Crazy people make blogging fun. We have our own Orly Tai(n)tz here in Illinois—Sharon Meloni. She’s objecting to multiple candidates’ filings because there is no proof of their citizenship. To support the argument she says:
The objection is based on the fact that there is no evidence that any of the candidates fit US and Illinois Constitutional mandates of age and citizenship requirements. For the most part, the age of a candidate is generally easy to discern. Citizenship status is not. Recent changes in HIPPA privacy laws prohibit the public access to records establishing citizenship status. As a consequence, a potential candidate can run for office without ever proving citizenship status.
Of course, she’s referring to HIPAA not HIPPA and that has nothing to do with public access to citizenship documents. Proof of citizenship is done through a US Passport, a US Birth Certificate, a Naturalized certificate, or some report of foreign birth to US Citizen parents. None of these are restricted by HIPAA–they are restricted by state and national laws to protect privacy. There’s nothing recent about the changes to such documents, they have been that way for years. HIPAA is concerned with privacy rights to your medical records which is an entirely different issue.
This woman is batshit crazy and making crap up.
In order to file as a candidate you must certify, under penalty of law, that you are an eligible voter in the district in which you are filing to be a candidate.
You can’t be an eligible voter unless you are a citizen.
All she has to do is check to see if the people who filed are registered voters — and that is publicly available info if she’d bother to put the time and effort into it.
Coo-Coo. Coo-Coo.
PS – These are the types of Tea Party wackjobs that IL-10 GOP Bob Dold was on TV supporting before the primary.
Now that it’s 6 months later he doesn’t have seem to have so much to say about the teabaggers…