As campaign heats up, so does focus on ‘birthers’ – latimes.com

By Michael A. Memoli

April 22, 2011, 2:35 p.m.

In December, shortly after taking office, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie told the Los Angeles Times that he hoped to use his new perch to take on the so-called “birther” movement, the belief that President Obama was not born in the state — or, more to the point, the United States entirely.

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