That title 9 of the general statutes be amended to require the Secretary of the State to be presented with an original birth certificate of any candidate for the federal office of president or vice-president that certifies that the certificate holder is a natural-born United States citizen, prior to certifying that the candidate is qualified to appear on the ballot.

S.B. 391:

As the Queen of the Birthers I would like to state that it is my royal pleasure to welcome the State of CT in the birther kingdom. It is the 12th state that filed an eligibility bill. Great job everyone. We need to keep working hard to make sure that each and every state in the Nation files such bill

[Reprints this article.]

Even if Hawaii is included, there are only 11 such bills. Methinks Taitz is including some states that have indicated the possible introduction of such legislation.

Is McLachlan In Direct Communication With Birther Mothership?

Jim Shea
February 6, 2011


Birthers make up the extreme right wing of the extreme right wing of the extremely right wing right wingers.

You just can't get any farther out on the fringes than these folks and still be able to dip a toe in reality.

Birthers make the people who feared the "New World Order," and saw black government helicopters everywhere seem almost normal. Actually, these folks are of a similar mindset, only the conspiracy theory has changed.

That theory is: President Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and as such is not eligible to be president of the United States. No matter how much proof is produced, no matter how many copies of Obama's birth certificate they see, no matter how many court cases they lose (all of them), Birthers cannot be dissuaded from this one-way trip into la–la land.

Is McLachlan In Direct Communication With Birther Mothership?

Jim Shea
February 6, 2011


Birthers make up the extreme right wing of the extreme right wing of the extremely right wing right wingers.

You just can't get any farther out on the fringes than these folks and still be able to dip a toe in reality.

Birthers make the people who feared the "New World Order," and saw black government helicopters everywhere seem almost normal. Actually, these folks are of a similar mindset, only the conspiracy theory has changed.

That theory is: President Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, and as such is not eligible to be president of the United States. No matter how much proof is produced, no matter how many copies of Obama's birth certificate they see, no matter how many court cases they lose (all of them), Birthers cannot be dissuaded from this one-way trip into la–la land.

[snip]

The Arizona legislature is soon expected to pass a bill that would set a strict standard for proving natural citizenship for presidential candidates. Similar efforts are underway in other red states such as Missouri, Texas, Georgia and Montana.

And who would decide if the candidate's documentation was valid? The secretary of state, which in a red state would most likely be a Republican secretary of state, which could mean, well: Where have you gone, Katherine Harris?

Such rulings could throw the presidential election results into chaos. Would disqualifications by individual states be constitutional? Could the U.S. Supreme Court end up deciding another presidential election?

There is no chance McLachlan's bill will be enacted in Connecticut.

Hartford Courant



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foundjoe at 2:38 AM February 05, 2011

The newspaper announcements from the Honolulu newspapers in 1961 do not list a place of birth. The state of Hawaii registered 336 out-of-state births (confirmed by the CDC's 1961 Natality Report) which would have also been reported in the newspapers.

Bad idea: General Assembly should squelch 'birther' bill proposal

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The item in question is Senate Bill No. 391: "An act concerning qualifications to appear as a candidate for president or vice-president on a ballot in this state."

This has nothing to do with controlling the state's projected $3.5 billion deficit, nothing to do with attracting business to Connecticut, nothing to do with creating jobs, nothing to do with improving the quality of life for state residents.

This has everything to do with pandering to a small, right-wing movement to discredit President Barack Obama's qualifications for office by questioning his birthplace.

This is the so-called "birther" movement, and its members have listened to neither truth nor reason.

A proposal introduced by state Sen. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury, that would require presidential candidates to provide the state with a copy of their birth certificate is officially dead.

The proposal, in fact, never made it out of the committee where McLachlan suggested it.