Kansas new Governor Jeff Colyer is looking to stand out from the crowd, and tonight, he certainly accomplished that. Colyer reached out and tagged his Lt. Governor pick — a birther conspiracist who once contended the only solution to Global Warming is letting “God sort it out”. In 2010, this is how the Wichita Eagle saw the situation.
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Tracey Mann, a Salina commercial real estate agent, makes a strong impression with his knowledge of the issues and his specific ideas, but his suggestions that we should let God handle global warming and that President Obama needs to prove his citizenship raise doubts about Mann's judgment.
New York Magazine referred to it as a situation where he just.. couldn’t.. stop.
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About a month ago, Mann said at a candidate’s forum that Obama “should show his birth certificate to really resolve this thing one way or another.” And earlier this week, Mann said on the radio, “I think the president of the United States needs to come forth with his papers and show everyone that he’s an American citizen and put this issue to bed once and for all.” In light of these comments, the Hutchinson News decided to withdraw its earlier endorsement of Mann. Unless, somehow, he had simply managed to grossly misrepresent his position on the origins of our president this whole time?
The decision to tap a 2010 birther seems odd — but it may also be about evening the score. After all, Colyer will be running against another Birther, and he himself doesn’t have birther creds.
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OVERLAND PARK — 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.
The decision to place Mann on the ticket puts both of the 2010 birthers front and center in the Kansas race for Governor 2018.
In the race to lay claim to the ever important conspiracy theory vote, Colyer may have shored up his bona fides.