chiyome fukino

HI AG Mark Bennett "reviewed and approved" Fukino 7/27 statement ("natural born citizen") - 10/01/2009

On July 27, Chiyome Fukino of the Hawaii Department of Health released a statement in which she said that Obama was born in Hawaii. One of the curious things about the statement (at the link) is that she claimed to have verified that "Obama... is a natural-born American citizen". She's not a legal scholar and thus wouldn't seem to be qualified to make that determination. But, n...

Hawaii Health director now says Obama was born in Hawaii; she did *not* say that before - 7/28/2009

Dr. Chiyome Fukino of the Hawaii Department of Health has issued a press release that supposedly says (link from Dan Nakaso of the Honolulu Advertiser): "I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai'i State Department of Health verifying Barrack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natu...

Hawaii Department of Health 10/31/08 press release about Obama birth certificate - 12/13/2008

... Hawaii Department of Health, Dr. Chiyome Fukino. Nowhere in this press release does she verify that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. The PDF is available at hawaii.gov/health/about/pr/2008/08-93.pdf. See also the full details on this issue at the Obama citizenship page. ---------------- BEGIN STATEMENT ------------------------ DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH News Release LINDA LINGLE GOVERNOR CHIYOME LEINAA...

Dr. Chiyome Fukino responds to my Obama birth certificate questions, "takes the Fifth" - 12/11/2008

On October 31, 2008, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii Department of Health, released a statement verifying that Barack Obama's birth certificate was on file in their records. However, despite what you might have heard, she did not verify that he was born in Hawaii. And, she did not verify that the certificate on file in Hawaii matches the "COLB" pictured on Obama's si...

Obama's October surprise-ish: State of Hawaii says his birth certificate is genuine (but...) - 10/31/2008

... Hawaii. Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama's original birth certificate. Fukino says that no state official, including Republican Gov. Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama's certificate be handled differently. She says state law bars...

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