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AARP Interview

AARP asked that we respond to statements regarding a wide variety of issues.  The following will be published in the AARP Bulletin:

AARP Statement:

We believe wellness and prevention efforts, including changes in personal behavior such as diet and exercise, should be top national priorities.

Tancredo Response:

"The key to good health is individual choice and people need to take personal responsibility for these choices.  As President I would encourage the health community to continue their efforts to inform Americans of the benefits of diet and exercise.  Living healthy increases an individual’s quality of life and reduces their health care costs." 

AARP Statement:

We believe Americans should have choices when it comes to long-term care – allowing them to maintain their independence at home or in their communities with expanded and affordable financing options.

Tancredo Response:

"All Americans should be able to decide on how best to care for themselves, and it should be affordable and pragmatic."

AARP Statement:

We believe Americans of all ages should have access to tools to help manage their finances, and save for the future and better, easy to understand information to help them increase their financial literacy and manage their money wisely.

Tancredo Response:

"Americans of all ages should have such tools available to them and the last I looked, you could find it on every other corner of most towns, in cities, in the local banks and other financial institutions.  Additionally, considering the job the federal government has done in managing the finances of our nation, I would suggest it is in best interest of Americans to get this information from the private sector."

Vicente Fox Comments

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox made the following statements the other day during a stop in Iowa.

During the student panels with Fox Friday, Tara Runghee asked the former Mexican President for his reaction to a quote by Republican President candidate Tom Tancredo on his campaign web site. "Illegal aliens threaten our economy and undermine our culture... as President, I will secure our borders so illegal aliens do not come, and I will eliminate benefits and job prospects so they do not stay."

"He should not have a Spanish name," Fox said of Tancredo.

"We need to work on a guest worker program similar to what Mexico has with Canada. The people go up for 6 or 9 months, are sheltered then flown back home. No one wants to leave their country. Trust me, they would much rather be closer to family and friends enjoying tortillas."

Read the whole article here

Clinton on Illegal Aliens Driver's Licenses in NY

In case you missed it, Hillary Clinton tried to shy away from her support for illegal aliens getting driver's licenses last night in the MSNBC debate. 

You can see her try to take a tough national security stance to prepare for the general election.  It's a pretty smart strategy, take her lumps from her Democratic colleagues now in order to appear strong in a general election against a credible Republican. 

She is also trying to shy away from her weak stance on immigration because, once again, she would get hammered by a Republican counterpart such as Tom Tancredo who has worked his entire career to protect this countrywith immigration reform.

There will be two ways to defeat her if she is the nominee: through national security and immigration.

Take a look at the transcript and corresponding video:

Sen. Clinton: I just want to add, I did not say that it should be done, but I certainly recognize why Gov. Spitzer is trying to do it. And we have failed....

Sen. Dodd: “Wait a minute, no, no, no. You said yes, you thought it made sense to do it.

Sen. Clinton: “No, I didn't, Chris, but the point is, what are we going to do with all these illegal immigrants who are (driving )?''

Cavuto today

Congressman Tancredo will appear on Cavuto on the Fox Business Channel today at 6:00 PM EST.  To clarify this is NOT FOX News, it is on their new business channel.  Check your local cable channel about programming.

The channel just launched within the past few weeks.

Frosty Wooldridge Article about Tom

Excerpt:

In all great social change, a leader emerges ahead of his time to right a specific wrong.  That leader knows more than indolent citizens, understands more than media and steps to the front to create a “tipping point” for the common good.

As Mark Twain said in 1860, “The patriot is a scorned and hated man, but when his cause succeeds, however, even the timid join him, for then it doesn’t cost anything to be a patriot.”

Gandhi suffered scurrilous attacks on his character. Gorbachev elevated himself above media attacks.  Mandela endured horrific media onslaught.  Even our own Eleanor Roosevelt tolerated the press attacking her noble purposes.

Thus, the Denver Post scorned Susan B. Anthony at the turn of the last century as she injected the issue of women’s voter rights right up their nostrils.  To the Denver Post, Dr. Martin Luther King proved a radical that should be silenced.  Perhaps, because Thomas Jefferson wrote such drastic works as the Declaration of Independence, if the Denver Post existed, its editors would have attacked him, too, for daring to speak against Great Britain.

This week, the Denver Post lambasted Tom Tancredo in an editorial announcing his retirement from Congress.  The Post wrote, “…from those who have grown tired of Tancredo’s overheated rhetoric against illegal immigration.”

Check out the full article here

Buchanan on Steve Deace Show this afternoon!

Our national chair, Bay Buchanan, will be on Deace in the afternoon today around 6:00 PM CST.  Make sure to listen! 

Listen here: http://www.whoradio.com/main.html

BP will begin punishing illegal crossers

By JULIAN AGUILAR , LAREDO MORNING TIMES

Saying the U.S. Border Patrol is ready to send a message to people who use the Laredo area as a gateway for illegal activity, Laredo Sector Chief Patrol Agent Carlos X. Carrillo officially announced the agency's zero-tolerance policy against undocumented immigrants."On October 30, the U.S. Border Patrol Laredo Sector will launch an initiative we call Streamline-Laredo," Carrillo said Friday morning. "Under this program, any alien who illegally enters the United States in the Laredo Sector at locations designated for zero-tolerance will be prosecuted in federal court." The penalty for illegal entry, according to a fact sheet from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, is a misdemeanor for the first offense, which carries a maximum sentence of 180 days. Any subsequent offense is a felony, the statement reads. The program is patterned after initiatives in Del Rio and Yuma, Ariz., which have been credited with decreasing illegal entries while increasing illegal drug seizures along the border. "It's not a Republican issue, it's not a Democrat issue," said U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo. "We're talking about implementing the law. … It pretty much eliminates the catch-and-release policy." Cuellar added that he acknowledges that at first there will be a spike in the number of apprehensions, but said the judicial process will be accelerated and that the U.S. Marshals will be given all the resources they need to assist in the initiative. After word spreads, he added, the illegal traffic will decrease. U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said securing the border was vital to national security, and added that the law has been in the books since 1952. Culberson also referred to Muslim extremists groups that may look to the southern border as a possible path to enter the United States. He said the result of a terrorist attack by a person who sneaked in through Mexico would be disastrous. "The affect would be catastrophic," Culberson said. "The reaction would be so strong that the border would become militarized." Carrillo and Cuellar said, however, that there has been no evidence of terrorist activity along the Laredo border, though Cuellar said the possibility exists. The officials added the issue of bed space in jails has been addressed, and that U.S. Marshals have contacted regional detention facilities regarding that matter. Cuellar however, did not divulge which regional facilities had been contacted. "We're not going to give you the names of what specific ones," Cuellar said. The congressman added that local or regional facilities with overcrowding issues would obviously not be considered. "We're going to use the facilities that are already in place," Deputy U.S. Marshal Mark McPherson said. "We've (identified) other resources outside of (the) direct Laredo area. … Some are county facilities, some are private. If a facility is full, we're not going to force the facilities to take extra (detainees.)" Cuellar added that by the beginning of 2009, when the federal government may again consider building a border wall in Laredo, the results of the streamline operation may be successful enough that a wall will no longer be considered.

Washington Times-Inside Politics 10/25/07

Bombs away

Mike Huckabee has been gaining momentum in the Republican race for the presidency, but a senior editor at the American Spectator says his time as governor of Arkansas was filled with scandal.

"National media folks like David Brooks, dealing in surface appearances only, rave about what a nice guy Huckabee is, and a moral exemplar to boot. If they only did a little homework, they would discover a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak, and a long history of imbroglios about questionable ethics," Quin Hillyer wrote yesterday at Spectator.org.

"Fourteen times, the ethics commission — a respected body, not a partisan witch hunt group — investigated claims against Huckabee. Five of those times, it officially reprimanded him. And, as only MSNBC among the big national media has reported at any real length, there were lots of other mini scandals and embarrassments along the way.

"He used public money for family restaurant meals, boat expenses, and other personal uses. He tried to claim as his own some $70,000 of furniture donated to the governor's mansion. He repeatedly, and obstinately, against the pleadings even from conservative columnists and editorials, refused to divulge the names of donors to a 'charitable' organization he set up while lieutenant governor — an outfit whose main charitable purpose seemed to be to pay Huckabee to make speeches. Then, as a kicker, he misreported the income itself from the suspicious 'charity.' "

Lou Dobbs Quote

The Following is a transcript from CNN's Lou Dobbs, aired over the weekend.  He is talking with Diana West from the Washington Times and Errol Louis from New York Daily News:

WEST: I think it's a very good issue for him, and I think that it focuses people on this issue in a very clear way. Down in my neck of the woods, we just had a recent poll in Virginia, which going to be a very hotly-contested state, said that three-quarters of the likely voters in Virginia consider immigration to be one of the most important issues in the upcoming elections, up from seventh out of 10 the last time they looked at this issue so people are coming into focus here and he's helping that.

LOUIS: He's banking on people not going for the real thing in Tancredo, you know? But there are far more aggressive voices that have a real history on this so he's ...

WEST: Tancredo should get that.

DOBBS: I'm thrilled that you have said that he is the real thing.

WEST: I think he's the real thing.

Tom's Retirement from Congress

As many of you have learned, Tom is retiring from Congress and will not seek another term.  Just to be clear, this does not effect his campaign for President.  He will continue to campaign hard, GO TOM!

Tancredo vs. Romney

Wolf Blitzer was talking about Tom tonight on the Situation room regarding his recent proposed bet with Mitt Romney. 

There is also a segment on perhaps a pending Brownback endorsement of Giuliani.  Interesting..

The Durbin saga

Many of you have been keeping up with the battle between Congressman Tancredo and Senator Durbin regarding the DREAM ACT.  For those of you who don't know, Tancredo has been attacking Durbin for pushing the DREAM ACT, and Durbin has responded. 

Read the corresponding press release:

http://teamtancredo.org/news.php?newsid=130

Durbin even attacked the good Congressman on the Senate floor.    Feel free to look for yourself.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/24/durbin-slams-tancredos-bigotry-and-hatred/

Partial Transcript:

The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois is recognized.

Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, many speeches are made on the floor, many amendments are offered, many bills, and many resolutions. Very few of them cause a ripple. A handful of people may follow them closely, a handful of people may care. The DREAM Act is a different thing. The DREAM Act is a bill which I thought about and introduced years ago, and it has finally reached this moment of truth where it comes to the floor of the Senate. The reason why this bill will be noticed is that literally thousands of young people across America know that their fate and future will be determined by this vote.

Yesterday, I had a press conference with three of these young people. A Congressman from the State of Colorado sent out a press release arguing that these three young people should be arrested in the Capitol. Of course, he didn't take the time to determine that they are all here now with the understanding of and disclosure to the Department of Homeland Security. But his press release is an indication of how badly this debate is going in America. To turn on these children and treat them as criminals is an indication of the level of emotion and, in some cases, bigotry and hatred that is involved in this debate.

Tom in Muscatine

Great article from the Muscatine Journal about Tom!

He was campaigning at a local High School and in a shooting competition.

Take a look!

-Photo taken by the Muscatine Journal

Check out the latest on Tom

In a recent article from the Boston Globe, Tom received a huge compliment. 

Check it out:

Tom Tancredo of Colorado has made the issue the centerpiece of his campaign, calling for the elimination of government benefits to illegal immigrants and a reduction in legal immigrants.

"Tancredo's the one that's brought the entire debate in his direction," said Chuck Laudner, executive director of the Iowa Republican Party. "Everybody tries to get as close to Tancredo on that issue as they can. He's the standard-bearer on that issue."

Great article!

http://www.hippopress.com/071025/mQA2.html

Check out the excerpt:

Tomorrow you plan to file for the election. Do you have second thoughts about running?
"No, I don’t. We can’t let them off the hook, can we? ... I’m not running just to make a statement. I’m running for president. "

Amnesty Defeated for now..

Watch Amnesty defeated in the Senate today:

AMNESTY IS BACK

Tomorrow Senator Durbin will try to push the DREAM Act through AGAIN.  For those who don't know, this act will give amnesty to a few million illegal aliens.

According to NumbersUSA.com, we only have 25 anti-amnesty votes right now, with the rest committed to amnesty or on the fence.  They need 60 votes to prevent a filibuster and pass this act. 

Last time you shut down the switchboards calling your Senators, please do it again!  Call the Senate switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

For the latest on the DREAM Act:

10-17 Trip to NH

Tom speaks to students at Sunapee High School,  aired last night on C-SPAN.  It is a bit lengthy but it is a good indicator of how Tom acts in real situations. 

You can take a look at some other candidates and they act the same way during a debate as they do talking to a group of  students.  Tom takes the situation for what it is and acts accordingly, naturally.

I have said this numerous times, but for those who have not had the pleasure to meet him, he speaks to you as a person, not a politician.

Enjoy

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

GOP candidates try to woo ‘values voters’ at meeting

Perhaps the most fiery orator of the opening sessions was Tom Tancredo, a congressman from Colorado. During his speech, Tancredo, who called himself an “unapologetic conservative,” said America is in a bad state because “our enemies are psychopaths and our allies are the French.”

He spoke vehemently against granting what he called “amnesty” to illegal immigrants -- “the first part of illegal immigration is illegal” -- and called Miami a “Third World country.” Tancredo added, quoting Theodore Roosevelt, that America’s communities are turning into “polyglot boardinghouses.”

America is the last best hope of Western civilization, Tancredo said. “This is our culture. Fight for it. This is our flag. Pick it up. This is our country. Take it back.”

He left the stage to the largest standing ovation of the day.

http://www.abpnews.com/2812.article

Mike Huckabee: A Stealth Flip-Flopper

Read the Article

Excerpt:

"It is widely known that, as governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee supported state-subsidized tuition for illegal immigrants (a fascinating proposition, given that, for instance, a resident of southern Missouri could not get in-state tuition at an Arkansas college without proving legal residence in Arkansas for six months). "

McCain Says Supporting Immigration Legislation Hurt Campaign

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aNe5cj3K4ccM&refer=home

By Nicholas Johnston

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain said his support of legislation to give illegal immigrants a way to gain legal status has hurt his campaign.

McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona, was a major supporter of immigration legislation that died in the Senate in June because of opposition from other Republicans.

The senator said he is now committed to making sure the borders are secure before implementing broader changes to U.S. immigration law. ``I got the message,'' he said in an interview on ``Fox News Sunday.''

McCain's presidential campaign has suffered from low poll ratings in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and poor fundraising. He trails former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in money and public support.

McCain, 71, said he hasn't decided whether he will accept public financing for his campaign and said borrowing money ``is not something I would prefer to do'' though he is ``not going to rule anything out.''

Orlando Debate Highlights

Our staff kept track of how many questions and how often they were asked in the debate last night:

Download question_allocation.xls

Debate Highlights:

Hannity and Colmes afterwards:

Debate tonight!

Make sure to watch FOX News tonight at 8:00 PM EST to see Tom take it to the amnesty politicians at the Orlando, FL debate!

Washington Briefing Speech

Take a look at his speech notes.pdf

WDBO Florida Interview

Check out this great interview from WDBO in Florida. 

http://580wdbo.com/politics0708/interview_tancredo.html

FYI: Congressman Tancredo will be in Orlando, Florida on Sunday for the FOX News Debate.

Make sure to watch!

New Website

If you have not already seen, check out the new webpage!

http://TeamTancredo.com

What do you think? 

NH Interviews

Check out the audio clip from an Interview that Tom did the other day on the WNTK Morning show with Konrad and Bulldog in New Hampshire:

AUDIO HIGHLIGHT: Tom Tancredo
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
WNTK Morning Show
Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo joined the WNTK Moring Show at the start of his day-long visit to the Sunapee region.

Also, CATV Interview on 10/16/07

http://www.catv8.org/page13/vod.php?id=71.

USA Today appearance

We are moving on up in the world! Page 17 in USA Today!

Prince William approves laws denying illegals

This is the County where my home town is located, so this literally hits home for me.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071017/METRO/110170093/1001

Prince William County, Va., early this morning gave final approval to some of the nation's most stringent immigration laws after yesterday's Board of County Supervisors meeting.
At 2:30 a.m., after more than 12 hours of testimony from hundreds of residents and others, the eight-member board unanimously approved measures to deny county services to illegal aliens and authorize police to check the immigration status in all arrests if there is probable cause to think that a suspect has violated federal immigration law.

Tancredo Challenges Romney to Trap-shooting Contest

What do you think about this proposal?

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/10/16/414048.aspx

Tancredo then offered to take the debate one step further. "A hundred years ago, you would test someone's veracity by a duel, or some other kind of physical test," Tancredo said. "I'll do this, I challenge Governor Romney to a trap-shooting contest here in New Hampshire. Loser drops out."

Today's New Hampshire Pictures

 

Brownback to pitch proposal apologizing for slavery

Great Article on Senator Brownback

Some highlights:

Senator Sam Brownback, a Republican trying to inject new life into his beleaguered presidential campaign, plans to offer a resolution this week for Congress to apologize for slavery and segregation.

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Mychal Massie, chairman of the National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives-Project 21, a think tank in Washington D.C., criticized Brownback's plans for a slavery apology resolution as "absurd and ridiculous."

"Brownback finds himself in a failing campaign with no hope under the sun of being elected and he is reaching out and exploiting blacks and using them to try and get a few votes," Massie said. "It's not going to work."

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Brownback also praised Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, for helping lead the push for the immigration bill.

"It's been very hard," he said. "I have never been beat on so much in my entire life as during this immigration debate."

ELECTION 08: Giuliani win 'would help' pro-choice movement, abortion rights leader says

By Michael Foust / Baptist Press
Monday, October 15, 2007
WASHINGTON (BP)--The political director of one of the nation's largest abortion rights groups isn't endorsing Rudy Giuliani, but if a Republican must win the White House, he's apparently her pick.

Elizabeth Shipp of NARAL Pro-Choice America told The Huffington Post in an Oct. 10 story that it "would help" the abortion rights movement if Giuliani proves it's possible a pro-choice candidate can win the Republican nomination and the presidency.

"The Republican Party used to be about the conservative principles of limited government intervention in private life," Shipp said. "It seems to me if they went back to that and stood out from the rigid mainstream, anti-choice agenda, I think yeah, it would be good for the movement."

Giuliani's views on abortion have been controversial among social conservatives, a large part of the Republican base. He has tried to appease them by pledging to appoint "constructionist" judges, although he has remained committed to his pro-choice views.

During a Republican debate in May, he was the only candidate who didn't support overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide.

"It would be OK to repeal. It would be OK also if a strict constructionist judge viewed it as precedent," he said. "I think a judge has to make that decision."

Would NARAL support Giuliani?

"I don't know yet," Shipp told The Huffington Post. "He has said some very concerning things since getting into this race. If you have to grade him compared to everyone else you have to give him an incomplete."

Several prominent conservative leaders, including Richard Land and James Dobson, publicly have said that as private citizens they would not support Giuliani as the Republican nominee.

NARAL formerly was known as the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.

Choose your candidate!

Many people who are taking this quiz find that Tom Tancredo is their ideal candidate!  Send this to your conservative friends and it might help us win them over!  Let his conservative record speak for itself!

http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460

Today's IQ: Mitt Romney

Campaigning in northern Michigan, where many employers have struggled to fill jobs in hotels and restaurants during the summer tourist rush, Romney said more temporary workers should be allowed where there are labor shortages.

"The answer to that is simple, which is issue more visas," Romney told reporters. "If our employment sector needs additional immigrant laborers, then issue the visas necessary to provide that work force."

Cont'd:

"I'm not going to leave America's employers without the capacity to meet the needs of our consuming public," he said.

Quoted from The Associated Press

By JOHN FLESHER
Saturday, October 13, 2007

Tancredo wins Soundbite of the week on Laura Ingraham!

Check out this great video, Tom won the Soundbit of the week award on the Laura Ingraham show with an overwhelming margin! 

"Do something about illegal immigration. Don't just talk about it!"

Check out the soundbite that won it here:

And now for something completely different...

Bobbie, you said the other day:

"I cannot think of a single question I would like to ask Tom. I have followed him intently for more than two years. I know what he thinks; what he wants for America and I support him 100%. "

I bet I may of found an interview that deals with issues you probably did not know about Congressman Tancredo. 

Perhaps not, let me know and check it out!

http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/10/11/tancredo/

Tom On the Radio Now!

Tom is on the radio at 4:00-5:00 on Jim Fisher's show in Davenport Iowa.  You can listen live here:

http://www.woc1420.com/main.html

Tune in!

Great Article on Tancredo

Against All Odds: Tom Tancredo
By Frosty Wooldridge

Excerpt:

"More than six years ago, one man started talking about it in the U.S. House of Representatives: Tom Tancredo from Colorado. For his entire term in office he gained national acclaim and derision for his speaking out against continued illegal immigration. Like Anthony, Roosevelt, King and other great Americans, Tancredo speaks with integrity: Against All Odds!"

Read the whole thing: http://teamtancredo.org/news.php?newsid=101

Today's IQ: Ann Coulter

HeOn illegal immigration, Huckabee makes George Bush sound like Tom Tancredo. He has compared illegal aliens to slaves brought here in chains from Africa, saying, "I think frankly the Lord is giving us a second chance to do better than we did before."

Toward that end, when an Arkansas legislator introduced a bill that would prevent illegal aliens from voting and receiving state benefits, Huckabee denounced the bill, saying it would rile up "those who are racist and bigots."

He also made the insane point that companies like Toyota would not invest in Arkansas if the state didn't allow non-citizens to vote because it would "send the message that, essentially, 'If you don't look like us, talk like us and speak like us, we don't want you.'"

-"Fred Sawyer and Huckabe Finn" By Ann Coulter

WashingtonPost.com Online Discussion Today

At 3:30 PM EST today Congressman Tancredo will be doing a live chat with WashingtonPost.com in concjunction with the Cedar Rapids Gazette and the Concord Monitor.

You can log on and ask him questions before or during the event here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2007/10/01/DI2007100101446.html

Michigan Debate Highlights

Debate tonight in Michigan!

The debate, sponsored by CNBC, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal, and hosted by the Michigan Republican Party and University of Michigan Dearborn, will be held at the Ford Community & Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Mich., a suburb of Detroit. CNBC will broadcast the two-hour debate beginning at 4 p.m. EST on Oct. 9, with MSNBC re-broadcasting the event at 9 p.m. the same evening