Two Kansas Rethugs Reveal Themselves as Birthers

Kris Kobach also helped write the Arizona immigration law.


<<A candidate for Kansas secretary of state who’s already part of the national immigration debate says President Barack Obama would resolve questions about his citizenship by producing a detailed birth certificate.

A spokesman for Kris Kobach, a Republican and a law professor who helped write Arizona’s new immigration law, said Friday that Kobach gets questions about the issue regularly. Kobach’s latest remarks were Thursday evening, responding to a question during an event at an Overland Park retirement community.

Those comments also came as Tracey Mann, a fellow Republican running in the 1st Congressional District of western and central Kansas, faced criticism over similar remarks. Two newspapers withdrew their endorsements of him this week.>>



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/23/2103264/kansas-gop-hopefuls-remarks-on.html#ixzz0vJ1zfOY8


So much for the meme that American universities are great bastions of liberalism.

Kobach is a disgrace to my alma motta and to the profession of teaching. He has no business in front of studnets or in public office.

I read the article in the Sunday paper at my mothers house while visiting for dinner. I flew up out of the chair and started ranting. My blood pressure was up and I was PISSED OFF! Mom was concerned about my mental health for a moment. A passion for politics runs in one side of my family, hot heads in the other.

they are obviously incompetent to hold any important job. they can fucking scrub toilets, that'll be safe.

Chances are that asshole WILL get elected. Even if he doesn't, he will land on his feet as the wealthy and connected always seem to do.

I think that's really why right-wingers hate them.

I will be kinda surprised if he survives the primary. But he might have tenure at UMKC.

I remember a time when I said there was no way we would have another Bush in the White House.

The Nativists
Profiles of 20 Anti-Immigrant Leaders

Kris Kobach, 41
Kansas City, Mo.

The man behind many of the deeply flawed anti-illegal immigrant laws passed recently is Kris Kobach, the "national expert on constitutional law" who works for the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI). IRLI is the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), recently listed as a nativist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. At IRLI, Kobach has been a prime mover behind ordinances in Farmer's Branch, Texas, and Hazelton, Pa., among other places, that seek to punish those who aid and abet "illegal aliens."
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Before joining IRLI, Kobach served as U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's top immigration adviser, moving on to take charge of Department of Justice efforts to tighten border security shortly after the 9/11 attacks. There, he developed a program — the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System — that called for close monitoring of men from Arab and Muslim nations, even legal U.S. residents. The program collapsed due to complaints of racial profiling and discrimination.
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Kobach, who in 2007 became chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, is far-right Christian fundamentalist. During his 2004 campaign, he accused his opponent of associating with groups supporting "homosexual pedophilia." He was referring to the Human Rights Campaign, a mainstream gay rights organization that has never come remotely close to endorsing pedophilia.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2008/spring/the-nativists?page=0,11

Thank you for your research on this matter. I need to shout this info from the roof tops. Mind if I turn this into an OP and credit you for uncovering the stone from which Kobach crawled?

They are the unsung heroes in investigating and exposing hate groups of all kinds.

BTW, in front of their HQ in Montgomery, AL is the Civil Rights Memorial, which I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit once (and I'd love to go back sometime). Here's more about it from the SPLC website:

A circular black granite table records the names of the martyrs and chronicles the history of the movement in lines that radiate like the hands of a clock. Water emerges from the table's center and flows evenly across the top. On a curved black granite wall behind the table is engraved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s well-known paraphrase of Amos 5:24 - We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Created by Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer Maya Lin, the memorial is located across the street from the Southern Poverty Law Center's office building in Montgomery, Alabama, a city rich with civil rights history.

Like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Civil Rights Memorial invites visitors to touch the engraved names. As Lin envisioned, the Memorial plaza is "a contemplative area — a place to remember the Civil Rights Movement, to honor those killed during the struggle, to appreciate how far the country has come in its quest for equality, and to consider how far it has to go."

The Memorial is just around the corner from the church where Dr. King served as pastor during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955-1956, and the capitol steps where the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march ended in 1965. The Memorial is located on an open plaza accessible to visitors 24 hours a day, every day of the week.

http://www.splcenter.org/civil-rights-memorial

Even if they do not really believe it, they will use it to gain political points.

We just had a thread about a couple of GOP candidates just coming out of the closet (that's the way I like to put it :) ) as birthers. I suspect they're happy to 'come out' in red districts, more noncommital elsewhere.