I heard that someone is going to take Barack Obama to court to make him show his birth certificate that proves that he was born in Hawaii, and proof that this birth certificate is authentic. He’s doing this to prove that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, but in Africa.
CALL FOR ACTION:
Please, all Fellow FREEPERS, please consider doing the following to prevent this mess of questionable eligibility from ever happening again:
Call your State Senator, your State Representative and your Governor and ask them to provide simple legislation to give the Secretary of State the right, responsibility and obligation to confirm eligibility BEFORE ANYONE can go onto the ballot.
Personally, I think the best way to contact them is by phone during business hours, then a follow up by e-mail or mail to the person you talked to, then a follow-up a week or so later, but you can do what you think is best.
Practically, this would require all future candidates to fill out an application with supporting documentation, which could then be checked out by the Secretary of State’s office.
I don’t know about you, but THIS idea seems a better use of our governments time then providing yet another social program designed to ruin people by not having them be accountable to their families (a basic problem).
If there is an enterprising lawyer or legislator on Free Republic who would like to provide well written sample legislation which could be submitted as a suggestion across the country, it would provide a basis for continuity.
Hope there are many, many people across the country who are willing to do this now, and after the election.
Remember..... 2012 is coming!
I called the FEC. They said it wan’t up to them. Apparently there has never been a serious question about the eligibility of a candidate before.
They may as well just drop the requirement and let Arnie run (and no I wouldn’t vote for him) since no one sees the necessity to actually enforce it.