A new couillon is born every day.
He looks a little like The Donald. And now he sounds like him too.
Tired of fielding what he says are "many inquiries concerning President Barack Obama's citizenship and requests that the Secretary of State prevent his name from being place on the ballot in Louisiana's Nov. 6 Congressional and Presidential elections," SOS Tom Schedler is asking state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell for an opinion on the matter. Schedler's plan was posted on his facebook page March 13 via a letter signed by "William E. Crawford, Attorney, Department of State."
"We have received a huge amount of letters, faxes and emails on the subject," Brandee Patrick, Schedler's public information officer, told The Independent this morning.
The facebook post acknowledges that Schedler does not have federal or state authority or discretion to investigate, refuse to qualify a candidate or refuse to place a candidate on the ballot on the grounds he or she may not qualify.
Why Schedler's office doesn't just tell that to those making the "many inquiries" is unclear. It seems Shedler prefers to play the conspiracy theorists games.
The fringe has continued to promote this theory despite that Obama released his official birth certificate from Hawaii in 2008, the Hawaii Department of Health's confirmation based on the original documents - and birth announcements published in August 1961 in two Hawaii newspapers. Wonder how someone could fabricate that?
Last year the president played his own Trump card. He publicly released a certified copy of his original long-form Certificate of Live Birth, seeking to end once and for all the so-called "birther" issue after Donald Trump's double comb-over became a nauseating sideshow distraction in the presidential election and the country's more pressing problems.
Patrick said she this morning she would forward to us Schedler's letter to the AG and a letter he wrote to constituents, but we had not received them by 12:30. She also said Schedler would return our call, but we have not heard from him.
The AG's office has yet to receive the letter as well. "You might want to contact the Secretary of State's Office. To my knowledge, we have not received a request for an opinion," says Amanda Larkins, Caldwell's director of communications.
We were unable to find the post on Schedler's facebook page this morning. View it below.
