Good for Jan Brewer!
According to Huffington Post:
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill to require President Barack Obama and other presidential candidates to prove their U.S. citizenship before their names can appear on the state’s ballot.
The bill vetoed by Brewer on Monday would have made Arizona the first state to pass such a requirement. According to My Fox Phoenix, the governor said the measure “is a bridge too far.”
The Arizona proposal would require political parties and presidential candidates to hand in affidavits stating a candidate’s citizenship and age and to provide the candidate’s birth certificate and a sworn statement saying where the candidate has lived for 14 years.
If candidates don’t have a copy of their birth certificates, they could meet the requirement by providing baptismal or circumcision certificates, hospital birth records and other documents.
“I never imagined being presented with a bill that could require candidates for president of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth to submit their ‘early baptismal or circumcision certificates’,” said Brewer in light of vetoing the bill, according to My Fox Phoenix. “This measure creates significant new problems while failing to do anything constructive for Arizona.”
Jan Brewer did the right thing. AZ seems hell-bent on proving itself the most bass-akward state inu the union. Jan Brewer did a great deal to help its legislature from reaching dubious honor. If the birther people only knew how badly the rest of the country is laughing at them. What do they hope to accomplish?
Brewer also vetoed a bill that would have allowed guns on campus along right of ways. She had this to say:
The bill didn’t define public right of way and also could have been interpreted to apply to K-12 schools in addition to universities and community colleges, Brewer said in her veto letter.
“Bills impacting our Second Amendment rights have to be crystal clear so that gun owners don’t become lawbreakers by accident,” she said.
It a pleasure to be able to compliment Governor Jan Brewer for doing the right thing.
there are 15 other states with similar legislation in the works making its way to law, whereby candidates who want to appear on the ballot are to file an affidavit attesting to their citizenship, which would have to be accompanied by an “original or certified copy” of their birth certificate. they are: louisiana, new hampshire, montana, iowa, maine, tennessee, connecticut, georgia, indiana, missouri, nebraska and texas. some efforts are conclusively out of the running this year, and in some states plans already are being made for next year, which still would give states time to impose a requirement for the 2012 election. others still could be resurrected in the legislative process
At least someone is sane in AZ.
Now e, do you really think think this is a smart thing to do?
Gun bloggers are not really worried about her vetoing the campus carry bill. They’ll take her advice to heart and write a better bill.
Perhaps the birth verification bill needs the same work. She rejected it on its writing, not on its premise.
Agreed. If the law isn’t crystal that may lead to a bad situation. Git R done right.
I believe ‘right of ways’ was not clearly defined. Having a weapon on a campus path and having one at a frat party are certainly 2 different things.
The birth verification bill was just stupid in every sense of the word. EVERY!
Gee, I wonder why this type of birth verification never came up before? Good for Govenor Brewer. I like to give cudo’s when they are deserved and she did the right thing on both counts.
@Elena
Because we didn’t have a problem with a candidate before. Hawaii’s certification is notoriously lax and we didn’t have candidate’s relatives stating that they were personal witnesses to a birth in another country.