Jan Brewer vetoes birther, campus gun bills
You may have heard that the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, vetoed two bills on Monday. One of them would have required people running for President of the United States to prove U.S. citizenship to be on the state’s ballot. Hoorah and all that.
What you may not have heard, and what I certainly didn’t hear, is that there were more ways than just a birth certificate to prove citizenship.
The so-called “birther bill,” would have made Arizona the first state in the nation to require presidential candidates prove U.S. citizenship by providing a long form birth certificate, and other forms of proof including baptismal or circumcision certificates, to be placed on the state ballot.