JINDAL WILL SIGN "BIRTHER" BILL IF LEGES PASS IT

From NOLA.com:

Gov. Bobby Jindal would sign a bill requiring presidential candidates to provide a copy of their birth certificate to qualify for the Louisiana ballot if it reaches his desk, a spokesman said Monday.

A spokesman says Gov. Bobby Jindal will sign a bill to require presidential candidates to provide a birth certificate as proof of citizenship.

"It's not part of our package, but if the Legislature passes it we'll sign it," press secretary Kyle Plotkin said.

Surprise! Our Rhodes Scholar governor will sign the silly bill as a sop to the "birthers". Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter is also a Rhodes Scholar. One wonders how the screening committee for the scholarships operates.

The bill by state Rep. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, and Sen. A.G. Crowe, R-Slidell, would require federal candidates who want to appear on Louisiana ballots to file an affidavit attesting to their citizenship, which would have to be accompanied by an "original or certified copy" of their birth certificate.
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Seabaugh, an attorney, said his bill was motivated by the numerous lawsuits that have been filed over Obama's citizenship. "Not one of them has ever been decided on the merits," Seabaugh said. "As an attorney, that's offensive to me."

He said he has no reason to doubt Obama's citizenship. "I don't purport to be a 'birther,'" Seabaugh said. "This is from the standpoint of cleaning up an area of the law where there appears to be a gap."

There's a gap all right, but it's not in the law.

H/T to Adrastos at First Draft.