Proud Birther GOP Senate Candidate: Obama’s Votes ‘Should Be Taken Back’ Because Of ‘Fraud’

Army veteran Hector Maldonado is launching an underdog bid for the Republican Senate nomination in Missouri, explaining that, like the tea party movement, he’s frustrated with status-quo politics. Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) is the front-runner and expected nominee, but as Fired Up Missouri noted, “Maldonado made a strong move this weekend to shore up the birther vote in the August primary.”

During an interview Saturday, Maldonado — who is a Mexican-born naturalized citizen — repeatedly expressed doubts about President Obama’s citizenship, saying Obama “got away” with running without proving his citizenship, and that the president’s votes should “taken back”:

MALDONALDO: [Secretary of State Robin Carnahan] sent me a letter, and I ignored, it said, you have to prove you’re a citizen. I ignored it. You know, Obama got away with it, so I figured I could get away with it too. … I brought all this documentation…and I asked, is that a public record, now? … And they said, oh yes, absolutely, anyone who wants proof, we have it. I said, okay, can you do me a favor then, I’m sure Ms. Carnahan requested the same of Barack Obama when he petitioned to get on the Missiouri’s ballot to become president. They had no response, nothing.

I was going to picket when Mr. Obama coming into town to raise money for Ms. Carnahan. And I was going to…put up a big sign, telepromter, ‘read here Mr. Obama, Ms. Carnahan, where’s his proof of U.S. citizenship?‘ But I decided something different. I’m actually considering suing Ms. Robin Carnahan, because she discriminated against me. And she actually has said her job is to protect Missouri against fraud and corruption, but the fraud that she created is if she did not make Mr. Obama show proof of citizenship when he petitioned to get on the Missouri ballot. So therefore, the votes that he got from Missouri…should be taken back. And hopefully, other states do the same thing and sue Ms. Carnahan and their other secretaries of states, and sooner or later he’s going to have to prove, based on our demand, that he is in fact a U.S. born citizen.

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Fired Up Missouri also noted that Blunt has himself flirted with fringe “birther” conspiracy theory, saying last year, “What I don’t know is why the president can’t produce a birth certificate?” “And I think that that’s a legitimate question,” Blunt added. Eventually, when informed that Obama had indeed produced a birth certificate, Blunt relented.