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Immigration reform is Tancredo's legacy

Hope all of you have had a wonderful Christmas!  While we are all disappointed that Congressman Tancredo had to drop out, I think we can all agree that he has moved the immigration debate to be more favorable for our cause than ever. This article sums up everything and is a favorite of Congressman Tancredo's:

Immigration reform is Tancredo's legacy

MARY RAE BRAGG TH staff writer

For someone who never got into double digits in campaign polling, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo probably did more to influence the 2007 presidential debate than any "non-contender" in memory. Tancredo first brought his rallying call for immigration policy reform to Dubuque 21„2 years ago, saying he was determined to make America's open borders an issue in the 2008 campaign. Hard to believe now, but in the 2004 campaign immigration was a non-issue and Tancredo told the Telegraph Herald he was going to "force candidates to deal with it" in the next cycle. He promised that if no other candidate came forward to carry the reform banner, he would. And when it got to be the first of this year and no one had, Tancredo did. He worked Iowa and paid as much attention to Dubuque as any of the Republican candidates, more than most of them. Never mind that Dubuque is not regarded as a GOP stronghold, Tancredo was intent on his message and it never changed. Those who dismissed him as a one-issue wonder, an opportunist seeking to build a career on xenophobia, seemingly underestimated and misunderstood the congressman. His Dubuque audiences never saw Tancredo act like an angry man, just a man convinced that porous borders provide an entrance for trouble of all kinds. His message was picking up steam as the 2006 congressional races opened. Republican candidate Mike Whalen, of Davenport, Iowa, appeared taken aback when he came to Dubuque to announce his candidacy and the first question he got was from a man worried about illegal immigrants. Later in the campaign, Whalen said he was getting more questions about immigration policy than any other issue. Who would have thought Iowans could get worked up over the Mexican border? Tancredo, for one. It was an issue that made liberals uncomfortable and still does. On one hand, they didn't want to be mean to people risking their lives to come here because of poverty. Still, it didn't make sense to let people flow into the country without them being held accountable. As Tancredo called reporters together Thursday in Des Moines to tell them he was pulling out of the Republican presidential primary, he said he was doing so because, "I believe the cause demands I do so." There are more viable Republican candidates who adopted his "no amnesty" message as their own, Tancredo said, and he feared if he stayed in the race, he would draw votes away from them, allowing those with "abysmal records on immigration" to win. Tancredo endorsed Mitt Romney's campaign, coming at a time when former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is rising above Romney in Iowa polling. An article in Thursday's Washington Post says a Post-ABC News poll shows three out of 10 Republican voters see immigration as their top issue. While Tancredo can find encouragement in those numbers, another Republican candidate, Arizona Sen. John McCain, is worried that his party is hurting its chances of keeping the White House when it continues the anti-amnesty drumbeat. Talking with the Telegraph Herald editorial board earlier this month, McCain said the immigration debate "could make it seem Republicans don't like (Hispanics)." McCain noted that President Bush got 44 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004 and "could not have won without that margin." But by 2006, the margin of support for Republican candidates was down to 26 percent, McCain said. He got 70 percent of his state's Hispanic vote in 2004, he said, "but that was after 20 years of work." McCain readily acknowledges that he hurt himself as a primary candidate by joining with Bush and Democrats to put together an immigration reform package that went nowhere in Congress. McCain's campaign has picked up momentum in recent weeks, so he still has a chance of getting the GOP nomination. But if he doesn't, it may be that the determined little congressman from Colorado was David to McCain's Goliath.

Articles

Joseph Farah has written an excellent piece in favor of the Congressman on WorldNet Daily.  Make sure to check it out here.

Also, there is an intersting article regarding Mike Huckabee and the Council on Foreign Relations by Jerome Corsi on the same site.  You can read it here.

Newsweek Quote on Tom

Tancredo wins one: No-show is victor at debate

NH Union Leader

ALL BUT ONE Republican candidate for President participated in a debate in Miami on Sunday. Unfortunately for the vast majority of Americans, the debate was entirely incomprehensible -- because it was entirely in Spanish.

Univision, which sponsored and broadcast the debate, did not air the questions or the candidates' answers in English. So the candidates were left addressing only people fluent in Spanish.

The one candidate who did not show up, Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, had the right idea. He boycotted the Spanish-only debate, saying that naturalized citizens must by law speak English. So, to whom were the candidates speaking Sunday night? It would seem that there is one answer: illegal immigrants.

Gilmer!

Gilmer Hernandez is a former Deputy Sherriff from Rocksprings, TX.  In a case similar to that of the Ramos and Compean fiasco, the case even prosecuted by Johnny Sutton, Gilmer was sent to prison for doing his job.  His crime was attempting to shoot out the tires of a van carrying illegal aliens trying to run him over.  After spending 11 long months in a federal prison he was finally let free.  Unfortunately, with a felony conviction he has many doors closed to him, albeit a wrong and terrible conviction.

Needless to say, it has been a long and tough year for him and his family.

The Tancredo campaign would like you to take a few moments and send him a Christmas card or a letter thanking him for his service.  Your thoughts, prayers, and letters are greatly appreciated and I hope you will find the time to do this.

To read more about Gilmer, go here: http://www.freegilmer.com/

To send him a letter, direct it here:

Gilmer Hernandez

General Delivery

Rocksprings, TX 78880

To send an email: info@freegilmer.com

Congressman Tancredo has been supporting Gilmer and he asks you to do the same.  He is standing next to Gilmer in this picture:

Cavuto 12-6

Cory Voorhis Legal Defense Fund

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”)  tagged agent Cory Voorhis as a future superstar while still in his 20’s. By the time he was in his mid-30’s, he was running a five-year investigation which led to the arrest of Pedro Castorena whose crime family had for two decades been providing forged documents to Mexican gangs and illegal migrants to help them get into the United States. One of Castorena’s deputies has already been convicted, but the kingpin awaits trial.

In 2006, former Denver district Attorney Bill Ritter, a Democrat, was running against Republican congressman Bob Beauprez to replace Bill Owens as the next Governor of Colorado.  Cory Voorhis saw an article in which Ritter, defending himself against charges by the Beauprez campaign of being weak on prosecuting illegal immigrants, said he was “distressed that federal immigration officials didn't pick up criminals who were illegal immigrants”, effectively blaming ICE for crimes committed by illegal aliens.

Read the full article here

Donate to Cory Voorhis legal defense fund

TANCREDO WAS RIGHT!

Does this sound familiar?  Congressman Tancredo has been saying that this could happen, even depicting it in our latest TV ad.  The critics accused us of "fear-mongering," what do you think they will say now?

Islamic terrorists target Army base -- in Arizona

November 26, 2007

By Sara A. Carter - Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.

Fort officials changed security measures after sources warned that possibly 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were to be smuggled into the U.S. through underground tunnels with high-powered weapons to attack the Arizona Army base, according to multiple confidential law enforcement documents obtained by The Washington Times.

"A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the remainder not yet in the United States," according to one of the documents, an FBI advisory that was distributed to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, Customs and Border Protection and the Justice Department, among several other law enforcement agencies throughout the nation. "The Afghanis and Iraqis shaved their beards so as not to appear to be Middle Easterners."

Read the whole article here

Drug smuggler shot by pair of Border Agents indicted

EL PASO — An admitted Mexican drug smuggler shot by a pair of U.S. Border Patrol agents later convicted in the shooting has been charged with smuggling marijuana, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton announced Thursday.

Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was arrested Thursday at an international port of entry in El Paso. A sealed indictment was issued in October charging him with possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, conspiracy to import a controlled substance, and conspiracy with intent to distribute a controlled substance. According to the indictment, Aldrete committed the crimes in September and October 2005, several months after he was shot in the buttocks while fleeing from a pair of Border Patrol agents.

The agents, Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, were convicted last year of shooting Aldrete and lying about it. The agents were each sentenced to more than a decade in prison.

Aldrete is scheduled to appear in federal court in El Paso today.

"For more than a year, critics of the prosecution ... have complained that Aldrete, the fleeing, unarmed drug smuggler they shot, should have been prosecuted for drug smuggling," Sutton said in a written statement. "I have repeatedly said that if we obtain sufficient competent and admissible evidence against Aldrete, we would prosecute him."

Aldrete's shooting and the subsequent arrest and conviction of Ramos and Compean caused a national firestorm among conservative lawmakers and others. Critics of Sutton have repeatedly called the prosecution unjustified and the sentences extreme.

In July, conservative Republicans won initial House support for an effort to cut federal funding to house the former agents in prison.

U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, said Thursday that Aldrete's arrest and indictment should have come sooner.

"It's about time they arrested the drug dealer," Culberson said in a statement issued by his office. "It's long past time for them to release agents Ramos and Compean."

Joe Loya, Ramos' father-in-law, said the indictment was not surprising.

"He is a career criminal who has been smuggling drugs since he was 14," Loya said. "Who I really feel sorry for is his wife and children."

Opponents of the prosecution against Ramos and Compean have previously argued that Sutton's office ignored evidence that Aldrete, who acknowledged smuggling drugs the day he was shot in February, 2005, had smuggled drugs a second time. He was given immunity for the first smuggling attempt to testify against the agents.

According to testimony at the agents' trial, Aldrete encountered Border Patrol agents after crossing illegally into the U.S. from Mexico in a marijuana-loaded van. While fleeing from agents, he crashed the van and tried to run back to Mexico on foot.

Before he could make it back across the Rio Grande, Aldrete struggled with Compean, who later fired more than a dozen shots at the fleeing man. Ramos fired a single shot after finding Compean on the ground, shooting at Aldrete. It was Ramos' bullet that hit Aldrete.

Compean testified at trial that he shot in self-defense and fighting with Aldrete and then seeing what he believed to be a gun in Aldrete's hand. Ramos said he fired in defense of Compean.

Aldrete, who was severely wounded but managed to flee back around the river, denied having a gun and testified that he ran from Compean after the agent tried to hit him with the butt of a shotgun.

Both men acknowledged not reporting the incident. Several other Border Patrol agents at the scene that day who also did not report the shooting were not prosecuted.

The agents began serving their sentences in January.

If convicted of the drug charges, Aldrete faces up to 40 years in prison and a $2 million fine.

Spitzer Drops Bid to Offer Licenses More Widely

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer formally announced today that he would abandon his plan to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, conceding that his best efforts to sell New Yorkers on the merits of his proposal had clearly failed.

Read the article

FBI Report: Al Qaeda May Strike U.S. Shopping Malls in LA, Chicago

The unclassified shopping mall threat information was circulated by the FBI on November 7th, based on intelligence received by the FBI in late September. The full text of one version of that report is as follows:

As of August 2007, al-Qa’ida planned to strike US shopping malls in Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California during the 2007 Christmas season. Al-Qa’ida hoped to disrupt the US economy and had been planning the attack for the past two years.

FBI Comment: This information was obtained through a lengthy chain of acquisition, and was provided to the source by a sub-source who spoke in confidence. The veracity of the information is uncertain but the threat is being reported due to the nature of the information.

Poll: 77% oppose illegals' licenses

November 6, 2007
By Stephen Dinan - Voters oppose driver's licenses for illegal aliens by a nearly five-to-one margin, a new Fox 5/Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll finds.

As immigration politics explode into the presidential race, polls show Americans are taking a hard line on benefits for illegal aliens, including opposing driver's licenses and such taxpayer-funded benefits as scholarships at state colleges for illegal-alien students.

The new poll found 77 percent of the adults surveyed opposed making driver's licenses available to illegal aliens, while just 16 percent supported the idea.

Licenses fared poorly across party lines, including near-blanket opposition among self-identified Republicans, at 88 percent. Among independents and Democrats, it was still overwhelmingly unpopular, drawing 75 percent and 68 percent opposition, respectively.

New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in September proposed adding New York to the list of seven states that offer licenses to illegal aliens, and the issue has refused to die down since.

Most Democratic presidential candidates have embraced the policy, including front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, arguing it's a matter of road safety and a valid response to the federal government's failure to give a path to citizenship to illegal aliens.

But those on the other side, including Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Christopher J. Dodd and the entire Republican presidential field, oppose the idea.

"I think we have to quit inducing people to come and stay if they're illegal," said former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, one of the Republican candidates.

On the issue of public benefits, the poll's sample of California voters found 62 percent opposed state-sponsored college scholarships for children of illegal aliens, while 24 percent supported the concept.

The idea was unpopular in both parties, with Republicans opposed by a margin of 81 percent to 11 percent, and Democrats against it by 50 percent to 33 percent.

The state's Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, vetoed a bill last month that would have allowed illegal-alien children to apply for community college fee waivers and other types of financial aid. Mr. Schwarzenegger said the policy would strain public finances and hurt legal-resident students.

"It would not be prudent to place additional strain on the general fund to accord the new benefit of providing state-subsidized financial aid to students without lawful immigration status," the governor said in his veto message, pointing out that California already allows illegal aliens to pay in-state tuition rates.

It was the second time in two years he has vetoed the measure. He also has vetoed bills to extend driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Meanwhile, on the issue of enforcement, the poll's sample of 500 Texas voters found strong support for a crackdown: 75 percent said they favor police officers automatically checking legal status during traffic stops, and 66 percent said if someone stopped turns out to be illegal, they should be deported.

Even legal immigrants didn't fare well in the polling.

The national sample of voters found them strongly against changing the Constitution to allow a legal immigrant to seek the presidency, with more then three-fourths of adults opposing the idea. 

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

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

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.' "

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:

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). "

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!

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!

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.

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/

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

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

"Immigration flip-flop finale"

Great article on Senator Brownback:

"Presidential candidate Sen. Sam Brownback last night completed his ongoing transition on immigration, embracing the position held by most conservatives that illegal aliens should not be granted a path to citizenship."

http://video1.washingtontimes.com/dinan/2007/09/immigration_flipflop_finale.html

Campaign Makes First Submission for Matching Funds

We made our first submission for matching funds today!

We are all celebrating at headquarters!

Submission was for $1.6 million, much more to come in the next few months!

http://teamtancredo.org/news.php?newsid=76

Chris Freind Interview Part 2

Part II of the interview:

Tom Tancredo:  The Man Who Would Be President

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18870783&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

Chris Freind interview

Great interview about the Tanc:

Inside Today's Bulletin

Tom Tancredo: Straight From The Heart

By: Chris Freind, The Bulletin

09/28/2007

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18864067&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6

PBS Debate-Washington Post Article

Great quote from the Tanc in the Washington Times today!  Check it out:

Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, called for an official apology for slavery and promised to pursue the "symbolism" of a national black history museum.

But those race-directed solutions drew a strong rebuke from Reps. Ron Paul, Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo, who said the solution is instead to extend freedom and opportunity.

"It is destructive to only talk about the politics of race," Mr. Tancredo said. "It really does not do a service to us as Americans."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070928/NATION/109280095/1028/election

Wikipedia Interview

The Tanc had another great interview with Wikipedia.  You can read it here:

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Interview_with_U.S._Republican_Presidential_candidate_Tom_Tancredo

Nashua Telegraph Interview

The Nashua Telegraph interview is finally up on the web!  See it here:

http://nsedit.sv.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070925/NEWS08/309250087/-1/photos20

NJ Amnesty at it again!

N.J town rescinds anti-immigrant law

Teaser:

"RIVERSIDE, N.J. - A controversial ordinance intended to punish employers and landlords who hire or house illegal immigrants would be too expensive to defend, Riverside officials said in voting to rescind the year-old law. .."

Tancredo: Bush lags on war

Des Moines Register article

Teaser:

"Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said Friday that President Bush isn't acting swiftly enough to redefine the United States' role in Iraq."

"Bush appealed to..."

Tancredo Statement on Iraq Report from Gen. Petraeus

“I am pleased that General Petraeus has indicated progress on the security situation in Iraq, and that this progress will allow us to begin disengaging from our lead role without withdrawing.”

“The General pointed out that our relationship to Iraqi institutions and their effectiveness, particularly the Iraqi military, are improving, and I remain hopeful that this trend will continue, allowing the Iraqi’s to assume responsibility for security in all of Iraq’s provinces by the November benchmark identified by President Bush in his State of the Union speech earlier this year.”

Concerning attempts by MoveOn.org to discredit General Petraeus:

“What was perhaps most disturbing throughout this entire ordeal has been the overt desire by the left and groups like MoveOn.org to do all that they can to assure the failure of the U.S. mission abroad,” said Tancredo.  “After watching the circus atmosphere these groups attempted to create during today’s hearings, it is clear to me that for many on the left, the commitment to a radical political agenda supersedes any interest in the well being of the country.”

In response to Iraqi refugees entering the U.S.:

“I found it confusing that some in the administration seem uninterested in recognizing the security progress General Petraeus identified during today’s hearing, arguing that the U.S. should accept an increasing number of Iraqi refugees.”

“What’s worse, their effort to admit these refugees is just the latest example of the State Department’s refusal to comply with a federal law that directs the government to stop issuing visas to countries who refuse to cooperate with the U.S. when we try to deport their citizens back to their home country – something that the Iraqi government has done with impunity since assuming sovereignty.”

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"I believe we are in a clash of civilizations," said Tancredo. "Terror is a tactic but not the thing we are at war with. We are at war with radical fundamentalist Islam."

-Rep. Tom Tancredo

The Congressman is not afraid to talk about the real threat to the people of the U.S.  I challenge you to watch any Democratic debate (if you can stand it) and count how many times "radical fundamentalist Islam" is mentioned.

-SecPress