Bill Posey

The Orlando Sentinel is calling on Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) to withdraw his bill (now co-sponsored by 10 other House Republicans) demanding proof of citizenship from future presidential candidates, warning him that “he’ll have to do more” than support a resolution commemorating Hawaiian statehood to prove he’s not indulging “tin-hatters.”
Mr. Posey should know that birth [...]

Bill Pascoe, who worked for both of the luckless Republicans who ran against Barack Obama in the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate race, tells his party to distance itself from the “birthers” already. It’s worth reading, but this assertion rings false.
Am I the only one to notice that mainstream media attention to the “Birthers” has picked [...]

Eric Kleefeld has the numbers, donations from GOP leadership PACs to the Florida Republican and infamous sponsor of the “Birther Bill” that is quietly gaining popularity in the House:
Minority Leader John Boehner’s PAC, the Freedom Project, donated $5,000 to Posey’s campaign in June. Minority Whip Eric Cantor’s ERICPAC gave $7,500.

Six months into Obama’s presidency, after scores of embarrassing legal defeats, the cottage industry of conspiracy theories about the president’s birth shows no signs of disappearing.

Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-Fla.) bill that would change campaign law to demand proof of citizenship from presidential candidates is up to nine co-sponsors. Since June, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas), and Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) have added their names to the list.
Burton is an ironic recruit to the [...]

Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), who has introduced a bill that would require future presidential candidates to provide proof of U.S. citizenship, has collected four more co-sponsors — Reps. John R. Carter, John Culberson and Randy Neugebauer, all Republicans from Texas, and Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.). Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) became the first co-sponsor last month.
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Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.) has a co-sponsor for his much-maligned bill that would require a birth certificate from presidential candidates.
“There’s nothing in the Constitution about what you do to show that you met the requirements and there is nothing in federal law,” Goodlatte said recently.
Goodlatte called the bill a “housekeeping” matter.
“It doesn’t have an impact [...]

Steve Benen gives us a peek into the tortured existence of Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), the man who wrote legislation demanding proof of American citizenship from presidential candidates and was promptly mocked as a fool.
“I expected there would be some civil debate about it, but it wasn’t civil,” Posey said. “Just a bunch of name-calling [...]

Freshman Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), who took some heat for introducing a bill that would force presidential candidates to provide proof of citizenship, explains himself on a blog he writes for a local newspaper.
Why’d I do this? Well, for a number of reasons and the more and more I get called names by leftwing activists, [...]