Arizona’s birther-curious Secretary of State Ken Bennett has been getting jerked around like a Daily Caller “reporter” by the strangely un-American named Jill T. Nagamine, who is Hawaii’s Deputy Secretary of State, in his quest to discover if President Barack Obama was really born in America or if he is actually the muslim pharaoh baby killer from Kenya that most people who still haven’t gotten over the idea of a black man in the White House, much less can’t be lynched for ‘eyeballin’ ” white women, think he is. Opinions differ!:
It appears that the State of Hawaii’s first response to Bennett’s request of President Obama’s birth certificate was to quickly dash out a letter on March 17 with a series of hyperlinks, including one to the Hawaii Department of Health’s website and three links to Hawaii’s Revised Statutes concerning the confidentiality of vital records.
The state of Hawaii has gone to great lengths to handle the years of backlogged requests by so-called “birthers” looking for the president’s birth certificate. In spite of the White House’s decision last year to release the president’s long-form birth certificate, the Hawaii Department of Health is still receiving an average of 50 new requests each month.
Bennett’s office replied on March 30 that if they could not have a certified copy of the actual birth certificate sent to them, then they would need the Department of Health to verify the details of Obama’s birth and parentage and fill out an enclosed form. The email also requested that department officials verify that the copy of the birth certificate released by the White House matches the document on file in Hawaii.
But Nagamine said she was too busy not being stupid and just kind of figured they would go back to doing what Arizonan’s do best: scream at Taco Bells when the weather gets cool enough to go outside and then go home and wait to die. But, no. Bennett got one his minions to spend his days harassing Nagamine until she finally asked them to prove that they were who they say they were;
At this point, Nagamine turned the tables on Bennett’s office, demanding verification that they were qualified to seek verification of the president’s birth. “My client, the Department of Health, has forwarded your request for verification of President Obama’s birth record to me,” she wrote, “We need more information to substantiate that you are eligible to receive verification.”
Bennett huffily replied, “As the chief elections officer for the State of Arizona and pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes, sections 16-212, 16-301, 16-502, 16-507 and others, my office is tasked with quadrennially compiling a list of candidates for the Office of the President of the United States.” He asserted that his office is the one that is being overtaxed by requests for proof of the president’s citizenship, and that Nagamine’s refusal to follow his instructions, “will dramatically exacerbate an already untenable situation.”
Which is much better than:
You dont get to make the rules. I am the
george tierneyArizona important guy that made thecommentsrequestsandra fluke, notto you..take it off google. If it goes to a lawyer, it will be settled in court, with me getting paid.
But Nagamine still said “no”, which is Hawaiian for “no”, so criminally inane Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent two of his best men (beaner beaters) to Hawaii because Hawaii has a broken tailight or something and needs to be arrested:
This morning, Arizona’s embattled Sheriff Joe Arpaio confirmed that he sent a deputy from his “threats unit” to Hawaii, along with a volunteer tasked with investigating the matter. They arrived in Hawaii on Monday and flashed badges at Hawaii Department of Health personnel, announcing that they had been sent by the State of Arizona.
When quizzed by reporters as to what specific threats necessitate such measures, Arpaio cited “security issues…that I can’t got into.”
Had he known, Sheriff Arpaio could have probably hired Dog the Bounty Hunter for cheap because he needs the work , he’s already there, and, besides, he is totally awesome and could track that birth certificate down where lesser men can’t…





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That’s it, my reality indicator is broken. This shit is so stupid I can no longer tell jokes about wingnuts from wingnut reality. Arizona should just change its name to Bosshoggville, secede from the US, and make having a triple digit IQ a capital crime.
“No” is Hawaiian for yes AND no.
I can see it now:
Q> Are You Hawaii’s Deputy Secretary of State?
A> Aloha.
Q> Are you in posession of Barack Husein Obama’s phony birth certificate?
A> Aloha.
Q> Huh? What? Are you jerking us around?
A> Aloha.
Q> Are you aware I have a bono fi-dee tin badge given to me by Sherriff Arpaio, AKA “America’s sherriff?
A? Aloha.
Q> Are you taking me for a fool?
A> Aloha.
This conversation could go on for days like this. It would truly be a beautiful thing.
I’m sure the constituents of Sheriff Joe are just thrilled to be paying for two round trip tickets to Hawaii.
I wonder if someone couldn’t successfully bring suit for misappropriation of taxpayer funds. By no stretch of the imagination could some podunk county sheriff’s responsibilities of office extend to investigation of a federal elected official who neither resides nor does business in the jurisdiction.
Easy mode has been verry, verry, good to Sheriff Joe.
“Threats Unit” is perhaps the most wonderful euphemism for Hired Goons I’ve ever heard.
..And what better way to tell federal corruption investigators to Fuck Off than using police officers to intimidate public officials from a completely different state.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the grand and glorious embodiment of white male privilege…
According to a TPM account, the AZ Secretary of State (Ken Bennett) is now claiming that he only acted in response to 1200 angry inquiries regarding the Kenyan Usurper.
Some other folks figured out that, hey, if this AZ state official can be petitioned to do the bidding of others so easily – as opposed to, I dunno, sticking to just following state and federal law – maybe others can play. And say, why isn’t he as diligent in inquiring about the Mittbot’s eligibility?
Thus was an online petition born, demanding that Secretary Bennett investigate whether Rmoney is in fact a unicorn. They’re seeking 25,000 signers, and so far they are over 15,000. That’s over ten times the 1200 petitioners cited above!
It’s well past time to demand some answers on the ‘Unicorn Question’, Mr. Bennett!
Look Sheriff Joe Arpaio watched many episodes of the original Hawaii Five-O in the sixties and those shows proved there were no black people in the state at that time.
Just like The Andy Griffith Show proved the same thing about North Carolina.
It’s 108F in Feenix today. I’d be off to Hawaii myself if I could get the State O’ Arizona to pay for it.
Not exactly ‘Podunk’ – I was almost killed in a traffic accident in Podunk, but in Maricopa County – not. What is worth knowing tho is that the ‘Sheriffs Office’ in Maricopa County covers like a 92nd per cent part of the county. Maricopa County contains the Cities o’Phoenix, Scottsdale, Mesa, Glendale, Chandler, Surprise! – all with their own police forces. Maricopa Sheriffs basically control the County Jail and the Town o’ Guadalupe. And Sun City, I think. Maybe El Mirage. Not exactly definitive.
Sheriff Joe must immediately send a Threats Unit to Fairy Land to discover the truth!!
Phoenix New Times:
‘Yes, the investigation that was billed as being at “no cost to taxpayers” happens to have some cost to taxpayers.
According to what Arpaio told conspiracy theorist/alleged “special deputy” Jerome Corsi, the “birther” brigade is “with an MCSO deputy detective for safety reasons and to act as a liaison between MCSO and local law enforcement.”
According to the Arizona Republic, Arpaio gave them the “so what?” line about sending a deputy on a friggin’ trip to Hawaii, with Arpaio adding that “sometimes things change.”
The Republic goes on, “The Sheriff’s Office also had to cover the costs of airfare and hotel rooms for the deputy and Zullo,” although Arpaio claims he “expects” the posse to pay back MCSO.
Corsi, not surprisingly, says he’s “embedded with the investigators in Hawaii,” and we’ll bet you a shiny nickel that his story about not getting anyone in the Hawaiian government to give him jack shit will turn into a tale about the government hiding things from him.
Corsi also justifies the trip on the “WorldNetDaily” website with Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett’s efforts to verify the president’s birth certificate.
According to the Hawaii Department of the Attorney General, Bennett hasn’t been trying that hard, seeing as the Attorney General’s office said Bennett’s had about three months to provide a “legitimate” reason for needing verification of the birth certificate.’
Why do I keep living here?
Actually, that looks like the first response was as it should be: an automated cookie-cutter email sent to any racist kook who gets a hankering to do some investigatin’, outlining some basics about how the world works, what color the sky is, etc.
Oh, and if anyone is wondering, the Arpaio “threats unit” is exactly what it seems to be here – Arpaio’s own armed-and-dangerous Sturmabteilung that he uses for intimidation and smear campaigns both inside and outside the state.
Arpaio exercises power in direct contempt of the Constitution and should be treated accordingly.
The Unicorn theory might explain Romney’s evident failure to pass the Turing Test, which I think we all can agree constitutes a minimum requirement for the office.
What? So Sheriff Joe doesn’t have enough
dirty messicansminorities to grind under in AZ, so he’s gotta go lookin’ fer ‘em in exotic furrin’ cough cough “states” like Hawaii?Youda thunk that Sheriff Joe woulda realized that if SB 1070 passed, it would ruin all his fun since all the dirty messicans is gettin’ kicked outa ‘Zona. Don’t think Sheriff Joe’s firing on all pistons, albeit he’s got that Nazi thing down real good.
Dunno if you’ve ever read Jon Talton’s Phoenix detective mystery series, but he seems to catch the ambiance of Phoenix – esp how the various PD/Sheriff Depts intersect and interact – pretty well. Since I’ve never lived there (just visited), I can’t be sure of veracity.
Jon was a reporter on the old Phoenix Gazette (I think) and is very aware of the way things are in AZ.
There have been several situations recently where I was convinced that the City o’Phoenix cops were going to take out the MCSO idiots – and I was very sorry they didn’t.
Arpaio: Threats Unit here, HI div. Almost cracked the case. Just need all our birth certs, lng frm, choppered in. That’s what HI peeps said. By helo. Or Hilo. Hard to understand foreign lng. Snd more $
*heh* We even passed an Act(Act 100) against this bullsh*t, signed by a GOP Guv even…!
Btw, Aloha, as I am a denizen of Hilo, blu…! ;-)
We need to send a contingency from FDL to demand Mitt’s birth certificate. He was born, wasn’t he?
Arizona: Proof positive that truth (or consequences) is stranger than fiction.
I love that these asshats are getting totally pwned by bureaucrats more than willing to let them know that they are insane morons.
Hey, it’s a great way for a couple of grifters to score a pair of tickets to Hawaii.
Arizona – proof too much sun is really bad for the brain. Keep that hat on, kiddies.
Retirement in the PacNW – looking smarter every day
Can’t HI just deport them?
Send a copy embossed to the Everglades where there are 20ft. pythons!
Hmm, you’re right. We better get on that stat.
My respect for Hawaii has grown tremendously with this story — Jill Nagamine is nobody’s fool. And, surprisingly, I have less respect for Arizona tonight than I did this morning — something I did not think possible. Srsly, AZ… these people are making fuckchop (that’s ™ & ® some douchewad in the Carolinas) out of your brand, such as it is.
To be somewhat serious for a moment…at first you wonder what’s wrong with people who keep asking the same people the same question…do they really think state officials in Hawaii are just going to do an about-face the 50 millionth time they are asked about the president’s birth? “Oh, alright, you got us! Yes, we faked the whole thing.”
You know that thing about insanity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result? Well, here’s a classic example.
The thing is, it’s illustrative of ALL of what they believe & support. Think of all the counter-intuitive shit that these morons cling to as articles of faith: tax cuts increase revenues; tax cuts create jobs; changing the chemistry of the atmosphere can’t possibly affect conditions on earth; bombing people is the best solution to any foreign policy disagreement, and furthermore, makes the people you bomb love you, and so on…on and on….
The truth is, we should have seen this coming. Birtherism is such a fantastically stupid conspiracy theory that it boggles the mind of any halfway intelligent person that anyone would buy into it, but that’s just not how things work in WingNut World. In Winger World, once something, no matter how absurd, is “out there,” at least a few and often many will latch onto it. But once that happens, we know how it always plays out from there: since it’s an established fact in what passes for the minds of those who subscribe to it, it must be right, and they will continue to “make the case” by citing the same disproven bullshit points, and continue asking the same stupid questions, forever.
This is why it’s important that torture remains frowned upon – because otherwise, by now, these fuckers would have put every elected official in Hawaii on the rack, attached electrodes to their genitals, waterboarded, and etc etc until they got the “correct” answer.
“Say the birth certificate was faked! SAY IT!!!!” Bzzzzzzzzt!!!!
Now you know why they were so supportive of the Bush/Cheney torture regime.
Theres stupid, and I know stupid, and then theres ‘this’.
Seriously?
…did the Onion start a TV reality show and no one told us???
It’s well worth reading Nagamine’s email exchange with Bennett. She has an exquisite sense of humor — with the law, no less.
Umm… Does Sheriff Joe realize that his “deputies” have no jurisdiction outside of Maricopa County?
What good is being a scary stormtrooper if people – ‘specially in some state that’s not even in the real US o’A – don’t take your Junior Sheriff badge (free with every box of Sugar Coated Hitler Flakes®!) seriously?
Aaaand, it is now being reported that AZ Secretary of State Ken Bennett has backed away from the birfer ledge:
But I’m pretty sure Sheriff Hatey will continue to proceed along a similar path, undaunted and without shame.
WOLVERINES!
Rong state. NM, not AZ
I read the e-mail exchange, it is very entertaining. Big Joe shipping a couple buttonmen over to Hawaii is just too bizarre to contemplate- this is like the Onion doing a Punk’d episode, with no-one in on the joke, crew, cast, audience, innocent bystanders- but all of them have been surreptitiously dosed with some brown acid. I hope the shit hits the fan, and spatters all over these morons. That would be…the rest of the story!
Hey, Sheriff Joe can’t be a Nazi because he doesn’t speak German!
Oh,thingwarbler, you win the TBogg commenter prize today -made me choke without even my mouth being full. That’s a high bar you have leaped.
Mine as well. This is exactly the way to deal with these lunatics at this point.
I’d be slow to reflect all of this idiocy onto the entire state of Arizona. Just saying. Never write off so many people, if you do you are writing off hope.
Well its not ‘Arizona’ but arpaio COUNTY right?? I sure hope sherrif joe paid for that little junket out of his own truckstop-prostitute-shakedown-money, because arpaio is famously budget strapped, right? I think Hawaii is being way too polite and taking this way too seriously.If i were Hawaii i would have sent a couple of my state cops down to the Health department and confiscated the guns from those 2 buffoons (you just know they had thier guns) and then made them take off thier clothes and go through the metal detectors several times in their boxer shorts and black wingtips.
Looks like Maricopa County..srry…never been there myself
It’s times like this that I miss Spy Magazine. They’d contact AZ’s Joe and ask him about the illegals coming in from Freedonia.
“Criminally inane…”
Heheheheheh
Back in ’81 my ship went to the Caribbean for exercises. I found out that Jean Dixon had predicted we would vanish in the Bermuda Triangle. Well, we thought nothing had gone amiss and we returned home safe and sound. We thought. I firmly believe that we did slip into an alternate reality, one where Raygun was now President and the further we travel from that nexus point the more distorted and warped reality has become. This story is just one more bit of evidence. *sigh* Oh well, going to go read about the campaign now and see how Mitt is going to save us all…..
“…the Muslim Pharaoh baby-killer from Kenya…”
Right. The one whose head is three feet up Wall Street’s ass.
There, fixed it for you, T. :o)
Just because the bigots and assholes in the republican party don’t like Obama doesn’t mean that we should ignore his abject failures and the squandering of an historic opportunity to make real changes.
YMMV. :o)
My AZ son tells me that Arpaio is pretty much considered a jackass outside of Maricopa Co. He really believes he’s hotshit because he gets national attention.
Birthirism is simply the racist brain refusing the reality that America elected a black president. They have to make up a reason why Obama is not really our preznit.
Wingnuts are excellent at twisting their brains (both cells) into pretzels.
If I were them, I’d take care about the blue meth problem in my state before I went chasing after shit like this.
I have no idea, really, but wouldn’t surprise me if Sheriff Joe makes a little money offa that meth trade. Doesn’t want to kill one of his cash cows…
The HI birtherism stunt gives this attention whore just what Arpaio wants.
OMG my post got the TBOGGSTALANCHE!!
Why doesn’t Hawaii just give up and give these people what they REALLY want. Their own reality TV show! Everyone who asks for Obama’s birth certificate between now and Nov get’s their own show. They will be aired on Sunday nights between 1am and 6am on community cable 10 honolulu.