HONOLULU -- The man called the "King of the Birthers" is visiting Hawaii from Chicago and he's threatening to sue the state a second time over President Obama's birth certificate.

Andy Martin said he is not a birther, because he said he believes Obama was born in Hawaii. Birthers allege Obama was not born in the United States, and therefore is ineligible to be President.

In his bio, Martin describes himself as “a legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic.” He is also a lawyer.

He said the state of Hawaii is improperly keeping Mr. Obama’s birth certificate secret.

Martin arrived at the state attorney general's office Friday afternoon to demand the release of e-mails and other communications among state departments about President Obama's Hawaii birth certificate. But he ran into a problem: the office was closed on what's called a "furlough Friday" because of state budget cuts.

KITV4 was the only media organization to cover a news conference Martin held fronting the attorney general's office. One of Martin's Hawaii supporters showed up to listen to the interview, but refused to give his name to a reporter.

Martin threatened to sue the state, because state officials denied his request for internal communications involving the governor, her cabinet and others about President Obama's birth certificate, claiming their communications are protected by “executive privilege.”

"Executive privilege became famous during Watergate. So I guess we now have an Obama-gate here in Hawaii, because they're saying any communications between any branch of Hawaii government internally is exempt from disclosure," Martin told KITV4.

Martin is a Republican from Illinois who said he's run for office "many times" and has never been elected. He said he was disqualified from the Republican primary in a U.S. Senate race in Illinois for not having enough registered voters sign his nomination papers, during one of the races in which the President was running for the Democratic nomination for the Illinois senate seat.

Martin already lost one lawsuit here trying to force the state Health Department to disclose Mr. Obama's birth certificate, because state law only allows disclosure to the person themselves, their family or legal representatives.

Martin believes records pertaining to the President should be public. "My birth certificate, if it was in Honolulu, was probably private, his is, and probably yours is and his is. But the president of the United States, it's a historical archive," he said.

Martin also said President Obama violates the constitutional requirement the President be a natural born citizen, because his father was a Kenyan national, so both his parents were not U.S. citizens.

KITV4 asked him if the child of an immigrant should not be the president of United States. "If his parents didn't meet the natural-born test when he was born, personally, I would enforce the constitution, yes,” he said.

Asked if that position is racist and xenophobic, Martin responded, “No, not at all, that's what the founding fathers intended. That you have some long-standing ties."

"You can't say we're just not going to obey the constitution because it's out of date," he said, when a reporter pointed out that requirement came about more than 200 years ago when Americans feared that royalty from Germany or other countries might try to become President of the fledgling United States, undermining its independence.

Martin admitted he does not expect the courts to side with his argument that the President is not a natural born citizen and said he has not filed suit on that issue anywhere.

"I think it's ridiculous that these mainland individuals are pursuing this issue about whether the president is legal or not. I believe it's just because they have a strong dislike of our president,” said State Sen. Will Espero (D-Ewa Beach-Lower Waipahu).

Martin is a Republican from Illinois who said he's run for office "many times" and has never been elected. He said he was disqualified from the Republican primary in a U.S. Senate race in Illinois for not having enough registered voters sign his nomination papers, during one of the races in which the President was running for the Democratic nomination for the Illinois senate seat.

Hawaii lawmakers have just approved a new law aimed at blocking repeated requests for President Obama's birth certificate.

Martin said he’s not to blame for that problem, since he only made one request for the President's birth certificate.

But hundreds of people from across the country keep making repeated requests for Mr. Obama's birth records. State health officials said they get them every day, sometimes from the same people, and that's why they convinced lawmakers to pass the law allowing them to ignore repeat requests from the same person within a one-year period.

"It's very clear that he [the President] was born here," Espero said.

Interestingly, Espero agrees with Martin that birth certificates should be public to anyone who asks. "If a baby is born, that's a public interest," Espero said.

Espero – who chairs the State Senate public safety and military affairs committee -- introduced a proposal in this year’s legislative session that would have made birth certificates public in Hawaii. But it never got a hearing before any committee and did not go anywhere, he said.

"If a neighbor or a friend gave birth to a baby, why would that be something we would want to hide, or keep secret?" Espero asked.