wtf????? Arizona deputies in Hawaii seeking Obama birth certificate

[cali]

By Star-Advertiser staff

POSTED: 03:38 p.m. HST, May 21, 2012
LAST UPDATED: 02:01 a.m. HST, May 22, 2012


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.

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[sharp_stick]

1. Just a little out of your

jurisdiction there cowboy. There is very little more dangerous than a stupid cop and Maricopa county is infested with them, like roaches in a crack den.

I hope the taxpayers in Maricopa county enjoyed paying for this little vacation, I wonder if Sheriff Joe is having them put up at The Halekulani?

http://www.halekulani.com/

[cali]

6. It can't be legal, can it?

using taxpayer money in this way?

[jberryhill]

9. It's a volunteer posse funded in part by Jerome Corsi

[cali]

11. You didn't read the article. It's not all volunteer any longer.

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.

[jberryhill]

21. Was that deputy one of the ones who showed up in Hawaii?

That is a new one in the continued adventures of Shurf Joe's Birfin Posse. The original purpose of it was to promote Corsi's book.

[cali]

35. yes, he was.

[jberryhill]

37. Dang... if he got travel expenses, I gotta get birfin!

[pnwmom]

49. LOL. nt

[sharp_stick]

17. It shouldn't be

and I really hope it becomes an issue during the re-election campaign of that racist skidmark.

[RKP5637]

7. Yep, all sounds like a boondoggle to me! n/t

[broiles]

33. It takes two?

Sounds like a taxpayer funded vacation in paradise.

[siligut]

36. I hope it comes back on them

Just how brainwashed are these people?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. When (or where) does this lunacy end?

The Repubs must be getting desperate to get President Obama off the ballot in Arizona. Is Arizona in danger of going......gulp......BLUE this year?



I wonder how the residents of Arizona feel about their taxes going to pay for this birther nonsense? I think even Iowa Republicans are starting to get into this birther nonsense as well.

[zbdent]

4. never.

period.

As long as Faux keeps drawing "ratings", and some billionaire feels he shouldn't pay a penny for anything, you'll have nutcases like this.

[zbdent]

3. plenty of money to be made in being a "birther" ... just like the "climate change deniers" and

tobacco industry "doctors" ...

[lookingfortruth]

5. It is sick the way these birthers are abusing power. I saw this article on a different site

yesterday and a couple other articles. Hawaii is getting like 50 NEW request for Obama's birth certificate each month


The question I have and what the Hawaiian Governor should ask in a press conference is for proof that they are demanding the same information about Willard "Mitt the Bully" Romney.

[tru]

71. requests

I think I read awhile back that Hawaii was no longer granting those requests, because of the expense and because there's a limit to how many idiots they want to deal with. Some semi-official request may be different.

[EFerrari]

8. LOL! This is Arpaio pushing back on the Federal suit against him.

What an idiot.

[Old and In the Way]

13. A good defense is a better offense.

I know he's been investigated by the feds...I suspect that he wants to use the Obama BC investigation as a way to derail any indictments against his Department. I can see his public defense along the lines of. "the only reason the Feds are after me is because I was going to break BC-Gate wide open". A real scumbag, this guy.

[EFerrari]

15. That makes sense. Yeah, he's human waste. n/t

[BlueToTheBone]

10. Arizona's coffers must be overflowing!

What a complete waste of Tax Payer dollars.

[freshwest]

55. The sheriff loves taking jaunts on the taxpayer dime, so do his henchmen. Ugh!

GOP fiscal responsibility at work. Or rather play. They already had the records a few days ago. More corruption and abuse at the end of the empire.

[lpbk2713]

12. Whitewater all over again.

Joe just loves wasting his taxpayers' money on wild goose chases.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

14. There should be an 8-step process that starts in Molokai, goes to Oahu....

...then Maui, then the big island. The administrative fee will need to be paid to an official in the interior of Lanai, but only with a money order purchased in Philadelphia. After all the steps are complete, Hawaii should email the already-public long-form to the AZ SOS. Oh, and there should be webcams set up at each station along the way so the world can watch The Arizona Doofus Island Hop. Maybe in the corner there could be a tally of how much this is costing Arizona taxpayers, minute by minute.

[suston96]

16. Even if Barack Obama was not born in the US.......

....He could claim natural born citizenship from his mother a US citizen, who was born in Iowa.

I was not born in the US. Like so many other children of servicemen and civil servants or other Americans working overseas, a child born of such parentage needs only to be registered with US Embassy or US State Department to claim natural citizenship.

http://bccvisalaw.com/us-citizenship-by-birth.php

My father, a US citizen, registered my birth at the US Consulate in Palermo, Italy. He always pointed out that I could be president someday.

The birthers are wasting their time. They should check out [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham] Stanley Ann Dunham [/link], Obama's mother, to see if she meets the requirements for retaining her US citizenship as she was much traveled and worked overseas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham

[MineralMan]

18. Well, unless they can meet the requirements, they

aren't getting diddly squat.

Who is Eligible to Apply for Certified Copies of Vital Records?

A certified copy of a vital record (birth, death, civil union, marriage, or divorce certificate) is issued only to an applicant who has a direct and tangible interest in the record. The following persons are considered to have such an interest:

the registrant (the person whom the record is concerned with);
the registrant’s spouse;
the registrant’s parent(s);
a descendant of the registrant (e.g., a child or grandchild);
a person having a common ancestor with the registrant (e.g., a sibling, grandparent, aunt/uncle, or cousin);
a legal guardian of the registrant;
a person or agency acting on behalf of the registrant;
a personal representative of the registrant’s estate;
a person whose right to obtain a copy of the record is established by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction;
adoptive parents who have filed a petition for adoption and need to determine the death of one or more of the prospective adopted child’s natural or legal parents;
a person who needs to determine the marital status of a former spouse in order to determine the payment of alimony;
a person who needs to determine the death of a nonrelated co-owner of property purchased under a joint tenancy agreement; and
a person who needs a death certificate for the determination of payments under a credit insurance policy.

If you are not able to establish a direct and tangible interest in the record, you are ineligible and will not be issued a certified copy of the record.

http://hawaii.gov/health/vital-records/vital-records/elig_vrcc.html

[bluedigger]

50. They aren't there for a copy.

They are there to verify the original, not to request a copy. Two of them, so as to have multiple witnesses able to confirm it's veracity, I would assume.

[MineralMan]

52. They still have no legal reason to get that verification.

The AZ SOS has already provided that verification. This is a publicity stunt for the deplorable Sheriff Arpaio.

[jberryhill]

22. A six year old spelled his name with two r's?

When I was that age, I used to hook my J's in the other direction.

Oh, and on Alex Jones! Well, that's some reliable information then.

[heaven knows]

23. Nah, the gobmint's always true to their word...

[jberryhill]

25. Would you care to elaborate on the significance...

...of how a six year old spells his name?

I'm really fascinated to hear the truth so, out with it please.

[SidDithers]

28. ROFL. And you're a birther too!...

Say Hi to Orly for us.



Sid

[heaven knows]

30. I am a progressive birther and truther, dearie.

Get. it. straight.

[jberryhill]

34. I think we "got it", as did MIRT

[rufus dog]

38. You are still here?

Perry is having a teabagging party in Austin.

[azureblue]

57. You're just a little short on reading comprehension

dearie... You deny the proof all you want to, but that doesn't make you right.

[jberryhill]

29. A six year old wrote his name with two r's on "a document"

Again, please explain the significance of this interesting factoid, without changing the subject to something else please.

[fishwax]

32. lol n/t

[babylonsister]

24. lol!!!!! Too much faux for you?

If there was a shred of a possibility that the President was ineligible, don't you think we'd know that by now?

[Kingofalldems]

20. Bernard P Fife has been appointed to lead the task force

Gomer Pyle and Otis Campbell were sworn in as volunteers this morning.

[KansDem]

26. Do they all three share the one bullet?

[yellowcanine]

58. Barney Fife would run rings around these fellows.

[DCBob]

31. More evidence that the Republican/conservative brain must have some sort of defect...

that allows them to ignore facts and hard evidence and believe a rediculous fallacy.

[LeftinOH]

39. Who paid for these two airline ticktets to Hawaii?

[msanthrope]

45. The taxpayers. I hope they feel they got their money's worth. nt

[FSogol]

40. Citizens of Arizona! Yer tax dollars at werk!

[EC]

41. There is no law in place in Arizonia for all this

he has no legal standing so why doesn't Brewer or someone tell him to stop this? This is a waste of Arizonia's taxpayers money.

On edit: nevermind, I thought (before reading it all) this was the SOS again. Sheriff Joe is just a fool and again the citizen's of Arizonia should demand repayment of the costs of this trip if Sheriff Joe is paying for this from state funds.

[cali]

42. Brewer? Really?

Arizona is politically rotten to the core.

[EC]

43. She did refuse to sign

the bill into law asking for BC from candidates.

[jmowreader]

67. You're kidding about the "waste of AZ taxpayers' money"

The thing is, it IS a complete waste of the taxpayers' money, but if you were to ask 100 Arizona repukes what is an improper use of the taxpayers' money and gave them a list that had improving the public schools, feeding Arizona's hungry and investigating the president's birth certificate, not one of those assholes would say investigating the president is something the people of Arizona shouldn't be paying for.

[aquart]

44. How to get a free vacation in Hawaii.

[Bolo Boffin]

61. +1. n/t

[Bluerthanblue]

46. nice little "trip to nowhere"- for a couple of fools.

are Arizona taxpayers footing the bill? What hypocrisy.
Hatred gone wild.

[Lint Head]

47. Arpaio is a bigot who is running scared. He is lashing out at the investigation by the Feds.

He is a small man with small ideas who will be smothered in the dust bin of time.

[tandot]

48. Vacation in Hawaii paid by the Arizona tax payers.

I thought teabaggers are against Government wasting their tax money?

[Iliyah]

51. Hawaii may be laid back

but if these wackos keep effing with them they will wake the sleeping giant.

Seems like the AZ posse are coming into Hawaii waving their guns. . . to AZ posse, don't f**k with Hawaii - LOL

[FarCenter]

62. "Book 'em Danno"

[madashelltoo]

53. HOW MANY DAMNED COPIES . . .

of the same damned birth certificate do these idiots need? Didn't this sheriff have a big expose about his findings earlier this year? Didn't they say his birth certificate was a fraud? Well, how many damned FRAUDULENT birth certificates does it take to stop an IDIOT POSSE?

[caseymoz]

54. Birthers aren't going to be happy until. . .

. . . they open the Obama's mother's grave and find a wolf-skeleton.

Then they'll get knives from some creepy archeologist who tells them to look for the 666 hidden above Obama's hairline.

Following this, Arpaio will be killed in a weird curtain-cord accident. His first deputy will die from eating a fire hydrant, and the last will be wounded by a Secret Service agent's hooker and then tragically humped to death by Obama's dog. But not before the hero has shaved the chief executive's head to reveal the president's real birth certificate.

Just as the Birthers have warned.

[azureblue]

56. This is rich!

the two AZ deputies though they could show up and throw their weight around, try to intimidate some clerks, but were told the same thing they knew all along and rebuffed. That AZ redneck act don't fly in Hawaii. I was hoping they would try to get more aggressive and get a police escort out of the office, maybe out of the state, for abuse of their authority.

[JDPriestly]

59. This is so absurd!

It is a mean way to dishonor Obama's mother. It is a cruel way to remind Obama that his mother died.

These people are just horrible.

And they are ignorant. I know how you get the birth of a child born abroad registered. And I know what the birth certificates look like and they don't look like Obama's birth certificate.

Well, maybe it is good if they continue to make fools of themselves like this because in the end, the truth will be plain to everyone except a few select idiotic, mean, nasty birthers.

Insulting Obama's mother. That's all they are doing.

[panader0]

60. Groan....... more bad press for Arizona

You know there are still good, progressive people in this state. Raoul Grijalva for example. Janet Napolitano was our guv before the job was given to Brewer when Janet got "promoted". Arpiao is scum, and his is not the first time he has used the taxpayers money to take trips (either for himself or his cronies). I hope Ron Barber is able to beat Jesse Kelly for Giffords seat (where I live), or it could get worse. Too bad for a great state that just happens to have some idiots in office. A lot of older people retire here, a lot of ex-military too, and the pendulum swung to the right. Remember Mo and Stuart Udall? Remember Carl Hayden? There have been some fine democrats come from Az. I hope that we Dems can turn this state blue again.

[LuckyLib]

63. And best of luck doing so. In the meantime, no $$$ spent in

AZ on the part of this family -- driving through, business or otherwise. Zilch. We've told friends in AZ, "you come here to visit us. We have our own wacky Repugs, but nothing like yours!"

First the crazy immigration stuff, now this. Folks there should raise holy hell at the birther goofballs representing them.

[BlueIris]

69. The New Florida.

It has totally embarrassed itself here. Scary.

[awoke_in_2003]

64. I don't think Romney...

was born in Michigan. I should get paid plane tickets to Michigan to investigate. The time frame should be autumn. I love the north in the fall.

[avebury]

65. What a waste of Arizona state tax dollars. It sounds like

something that Oklahoma would do.

[tcaudilllg]

66. Obama is too nice to the man.

Way too nice.

[upi402]

68. Maybe CA can reject Mittens on mental health grounds

More valid, more delegates too.

[SomethingFishy]

70. And if they get it they will claim it's fake.

Why does anyone pay attention to these fools anymore? They have a theory that Obama was not born in the US. Well that theory has been proven wrong many times over including with an official birth certificate.

But that evidence didn't fit their version of the story so they are looking for more. Anything that they find that conflicts the "Obama is not a US citizen" story will be labeled as either a "forgery" or "lies".

If I were a resident of Maricopa county I would be raising hell about where my money was going.

[lonestarnot]

72. So now we're sponsoring free trips to Hawaii for fuckwits while cutting meals on wheels?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

73. Anything for a trip to Hawaii.....

....nice work on the public dime, eh, Sheriff Joe?

Reminds me of this old article from The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/six-flags-killer-still-at-large-say-souvenirbedeck,700/

'Six Flags Killer' Still At Large, Say Souvenir-Bedecked Police

GURNEE, IL—Local authorities continue to search Gurnee's Great America theme park for a criminal dubbed "The Six Flags Killer," souvenir-laden police reported Monday.

"If you have any information that might lead to the capture of this vicious killer, please contact us immediately," a button-covered Gurnee Police Captain Jack Moynihan said at a press conference held in Carousel Plaza. "We have officers standing by on the Whizzer."

"Oh," Moynihan added. "And if you know where to get one of those blinking hats we've been seeing around, let us know."

Police have been combing the attraction for clues, thoroughly investigating every ride, game, snack bar, gift shop, and photo-sticker booth.