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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 04:09 AM Dec 2011

The foolishness continues in Georgia: Obama's inclusion on Georgia ballot challenged

Five Georgia men have challenged President Barack Obama’s inclusion on next year’s presidential ballot, with at least some citing an oft-discredited theory that Obama is not eligible for office because the Constitution says that a president must be a “natural born citizen.”

All the challenges have been made through the Georgia Office of the Secretary of State, which referred them to the state administrative hearings office. Hearings have not yet been set.

Georgia holds its primary next year on March 6. Obama's name will appear on the Democratic primary ballot, even though he has no challengers.

Two of the men filing the challenges, Kevin Powell of Duluth and Carl Swensson of Morrow, are being represented in their efforts by attorney Mark Hatfield, who is also a Republican state lawmaker from Waycross.

Hatfield failed in an effort earlier this year to pass a law prohibiting any presidential or vice presidential candidate from being included on the ballot without proof of “natural born” citizenship.

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/obamas-inclusion-on-georgia-1262319.html

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The foolishness continues in Georgia: Obama's inclusion on Georgia ballot challenged (Original Post) mfcorey1 Dec 2011 OP
Mark Hatfield's grand pappy was the moonshiner that started that violent Angry Dragon Dec 2011 #1
insert banjo music here mikekohr Dec 2011 #3
LOL! tallahasseedem Dec 2011 #4
The birthers are alive and kicking. n/t fasttense Dec 2011 #2
The stupid...it burns! tallahasseedem Dec 2011 #5
There's one in MO trying the same nonsense proud2BlibKansan Dec 2011 #6

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
1. Mark Hatfield's grand pappy was the moonshiner that started that violent
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 04:16 AM
Dec 2011

Hatfield and McCoy feud
231 people dead...........

proud2BlibKansan

(96,793 posts)
6. There's one in MO trying the same nonsense
Sat Dec 17, 2011, 10:31 AM
Dec 2011

Last edited Sat Dec 17, 2011, 11:14 AM - Edit history (1)

I'll bet there's at least one of these numbnuts in every state legislature.

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