Broe v Reed (hat tip co2hog.com)
December 6, 2008
James Broe and 11 other Washington voters have filed in Washington’s Supreme Court to have the votes cast for Senator Obama set aside, because he failed to establish that he was even an American citizen running under his own name at the time of the election, let alone a “natural born citizen” as required by the U.S. Constitution. Unlike other cases that have been dismissed for lack of standing, these plaintiffs have standing under a unique Washington statute that allows any registered voter to challenge the election of someone who, at the time of the election, was ineligible to hold the office.
The Secretary of State’s office has already admitted it did nothing to determine Senator Obama’s eligibility, and Senator Obama hasn’t produced a single piece of evidence to prove he was born in the United States that would establish his eligibility, although the burden to prove his eligibility was placed on him by the rules of the national Democrat Party. Counsel for the plaintiffs Stephen Pidgeon had only a two word comment: “case closed!”
STEPHEN PIDGEON
Attorney at Law, P.S.
Documents in Broe v Reed:
Petition for Writ of Mandamus
Application for Writ of Mandamus
BROE v. REED Summons
OT but related:Group seeks to have state's votes for Obama set aside
Washington residents say Democrat never established he is natural-born American citizen hat tip OCM
Lightfoot v. Bowen: A new lawsuit
and Bill Richardson calls Obama an immigrant ...
UPDATE: Killer op-ed from Dr. Jack Wheeler hat tip Joan
Here's target number one. "Zero," of course, is an alternate name for the individual we called NMP - Not My President - shortly after November 4. Now it's turning out that vast multitudes don't look upon him as their president either, due to this crazy controversy over his birth certificate.
Crazy because producing a verifiably genuine birth certificate should be the simplest thing in the world to do, instantly squashing the controversy. Yet Zero won't produce it, allowing the issue to metastasize to the point of full page ads in the Chicago Tribune
The ad sums up the issue, and it is a serious one. Constitutionally restricting the presidency to natural-born citizens, thus excluding naturalized citizens is, for example, the one single barrier preventing Arnold Schwarzenegger from running for president.
That Zero refuses to release his actual birth certificate is proof for many that he is not natural born but naturalized instead. Yet the two principal drivers of the controversy, my good buddies Joseph Farah and Jerry Corsi of WorldNetDaily, are not convinced of this.
They suspect that the real truth Zero is hiding may be even more bizarre than what everybody thinks. I've known Joseph for many years and the details of what he told me is for him to reveal when he chooses, not me. I can tell you it is OMG wild.
There is, however, a great upside to the mystery never being solved, the truth never revealed, for Zero to continue stonewalling. For then, Americans in the growing millions would view his presidency as illegal and illegitimate, and owe him neither allegiance nor obedience. This would give them the moral resolve to resist the fascism of his laws, executive orders, and regulations.
Which brings us to target number two. Zero's willingness to sacrifice American prosperity on the altar of Global Warming should be the gift that keeps on giving to Republicans.
When he spoke via video to the "Governors' Global Climate Summit" on November 18, Zero sounded like an Algore lunatic:
"The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. Sea levels are rising. Coastlines are shrinking. We've seen record drought, spreading famine, and storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season."
Every bit of this is nonsense. Either he is a scientific illiterate, as stupid as Algore, or is using the glowarm con as a rationale to expand government power - or maybe all three. Whichever, his war upon "fossil fuels" such as oil and coal could not be better designed to ruin any chances of economic recovery.
Which gives Republicans the absolute perfect opportunity to target Zero and the other glowarmer nutballs in Congress at every moment the economy is not rebounding while we are shivering and suffering with global cooling - for in fact, due to the lack of the sun's magnetic activity, the earth is cooling, not warming.
This segways into a third target: Zero's anti-capitalist pro-government boondoggle bias. He has no understanding of what is actually required for the "economic recovery" he boasts of achieving: real jobs, rather than make-work government subsidized "green jobs; reducing regulatory barriers rather than raising them; getting the government out of the way of entrepreneurs and small business rather than getting more and more in the way; producing and using more energy rather than less.
It's not that he's a "Marxist" or "socialist." More importantly, he's an economic illiterate as much as he's a scientific illiterate. He hasn't a clue of how businesses work, having neither run or worked for one.
Thus his entire economic program will consist of handing out government subsidies to those with political connections - "political entrepreneurs." Another golden opportunity for Republicans to skewer him for all the resultant corruption and failure to actually improve the economy.
A fourth target: the coming lack of respect for America throughout the world. Zero voters want the world to love us - and they are going to be rudely surprised to find out what counts in the world is respect, not love. Under Zero, country after country will feel free to ignore America's interests or desires... (more)
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