Arizona's birther bill is back

[Newsjock]

Source: Arizona Republic

You gotta give Rep. Carl Seel credit for tenacity.

The state lawmaker who last year met with Donald Trump to discuss his "birther bill," and who greeted Sheriff Joe Arpaio's investigation into President Barack Obama's birth certificate with a cheer, has managed to revive the birther legislation.

On Wednesday, the Senate Government Reform Committee approved House Bill 2480 on a partyline vote, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.

Seel replaced the language in one of his AHCCCS fraud and waste bills with verbage that would require any candidate for president and vice president of the United States to have their national party submit an affidavit to Arizona's Secretary of State attesting, under penalty of perjury, they are qualified to hold those offices.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/PoliticalInsider/157442

[thelordofhell]

1. On behalf of my state.........let me apologize for teh stoopid

Goddamn clueless conservative yahoos. If I didn't love this great state with all my heart, I'd be gone.

[freshwest]

13. You have our condolences. Things happen.

[BigDemVoter]

20. No, it's an epidemic that's infected LOTS of states. . .

And it says nothing about the intelligence of people like you. Is this Jan Brewer's doing?

As for loving AZ, I don't blame you, it's lovely down there.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. They are desperate

[movonne]

3. Good grief what has happened to AZ ..they

are starting to look like they have all lost their minds...

[Warpy]

4. This is what happens when Democrats stay home during off year elections

and only the crazy people, teabaggers, Jesus jumpers, survivalists, and other nutbars are motivated enough to vote. They vote for people just like themselves and you all have to deal with what happens next.

I'm afraid AZ is going to start suffering a lot of economic hits because of this stuff.

[freshwest]

10. +1,000

[allan01]

5. re:Arizona's birther bill is back

Shouldnt this sherrif go after the bad guys rather than grand stand and waste billions that the state dosent have. enough of this felgercarbre.Grrr,. I agree , has all of az lost its bleeping mind?

[allan01]

7. re:Latest Breaking News (Forum)

[Mz Pip]

12. AZ's new state song.

Seriously, someone in the state legislature should propose this. They have truly lost their minds.

[randome]

17. You may already know this...

...but the 'B' side to the original 45 was the exact same song played backwards.

Ah, good times...

[Jamaal510]

15. Their sheriff IS the bad guy.

[lonestarnot]

6. Meanwhile back in June 2011, in brainless twit corner number 2,

http://www.azwater.gov/AzDWR/Legal/LawsRulesPolicies/documents/DOC071511.pdf

[Beer Snob-50]

19. the last paragraph of the new and improved birther bill

does state that the purpose of this bill is for the public safety.

[lonestarnot]

24. Imagine that twit managing public safety.

OMG. Paper bag management is more fitting to her fingerpointing credentials.

[Generic Other]

8. Can they possibly keep Obama off the ballot with this tactic?

The lengths they are willing to go to in order to win is pretty shocking.

[freshwest]

11. t doesn't matter, though. He doesn't have to win all 50 states and wouldn't win AZ, anyway.

No matter how they try to make a scene with this, to change the election laws, they can't hold the country hostage to their special beliefs.

Maybe they'll secede from the USA. There's a country on their southern border who would be glad to annex them. Oh, right, they don't like those guys.

Okay, they can build a fence around the entire state to keep the hordes of Obamabots from invading their Sheriff Joe's little fiefdom.

[crunch60]

9. Send in the White Coats fast, the Birthers are back, the Birthers are back! nt

[jmowreader]

14. So what happens when the Democratic Party attests Obama is qualified to hold his office?

Are they going to send Sheriff Joe to pick up the head of the DNC?

Arizona is what you get when Sheriff Buford T. Justice of Texarkana, Texas, becomes a real-life figure. Except compared to the yahoos they have in Arizona, Sheriff Justice was minimally qualified.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

16. They will challenge it in state court and up the line to the USSC

It's like the U.S. Attorney fiasco, where the congressmen wanted at least the appearance of wrongdoing during the campaign.

[freshwest]

18. Beauford is right. That's exactly who the baggers elect as Governors.

Yet they think that's normal.

They set their goalposts way too low.

[Iliyah]

21. Are these States,

AZ, TN, Mississippi, AL, NC, SC, FL and others are the last stand for WHITE supremists? Or are the powers to be, such as Koch Brothers and others injecting the fears that many people (mostly white) feel that their race (although the fears puts lost of country first) will eliminate them? Thats why they are gun ho against birth control only pertaining to women, which the evangelicalist are spouting as a religious freedom bs?

I have noticed that this hatred towards minorities, women, and just plain civil rights all have one thing in common, FEAR.

Their minds are shut tight, reasoning with such hatred apparently is futile. These types of thinkers in history have damn near destoyed the world many times, but I guess, thats their ultimate wish. God help us.

[evilhime]

22. Submitted

And even if submitted, will they believe what the forms say? Nah! What colossal BS!

[sakabatou]

23. Oh god...