Thomas Scheveck's promulgation of lies about natural-born American citizen Barack Hussein Obama are small potatoes. The State Board of Elections didn't refute them yesterday, but they did at least affirm my conclusion that Scheveck doesn't understand the law. Secretary of State Jason Gant and his six fellow board members spent eleven minutes on the phone yesterday dismissing Scheveck's effort to erase President Obama's name from the South Dakota ballot.
Scheveck wrapped his birther baloney in the paperwork of a complaint under the Help Americans Vote Act of 2002, which allows any person to complain about irregularities in voting technology and procedures. The State Board of Elections ruled that Scheveck's moaning does not fall within the jurisdiction of this federal law.
Scheveck didn't call in to the meeting to make his point. Apparently he's not interested in defending his words in a formal public setting. As Mr. Gebhart suggests, Scheveck also likely won't learn his lesson and stop wasting our time and tax dollars. He will likely remain hidden behind his computer screen, latching onto whatever birther queen ant Orly Taitz tells him to do. Taitz filed a similarly incorrect HAVA complaint in Indiana on February 9, 2012; Scheveck filed his HAVA complaint in South Dakota on February 22, 2012.
Update 08:20 MDT: I wonder how Scheveck would have felt about his fellow Black Hills wingnuts promoting a Swiss citizen for President of the United States?
All in very public efforts that create doubts about the candidate in the minds of Rasmussen's likely voters: the greatest political beneficiary in the chemical toilet? Yep, Kristi Noem.
Thomas Scheveck is a moron and a racist. Sadly there are a lot of these around here in South Dakota.
I bet he's a bible thumper as well
According to the tea party's way of spelling Mr. Reitzel, it should be moran instead of moron. Trying to help you here. Something else as well, Ms. Bachmann never ever never made a gaffe during her campaign. In other words, she knew even before she applied to be a citizen of Switzerland, that you had to renounce your American citizenship to do that. Smart person for sure to do that, especially when you are running for the House of Do Nothing. No gaffes indeed.
lol thanks for the correction 196th.
To Rep. Noem's credit, she wrote to a constituent named Thomas (!!!) last June to affirm her belief that the birth certificate on file with the State of Hawaii is legit and that Barack Hussein Obama is a natural-born citizen of the United States.
Cory, what Noem, Thune and the other Republicans have to say is that this is a bunch of bull. We have bigger problems then this to solve. They have to "forcefully" say enough of this and let's move on.
The problem is when they talk about it it's wishy-washy and leaves an opening for these nut-bags to keep bringing it up.