.S. citizen at birth and that they were the proper age.
Absent such legislation the Court and SOS can ONLY rule on what Georgia law says their own requirements are to be eligible to be on the ballot.
Instead of wasting time to no good purpose in trying to reverse the people's will of 2008, a better effort would be to tighten up procedures for ballot eligibility for the future.
Your first statement was wrong so I didn’t go any further. The constitution set the age for the presidential candidates and Cal enforced that constitutional requirement. Cal does not have an age requirement for president independent of the US constitution. Cal follows the US constitution as do the other states.
According to your illogic, Cal could declare one definition for natural born citizen and each of the other states set their own definition. Not only is that nor true, it is a recipe for chaos.
If Georgia (or California) gets to DEFINE the federal requirements -then each other State can set their own definition.
Not only is that not true, it is a recipe for chaos.
A State cannot define a Federal requirement - only set State requirements that are congruent with Federal requirements.
The Judge and SOS made a determination of 0bama’s eligibility to be on the Georgia ballot - it was NOT their call to make on if he were eligible for the Presidency via a definition particular to Georgia.
The SOS of each state MUST define the federal requirements or they do not know who to put on the ballot. That’s why Cal asked a couple of filers for their birth certificate and kept them off the ballot.
Whose permission did they need to define the minimum age and enforce it?
If they don’t know the definition of natural born citizen they should get a federal judge to rule instead of ignoring it or making up their own.
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