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So much for the smaller government crowd.
Hoekstra wants new group to verify presidential candidates' eligibility, including birth certificates
1:53 PM, May 30, 2012
By Kathleen Gray
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer
The birther movement was in full bloom this week on two different fronts, including one that sprang up in Michigan.
Business mogul Donald Trump reignited the birther controversy Tuesday with continued claims that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is not qualified to be president. That claim has been debunked by the Secretary of State in Hawaii, which has certified Obama's birth certificate. Obama also released his long form birth certificate.
But the controversy doesn't seem to die. At a tea party gathering in Lapeer earlier this month, U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra said he'd like to create a federal office in Washington that would verify that presidential candidates meet the minimum requirements to hold the office.
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You cant get much further outside the mainstream than calling for the creation of a birther office staffed by the CIA and FBI," said state Democratic Party chairman Mark Brewer. "Our leaders should be focused on creating jobs, not on creating a new federal bureaucracy to comb through birth certificates."
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http://www.freep.com/article/20120530/NEWS15/120530047/Hoekstra-birth-certificate-federal-office?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
The comments at the link above are well worth the trip.
cindyperry2010
(846 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)The State Department and FBI already vett candidates for the POTUS.
And the opposing campaign goes much, much further.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)They are doing the work for us....they can't help themselves. The Lunatics are in control, Boehner is on his fourth fifth of gin.
malaise
(269,254 posts)shite.
drzymalas
(3 posts)Also on the issue of airport screening, Hoekstra adds: I think clearly you need to do some type of profiling. With the number of passengers that are flying on airplanes each and every day, its crazy to look at them and say theyre all the same and they all pose the same risk. No, they dont. We ought to use the profiling just to make the system more effective, more efficient, and we need to focus our resources at where we think the threat is going to be. [Newsmax, 11/23/10]
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/hoekstra-north-korea-attack/2010/11/23/id/378011
zbdent
(35,392 posts)louis-t
(23,309 posts)Bozita
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