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Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday shot down an effort by the Arizona Legislature to require presidential candidates to provide proof of citizenship in order to get on the state's ballot.
In her veto letter, Brewer said House Bill 2177 "creates significant new problems while failing to do anything constructive for Arizona."
The House and Senate could override the governor's veto with a two-thirds majority vote in each chamber, but on Monday, such a move appeared unlikely
Brewer vetoes presidential 'birther' bill
Two things, First, Gov. Brewer is exactly correct, the bill does nothing constructive for Arizona and I'm very sure the Sec. of State who has said publicly the bill has constitutional issues, our state would find itself in another court room. The other thing is this, regardless of the outcome of this bill President Obama is unlikely to win Arizona in the gerneral election against pretty much any Republican candidate.
Agreed on both points. I can only imagine she listened to her secretary of state who had previously said this would be a nightmare.
One would hope so, I have contended that issues like this one especially belong in the courts and for our legislature to take up matters such as these with ALL the problems facing our state, it would seem they would have better things to do. There are many Republicans in Arizona that didn't seem to share the legislature's opinion on this subject when it comes to the Presidents birthplace, among those, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and many others...
Republican Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake believes that birthers should accept the reality and acknowledge the fact that President Obama was born in the US.
Barack Obama is a citizen of the country, Flake said in an interview with CNN on Thursday. We ought to get off this kick. And there are plenty of differences we have with the president between Republicans and Democrats than to spend time on something like this.Jeff Flake Birthers | | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
One of things lost here was the Gov. also put her veto on the campus gun bill which would have allowed students to carry guns on campus at Arizonas public Univirsites and schools. Again, our legislature seems to be lost in legislation such as this and unable to come to grips with the real problems of our state and thats a huge deficit that was left by the previous administration (now Homeland Security Director), just to name a few.
Birthers embarrass themselves
Birthers embarrass the Republican party
They don't embarrass President Obama