rssHudakgate Comes to an End
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 2:58 pm
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The strange spectacle of a Massachusetts congressional candidate trying to grab onto Scott Brown’s coattails is over: Bill Hudak, who got in hot water for signs and remarks about President Obama’s citizenship, has retracted his claim of an “endorsement” from Brown. From his press release:
“Our campaign misinterpreted his verbal agreement of support from Senator-elect Brown as an approval to proceed with the endorsement announcement. And, we did not follow proper procedure for getting the press release approved by the Senator-elect’s team,” said Hudak.
“I look forward to taking Scott up on his pledge to help me, but will let him dictate when that support should be communicated,” continued Hudak.
“What is most distressing is the extent to which left-wing bloggers continue to use smear tactics, including trying to portray me as a ‘birther’ and falsely denigrate and accuse Senator-elect Brown of being of that belief”, Hudak said. “Let me make clear that while I don’t agree with everything he does, President Obama is our President and I believe he was born in the United States, and accusations that he was not are unsupported nonsense and non-issues to the business of our country,” Hudak remarked.
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Comment posted January 22, 2010 @ 6:55 pm
“Let me make clear that while I don’t agree with everything he does, President Obama is our President and I believe he was born in the United States, and accusations that he was not are unsupported nonsense and non-issues to the business of our country…”
Ouch.
Comment posted January 23, 2010 @ 2:17 pm
That's a lot of crow to eat. I support the birther movement, in the sense the there are no record of Obamas birth except the Hawaiian cert of live birth with the serial number blurred out. quite suspicious. He is the duly elected president so I respect that. I would like to see a birth cert my self. anyhow I think the movement is moot at best.
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Comment posted January 24, 2010 @ 2:46 am
The serial number is not redacted in these photographs of the certificate:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in…
And by the way, that is the birth certificate. The state of Hawaii has said so.
Comment posted January 25, 2010 @ 2:03 pm
“I support the birther movement”
Then, you're obviously a deranged lunatic and you deserve to be mocked and derided for your blatant paranoia and unsubstantiated stupidity. Perhaps you're unaware of the two birth announcements by two different newspapers in 1961 submitted by the Department of Health of the state of Hawaii. This MUST be a conspiracy involving thousands of government officials all of whom have kept this vast, intricate plan a secret for over forty years.
It's not a movement. It's a few paranoid lunatics with zero respect for the law some of whom are blatant bigots.
The DOH of Hawaii is the presiding, legal authority. Your non-authoritative, personal desires are irrelevant.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
News Release
LINDA LINGLE
GOVERNOR
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
CHIYOME LEINAALA FUKINO M.D.
DIRECTOR
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release: July 27, 2009 09-063
STATEMENT BY HEALTH DIRECTOR CHIYOME FUKINO, M.D.
“I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawai?i State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai‘i State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama
was born in Hawai‘i and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago.”
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Comment posted January 25, 2010 @ 2:07 pm
I think you should have stopped after your first sentence.
Comment posted February 15, 2010 @ 5:40 am
There is something called identity theft. People just don't post identifying information on the internet. Someone should teach you how to protect you from being a victim of fraud.
Why bother acknowledging someone has made a mistake and then engage in the same behavior? Strange …
Comment posted February 15, 2010 @ 10:40 am
There is something called identity theft. People just don't post identifying information on the internet. Someone should teach you how to protect you from being a victim of fraud.
Why bother acknowledging someone has made a mistake and then engage in the same behavior? Strange …
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