Bowen’s flier pleads for campaign donations because the candidacy by Orly Taitz is “to challenge President Obama’s citizenship and invalidate the 2008 election.”

“In fact, Taitz has sued Debra twice to try to invalidate Obama’s victory,” the flier says.

However, it is Obama’s status as a “natural born citizen,” as required by the U.S. Constitution, that has been at issue in cases handled by Taitz. Some of her challenges are pending at the appellate level.

Taitz told WND the action “clearly shows that [Bowen] is concerned.”

WND previously reported when Taitz said she was planning to seek the state office.

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At the time, she said she’s ready and willing to investigate the issue of Obama’s eligibility herself as the official who supervises election in the state.

Campaign ad from California Secretary of State Debra Bowen

Taitz previously has filed actions in a number of jurisdictions. A recent filing in Washington, D.C., is requesting a preliminary injunction providing access to information about Obama’s qualifications.

Local news reports confirmed Taitz qualified as a candidate and will oppose fellow Republican Damon Dunn, a former NFL player, for the nomination.

The Bowen flier claims Taitz has “spent years” challenging Obama’s “citizenship.”

“Whoever prevails in the primary must be taken seriously because of their ability to raise money and distort the issues through their national right-wing networks,” Bowen claimed. “Please contribute today to help Debra stand against right-wing ideologues like Orly Taitz and continue serving the people of California.”

Taitz also has handled cases in California on behalf of former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, which now is on appeal, another in Georgia on behalf of Maj. Stefan Cook, and yet another in Georgia on behalf of Capt. Connie Rhodes.

WND has reported efforts to raise the question of Obama’s eligibility at the state and national levels since before the 2008 election.

Numerous lawsuits have been filed alleging Obama did not meet the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural born citizen.” The lawsuits have asserted he either was not born in Hawaii as he claims or was a dual citizen because of his father’s British citizenship at the time of his birth. Questions also have been raised about his travels to Pakistan as a youth.

The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

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However, none of the cases filed to date has been successful in reaching the plateau of legal discovery so that information about Obama’s birth could be obtained. Most have been dismissed at the lower court level based on judges’ decisions that the plaintiffs did not have “standing” – or the prospect of a personal injury in the cases.

Taitz has noted California state officials previously have moved proactively in the case of suspected ineligible candidates, such as Eldridge Cleaver.

“Using his administrative powers, Mr. Jordan removed Mr. Cleaver from the ballot. Mr. Cleaver, unsuccessfully, challenged this decision to the Supreme Court of the State of California, and, later, to the Supreme Court of the United States, which affirmed the actions,” the case reported.

“Jordan did what he was supposed to do,” Taitz said. “He checked his [Cleaver’s] documents, found he was only 34 and threw him off the ballot.”

Several state legislatures are working on proposals that would require presidential candidates to submit proof of their eligibility. And a similar proposal has been introduced in Congress by Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla.

The claims are that Obama does not meet the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural born citizen.”

The White House has not replied to numerous requests for comment.

Taitz also has attempted to pursue Obama through a “Quo Warranto” case in Washington.

A Quo Warranto action, first recorded some 800 years ago, essentially is a demand to know by what authority a public figure is acting.

An online constitutional resource says Quo Warranto “affords the only judicial remedy for violations of the Constitution by public officials and agents.”

John Eidsmoe, an expert on the U.S. Constitution now working with the Foundation on Moral Law, an organization founded by former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, previously told WND the demand was a legitimate course of action.

“She is basically asking, ‘By what authority’ is Obama president,” he told WND when the issue first arose. “In other words, ‘I want you to tell me by what authority. I don’t really think you should hold the office.'”

Eidsmoe said it’s clear that Obama has something in the documentation of his history, including his birth certificate, college records and other documents that “he does not want the public to know.”

According to the online Constitution.org resource: “The common law writ of Quo Warranto has been suppressed at the federal level in the United States, and deprecated at the state level, but remains a right under the Ninth Amendment which was understood and presumed by the Founders, and which affords the only judicial remedy for violations of the Constitution by public officials and agents.”

Besides Obama’s actual birth documentation, the still-concealed documentation for him includes kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.

Another significant factor is the estimated $1.7 million Obama has spent on court cases to prevent any of the documentation of his life to be revealed to the public.

“Where’s The Birth Certificate?” billboard helps light up the night at the Mandalay Bay resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

Because of the dearth of information about Obama’s eligibility, WND founder Joseph Farah has launched a campaign to raise contributions to post billboards asking a simple question: “Where’s the birth certificate?”

The campaign followed a petition that has collected more than 495,000 signatures demanding proof of his eligibility, the availability of yard signs raising the question and the production of permanent, detachable magnetic bumper stickers asking the question.

The “certification of live birth” posted online and widely touted as “Obama’s birth certificate” does not in any way prove he was born in Hawaii, since the same “short-form” document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii. The true “long-form” birth certificate – which includes information such as the name of the birth hospital and attending physician – is the only document that can prove Obama was born in Hawaii, but to date he has not permitted its release for public or press scrutiny.

Oddly, though congressional hearings were held to determine whether Sen. John McCain was constitutionally eligible to be president as a “natural born citizen,” no controlling legal authority ever sought to verify Obama’s claim to a Hawaiian birth