Posted on 11/13/2008 10:25:22 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
TERRE HAUTE — A news conference has been called for 4 p.m. today in the mayor's office in city hall, following an Indiana Court of Appeals ruling this morning in favor of former Terre Haute Mayor Kevin Burke who had challenged Republican Duke Bennett's eligibility in the 2007 election.
The court by a 2-to-1 decision stated that Bennett was ineligible to take office and that Burke is not entitled to fill that post as a result of the ruling, because voters were unaware of Bennett's ineligibility. Thus, the votes cannot be counted and the court ruled the office vacant.
As of 11 a.m., Bennett remained in his office in a closed-door meeting with staff members and was unavailable for comment.
Interesting
Why was he not eligible?
What! Did he not show his birth certificate?
Sounds like a precedent.
http://www.tribstar.com/news/local_story_320001534.html?keyword=topstory
I would think this is good news. Although on a state level and not federal, it sets a precedent of overturning an election because of ineligibility.
Wow, this is a horrible, horrible ruling.
The court actually ruled that the current mayor was ineligible under the Hatch act because he worked at a medical facility that received federal funding.
Federal Funding like what is paid a senator?
That sounds ridiculous. Is there any chance it would be overturned?
Yes.
“Precedent-elect” actually.
>“Precedent-elect” actually.
Nice pun.
“Political Activity”? Like “VOTING”? Would this keep teachers from running for school committee?
This sets an interesting precedent should the O not be elligible. It could mean that neither Biden nor McCain would be allowed to take office. Either W would have to continue in the role or can you say President Pelosi without puking? No, I didn’t think so.
And didn’t Obama do some work and serve on some boards of non-profits?
Uh oh!
I suspect if Obama was found ineligable after he takes office the normal chain of sucsession would apply. VP Biden, then Speaker Pelosi.
If Obama was found ineligable prior to the Electorial College vote, I think the Obama electors would fell free to vote for whoever they wanted. They would either get together and as a group decide to all vote for an alternative (my guess it would be Biden, but who really knows at that point). If they couldn’t and nobody got the majority it would go to the senate (or is it the house?)
The gotcha comes if Obama is invalidated in the no-man’s land between when the electors have voted (for Obama), but before he has been sworn in. Does it go by the chain of sucession or does it go to congress?
CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE!
Open Dislosure or CHANGE to Complete Deceit?
1. No living witnesses attest to his birth in Hawaii (Family members, Doctors, Nurses, Friends or Neighbors)
2. No prior neighbors, friends, or former claasmates have come forward and placed his mother visably pregnant in Hawaii.
3. Refusal to disclose the Original Birth Certificate that would reveal date, place, parentage, and blood type after numerous requests
4. No infant or very early childhood photos with mother, father, grandparents, or friends in any location have been published.
5. No existing Dept. of Education Hawaii records for Noeliani Elementary kindergarten class where he claimed he attended (Note: Birth Certificate required for registration)
6. No release of medical records that could trace to circumstances of birth including dates, place, parentage, blood type, etc.
7. No educational records released, all secondary education records sealed including applications that would reveal legal name, age, US or foreign student status.
8. No records of adoption, name change, or explanation for use of several names that have been documented through the years.
9. Video testimony of high school friend (Blake) who explains he travelled through Washingtom State as a newborn enroute to Harvard to join a father who oddly did not attend Harvard until the following year. (Either the biography or the testimony is an untruth.)
10. Birth announcements supposedly placed in Hawaiin newspapers that have not been substantiated with microfiche and a home address listed in the notice unrelated to all known and documented famial addresses.
11. Testimony of a Kenyan Grandmother and two half siblings who state he was born in Kenya, but now refuse to be interviewed?
12. Documentation that lists him by another name than his current name while enrolled in school in Indonesia?
13. Three separate breaches of his Passport file by independent contractors to the State Department in January & February ‘08 conducted by his campaign donors? See PassportGate.
14. Personal attempts to slide verbage into unecessary Senate Resolution 511 that would have granted natural-born status retroactively to infants born abroad to all single US citizens regardless of circumstance?
15. Allowing forged copies of his purported COLB to stand on Democrat websites?
16. Numerous descrepancies regarding dates and locations that differ from the original biographies presented to the general public. Actual school attendance, apartment locations, major historic events are inconsistent with the timeline presented.)
17. Spending millions of dollars hiring teams of Constitutional lawyers to fight the disclosure of the original BC in multiple states and levels of jurisdiction up through the Supreme Court of the United States?
18. No public statement from his beloved grandmother or interviews allowed since 2004. Known as a pioneer feminist in the banking industry, she undoubtedly would have drawn supporters to the campaign. After nearly a solid year of speculation and curiosity which erupted during the early Primary election, she never came forward with a simple statement on her grandson’s behalf.
19. Amiguous public statements by Hawai’in authorities, stating they have ‘A’ certificate on file, BUT never stating he is born in Hawaii or a native born citizen of the Uniited States of America.
20.. No answer to the One MILLION dollar reward being offered for the presentation of an authenticated vault copy of the birth certificate delivered to the Supreme Court of the United States.
I’m sure there is a very good and simple honest explanation for all of this.************************************************
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