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The Triumphant Return of Li'l D! (Radar)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:35:54 GMT

Full disclosure time: I'm a Republican who spent years on Capitol Hill rolling my eyes at or altogether ignoring Rep. Dennis Kucinich. Several reasons for this. First of all, everyone was doing it, even the Democrats. Second, he's really short (so is that numbskull Tom Tancredo, by the way). Third, he was always offering amendments on genetically engineered food that I didn't understand or feel...

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The Sad State of the Anti-Immigration Movement (Right Wing Watch)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:06:31 GMT

Earlier this month, it was announced that Bob Barr, Tom Tancredo, Alan Keyes, and Chuck Baldwin would be joining together for an anti-immigration press conference organized by the Minuteman during the Democratic Convention in an attempt to inject the issue...

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CO-04: Roll Call -- Markey 50%, Musgrave 43% (SquareState.net - Front Page)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:01:17 GMT

Via TPM Election Central, Roll Call reports a 7% lead for Markey over Tom Tancredo's evil twin: http://www.rollcall.com/issues... Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's (R-Colo.) re-election appears to be in peril a little more than two months before Election Day, according to a new poll conducted exclusively for Roll Call. The survey also found the presidential contest between presumptive Democratic nominee...

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Jon Powers must win (rochesterturning.com)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:20:22 GMT

... no connection to each other. The Buffalo News front-paged a story about Davis releasing his inner Tom Tancredo. Read the rest. Thanks HP, well said. ShareThis

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RightMarch immigration rally at DNC fizzles, and what they should have done (Kristen Wyatt/AP) (Lonewacko)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:04:55 GMT

Kristen Wyatt of the Associated Press (AP) gleefully offers "Anti-immigrant rally fizzles as DNC opens" (), about an event organized by RightMarch and conducted in a Denver park specifically to coincide with the DNC. According to her, only a few dozen people turned out to see Bob Barr and the others (Tom Tancredo, Chris Simcox from the MMCD, etc.) speak, which is even lower than I would have...

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Anti-immigration activists discuss border security (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:15:00 GMT

... of his campaign.Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr of Georgia and Republican congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado have agreed to speak. Tancredo made immigration the cornerstone of a brief run for president last year.The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps plans a similar rally in Minnesota next week for the Republican National Convention.---On the Net:About the rally:

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GOP Veepstakes (The Amboy Times)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:12:12 GMT

This is kinda fun for news junkies.According to VoteMatch, my Veep would would be Fred Thompson, a 65% match. Here are the runners up.Tom Tancredo 63%, Condoleezza Rice 60%, and Sam Brownback 58%.I like Tancredo, but not as a Veep...

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Republicans Swoon Over Latinos (HispanicTrending)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:11:41 GMT

August 22, 2008 By Carolyn Lochhead As pundits wonder whether McCain's house gaffe becomes the $400 haircut of the election and the "Other Edwards" floated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi adds to the tension of our impending text-message moment, the Republican National Committee is doing some Latino outreach. A new radio spot, which omits clips of Tom Tancredo, will air statewide in Colorado,...

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Tancredo: Pay no attention to the log in my eye (ColoradoPols.com - Front Page)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:51:07 GMT

Irrelevant lame duck Tom Tancredo (R-Not Mexico) put out a press release today that is either pathetic in its hypocrisy or brilliant in its irony. Tancredo concluded, "Our economy is running on fumes and Congressional Democrats are on vacation." This is rich coming from the only member of the Colorado delegation who skipped the vote on adjournment . But I'm just getting started. Tancredo...

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Denver Post , AP uncritically reported Tancredo's false claim that Denver is a "sanctuary city" (Colorado Media Matters)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:15:46 GMT

In an August 20 article , The Denver Post uncritically reported Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo's claim that Denver is "a 'sanctuary city' where authorities ignore immigration law." The newspaper provided no substantiation from Tancredo for his assertion. Similarly, the Associated Press uncritically reported that Tancredo "called Denver part of the problem and said it was a...

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Tancredo: Immigration stop points out system’s woes (One Old Vet)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:26:04 GMT

Tancredo: Immigration stop points out system’s woes By Adam Goldstein The Aurora Sentinel AURORA | An incident early this month where Aurora police let 13 suspected illegal immigrants go because federal authorities wouldn’t pick the suspects up illustrates an inadequate immigration system, according to a local congressman. “This happens all the time,” T.Q. Houlton, a spokesman for U.S. Congressman...

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The RIGHT choice to WRITE IN (TexasFreds)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:21:33 GMT

The RIGHT choice to WRITE IN I am a serious advocate of a *Write In* campaign being launched. I make no apologies to anyone for my feelings concerning John McCain and Barack Obama. I feel that either of those men will be totally disastrous as president of this nation. It’s time that the American people took [...]

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Colorado Minuteman Civil Defense Corps DNC Rally (One Old Vet)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:33:04 GMT

Click for Larger Image Bob Barr To Speak At Minutemen’s DNC Rally Section: Democratic National Convention Section DENVER (AP) ― Activists who want to use the military to secure the nation’s borders plan to rally on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention. Representatives of both Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr and U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo confirmed [...]

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President of What World? (Heavy-Handed Politics)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:52:00 GMT

By Tom Tancredo Senator Obama went to Berlin and told a crowd of 200,000 Europeans that he was speaking to them not as a candidate for President of the United States, but as “a fellow citizen of the world.” He then proceeded to insult the memories of any German over age 30 and the intelligence of every American who remembers what the Berlin Wall was all about. In Berlin, Obama credited the “people...

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Oh baby, those immigrants are HOT (The Mex Files)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:00:26 GMT

What make believers out of those suffering from willful ignorance? Why, a chance to be even stupider than normal, what else. I suppose the good news is that right-wingers are finally coming around to accepting what scientists have been warning about for years. Tom Tancredo, who we we last heard of when he remodeled his [...]

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Barr, Nader, Baldwin, McKinney (The LRC Blog)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:52:56 GMT

Barr, Nader, Baldwin, McKinneyPosted by Lew Rockwell at August 15, 2008 06:29 PMDave Nolan, a founder of the Libertarian Party, does a halftime of the Bob Barr-Wayne Neocon Root campaign.Leftist Ralph Nader plans an anti-GOP in Minnesota on the same day as McCain's swearing-in as fuhrer-to-be. Barr, Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin, Krazy Alan Keyes, and Totalitarian Tom Tancredo will...

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Choose the Huck-i-Mee (Adam's Blog)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:29:28 GMT

Huckpac gots another first, allowing regular Americans to choose who the PAC will support in a key Florida Primary. You can vote online for your choice . My vote goes with State Representative Gayle Harrell . As a commenter explains: Harrell won the endorsement of America PAC, an immigration-enforcement-focused political action committee headed up by retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.),...

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Bob Barr to speak at Minutemen’s DNC rally (One Old Vet)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:17:06 GMT

Bob Barr to speak at Minutemen’s DNC rally COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press Writer DENVER — Activists who want to use the military to secure the nation’s borders plan to rally on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention. Representatives of both Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr and U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo confirmed Wednesday that they would speak [...]

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Coffman Wins Chance To Take Tancredo’s Seat (Get Mash)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:28:10 GMT

With his opponents conceding yesterday’s’s primary, Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman looked set to succeed Rep. Tom Tancredo, the five-term Colorado congressman whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence. Read the full story

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Wed, Aug. 13 Electoral Vote Predictor Obama 289 McCain 249 (Electoral-vote.com)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:23:00 GMT

... (south of Denver), Colorado's Secretary of State, Mike Coffman (R), won the primary to succeed Tom Tancredo in Congress. The district is R+10, so Coffman is a shoo-in. Gubernatorial races Eleven governorships are on the agenda for this November. Here is a rundown of who's who in governorland. Larry Sabato has more . State Incumbent Dem nominee GOP nominee Notes Delaware Ruth Minner (D) Primary...

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