Obama Citizenship

Candidate Qualification: Letter Sent to Speaker Pelosi; DNC Update

By Phil

On Friday, Justin Riggs, blogger at yourfellowcitizen.com, posted the following:

I received an interesting letter from an an unnamed source today. This person wrote:

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If you want to draft a letter to NP (Nancy Pelosi) regarding the differences in the HI DNC Certification, I have someone who will hand-deliver this to NP in D.C.

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Obviously, I jumped at the offer. Here’s the letter I wrote:

Continued…

January 2nd, 2009

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi
Washington, D.C. Office
235 Cannon HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
202.225.4965

Congresswoman Pelosi,

First, please allow me the opportunity to wish you a Happy New Year, and express my gratitude for the chance to present this letter to you. I know that you are an extremely busy woman, and I will seek to be as brief and to the point as possible.

On the 22nd of December last year, I received a document from the Hawaii Office of Elections that included an Official Certification of Nomination from the Democratic Party that bears your signature on it. On that document, it states in part that: ?the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States (referring to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, respectively) are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.? I was interested in this document because it was different from all the other Certifications of Nomination which I have received, which simply state that the candidates had been nominated at the convention. I am assuming that this difference is a result of Section 11-113 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, which stipulates that the political party of a candidate must provide a statement that the candidate is legally qualified to serve as President under the provisions of the United States Constitution.

As I’m sure you know, there has been some concern on the part of the citizens of this country that Mr. Obama is not eligible to hold the office of President; and, as of yet, no evidence has been made available to the public that would allow for a determination of eligibility to be made. Because you signed your name to this document, I have been asked by other concerned citizens to make a request that you provide us access to and copies of any documents that you used when making a determination of eligibility regarding Mr. Obama’s qualifications to serve as President of the United States of America.

Again, I thank you for your time, and eagerly await your response. 

Sincerely Yours,
Your Fellow Citizen,
Justin W. Riggs
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If I hear anything, I’ll post it right away…

Update: Justin also provides the following update RE: records request:

[T]he DNC has denied our records request. Our next step, per D.C. law, is to petition the governor to force the DNC to turn over the documents in question. We’ll probably file that petition on Monday. If that’s denied, then we have to decide what to do about a lawsuit. I’ve drafted a letter to be sent to Joe Sandler, Chief Counsel of the DNC, asking him some further questions, and making it clear that the last thing I want to do is take this issue to the court system. That letter will also most likely be sent on Monday. I’ve drafted a letter to send to the RNC making a request for documents - that will be delivered on Monday. So there’s a lot going on.

-Phil

Full post as published by The Right Side of Life on January 03, 2009 (boomark / email).