Joe Montgomery, who only recently, filed a petition to remove Obama from the state election ballot because he did not meet citizenship requirements, has withdrawn the petition in having to deal with an angry backlash for doing so.
In explaining his withdrawal in an email, Mr. Montgomery, who serves as the Communications Director at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, wrote, “There has been a great deal of animosity and intimidation directed not only at me, but at people around me, who are both personal and professional associations.”
This petition has been filed so as to get state election authorities to obtain a certified copy of Obama’s birth certificate yet with the petition being withdrawn, his name will remain on the election ballot – even as the state is trying to get a copy of the President’s birth certificate.
In an earlier hearing held by Mr. Kobach, a conservative Republican, Montgomery argued that in order for a person to be eligible to run for President, he had to be born in the United States – and since Obama’s dad was from Kenya and his mom from Kansas – the President might have forged his birth certificate.
As no representative of Obama was present at the ruling, apart from a letter sent by a lawyer for the Obama campaign, Mr. Kobach and the board have decided that it could not rule immediately. The letter by the lawyer stated that Montgomery’s interpretation of the law was against the Supreme Court’s and its ruling which has been upheld for ‘over a hundred years’.
President Obama, in response to the ‘birther conspiracies’ gaining voice last year, thanks to the participation of Donald Trump, released his long-form birth certificate which reveals that he was born in Hawaii in 1961.