Pennsylvania: Tim Murphy

Recently on the Rachel Maddow show, Rachel discussed a letter sent out by Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Murphy. The discussion starts about 4:45 in:

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And from the transcript of the show, here's a segment of the letter:
Before being elected president, then-Senator Barack Obama was plagued with questions about whether or not he is a natural-born citizen of the United States as the Constitution requires. To refute these claims, the Obama campaign in June of 2008 released a certification of live birth stating Barack Obama was born in the State of Hawaii in 1961.

Watch:

From Firedoglake:Mike Stark has been up on the Hill all week whipping Democrats to hold fast on the public plan, and in his spare time, he decided to ask Republicans if Barack Obama was born in the United States. Not only do they not want to answer -- they run.

He asks Republicans Tom Price, Thaddeus McCotter, Jeff Fortenberry, Charles Boustany, Aaron Schock, Greg Harper, Mike Coffman and others what they think. Tim Murphy hides, looking at pens for 20 minutes to try and avoid him.

Mike and Brave New Films cameraman Brett Vauhn finally got Arizona congressman Trent Franks to admit without equivocation that Obama was born in the United States, and that his birth certificate is valid.

The video makes clear that the Republican Party is captive to their conspiracy theory-mongering base all the way up to the top.Tim Murphy first appears about 40 seconds in.

Thinkprogress.org is reporting that an organization calling itself the American Energy Alliance is airing some radio ads in the home districts of some Democrats in order to pressure them into voting against the Waxman-Markey clean energy bill.

Before we proceed further, let's give a listen to the ad:

The members of Congress targetted:

• John Barrow (D-GA)
• G.K. Butterfield (D-NC)
• Mike Doyle (D-PA)
• Charlie Gonzalez (D-TX)
• Baron Hill (D-IN)
• Jim Matheson (D-UT)
• Charlie Melancon (D-LA)
• Tim Murphy (R-PA)
• Mike Ross (D-AR)
• Betty Sutton (D-OH)

The text can be found here.

As I am in Congressman Doyle's district, I contacted him for a comment. Here it is:
I've been working for months with Chairman Waxman and Chairman Markey to put together a plan that will halt global warming and create American jobs, and I think we're pretty close to completing a package that can be approved by a majority of Members in both the Committee and the full House.

[img_assist|nid=359|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=420|height=107]After the week he had we are considering renaming Winners & Losers to Winners and Murtha.