Report: Official who OK'd Obama birth papers dies in crash

[DonViejo]

Source: USA Today



John Bacon, USA TODAY 9:57 a.m. EST December 12, 2013

The Hawaii health official who verified the authenticity of President Obama's birth certificate has died in a small plane crash, authorities said Thursday.

The plane, with a pilot and eight passengers aboard, went down Wednesday in the water off the Hawaiian island of Molokai, the Maui Fire Department said. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser was among the first outlets to report that the lone fatality was Loretta Fuddy. Tom Matsuda, the interim executive director of Hawaii's health insurance exchange, later confirmed Fuddy's death.

Fuddy, 65, became acting health director in January 2011. After being confirmed as the permanent health director, Fuddy made news in April 2011 when she verified the authenticity of certified copies of President Barack Obama's birth certificate, proving that he had been born in Hawaii.

Obama had requested the release to curb claims by opponents that he was born in Kenya and not eligible to be president.


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Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/12/hawaii-obama-birth-certificate-fuddy/3996657/

[Javaman]

1. Let the right wing conspiracy nuts loose!

halfwit alex jones will have a field day with this. I can see the dollar signs in his eyes now.

[frazzled]

2. The explanation of how ...

they managed to have only HER die while the other eight lived should be particularly interesting.

[underpants]

4. I can see a Repub "lets make asses out of ourselves...

Like the Vince Foster investigations" coming

[Javaman]

6. They'll say she was poisoned before hand then caused the plane to crash on purpose.

I live in Austin, I am well versed with the likes of halfwit jones.

Don't worry, (I know you won't lol) but bank on the fact that halfwit jones will put out a special video on just this issue and link to to FEMA, concentration camps, Benghazi and My Little Pony.

Early on, my friends and I would watch him on his access channel and have a drinking game and take a shot every time he blinked. the point was, he was so jacked up on something, he never ever blinked.

[warrant46]

11. I can't wait for the My Little Pony explanation

</sarcasm> -- (For those who don't know me very well)

[Capt. Obvious]

16. She was Wellstoned

[Turbineguy]

18. Phonecall for

Darrel Issa! Mr. Issa to the white courtesy telephone please!

[Cha]

37. And, guess who leads CT NUTS!?

"Donald Trump Accuses Obama Of Killing Hawaiian Records Offical In Plane Crash"

The quack's freakin' tweet..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024169755

[Ganja Ninja]

3. Well well well the plot thickens.

Take it away Alex -

[Enrique]

5. ?

[trusty elf]

8. .........

[IMG][/IMG]

[pinboy3niner]

34. Don't worry--she's already on it...

Taitz immediately fired off a press release demanding courts act on her lawsuits "before more people die in strange accidents.”

Birthers See Conspiracy in Death of Hawaiian Official Who Released Obama’s Birth Certificate
by Matt Wilstein | 1:54 pm, December 12th, 2013

...

As soon as USA Today broke the story wide on its website, conspiracy theory sites like WorldNetDaily and the aptly named ObamaConspiracy.org began posting their own pieces questioning the conventional wisdom that the plane crash and Fuddy’s death were an accident.

...


Attorney Orly Taitz, who became one of the most prominent voices in the birther movement, issued a press release that called on “8 courts and judges who received her cases to rule expeditiously on the merits and review the evidence of forgery and theft in Obama’s IDs before more people die in strange accidents.”

...


http://www.mediaite.com/online/birthers-see-conspiracy-in-death-of-hawaiian-official-who-released-obamas-birth-certificate/

[yellowcanine]

7. Where is "Watermelon Dan" Burton when you need him? (Yes I know it was actually a cantaloupe)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/06/_rep_dan_burton_r-ind.html

[WilliamPitt]

9. Oh God, here it comes...

[GoneFishin]

10. I don't know, and probably don't care how this connects to the Kenya nonsense,

but anyone who does not at least consider that there might be some connection must be in a coma.

[Feral Child]

14. Connected how?

Your post is a little brief, and I doubt any connection in the real world.

[Android3.14]

21. You know, that's just bizarre

Have you been mainlining Glenn Beck?
I love the I-don't-know-I-don't-care-but-anyone-who-doesn't-know-and-doesn't-care-must-be-in-a-coma tail chase.
Sweet dreams.

[GoneFishin]

30. Yeah. You got me. I am the one anomalous Glenn Beck snorting lefty who notices that

90% of political figures that die in small plane crashes were thorns in the sides of right wingers.

It's like you have some kind of fucking ESP.

[Android3.14]

35. It's more like 50%.

It's more like 50%.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html
I feel like I'm arguing with my cat.

[GoneFishin]

43. That link only proves my point. It does not even include this witness in the karl Rove case -

http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=25758

Karl Rove case witness killed in plane crash, sisters want answers
Web guru was potential witness in Ohio voting fraud case

Mike Connell had been deposed and was seen as a key witness in a lawsuit alleging voter fraud.
Shannon Connell of Madison says her brother Michael rarely talked about work. She knew he ran an Ohio company called New Media Communications that set up websites for Republicans including former President George H.W. Bush and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. But it wasn't until after he died last December, when the small plane he was piloting crashed, that she learned via the Internet of his tie to a voter fraud case and to allegations that presidential adviser Karl Rove had made threats against him.

[Android3.14]

48. Please excuse me. I'm going to back away from this conversation

I'm sure that in different circumstances we would have enjoyed this. Good luck, GoneFishin.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. "A Fuddy-Duddy Birtherism Denier"

Looney-Cons will probably start all over again

wanting a new release because the old one

has proven to be, well, Karma-tized, don't you think???

[deurbano]

13. I had the same automatic response as everyone else (cue the birther nuts)...

but then also remembered she was a real human being (as were the others on the plane), not just fodder in the nutcase war on reality. So, in addition to my first reaction... condolences to those personally affected by this tragedy. (Some of whom could be members of DU, for all I know.)

[TRoN33]

15. This is too suspicious...

Look at Paul Wellstone, John Denver, son of JFK -John Kennedy Jr., and many famous people killed in plane crash under suspicious circumstance. I'm betting ALEC, Donald Trump, birther idiots, Tea Party, racists and American for Prosperity are cheering for the death of this official who authenticated Obama's birth certificate.

[WilliamPitt]

17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[sarchasm]

19. He just affirmed javaman's reply. (not that he needed it..)

[Sgent]

31. JFK JRs crash was not suspicious

An inexperienced pilot flew into conditions he's not rated for or trained in, flying the equivalent of a race car, and had an accident.

I don't know of one pilot who thinks what he did was not very dangerous.

[grantcart]

39. I was particularly impressed that he worked in John Denver's death in an experimental

plane.

Wonder where he stood on the grassy knoll?

[KamaAina]

44. John Denver?!

John Denver was a lefty?!

Both he and JFK Jr. were piloting their own planes.

[Douglas Carpenter]

20. of course, he knew too much

[Arkana]

22. Cue the conspiracy theories!

OBAMA BROWNSHIRTS HAD HIM KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS ABOUT TO COME FORWARD! :tinfoil:

[DonViejo]

28. Right on schedule...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3101061/posts

[KamaAina]

45. He was a she

I actually knew her, vaguely. I used to work closely with one of her department heads.

Well, there goes my plan to hook her up with a guy named Duddy.

[Arkana]

46. It took me a second to get this.

When I did, I snorted. I actually snorted.

I hate you for making me snort.

[KamaAina]

47. I worked with another woman there whose surname was Wai.

I was going to hook her up with a Mr. Mee.

[geomon666]

23. You know Alex Jones is going to be all over this

Like stink on shit.

[SkatmanRoth]

33. Chem Trails, HAARP, Federal Reserve all part of the New World Order

Loretta Fuddy was about to talk to reporters and had to be eliminated

This story will live for years.

[Alkene]

42. Planned generations ago by the Freemasons and the Illuminati,

for the approval of our shape-shifting reptilian overlords.

I think one can work the black FEMA coffins into this, somehow.

[Gothmog]

24. This will be fun to watch

The birthers will have a field day with this death

[IdaBriggs]

25. The BIRTHERS MURDERED HER because she told the TRUTH?!?!?

Oh, my goodness! Is there nothing they won't stoop to?

(My version of the appropriate use of the old )

[valerief]

26. No good deed goes unpunished when the PTB are crossed. nt

[JackRiddler]

29. hmmmm

You've come up with the pro-Obama version.

That's making a big assumption about the PTB.

[BeyondGeography]

27. This could be the first time anyone has ever died

[struggle4progress]

32. Was she murdered? Was Trump involved?

[freshwest]

36. Does this mean Obama is going to serve 4 terms instead of 2? Birthers are breathless/clueless. n/t

[Cha]

38. This is sad for Loretta Fuddy and her loved ones..

She gets lost in all this CT donald f. trump bullshit.

RIP Loretta Fuddy

Hawaiian senator J. Kalani English led the tributes to the 65-year-old saying she, “will be dearly missed,” by people on the islands.

“I would like to extend my most heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of the Department of Health Director Loretta Fuddy, who tragically passed away in a plane crash late Wednesday afternoon,” he said. “Loretta was a true public servant and friend of the people….. She will be dearly missed.”

Fellow lawmaker Will Espero also paid tribute to Fuddy on his Facebook page.

"It is with great sadness to hear of the passing of Department of Health Director Loretta Fuddy,” he wrote. “She was a respected professional who served our state with pride and distinction. Rest in peace with the angels Director Fuddy.”

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/12/21872811-health-director-who-approved-obama-birth-certificate-dies-in-plane-crash




"Hawaii's health director has died after a light aircraft carrying nine people crashed in the sea off the island of Molokai on Wednesday.

Loretta Fuddy, who was on an annual visit to the the island, was named as the sole victim in the crash by state government sources.
One passenger was able to swim to shore and the others on board the Cessna Grand Caravan were rescued by helicopter and boat.

The Makani Kai Air plane, which was scheduled to fly to Honolulu at 3.15pm, went down at about 3.45pm, half a mile northwest of Kalaupapa peninsula, Maui Fire Department spokesman Lee Mainaga said.

Ms Fuddy had been booked on the flight along with the health department's deputy director Keith Yamamoto, a spokeswoman for the department said.
Two government sources later confirmed to Kitv that Ms Fuddy had died.

The 65-year-old, who had won awards for her work with children and social work, had been appointed as director in 2011.

Ms Fuddy and Mr Yamamoto had been on an annual visit to Kalaipapa, a former colony for leprosy sufferers."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2522374/Health-director-Loretta-Fuddy-dies-plane-crash-Hawaii.html

So Sad.. Mahalo DonViejo

[grantcart]

40. thanks for this.

[Cha]

41. You're Welcome, grant.. thank you for caring about Loretta Fuddy.. I made

a thread about in GD a little while ago..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024171275