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Not To Be Outdone, Birther Edition

by David Kurtz
05.22.12 | 6:00 am

Perhaps feeling the pain of another Arizona official grabbing the birther spotlight, Sheriff Joe Arpaio dispatched a deputy and a member of his volunteer posse to the Hawaii Department of Health on Monday seeking Obama’s birth certificate.

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