Orly Taitz, one of the most prominent leaders in the so-called birther movement - which seeks to remove President Barack Obama from office because, they allege, he was born in Kenya rather than the United States - will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
"I received $2,445 towards $3,420 registration fee," she wrote on one of her websites. "I need to collect $975 more in order to register on the ballot in CA as an official candidate runing for U.S. Senate. With an unprecedented level of corruption in the US Senate, House of Rep and courts, there has to be at least one person with the strength of character to speak up the truth about our Thief-in-Chief."
Meanwhile, Taitz spent the weekend in New Hampshire trying to keep Obama off the ballot there, according to Talking Points Memo, which is supported by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
"I will launch an investigation of Barack Obama for occupying the White House, while using a fraudulently obtained Connecticut Social Security . . . which was never assigned to him according to E-verify and SSNVS and for using a computer generated forgery (according to experts) instead of a valid Long Form birth certificate," Taitz wrote on her senatorial campaign website. "I will demand investigation and prosecution of governmental officials who are aiding and abetting Barack Obama in his occupations of the position of the U.S. President without any valid identification papers."
A Republican, Taitz in 2010 was unsuccessful in getting the GOP nomination for California Secretary of State - the state's highest elected elections official.
In 2012, there will be no party nominations in California for any office besides president and vice president. Voters approved a measure to make all other offices technically non-partisan. The top-two vote-getters in the June primary will be on the ballot in November, regardless of party affiliation.
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