Posted on 05/22/2012 7:56:20 AM PDT by Brown Deer
Two men who identified themselves as being from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Phoenix went to the Hawaii Department of Health Monday morning requesting verification of President Barack Obama's birth certificate, said a state spokeswoman.
A Hawaii deputy attorney general gave the men information concerning the legal requirements to obtain such a document; the requirements are posted on the Health Department's website. The two men then left the office, Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said.
The two men showed Maricopa County Sheriff's Office badges and identified themselves as Michael Zullo and Brian Mackiewcz, Okubo said. They are "authorized by the Sheriff of Maricopa County, who is conducting an official investigation," a spokesman for the sheriff's office said in an email.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been researching Obama's residency status using a volunteer cold-case "posse," but now has employed a taxpayer-funded deputy, The Arizona Republic reported Monday.
Zullo is a volunteer, the Republic reported, but Okubo said that Mackiewicz presented a business card showing he is with the Threats Management Unit of the sheriff's office.
Arapaio's birth certificate investigation comes as the U.S. Justice Department is suing his office for alleged civil rights violations, including discrimination against Hispanics.
Separately, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, who says he is not a "birther," said in a radio interview Thursday that Obama's Arizona ballot status is in question unless Hawaii responds positively to his request under a Hawaii law regarding confirmation of birth certificates.
Hawaii Department of Attorney General spokesman Josh Wisch said Monday the department has been in touch with Bennett since Friday and that he would need to provide legal authority showing his office is "a governmental agency or organization who for a legitimate government purpose maintains and needs to update official lists of persons in the ordinary course of the agency's or organization's activities."
Obama was born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961. Birthers contend Obama was not born in the United States and thus not eligible to be president. The state released a copy of Obama's long-form birth certificate last year, but the release did not satisfy many birthers.
Bennett, a Republican who is reportedly considering a run for governor in Arizona, said Friday he assumes he'll get the confirmation he requested in March from Hawaii officials.
Ah, we have here a wordy liberal poppinjay, I see.
The answer to your question is so very simple. If I wanted to prove that I am a natural born citizen (born of two American citizens) - I have no doubt that the vetting (sic) media would subject me to a Joe the Plumber style inspection going back over at least 100 years. See, I wouldn’t need to prove it because the media would do it for us. Get it?
My life and the lives of my parents are an open book. We have nothing to fear from an honest inspection going back to 1638 when my fathers ancestors came here and 1541 when my mothers ancestors came here with Cortez. Nothing to hide. All my school records, traffic fines, divorce, military service - an open book - publicly available information.
For reasons unknown ( but not for long) the same cannot be said for Mr. Soetoro or whatever his name really is. Why is this?
Why is this?
He can break all laws with impunity with Abercromby in charge.
So the state is basically shut down. It looks like they are telling Arizona that they can't have a document unless they are directly hiring Obama as a direct hire. ??? The Hawaii corruption is on full display.
The parents do not have to be born in the US for a child to be a natural born citizen, the parents must be citizens at the time of birth of the child.
OK, you may be right; such an opinion may have been posted here, but certainly not by any person with knowledge of the issue.
The meaning of “natural born” has been discussed here on FREE REPUBLIC extensively for four years, possibly more than it has since it was written in the constitution through 2007.
This is where the current experts on “natural born” are now found. These experts range from high school grads who can read to attorneys allowed to plead a case to the US Supreme Court.
No knowledge on the subject..HELL! you sir are a mole!
The source, the Staradvertiser, is a liberal rag. After the 2008 election, they marketed Obunga memorial crap in the paper for months.
Thanks, Ray
I misspoke in my first post to the punchamullah. Indeed, both parents MUST be US citizens for their offspring to be nbc’s
Maybe if we start referring to him as the White African the press will force him to produce documents.
What is this mole thing of which you continue to mention? Is a mole a subterfuge for being a genuine FReeper? Is it a low-life? Is it a leftist who pretends to be a conservative? A KGB agent in the CIA?
What does the term “mole” mean in the context you are using it?
Those in charge in Hawaii have no respect for the Constitution or the people of the United States. They will not cooperate unless under extreme pressure.
Thank you. Arpaio certainly does have standing since a crime, a felony has likely been committed in Maricopa County. Arpaio is bound by law to refer any evidence of this fact to the state attorney as I understand it.
Has a grand jury been seated yet in this matter?
“who-—makes? “-—my shop can make most anything. Lately we’ve been knocking out a few pitchforks. Let me know when you are ready for that guillotine.
A mole as in soviet mole as in deep plant spy/mole
some one who burrows in and causes damage or problems
a liberal under false pretences who foments hate and discontent who is convinced that conservatives are too stupid to speak and therefore the libs, are not going to let them speak.
I don’t like moles!
Got It. Thanks.
Yeah just breaking off ET wires this morning so I think Dog would have MORE TImes on his hands LOL!
Monk where your photoshop on this ROFL
Nice of them to post the conclusion of what the investigators are looking into for us...no need for them to continue, I guess
Obamuzzie was old enough to get his first drivers license before he left HI-—around 1978 or so. All he would have needed there was proof of a local address, student ID card or anything similar. Was there, done that. Most subsequent states in those years would simply let you turn in your previous license to get a local one. It’s the Patriot Act that’s gotten all the states to tighten way up. A few years ago I had to renew in Oregon so I took the whole pedigree in-—happy young DMV chick said my docs were “museum quality “——actually thanked me for having an easy to read, organized set of books.
the original stays with the department
You can only get a CERTIFIED copy ( a copy of the original with a raised seal certifying that it was made from the original)
you cannot COPY the CERTIFIED COPY and use that, you need the ORIGINAL CERTIFIED COPY
People are using ORIGINAL and ORIGINAL CERTIFIED COPY interchangeably as if they were the same thing, and they are not
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