Panel Decides Obama Will Stay On Kansas Ballot Despite Birther Objections

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

A board of three elected Republican officials decided to allow President Barack Obama to remain on the Kansas ballot during a brief meeting on Monday, despite the protest of California lawyer/dentist Orly Taitz, arguably the nation’s most infamous “birther.”

The unanimous vote brought a swift end to a saga which began Thursday evening when the Kansas Objections Board considered a complaint from a state resident seeking to exclude Obama from the ballot. That resident, Joe Montgomery of Manhattan, Kan., originally said he believed Obama was not a natural born U.S. citizen and therefore was ineligible to qualify for reelection. But he withdrew his objection on Friday, making Monday’s meeting more or less a formality to close the matter.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer voted to close the matter during the 15-minute meeting. They did so without making a ruling about the president’s citizenship. State Election Director Brad Bryant told TPM, however, that the board added a certification of Obama’s place of birth that Hawaii sent Kansas over the weekend into the record before bringing the matter to a close.

“In light of the withdraw, there wasn’t another issue before the board, they didn’t have to deny the objection,” Bryant said. “Actually, there was a motion to deny the objection but [Kobach] said there wasn’t any reason to because it had been withdrawn and there wasn’t any issue before the board. The effect is President Obama’s name is on the ballot. It was never removed.”

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[jsr]

1. BUT "They did so without making a ruling about the president’s citizenship"

so we still don't know whether Obama is a U.S. citizen or not!

[Arugula Latte]

2. Gee, that's swell of them.

[Archae]

3. Nutcase Orly Taitz had to raise a stink I see...

She really needs heavy sedation.

[KansDem]

4. Good! Now get to work and stop wasting our money!

[Cha]

5. Where President Obama's mom was

born. That's mighty big of them..what? They didn't want to look more Stupid to the World?

They're not catering to the brainwashed? BFD.

[NYC Liberal]

6. They didn't want to have to disqualify Mitt too.

If Obama is not a natural-born citizen because his father was not born here, then neither is Mitt since his father was also born outside the US.

[Cha]

9. Oh, yes.. Mitt's great grandfather having to

flee to Mexico to practice polygamy. Just regular run of the mill stuff.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Mitt is a Natural Born U.S. Citizen

But some of the people he has spawned, some of his corporations,
are not U.S. people because they were born and remain
outside the U.S.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Apparently even Kansas can only take so much of being the laughingstock of the nation. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Make Joe Montgomery personally pay the costs of the nonsense he created. nt

[KevTucky]

10. I proprose

The forced sterilization of Mr. Montgomery. Lets make the world a better place.
I sound like a Repub now don't I? I need a shower!

[oldbanjo]

13. If some of their mothers could see them.

No wonder they are against abortion.

[DippyDem]

11. Guvna Brownback haz the sads.

[Kelvin Mace]

14. This is actually a win for them

They get to fuel the birther fire, and blame Obama for "forcing" them to back off.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. How can they blame Obama

when the complaint was withdrawn by the man who originally lodged it?

[Kelvin Mace]

16. They will claim they were threatened by Obama "goons"

who threatened them. Which, in fact is pretty much what they claimed, though they didn't mention Obama, the implication was there.

Remember, we are not dealing with mentally healthy people.

[Maeve]

17. And a semblance of sanity returns...eom