'Birther' lawyer wins San Diego judgeship

Published: June 28, 2012 Updated: 2:59 p.m.
MARTIN WISCKOL / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Ramona lawyer Gary Kreep, whose conservative causes include challenging the natural-born citizenship of Barack Obama, beat out Deputy District Attorney Garland Peed for a judge's post in the San Diego County Superior Court, squeaking out a 50.21 percent to 49.79 percent win.

But Laguna Niguel's Orly Taitz wasn't exactly sending roses. Taitz, perhaps the best-known of the birthplace lawyers, lost her own election bid by a broad margin, placing fifth with 3.2 percent of the vote in her challenge of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. She had teamed up early with Kreep in the birthplace legal spectacle, but the two quickly had a falling out.

While the final votes were being tallied in the judge's race and the outcome still uncertain, Taitz on June 15 filed a complaint with the state bar alleging that Kreep was "colluding with a known convicted document forger" in his efforts to prove Obama's presidency is illegitimate ...

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