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   From: Trumpepe@freedyn.de   
      
   The only person who died was the stupid Democrat who signed off on   
   Obama's phony birth certificate.   
      
   The Hawaiian health official who verified the authenticity of   
   President Obama's birth certificate died in a small plane crash.   
      
   The plane, carrying a pilot and eight passengers, went down   
   Wednesday in the water a half mile off the Hawaiian island of   
   Molokai, the Maui Fire Department said. The lone fatality was   
   Loretta Fuddy, who has served as state health director since January   
   2011. Tom Matsuda, the interim executive director of Hawaii's health   
   insurance exchange, confirmed Fuddy's death.   
      
   Fuddy, 65, made national news in April 2011 when she verified the   
   authenticity of certified copies of President Obama's birth   
   certificate. Obama had requested the release to curb claims by so-   
   called "birthers" that he was born in Kenya and not eligible to be   
   president.   
      
   Makani Kai Air President Richard Schuman told Honolulu-based KITV   
   that he spoke with the pilot of the single-engine turboprop Cessna   
   Grand Caravan after the crash.   
      
   "What he reported is after takeoff ... there was catastrophic engine   
   failure," Schuman said. "He did the best he can to bring the   
   aircraft down safely and he got everybody out of the aircraft."   
      
   Schuman said the cause of the engine failure had not yet been   
   determined. The National Transportation Safety Board was   
   investigating the crash; NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said that based   
   on the location of the crash it was unlikely the plane will be   
   recovered.   
      
   "Our hearts are broken," Gov. Neil Abercrombie said in a statement.   
   "Loretta was deeply loved and respected. She was selfless, utterly   
   dedicated and committed to her colleagues in the Department of   
   Health and to the people of Hawaii. Her knowledge was vast; her   
   counsel and advice always given from her heart as much as from her   
   storehouse of experience."   
      
   Matsuda, who worked with Fuddy to set up the state's Obamacare   
   website, Hawaii Health Connector, called her death "a terrible loss"   
   for the state.   
      
   "I worked closely with Director Fuddy on the Affordable Care Act and   
   came to know and respect her as a passionate advocate for public   
   health and a warm, caring human being," Matsuda said.   
      
   The plane went down about a half-mile northwest of Kalaupapa   
   peninsula, which was home to a leper colony until 1969. A handful of   
   patients still live there. The state health director by law remains   
   mayor of part of the peninsula, and Fuddy was visiting the peninsula   
   in that capacity, state Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo   
   said.   
      
   Okubo said the department's deputy director, Keith Yamamoto, also   
   had been booked on the flight.   
      
   Coast Guard Petty Officer Melissa McKenzie said a Coast Guard   
   helicopter got three passengers out of the water while Maui fire   
   crews picked up five people. One person swam ashore.   
      
      
   https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/12/12/hawaii-obama-   
   birth-certificate-fuddy/3996657/   
      
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