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  Tom Tancredo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tancredo immediately attracted controversy when he refused to attend a White House party for newly elected Congressmen, saying that Bill Clinton was not "a real President." Four months into his term, the Columbine High School shooting occurred less than a mile from Tancredo's home in Littleton.
Tancredo and Bush's political advisor, Karl Rove, got into a "screaming match" after Tancredo claimed that "if the nation suffered another attack at the hands of terrorists able to skirt immigration laws, the blood of the people killed" would be on the president’s and Congress’s hands.
Tancredo stated "For a senior government official to exhibit such tremendous stupidity by making such a brazen threat is hardly characteristic of a modern nation" and demanded an immediate apology from the Chinese government([9]).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Tancredo   (1737 words)

  
 Tom Tancredo - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tancredo is noted for his outspoken criticism of ineffective border control and illegal immigration, and his support for general immigration reduction.
Tancredo and George W. Bush's political advisor, Karl Rove, got into a "screaming match" after Tancredo claimed that "if the nation suffered another attack at the hands of terrorists able to skirt immigration laws, 'the blood of the people killed' would be on the president's and Congress's hands...
Tancredo attacked the administration for its support of a guest-worker program for illegal aliens and its big-spending ways on education and Medicare prescription drugs."It is the President who is out of step with his party, not Tom Tancredo," the Colorado Republican said of himself to a standing ovation at 33rd annual gathering of conservatives.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo   (1922 words)

  
 Tom Tancredo for President!
Congressman Tom Tancredo came in a close second place out of a wide field of candidates in a monthly straw poll done by Strawpoll08.com.
Tancredo, the Littleton Republican dubbed "Candidate J," finished fourth on the Republican side with 9.9 percent of the tally...
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus in the US House of Representative, declared in a press statement that he introduced a bill that would penalize states which refuse to require proof of US citizenship before someone is allowed to vote in federal elections...
tancredo4prez.blogspot.com   (2111 words)

  
 Immigration Reform’s Point Man
Tancredo has repeatedly claimed that the current immigration policies are kept in place only because they have a high degree of support from both the Democratic and Republican parties.
As for the heat Tancredo supposedly caught, it came from a woman who saw the comment broadcast on television and told the Post, “I’m not so sure it was a slip.” The story was utterly silent on how she came to be contacted and asked for her reaction to the comment.
Tancredo has long been aware that because of the lopsided registration in his congressional district, he could be challenged in a Republican primary.
www.amconmag.com /2002/2002_12_16/feature6.html   (1897 words)

  
 TheExperiment | Articles => Tom Tancredo: Leader of the Anti-Immigrant Populist Revolt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tom Tancredo is a firebrand politician, who doesn't mince words but who speaks about little except immigration, multiculturalism, and the clash of civilizations.
Tom Tancredo is a frequent guest on radio and television news and talk shows, in part because of his often shocking comments.
Tancredo's political leanings and philosophy are evident in his voting record and positions on policy issues, as evaluated by political advocacy groups.
www.theexperiment.org /articles.php?news_id=2155   (1880 words)

  
 News Hounds: Tom Tancredo's Prescription for Homeland Security - Threaten To Bomb Mecca
Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo, who is reportedly considering running for president in 2008, appeared on Hannity & Colmes Tuesday night (7/26/05) to defend his controversial comments on a radio program last week in which he talked about bombing Mecca and Medina as a way to protect the US against a catastrophic attack by Islamic extremists.
Tancredo said, "Thanks for this chance, but I'm not going to take it." In his view, the problem arose from "the way it's been reported," not his remarks.
Tancredo may not have apologized but he tried to downplay his remarks by saying he was just trying to consider different possibilities of preventing such an attack.
www.newshounds.us /2005/07/27/tom_tancredos_prescription_for_homeland_security_threaten_to_bomb_mecca.php   (599 words)

  
 And Rightly So! » Tom Tancredo Stands Tall
Tancredo returned to his office here this week, there was little doubt that he had become a symbol of the ascendancy of deeply conservative thinkers in the bitter Republican debate over immigration policy.
Tancredo’s allies countered that his support from fellow Republicans was more than a matter of political expediency; they said it signaled a shift in the immigration debate.
Tancredo will get the maximum allowable donation from me, and yes, Raven, those Republicans who have, of late, been suffering from spinal melt syndrome had better get themselves a miracle cure or they may find themselves having to rehang their shingles and go back into private practice after the next election.
andrightlyso.com /2005/12/27/tom-tancredo-stands-tall   (2354 words)

  
 Tom Tancredo Breaks USA Constitution For Taiwan
Tom Tancredo (Republican) is USA Congress representative for the state of Colorado Sixth District.
Tancredo's political hobby horse is border security although his district is hundreds of miles from the nearest international border.
Tancredo loves to pose with guns although his hometown is internationally famous for the Columbine High School shootings.
www.sinomania.com /CHINANEWS/Tom_Tancredo_For_Taiwan_Independence.html   (878 words)

  
 Right Web | Profile | Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo, who has represented Colorado's Sixth District since 1999, has in the last six years succeeded in rallying a populist revolt that bands together nativist activists, the religious right, cultural supremacists, the militia movement, and anti-immigration policy institutes into a new anti-immigration wing of the Republican Party.
Tancredo is a frequent guest on radio and television news and talk shows, in part because of his often-shocking comments.
Tancredo called the organization the “main Iranian opposition group.” Describing the petition, Tancredo said its supporters demanded that “the PMOI should be recognized in Iraq as ‘a legitimate political movement'”—which is also one of the demands of the Iran Policy Committee.
rightweb.irc-online.org /profile/3006   (2612 words)

  
 Tancredo Discusses Immigration Reform Bills
Tancredo supported a bill passed by the House in December that would impose stiffer fines for employers who hire illegal aliens, add new mandatory minimum sentences for immigrant smugglers, and mandate automatic detention and deportation for immigrants caught crossing the border illegally.
Tancredo opposes current Senate proposals that would implement a foreign guest worker program, broaden legal immigration, and provide amnesty to illegal aliens currently in the United States.
Congressman Tom Tancredo: Economists, including Harvard's George Borjas, have written on the question of what overall contribution illegal aliens make to the economy (no matter how long they've been here), and have concluded that they are a net drain to the economy.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/03/29/DI2006032901468.html   (2054 words)

  
 » Cong. Tom Tancredo: Standing Out From the Fray
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) has stood out to me, not only for his conservative leanings, but because of his tireless effort to remind Americans of the many problems associated with allowing illegals to work and live in America, and the problems along the border.
Tancredo shows that he is listening to the American public, something sorely lacking in the Senate.”Over the Easter break, I will help inform the Senators’ constituents of what their representatives are doing in Washington.
Tancredo has also kept his eye on worldwide events, passionately pleading the case for continued U.S. intervention in the drastic situation in Sudan.
mensnewsdaily.com /2006/04/18/cong-tom-tancredo-standing-out-from-the-fray   (1356 words)

  
 Tancredo Watch
Tom Tancredo's latest screed against New Orleans - demanding that it not be given ANY federal funding to rebuild (except under ridiculous conditions) - has earned him the Stamp of Approval from a white supremacist group that would be all too happy if the city's fl citizenry were to sink into the sea.
Tancredo's current claptrap - revisionist history - that he supposedly broke his pledge and "told" everyone about it in the middle of his first term and therefore it's somehow OK - is not only a blatant fabrication but is a pathetic attempt to change the subject.
Tancredo's violating the public trust is why even Tancredo's buddy at the Independence Institute, ultra-conservative Jon Caldara, criticized Tancredo as being dishonorable for running for a fourth term, declaring in 2004 that Tancredo should have stepped down and supported someone else who shared his values to run for Congress, instead of breaking his own pledge.
tancredowatch.blogspot.com   (7530 words)

  
 Tom Tancredo Eyes White House Run   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tom Tancredo has been called a one-trick pony of a politician, a man out of step with his party, a bigot.
Tom Tancredo's even considering the possibility of a win in 2008 is solid proof of that.
Tancredo's said before that if he runs, it'll be to force the other candidates' hands on illegal immigration, rather than running to actually become the nominee and win.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1448892/posts   (2341 words)

  
 Save The GOP » Tom Tancredo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tom Tancredo’s get-tough-first attitude on immigration reform is having a positive impact on his possible presidential run in 2008.
And yes, that includes Congressman Tom Tancredo, who sadly abandoned the principles that he normally stands tall on and caved to the party establishment.
Victorious candidates such as Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Mark Sanford as well as losing candidates such as Pat Toomey and Herman Cain all were able to compete with the overpowering resources of the Republican establishment based on support from the Club for Growth.
www.savethegop.com /archives/category/white-house-2008/tom-tancredo   (1917 words)

  
 Tom Tancredo - dKosopedia
Thomas G. Tancredo is the xenophobic anti-Hispanic Italian-American Republican Congressman from the map 6th Congressional District in Colorado.
Ironically, Tancredo was born on December 20, 1945, only a few weeks after the end of history bloodiest war, a war waged against regimes that made xenophobic populist appeals to win political power.
Tancredo is noted for his immigrant baiting, for hysterical opposition to immigration.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Tom_Tancredo   (897 words)

  
 Tom Tancredo Ready for His Spotlight - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Colorado Congressman and chief immigration foe Tom Tancredo is ready to assume his role as "most colorful" Colorado politician now that Ben Nighthorse Campbell has departed.
Tom Tom Tancredo would still, har-har-har, just be a bigot in a suit.
Agreeing with Tancredo that immigration reform needs to be an issue in the next election is not necessarily agreeing with Tancredo on how immigration needs to be reformed.
talkleft.com /new_archives/009545.html   (2918 words)

  
 Border War: Immigration Debate Heats Up - Newsweek Politics - MSNBC.com
Tom Tancredo is pulling the immigration debate to the right—and away from Bush.
Tom Tancredo, the Republican congressman, was coming to welcome the new citizens.
Tancredo was one of the first politicians to tap into the latest surge of anger.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12017855/site/newsweek   (1080 words)

  
 Tancredo for President
Congressman Tancredo will be a write-in candidate, so votes for him must be cast on "paper ballots." As voters go through the check-off line, they should declare their intention to vote in the Republican primary and request a paper ballot.
I haven't seen Tancredo that much, but in the couple of times I've seen him speak on the House floor, other than feeling good about the fact that a Congressman was taking a strong critical position on immigration, I was not particularly impressed by his speaking abilities.
Tom Tancredo is my congressman and I am extremely pleased that he has taken such a couregeous stand on the criminals who have entered our country illegally.
www.amnation.com /vfr/archives/002082.html   (1256 words)

  
 A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT: TOM TANCREDO (R-CO) SPEAKS AT CONROE, TEXAS, TOWN HALL MEETING
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus and a nationally-recognized advocate of heightened border security and amnesty-free immigration reform, spoke today to a standing-room-only audience of approximately 150 people at a "Secure America" town hall meeting at the Lonestar Convention Center in Conroe, Texas (up I-45, north of Houston).
Congressman Tancredo believes most Americans "sense something is wrong with the immigration situation" in this country and that their concerns about border security and the millions of illegals afoot in our land predated (as happens with most issues) Congressional awareness and certainly Congressional action.
Congressman Tancredo was joined on the speakers' dais by: Curtis Collier, co-founder and president, U.S. Border Watch; Louise Whiteford of Texans for Immigration Reform, Inc.; and, Dave Kleimann, a local businessman and candidate for the Texas Senate from District #3.
acertainslantoflight.blogspot.com /2006/01/tom-tancredo-r-co-speaks-at-conroe.html   (1101 words)

  
 Tuning In to Anger on Immigration
Tancredo helped the House pass a bill in December that would impose criminal sanctions on illegal immigrants and those who employ them and that would erect a wall along 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border to keep others out.
Tancredo, 60, has so effectively tapped into the anger of millions of Americans who favor a crackdown on illegal immigrants and tougher measures at the border that the back-bench Republican is considering making a bid for president in two years.
After Tancredo suggested in 2002 that President Bush's views on immigration amounted to a national security threat, White House political adviser Karl Rove told him, "Don't ever darken the door of the White House" -- although Tancredo later was invited to the White House for a bill signing.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001837.html   (1099 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Tom Tancredo for president   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tancredo's prescription isn't radical – though it might seem that way based on the reaction of the Big Media and establishment politicians in both parties.
What Tancredo is advocating are common-sense principles being implemented in nations all over the world – including in supposedly "progressive" Europe.
I believe this is such a hot-button issue with the American people that Tancredo, a distinguished but otherwise obscure member of the House of Representatives could actually win.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43981   (650 words)

  
 Tancredo
Tom emphasized that getting HR4437 approved by the House provides only 50 % of the needed effect; the other 50 % will be accomplished when the President signs the bill.
Tom Tancredo will be traveling to both South and North Carolina in the coming weeks to get his message out and to get the support of the people of the U.S.A. in his cause to secure our borders.
Tom said: “We did not think that Prop 200 was going to make it and it was the start; the avalanche is started and we won’t stop until we get our borders secured and until our laws will be enforced!” Tom would certainly make a great president!
www.tombstonetumbleweed.com /Borderline/Tancredo.htm   (403 words)

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