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</div><div>fox News’ Sean Hannity <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a4561c75728e33ebe08ea5c2c5e250accb6bf70efde1180e241f52e68116875614b017a877fa8afa07abf81c45e547b046d2ec9015f873e5" title="hosted">hosted</a> Republican congressional candidate Lauren Boebert on his TV show — providing a prime-time platform to a candidate who has supported the violence-linked QAnon conspiracy theory.The QAnon movement was name-checked in a leaked May 2019 FBI document highlighting the emergence of conspiracy theory-fueled domestic terrorism threats, and devotees have committed a number of murders, engaged in armed standoffs, and made politically motivated death threats. QAnon followers have vandalized churches, taken police on high-speed chases, and in one case, conspired with fellow followers to commit kidnapping.Boebert is one of <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a4561c75728e33ebaec3a65d00f348c7d61b8b69be0107ff1325f0164cf4e0f87d864196ab153dcc749494290ec367527279c0372a515e67" title="dozens">dozens</a> of current or former 2020 congressional candidates who have expressed support for the conspiracy theory. Many of them, like Boebert, will be on the ballot in November.Boebert has explicitly praised QAnon, and furthermore appeared on another QAnon YouTube show. She's tried to back away from those statements after winning her primary election, and this week got a helping hand from Hannity. He introduced Boebert as an “up-and-coming Colorado congressional candidate” who was “taking on the Washington swamp.” Hannity portrayed Boebert as the victim of unfair media attacks.Also: Boebert is <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a4561c75728e33ebb6495920e1d1af9e10da23d5ab07e1f6b9fd3709c9f4b4e56e9bf8b2014df21f4fb31015f1272442834f053ec944025b" title="touting" style="">touting</a> the endorsement of white nationalist and COVID-19 conspiracy theorist Tom Tancredo.<div>
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sanderson difillipo toxic<a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19830305&id=OywhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uH4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3119,3299595&hl=en">https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19830305&id=OywhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uH4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3119,3299595&hl=en</a>==<h3 class="r"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo">Tom Tancredo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><cite class="Rm">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TomTancredo</cite></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="27"><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv _SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:0;ri:;site:en.wikipedia.org" data-async-trigger="cra-0-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwjc0prsvu7LAhVV62MKHbZrApkQ5CsIIDAA">Wikipedia</div></div></div>Thomas Gerard "Tom" Tancredo

is an American politician from Colorado, who represented the state's

sixth congressional district in the United States House of ...<div class="osl">‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo#Early_life.2C_education_and_career">Early life, education and career</a> - ‎<a class="fl" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo#U.S.House_of_Representatives">US House of Representatives</a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="36"><h3 class="r"><a href="http://blogs.denverpost.com/thespot/2015/10/30/tom-tancredo-says-hes-quitting-republican-party-again/123638/">Tom Tancredo says he's quitting Republican Party -- again</a></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv _SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><cite class="Rm">blogs.denverpost.com/.../tom-tancredo-says.../123638/</cite></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="36"><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:1;ri:;site:blogs.denverpost.com" data-async-trigger="cra-1-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwjc0prsvu7LAhVV62MKHbZrApkQ5CsIKTAB">The Denver Post</div></div></div>Oct 30, 2015 - Tom Tancredo,

the outspoken former GOP congressman from Colorado, said he is calling

it quits with the Republican Party. In a column posted ...</div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="43"><h3 class="r"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/thomastancredo">Tom Tancredo - Facebook</a></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><cite class="Rm bc">www.facebook.com › People › Politician</cite></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="43"><div class="s"><div>Tom Tancredo. 9266 likes · 4057 talking about this. Team America PAC.</div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="50"><h3 class="r"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/author/tom-tancredo/">Tom Tancredo, Author at Breitbart</a></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><cite class="Rm">www.breitbart.com/author/tom-tancredo/</cite></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="50"><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:3;ri:;site:breitbart.com" data-async-trigger="cra-3-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwjc0prsvu7LAhVV62MKHbZrApkQ5CsINzAD">Breitbart News Network</div></div></div>by Tom Tancredo26

Mar 2016, 10:23 AM PDT0 · Several hundred anti-Trump protesters gather

outside the Infinity Event Center where Republican presidential ...</div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="56"><h3 class="r"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/30/former-congressman-im-quitting-gop/">Former Congressman: I'm Quitting GOP - Breitbart</a></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><cite class="Rm">www.breitbart.com/.../former-congressman-im-q...</cite></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="56"><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:4;ri:;site:breitbart.com" data-async-trigger="cra-4-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwjc0prsvu7LAhVV62MKHbZrApkQ5CsIPTAE">Breitbart News Network</div></div></div>Oct 30, 2015 - by Tom Tancredo30 Oct 20154800 ... the then-Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, and threatened with dire consequences if I continued to speak out ...</div></div></div></div><div class="g"><div class="rc" data-hveid="63"><h3 class="r"><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/tom-tancredo-donald-trump-anti-immigrant-comments-tone-down-120044">Tom Tancredo to Donald Trump: Tone it down - POLITICO</a></h3><div class="s"><div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><cite class="Rm">www.politico.com/.../tom-tancredo-donald-trump-anti-immigrant...</cite></div></div></div></div></div><div class="f kv SWb" style="white-space:nowrap"><div class="crc"><div class="crl" data-async-context="res:5;ri:;site:politico.com" data-async-trigger="cra-5-filled" data-ved="0ahUKEwjc0prsvu7LAhVV62MKHbZrApkQ5CsIRDAF">Politico</div></div></div>Jul 13, 2015 - Tom Tancredo thinks Donald Trump has taken his anti-immigrant rhetoric a ... During his unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign Tancredo ..==
The Republican Attorneys General Association is under fire in

Colorado and Alabama for earlier donations to political-action

committees. In Colorado, the money was used to hammer former Congressman

Tom Tancredo <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_26232785/group-gop-governors-assn-funneled-campaign-cash-hurt" target="_blank">in the governor’s primary</a>.

The $2.6 million investment for Coffman is more than four times the

amount spent by any candidate ever running for attorney general in

Colorado, Quick said, and is believed to be the first time outside money

has played a role in the race.

“I don’t think Colorado voters are going to like a group from the

outside trying to buy the attorney general’s office,” said Quick, the

former Adams County district attorney. “There may be a real estate boom

right now but the attorney general’s office isn’t up for sale.”[he was wrong]

Scott Will, the political director for RAGA, has refused to tell The

Denver Post why the organization, whose stated mission is to elect

Republicans for attorney general, played in Colorado’s four-way GOP June

24 gubernatorial primary. Will did comment on the money for Coffman.

“RAGA is investing heavily in this race because Colorado voters are

rejecting the Obama agenda and making it clear that they want leaders

like Cynthia Coffman who will rein in the federal government,” he said.

RAGA in June funneled $155,000 to a super PAC with ties to Mitt

Romney’s presidential campaign. The money paid for automated calls and a

radio ad attacking Tancredo, and a TV spot that highlighted another

gubernatorial candidate, Bob Beauprez, at Tancredo’s expense. <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_26232785/group-gop-governors-assn-funneled-campaign-cash-hurt" target="_blank">Beauprez beat Tancredo</a>

and two other GOP rivals in the June 24 primary. Days later, the

Republican Governors Association contributed $175,000 to RAGA.

Tancredo has demanded that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, chairman

of RGA, provide a full explanation and release communications between

his group and RAGA.

<a href="http://blog.al.com/wire/2014/05/return_to_sender_strange_campa.html" target="_blank">In Alabama, the RAGA donation</a>

to a PAC intended to benefit Luther Strange, the Republican attorney

general seeking re-election, has been called illegal because of state

campaign finance laws. Luther returned the $50,000 PAC donation after

reporters asked questions, but a complaint has been filed with the

Alabama Ethics Commission.

Luther’s RAGA donation is paltry compared to the $2.6 million for Coffman. 
Tom Tancredo has been stirring the political pot in Colorado for two decades. In the Seventies, he and other freshman legislators who hated environmental laws and other government mandates were dubbed the "House Crazies." They were successful in installing a new speaker, rancher Bob Burford. When Ronald Reagan became president, he gave them--and like-minded Westerners such as James Watt--national authority. One of them, Anne Gorsuch, became director of the Environmental Protection Agency. (She later quit amid a scandal.) Her boyfriend--and later husband--Burford took over the Bureau of Land Management. Tancredo became regional director of the U.S. Department of Education. (One of his bosses was deputy secretary Gary Bauer, now D.C. lobbyist for Focus on the Family.)In early 1985 the liberal group People for the American Way charged that "the evidence is mounting of a direct pipeline from Mr. Tancredo's desk to radical religious zealots who interpret their self-styled biblical mandate as a license to act as a religious KGB,' harassing anyone who dares to speak out against their vision of a Christian nation." ("You talk about conspiratorial," says Tancredo, who notes that he didn't become an active Christian until two and a half years ago. "The conspiracy was in the minds of people pushing this issue.") Tancredo kept his job for twelve years, until the Clinton administration ousted him almost immediately upon taking over. These days, Tancredo continues to crank out ideas; he's pushing for a "civil rights" initiative for the 1996 ballot in Colorado that would ban affirmative-action programs. And he insists that the current schism in the local GOP has existed for years. "Only it wasn't called the religious right' back then," he says. "The liberal side of the party has seen this as an epithet they can throw around: conservative Christian.' This thing with the fundamental Christians is completely overblown. They're conservative Christians. So what? That implies a certain type of character. It's bound to improve the quality of the people in public service." Whatever the cause, GOP politics in the area are more than slightly schizoid. Last spring the Boulder County Republican Party chairman, moderate ex-Longmont mayor Bill Swenson, hosted a precinct caucus at his own home and couldn't even get elected as a voting delegate to the party's county convention. He did wind up squeaking out a win in the primary for Colorado House District 12. But Republican moderates took a crushing blow when Sharon Klusman, a party chairwoman in Clear Creek County, breezed into the congressional primary as a favorite to take on Skaggs--and then was trounced by Miller. Of the four candidates in the primary, only Miller was opposed to abortion. Her three opponents split the pro-choice votes, while Miller won with 38 percent of the vote. She spent less than $10,000 and didn't even put up any yard signs. Klusman put $20,000 of her own money into her campaign. It was the second straight bitter defeat for Klusman. A late entry into the 1992 GOP congressional primary race after another moderate Republican was ruled ineligible to run, Klusman lost to Bryan Day, the Southern Baptist minister from Arvada who then was overwhelmed by Skaggs.Miller and her allies simply outsmarted everyone else in '94. Fearing that moderate Republicans would try to sabotage her bid at the party caucus, she petitioned her way onto the ballot and turned in her signatures even before the caucus met. Rumor had it that her forces then voted for pro-choice Ted Engel at the caucus, ensuring him a place on the ballot with Klusman. Miller says it was the Christian Coalition, not her campaign, that orchestrated that canny move. "I had nothing to do with it," she says. "I can't be responsible for what other people do." A third pro-choice candidate, Michelle Lawrence, later petitioned her way onto the ballot, further fragmenting the vote. "Bryan was not a savvy player," says Klusman. "Pat is. Look at what she did to me." But Klusman says that by putting Miller on the ballot in the general election, GOP voters probably handed another term to Skaggs. That's not a given, says Diane Dillingham, president-elect of Colorado Republicans for Choice. "I can't say that moderate Republicans are particularly inspired or driven," she adds. "If David Skaggs thinks that just because of the abortion issue they'll listen to him, he'll wake up out of office." Still, says Dillingham, Miller has some of her own problems--mainly her perceived link to wacko Patriots. "It's not just the abortion issue," Dillingham says. "It's the black helicopters, the U.N., the Trilateral Commission thing." Pat Miller has a habit of sharing conspiratorial winks and stories with those she perceives as comrades up in arms. In mid-August, for example, she was one of several candidates--along with Tom Tancredo--speaking at a meeting off Colorado Boulevard sponsored by Guardians of American Liberties, a self-described "national coalition of American patriots and citizens" headquartered in Boulder.   Emceed by Marty Nalitz, the gathering drew only a smattering of noncandidates. When Miller's turn came, she told the crowd exactly where she stood by relating a letter she had received from an unnamed "congressperson." "She sent me her agenda," Miller recalled. "And she said, We'll be happy if you win because we'll all be working together on these kinds of issues.' And it was spousal abuse, sexual harassment, and I told my husband about it and I said, You know, I am not going to Congress for these kinds of issues. I'm not. And he says, Well, don't tell 'em that until you get there.'"When the laughter died down, Miller reminded the audience that this is a "pivotal point in the future of our country." She told of a woman she ran into at a K mart who complained about moral decay and was fearful that the United States might not even "make it" to 1996.
"There is real fear," Miller said. "And maybe that's what it takes. It's for people to finally get fearful enough to get out there and make a change."
Another speaker at the GOAL meeting was state representative Charlie Duke, who hit the national big time earlier this year when he was invited on the air by Rush Limbaugh to tout his 10th Amendment movement for states' rights.
"I don't want to kid you for a second," Duke warned the GOAL crowd. "We're dealing with something evil here. We're dealing with something that took over a nation led by Christ, created by Christ and put in place by Christians. We're dealing with something that has been gripped by something that is very un-Christianlike."
Just go to the legislature, Duke suggested. "If you listen real close and you really turn up your sensitivity," he said, "you can feel the evil that's going through that body...You can hear the cackling in the ceiling. You can hear the smiles of the Beast as it's trying to force its puppets to do its bidding. And it's successful at it. And they laugh at people like Pat and myself. That's the kind of battle we're in here, folks. We're in a battle to recover our country."
Miller also found a sympathetic audience in late August at a meeting of the Adams County chapter of United We Stand America, the group started by presidential pretender H. Ross Perot. Dissatisfied with public officials and public schools, many of Perot's supporters have more of a libertarian bent than a religious one. Nevertheless, one of the twenty people at the meeting in Northglenn proudly piped up during Miller's pitch, "I'm the religious right and proud of it." Miller walked over to the woman with a big grin, shook her hand and cracked, "Do you want to run for office?"
The Perotistas are a potential gold mine for Miller--Perot got 23 percent of Colorado's vote in '92, above his national total of 19 percent, and he ran even stronger in Denver's suburbs. But many in the audience were unfamiliar with Miller. That didn't last long. Asked if she was for "one-world" government, Miller replied, "Under God." And when audience members grumbled that the government "is against us," she agreed.
When one person, referring to the Branch Davidian fiasco in Texas, accused the government of "murdering those people," Miller replied, "I know they did."

Miller also let the audience in on a little secret about her friend Tom Tancredo, who had spoken at the Perot group's previous meeting. While barred by federal law from electioneering for a candidate because of his recent stint as a federal official, Miller says, Tancredo helped her out anyway. Tancredo says he doesn't recall doing it, but Miller proudly told the Perot group: "He let his beard grow and wore a ball cap and went door to door with my fliers."
It's that kind of commitment Miller tried to instill a few days later during a private rally for her volunteers at the Meadowglen Clubhouse in north Arvada. One of her workers exhorted the enthusiastic crowd of sixty to work "person to person" because the "media is not Pat's friend." Miller herself reminded the volunteers that the district, although containing more Democrats than Republicans, has a huge number of unaffiliated voters. In fact, the 2nd is the only congressional district in the state that has more unaffiliated voters than members of either party. "We can get the unaffiliated and the disgruntled Democrats," she said.
After introducing Jim Congrove and state Board of Education candidate Patti Johnson to the crowd, Miller showed off her mom, a newly registered Republican who chipped in with a hearty "Go for it!" And then the session got down to business. The losing candidate in '92, Bryan Day, came forward to offer strategy and to plead with the volunteers for money. "If you write a house payment and you don't write a check to Pat Miller," he said, "shame on you!"  
Day wryly admitted that he was "an expert on losing to David Skaggs," but he couldn't help noting, "They painted me as an extreme religious-right kook. And I'm the same religion as Clinton and Gore!"
Skaggs immediately challenged Miller to debates after she won the primary (he was unopposed in his). But she balked, saying she was convinced that she wouldn't fare well at the hands of reporters.
The first head-to-head clash between Skaggs and Miller didn't occur until September 6 in front of the Northglenn-Thornton Rotary Club. While Miller was late in arriving, Skaggs, looking professorial in a dark suit and tortoise-shell glasses, extolled the virtues of "representative government" and explained "why I think I've been doing it reasonably well."

Miller showed up in a red suit, apparently determined to answer some unasked questions. "I'm not the extreme right wing of the Republican Party," she assured the Rotarians. "I'm mainstream. I'm not a scary person."
Skaggs, however, contended that "it was a very marginal part of the Republican Party that she emerged from." Miller tried to portray Skaggs as such an extremist on the issue of abortion that he couldn't even support her parental notification initiative.
After Miller declared in response to a question about education that the U.S. Department of Education "shouldn't exist" --and neither should "nationalized standards" for the schools--Skaggs rested his case on that issue. But he couldn't do that with the crime bill, which he voted for. "I had some misgivings," he said. "Unfortunately, you can't press `maybe.'"
Miller responded with one of her favorite lines: "I thought the crime bill deserved capital punishment."
Neither attempted bon mot made the Rotarians snap to attention. But the audience took notice when things got hotter. "He accuses me of distancing myself from the abortion issue," Miller said. "And he distances himself from Clinton, whom he's supported 82 percent of the time."
Just as the two were beginning to get testy, club president Odell Barry, himself a prominent local Democrat, called a halt.
Miller was much more at ease later that afternoon, when she drove up I-25 to Johnstown to be a guest on KHNC's USA Patriot Network. Her timing was perfect. Filling in for regular host Norm Resnick, the conservative Jewish motormouth who was off because of Rosh Hashanah, was state senator Jim Roberts from nearby Loveland. What could be better for two politicians running for office than to have two hours of free radio time on a station that, thanks to its shortwave link, beams all the way across North America?
"The Democrats say that Republicans have to forsake the Christian right," Roberts intoned during his introduction. "But that's not true. Pat Miller won."
With all the confidence of true believers, Roberts and Miller conversed amiably with a slew of tough-talking, disgruntled callers, playing to their fears about the direction of the country.
While Roberts and Miller talked, Marty Nalitz, whose show was to follow, stood in another room, browsing through a sheaf of drawings of various types of black helicopters the government might be sending after them. The station was getting ready to publish the drawings in its U.S.A. Patriot News magazine as a sort of consumer guide to identifying the mysterious crafts.
"The grassroots movement is fed up," Ray from Vermont told Roberts and Miller back in the studio. "Peaceful means are going to be exhausted."

"Yeah, I understand what you're saying," said Miller, who answered Ray's query about when "armed revolution" will start in this country by saying that the crime bill "brought us a step closer."
"People consider us fanatics, terrorists, lunatics," said Ray. "Well, George Washington was a fanatic." Roberts and Miller agreed, and Miller added, "At this point, I think there are some things worth dying for."
For most of the last hour, the Roberts-Miller show was dominated by a call from Larry Bates, head of First American Monetary Consultants in Fort Collins, which publishes a magazine that warns against the New World Order and the "coming financial collapse" of the U.S. and urges a return to "biblical principles." When he wasn't taunting liberals as "crybabies," Bates (himself a former congressional candidate in Tennessee) effusively praised Roberts and Miller and blasted Congress as dominated by "members of the privileged class." No mention was made on the air that Roberts is employed by Bates, who has also contributed money to Roberts's campaign.  
As the afternoon wore on, the three beat a steady tattoo into Skaggs's hide. "You can't find a more socialist congressman than Skaggs," Roberts concluded. And Miller said, "They expected a little church mouse, one issue only. Well, I've got an arsenal ready for him."
It was no surprise that the Jim and Pat Show on KHNC didn't hit the papers the next day; most talk radio is ignored by the press. And, predictably, Miller wasn't surprised when she read the newspaper stories about an event the same day that wasn't ignored: her first joust with Skaggs. "It was exactly what I thought it would be," she told a reporter. "That's why I don't want to do debates...It makes me mad, because he's going to tie me to abortion, which is the natural thing to do. But I tie him to Clinton and it's not printed."
That's a complaint she often makes to her supporters, such as the Patriot group she addressed on September 12 at the American Legion hall in Boulder. After the Patriots briefly discussed other issues--including rumors of mysterious troop and materiel convoys and sightings of black helicopters--and got the chance to pick through reading material on the Posse Comitatus, Miller received a warm welcome.

"There are a lot of issues that are near and dear to my heart that I don't talk about a lot in the press," she told the group of thirty people. "I'm very glad there are groups like this meeting. It's restoring my faith as to what America is all about. And when I make statements about the black helicopters and the U.N. and all that, I am expressing real concerns that folks know about and newspapers have no idea. So I'm glad for talk radio. And I'm glad for groups like this who are getting out real good information and truth.
"I'm not trying to be stealthy," added Miller. "I'm sorry I don't have enough money to make a big splash. I'm not a stealth candidate. I'm just out there working very hard. And it's folks like you who are going to put me in office."
end of part 2

2007 pres race says warming real, [DOUBT sci =] not sure it's manmade, but we need to get off FF b/c we buy oil from bad guys (does not mention coal); prolife, UN China forced abortions, china wanted 1.5b pounds co2 credit b/c of abortions 1/4 million?! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGeYBCRclq0"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGeYBCRclq0</a>  Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado discusses his views on whether global warming is man-made at Sunapee Middle High School in Sunapee, NH. can't find any other ref to this claim

to be fair: Last week Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese prisoner escaped house arrest with the help of Christian missionaries?].  His charges were brought in retaliation for uncovering a massive campaign of forced abortions in his hometown.  Rumor has it that Chen is now in hiding at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. redstate blog

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Thomas Gerard "Tom" Tancredo, a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party_U.S.A." title="Republican Party U.S.A." class="mw-redirect">Republican</a>, represented the 6th District of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Members_of_the_U.S._Congress_from_Colorado" title="Category:Members of the U.S. Congress from Colorado">Colorado</a> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">United States House of Representatives</a> from 1999-2008. The district takes in most of Denver's southern suburbs. (<a href="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/co06_109.gif" class="external text" title="http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/co06_109.gif" rel="nofollow">map</a>)

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Other_Controversies">2.1 Other Controversies</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Conservative_Political_Action_Conference">2.2 Conservative Political Action Conference</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Abandonment_of_race-based_caucuses">2.3 Abandonment of race-based caucuses</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Announced_retirement_plans">2.4 Announced retirement plans</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#2006_elections">3.1 2006 elections</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#2008_presidential_election">3.2 2008 presidential election</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Set_to_abandon_presidential_bid">3.2.1 Set to abandon presidential bid</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Ended_candidacy">3.2.2 Ended candidacy</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Money_in_politics">4 Money in politics</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Committees_and_Affiliations">5 Committees and Affiliations</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Committee_assignments_in_the_110th_Congress_.282007-2008.29">5.1 Committee assignments in the 110th Congress (2007-2008)</a>

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<li class="toclevel-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Committee_assignments_in_the_109th_Congress_.282005-2006.29">5.1.1 Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Coalitions_and_Caucuses">5.2 Coalitions and Caucuses</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Boards_and_other_Affiliations">5.3 Boards and other Affiliations</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#More_Background_Data">6 More Background Data</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Articles_and_resources">7 Articles and resources</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Sources">7.1 Sources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#External_resources">7.2 External resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Local_blogs_and_discussion_sites">7.3 Local blogs and discussion sites</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#External_articles">7.4 External articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#External_articles_by_Tancredo">7.5 External articles by Tancredo</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#Contact">8 Contact</a></li>

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<h2>Record and controversies</h2>

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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School" class="extiw" title="w:Columbine High School">Columbine High School</a> shooting occurred less than a mile from Tancredo's home in Littleton, Colorado. He received considerable criticism for taking money from groups opposed to gun control and only took 53% of the vote in 2000, the lowest voting percentage in the district's history. However, with less opposition in subsequent elections, he was reelected in 2002 and 2004. Prior to the 2004 election, he announced that he would break his pledge and run for a fourth term because the issue of illegal immigration required his continuing presence in Congress. Tancredo has announced his intention to run yet again in 2006.

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Tancredo voted for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_Against_Iraq_Resolution_of_2002" title="Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002">Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002</a> that started the Iraq War.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a>

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<h3>Environmental record</h3>

For more information on environmental legislation, see the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Energy_and_Environment_Policy_%28U.S.%29" title="Portal:Energy and Environment Policy (U.S.)">Energy and Environment Policy Portal</a>

<h3>Voting record</h3>

<h3>Immigration issues</h3>

Tancredo is noted for his outspoken criticism of ineffective border control and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Illegal_immigration" title="Illegal immigration">illegal immigration</a>, and his support for general immigration reduction. His supporters claim he represents the silent Majority of American citizens who want existing U.S. laws upheld. His critics claim he is xenophobic and that his proposed measures do not address underlying causes. He has received press attention for highlighting individual illegal immigrant families for deportation, such as that of an honor student trying to gain admission to the University of Colorado at Boulder, who had publicly complained about having to pay out-of-state tuition rates because he was illegally in the country.

In May 1999, Tancredo founded the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Immigration_Reform_Caucus&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="House Immigration Reform Caucus (page does not exist)">House Immigration Reform Caucus</a>. He still serves as its chairman. The caucus, made up mostly of Republicans, focuses on reviewing immigration policy but has not yet been successful in implementing significant reforms.

His advocacy for immigration reform is so strident that he has not been welcome in the White House since criticizing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a>'s border security controls. Tancredo and George W. Bush's political advisor, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Karl_Rove" title="Karl Rove">Karl Rove</a>, 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... Rove responded by calling the congressman 'a traitor to the party', 'a traitor to the president' and warned him to never 'darken the doorstep of the White House.'" Tancredo responded that "the president's position on immigration is going to hurt him. I want the president to win the 2004 election. I am not doing any of these things or saying any of these things because I want to hurt the Republican Party or the president." <a href="http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2004/09/immigration_iss_1.php" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2004/09/immigration_iss_1.php" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> The National Review's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Frum" title="David Frum">David Frum</a> wrote that "[n]o issue, not one, threatens to do more damage to the Republican coalition than immigration," <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/1/10/140820.shtml" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/1/10/140820.shtml" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> which many say explains in part Rove's sensitivity to Tancredo's criticism.

Once, according to The New Republic, "[w]hen The Denver Post profiled an illegal immigrant high school student with a 3.9 grade point average, Tancredo tried to have the boy deported." <a href="http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050328&s=crowley032805" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050328&s=crowley032805" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> The New Republic article also quotes Tancredo saying that keeping immigrants out of the United States is a question of national identity and accusing his opponents of nihilistic cultural relativism and anti-Americanism:

America is wrestling with an identity crisis. Part of it is a result of what I call the 'cult of multiculturalism.' The idea that there is nothing—nothing—of value in Western civilization, that we have nothing to offer the world, that we have nothing to offer as a viable society, that everything we have is bad and ugly.... If we are truly in a clash of civilizations... which I happen to believe, then it is important for us to understand who we are. What does it mean to be part of Western civilization? Are there inherent values that are worth anyone's allegiance?

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The most significant immigration-related legislation that Tancredo has worked to pass is H.R. 946, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mass_Immigration_Reduction_Act_of_2003" class="extiw" title="w:The Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2003">The Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2003</a>. The act would have imposed an indefinite moratorium on immigration to the United States. Only 30,000 total legal immigrants would have been allowed into the country annually for at least the first five years of the act and, after that, until such time as there were fewer than 10,000 illegal immigrants entering per year. When those conditions were met immigration would only have been allowed at whatever level the president and both houses of Congress agreed would have no adverse impact on wages, housing, the environment, or schools. When last introduced in 2003, the bill had 11 cosponsors. Organizations that have endorsed Tancredo's bill include: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NumbersUSA" title="NumbersUSA">NumbersUSA</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Population-Environment_Balance" title="Population-Environment Balance">Population-Environment Balance</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carrying_Capacity_Network" title="Carrying Capacity Network">Carrying Capacity Network</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform" title="Federation for American Immigration Reform">Federation for American Immigration Reform</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Negative_Population_Growth" title="Negative Population Growth">Negative Population Growth</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Renaissance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Renaissance (page does not exist)">American Renaissance</a> magazine, and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Patrol" title="American Patrol">American Patrol</a>.

Tancredo founded the Team America <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a> in order to collect contributions for immigration-restrictionist inclined congressional representatives and candidates. Due to campaign law he had to resign after founding it. The current chair is <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bay_Buchanan" title="Bay Buchanan">Bay Buchanan</a>, sister of politician <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan" class="mw-redirect">Pat Buchanan</a>.

In February 2005, Tancredo announced he will seek the Republican nomination for president if all other candidates fail to address the illegal immigration problem. He is already visiting early primary states like New Hampshire. In July 2005, Tancredo confirmed that he was moving towards a presidential run. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050722/ap_on_el_pr/tancredo_s_mission" class="external autonumber" title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050722/ap_on_el_pr/tancredo_s_mission" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>

In February 2007, Tancredo criticized NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for not running a Border Control advertisement during the Super Bowl. The NFL responded with a statement, "The reason [the ad wasn't included] was the language didn't fit in with the lighthearted tone of the program." The Ad contained the following: "It'll be your responsibility to prevent the entry of terrorists and their weapons into the United States". <a href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/021607/nfl.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/021607/nfl.html" rel="nofollow">[5]</a>

<h2>Calls to renew voting literacy tests=</h2>

In 2010, in a speech before the first national Tea Party convention, Tancredo blasted President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>, saying that "people who could not even spell the word 'vote', or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama." The comments were met with cheers from the conservative crowd.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> He further said that requiring a civics literacy test would have kept Obama out of office.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

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A December 2007 report by online journalist Max Blumenthal revealed that Tancredo, in 2001, hired a contractor that employed illegal immigrants when building a recreation room in his Littleton, Colorado home. According to the report, two of the workers on the construction crew contacted the Denver Post when they learned of Tancredo's stance on illegal immigration. The Congressman responded after the Post published a story detailing the incident, saying he didn't know "how many people I may have hired in the past as taxi drivers, as waiters, waitresses, home improvement people."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-Blumenthal-3" title="">[4]</a>

<h3>Other Controversies</h3>

In July 2005, in a press release from his congressional office, Tancredo responded to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Chenghu" class="extiw" title="w:Zhu Chenghu">Zhu Chenghu</a>'s statement advocating the use of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nuclear_weapons" title="Nuclear weapons">nuclear weapons</a> against the United States. 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. <a href="http://tancredo.house.gov/press/pressers/0714TancredoSlamsSeniorChineseOfficialForNukeThreat2.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://tancredo.house.gov/press/pressers/0714TancredoSlamsSeniorChineseOfficialForNukeThreat2.htm" rel="nofollow">[6]</a>

The same day, during a radio interview on Orlando talk-radio station AM 540 WFLA, Tancredo responded to a question asking about a potential U.S. response to a nuclear attack on U.S. cities by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda" class="mw-redirect">al-Qaeda</a> by saying that one response would be to retaliate by "taking out" Muslim holy sites (specifically, Mecca) if it were clearly proven that Islamic terrorists were behind such an attack. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162795,00.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162795,00.html" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> Days later, in an interview on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CNN" title="CNN" class="mw-redirect">CNN</a> together with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Zogby" title="James Zogby" class="mw-redirect">James Zogby</a>, Tancredo claimed he meant the comment as merely a threat to retaliate and refused to apologize.

<h3>Conservative Political Action Conference</h3>

On February 9, 2006, Tancredo addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference. 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.

Then he took on the Bush guest-worker plan and said:

It is the employer community which sees profits from cheap labor, and the hell with the (impact on) the American taxpayer. The conservative movement can either be the voice of principle ... or it can be the voice of the Chamber of Commerce, but it cannot be both.

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Tancredo called for the repeal of two programs offered by President Bush: the No Child Left Behind Act and the Medicare prescription drug program. Both expanded the cost of government and drew the scorn of conservatives in Congress. Tancredo said the Big Government policies of the Bush administration need to be halted. He said conservatives must return the GOP to a "party of individual rights and shouldn't afraid to say it."

"The American people don't understand what Republicans stand for anymore," as he proudly declared that he had voted against Bush's prescription drug plan, his Central American trade proposal and his "$100 billion Katrina slush fund."

"American conservatives have watched dumbfounded as their Congress -- their Republican Congress -- and the Republican White House engineered the largest expansion of the federal government in modern history," Tancredo said.

<h3>Abandonment of race-based caucuses</h3>

After a similar failed initiative in 2003, Tancredo launched an initiative to end race-based caucuses on January 25, 2007. Tancredo's reasoning was that using race as "a prerequisite for any organization’s membership" goes against the notion of a "color-blind society." <a href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/012507/tancredo.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/012507/tancredo.html" rel="nofollow">[8]</a>

<h3>Announced retirement plans</h3>

On October 28, 2007, after the Colorado Rockies lost the World Series, Rep. Tom Tancredo, who is seeking the presidential bid, announced that he will retire at the end of the current 110th Congress. “It's the fact that I really believe I have done all I can do in the House, especially about the issue about which I care greatly [immigration],” said Tancredo as he campaigns for presidency. The heated GOP primary which is predicted to replace Tancredo include state Sens. Ted Harvey and Tom Wiens and the son of former Sen. Bill Armstrong (R-Colo.), Wil Armstrong.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a>

Tancredo was born December 20, 1945 in Denver. He graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a degree in political science.

In 1976, while teaching history at Drake Junior High School in Denver, he ran for a seat in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_House_of_Representatives" class="extiw" title="w:Colorado House of Representatives">Colorado House of Representatives</a> and won. He served two terms, and was one of the leaders of a group of conservative Republican legislators that was once called "House crazies" by Governor of Colorado <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Lamm" class="extiw" title="w:Dick Lamm">Dick Lamm</a>. Despite that comment, Lamm now shares Tancredo's passionate interest in immigration matters, and has frequently appeared with Tancredo to speak against current immigration policy.

After <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" class="extiw" title="w:Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> was elected president in 1981, he appointed Tancredo as Denver regional representative for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education" class="extiw" title="w:United States Department of Education">Department of Education</a>. He stayed on through the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W._Bush" class="extiw" title="w:George H.W. Bush">first Bush administration</a>, paring the office's staff to 60 employees, down from 225 when he arrived. In 1993, he became president of the Independence Institute, a conservative think tank based in Golden, Colorado, serving there until his election to Congress. He was also a leader in the Colorado <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/term_limit" class="extiw" title="w:term limit">term limits</a> movement.

In 1998, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Schaefer" class="extiw" title="w:Dan Schaefer">Dan Schaefer</a> decided not to run for a seventh full term in the 6th District. Running on a promise to serve only three terms in Congress, Tancredo narrowly won the five-way Republican primary and went on to victory in November. He is only the second person to represent the 6th District since its creation in 1983 (former astronaut <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Swigert" class="extiw" title="w:Jack Swigert">Jack Swigert</a> was elected as the district's first congressman in 1982, but died before taking office).

During much of the 108th Congress, Tancredo's major focus besides immigration was his opposition to ethnic and race-based caucuses in the House. However, a proposal to eliminate House recognition for them did not gain support.

He is an endorser of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Intervention_Network" class="extiw" title="w:Genocide Intervention Network">Genocide Intervention Network</a> and has been active in pushing for the United States to increase its involvement in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict" class="extiw" title="w:Darfur conflict">Darfur conflict</a>.

<h3>2006 elections</h3>

In 2006, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democratic_Party" title="Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect">Democrats</a> nominated <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bill_Winter" title="Bill Winter">Bill Winter</a> to face Tancredo in his November 2006 bid for reelection. (See <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._congressional_elections_in_2006" title="U.S. congressional elections in 2006" class="mw-redirect">U.S. congressional elections in 2006</a>) <a href="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=CO&year=2006" class="external autonumber" title="http://opensecrets.org/states/election.asp?State=CO&year=2006" rel="nofollow">[9]</a> Tancredo retained his seat.

<h3>2008 presidential election</h3>

Tancredo announced that he would form a presidential exploratory committee, the first step towards candidacy in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.presidential_election,2008" title="U.S. presidential election, 2008">2008 presidential election</a>, on January 16, 2007. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600523.html" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600523.html" rel="nofollow">[10]</a>

<h4>Set to abandon presidential bid</h4>

On December 19, 2007 a person close to Tancredo said the Colorado congressman planned to announce he was abandoning his presidential candidacy. The source said he planned to make the announcement at a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa on December 20. Tancredo's official campaign only said that he planned a "major announcement." Tancredo had consistently polled at the bottom of the nine-person Republican presidential field. he had based his campaign on opposition to illegal immigration. He ran television ads liking border security to terrorist attacks, rape, and other crimes.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a>

In Ocrtober 2007 Tancredo announced he would not seek a sixth term in Congress, but hinted at a Senate run after his presidential campaign. Senator <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wayne_Allard" title="Wayne Allard">Wayne Allard</a>'s seat was to retire in 2008, opening up the Colorado senate seat.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a>

<h4>Ended candidacy</h4>

On December 21 Tancredo dropped his presidential bid and endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>. Tancredo had previously criticized Romney on immigration, Tancredo's central issue. However, at an Iowa press conference, the Colorado congressman said he had met with Romney to discuss immigration and believed the former governor would do the right thing.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a>

Tancredo said he was dropping out of the race because he feared if he stayed in, he would not win and it might help a worse candidate on immigration win the Republican nomination. "While several of the candidates appear to be committed to our cause, there are others whose records as public servants are abysmal on this issues," Tancredo said. Tancredo said his campaign was a success because it had made immigration one of the most strongly debated issues among Republicans.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a>

<h2>Money in politics</h2>

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<table class="prettytable"><tbody><tr><th colspan="3">Links to more campaign contribution information for Tom Tancredo

from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> site.</th></tr><tr><td>Fundraising profile:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006103" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006103" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00006103" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allsummary.asp?cid=N00006103" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by organization/corporation:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006103" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006103" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00006103" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allcontrib.asp?cid=N00006103" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr><tr><td>Top contributors by industry:</td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006103" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/indus.asp?cycle=2006&cid=N00006103" rel="nofollow">2006 election cycle</a></td><td><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00006103" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/allindus.asp?cid=N00006103" rel="nofollow">Career totals</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Tancredo%2C+Tom" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/search_result.asp?mem=Tancredo%2C+Tom" rel="nofollow">Revolving door profile for Tom Tancredo</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00006103" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/travel.asp?CID=N00006103" rel="nofollow">2006 privately funded travel profile for Tom Tancredo</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00006103" class="external text" title="http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?CID=N00006103" rel="nofollow">Personal finance profile for Tom Tancredo</a> from the Center for Responsive Politics' <a href="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" class="external text" title="http://www.OpenSecrets.org" rel="nofollow">OpenSecrets.org</a> website.</li>

</ul>

<h2>Committees and Affiliations</h2>

<h3>Committee assignments in the 110th Congress (2007-2008)</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Foreign_Affairs" title="House Committee on Foreign Affairs">House Committee on Foreign Affairs</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Natural_Resources" title="House Committee on Natural Resources">House Committee on Natural Resources</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public lands</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<h4>Committee assignments in the 109th Congress (2005-2006)</h4>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_International_Relations" title="House Committee on International Relations" class="mw-redirect">House Committee on International Relations</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Africa Global Human Rights and International Operations</li>

<li>Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=House_Committee_on_Resources" title="House Committee on Resources" class="mw-redirect">House Committee on Resources</a>

<ul>

<li>Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health</li>

<li>Subcommittee on Water and Power</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<h3>Coalitions and Caucuses</h3>

<ul>

<li>President, Independence Institute, 1993-1998</li>

<li>Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus</li>

<li>Republican Study Committee</li>

</ul>

<h3>Boards and other Affiliations</h3>

<ul>

<li>Advisory Board (2000 at least), <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Sudan_Campaign" title="The Sudan Campaign" class="mw-redirect">The Sudan Campaign</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-9" title="">[10]</a></li>

<li>Board of Reference, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Servant%27s_Heart" title="Servant's Heart">Servant's Heart</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_note-10" title="">[11]</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>More Background Data</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=CCO89758" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=CCO89758" rel="nofollow">Background information on Tom Tancredo from Project Vote Smart</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=CCO89758" class="external text" title="http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_category.php?can_id=CCO89758" rel="nofollow">Interest group scorecard ratings for Tom Tancredo from Project Vote Smart</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/t000458" class="external text" title="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/t000458" rel="nofollow">Voting record for Tom Tancredo from the Washington Post database</a></li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=CO06&site=congressmerge" class="external text" title="http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/cgi-bin/newmemberbio.cgi?lang=&member=CO06&site=congressmerge" rel="nofollow">Information on Tom Tancredo from Congress Merge</a></li>

</ul>

<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> also has an article on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Tancredo" rel="nofollow">Tom Tancredo</a>. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL" rel="nofollow">GFDL</a>.

<h2>Articles and resources</h2>

<h3>Sources</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml" class="external text" title="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2002/roll455.xml" rel="nofollow">Roll call vote</a>, Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Paul Steinhauser <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/05/tea.party.convention/?hpt=C2" class="external text" title="http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/05/tea.party.convention/?hpt=C2" rel="nofollow">Tea Party Convention organizer: Tancredo gave 'fantastic speech'</a> CNN Politics, February 6, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> Eric Zimmerman <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/80005-tancredo-tells-tea-partiers-literacy-test-would-have-stopped-obama" class="external text" title="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/80005-tancredo-tells-tea-partiers-literacy-test-would-have-stopped-obama" rel="nofollow">Tancredo tells Tea Partiers: Literacy test for voters would have stopped Obama</a> The Hill, February 5, 2010</li>

<li id="cite_note-Blumenthal-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-Blumenthal_3-0" title="">↑</a> Max Blumenthal, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/69391/" class="external text" title="http://www.alternet.org/story/69391/" rel="nofollow">"Tom Tancredo Hired Illegal Laborers to Renovate His McMansion"</a>, Alter.Net, December 1, 2007</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> David M. Drucker, <a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/20717-1.html" class="external text" title="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/1_1/breakingnews/20717-1.html" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo to Retire at End of 110th Congress,"</a> Roll Call, October 29, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> George Merritt, <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ifmdfhiuSQfh-kyCJ-a8bLEQjVAwD8TKTC7G2" class="external text" title="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ifmdfhiuSQfh-kyCJ-a8bLEQjVAwD8TKTC7G2" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo to Abandon Presidential Bid,"</a> The AP, December 19, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> George Merritt, <a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ifmdfhiuSQfh-kyCJ-a8bLEQjVAwD8TKTC7G2" class="external text" title="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ifmdfhiuSQfh-kyCJ-a8bLEQjVAwD8TKTC7G2" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo to Abandon Presidential Bid,"</a> The AP, December 19, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> Walter Alarkon, <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/tancredo-quits-presidential-race-2007-12-20.html" class="external text" title="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/tancredo-quits-presidential-race-2007-12-20.html" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo quits presidential race,"</a> The Hill, December 20, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> Walter Alarkon, <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/tancredo-quits-presidential-race-2007-12-20.html" class="external text" title="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/tancredo-quits-presidential-race-2007-12-20.html" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo quits presidential race,"</a> The Hill, December 20, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-9" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.sudanreeves.org/Sections-article82-p1.html" class="external text" title="http://www.sudanreeves.org/Sections-article82-p1.html" rel="nofollow">The growth of the Sudan Campaign</a>, SudanReeves, accessed August 4, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Tancredo#cite_ref-10" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.servantsheartrelief.org/about.html" class="external text" title="http://www.servantsheartrelief.org/about.html" rel="nofollow">About us</a>, Servant's Heart, accessed August 4, 2008.</li>

</ol>

<h3>External resources</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.tancredo.house.gov" class="external text" title="http://www.tancredo.house.gov" rel="nofollow">Official website</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.tancredo4prez.blogspot.com" class="external text" title="http://www.tancredo4prez.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Unofficial Tancredo for President Blog</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.tancredo.blogspot.com" class="external text" title="http://www.tancredo.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Another Unofficial Tancredo for President Blog</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.teamamericapac.org/" class="external text" title="http://www.teamamericapac.org/" rel="nofollow">Team America PAC</a></li>

<li><a href="http://tancredowatch.blogspot.com" class="external text" title="http://tancredowatch.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Tom Tancredo Watch anti-Tancredo blog</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.tomtancredo.org" class="external text" title="http://www.tomtancredo.org" rel="nofollow">Site documenting Tancredo's switch on term limits</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.politics1.com/p2008-tancredo.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.politics1.com/p2008-tancredo.htm" rel="nofollow">Politics1 - P2008: Tom Tancredo</a></li>

<li><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.946:" class="external text" title="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.946:" rel="nofollow">H.R. 946 The Mass Immigration Reduction Act of 2003</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.540wfla.com/timages/page/media/Tancredo_comments_071405.mp3" class="external text" title="http://www.540wfla.com/timages/page/media/Tancredo_comments_071405.mp3" rel="nofollow">mp3 audio file of "bomb holy sites" radio interview</a>(<a href="http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/Tancredo.mp3" class="external text" title="http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/Tancredo.mp3" rel="nofollow">alternate location</a>), July 2005</li>

<li>John Hawkins, <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/tancredo.php" class="external text" title="http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/tancredo.php" rel="nofollow">"An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R - CO),"</a> Right Wing News.</li>

<li><a href="http://opensecrets.org/races/index.asp" class="external text" title="http://opensecrets.org/races/index.asp" rel="nofollow">Open Secrets</a> - 2006 congressional races database</li>

<li><a href="http://www.teamtancredo.com/" class="external text" title="http://www.teamtancredo.com/" rel="nofollow">Official Tom Tancredo 2008 site</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.whereistand.com/TomTancredo" class="external text" title="http://www.whereistand.com/TomTancredo" rel="nofollow">Compare where Tom Tancredo stands to other 2008 presidential candidates</a> at whereIstand.com</li>

</ul>

<h3>Local blogs and discussion sites</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://tancredowatch.blogspot.com" class="external text" title="http://tancredowatch.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Tancredo Watch blog</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.tomtancredo.org" class="external text" title="http://www.tomtancredo.org" rel="nofollow">Tancredo criticism site</a></li>

<li><a href="http://coloradopols.com/06/" class="external text" title="http://coloradopols.com/06/" rel="nofollow">Colorado Pols: Politics, News, and Inside Information</a></li>

<li><a href="http://talktomecongress.blogspot.com/" class="external text" title="http://talktomecongress.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">They Get Letters</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.newwest.net/" class="external text" title="http://www.newwest.net/" rel="nofollow">NewWest.net -- A Refreshing, new kind of journalism.</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>External articles</h3>

<ul>

<li>Max Blumenthal, <a href="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/05/22/vigilante/index.html" class="external text" title="http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/05/22/vigilante/index.html" rel="nofollow">"Vigilante injustice,"</a> Salon, May 22, 2003.</li>

<li>Jerry Seper, <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040915-121948-8302r.htm" class="external text" title="http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040915-121948-8302r.htm" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo presses White House on control of border,"</a> Washington Times, September 15, 2004.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brigitte_Gabriel" title="Brigitte Gabriel">Brigitte Gabriel</a>, <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=9036&PHPSESSID=c63749a2cdf0e6bebef5f1cacf383f8e" class="external text" title="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/challenges.php?id=9036&PHPSESSID=c63749a2cdf0e6bebef5f1cacf383f8e" rel="nofollow">"CBS Infinity Radio Uses 'Emotions' to Stifle Truth of Anti-Terror Conference,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Family_Security_Matters" title="Family Security Matters">Family Security Matters</a>, July 18, 2005: "recent endorsement and support of Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO)."</li>

<li>Mary Ellen Burke, <a href="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8121" class="external text" title="http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=8121" rel="nofollow">"CBS Muzzles Ad on Radical-Islamist Threats,"</a> Human Events Online, July 18, 2005: "Among the congressional supporters is Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who wrote in an endorsement for the symposium, 'I find it deeply troubling the very nature of the threat that seeks to destroy our way of life is not being discussed among major decision makers in Washington.'"</li>

<li><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162795,00.html" class="external text" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162795,00.html" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo: If They Nuke Us, Bomb Mecca,"</a> Associated Press, July 18, 2005.</li>

<li>Ron Strom, <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45783" class="external text" title="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45783" rel="nofollow">"Symposium on Islamic terror resisted. Organizer finds opposition to event from politicians, media, bank,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=WorldNetDaily" title="WorldNetDaily">WorldNetDaily</a>, August 16, 2005. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jeff_Epstein" title="Jeff Epstein">Jeff Epstein</a>, president of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=America%27s_Truth_Forum" title="America's Truth Forum">America's Truth Forum</a>, said Tancredo "will attend the conference, schedule permitting..."</li>

<li>Betsy Rothstein, <a href="http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Features/CapitalLiving/030706.html" class="external text" title="http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Features/CapitalLiving/030706.html" rel="nofollow">"I say, ‘Tom, you can’t say that’ — but he usually already has,"</a> The Hill, March 7, 2006.</li>

<li>Holly Bailey, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12017855/site/newsweek/" class="external text" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12017855/site/newsweek/" rel="nofollow">"A Border War,"</a> Newsweek, April 3, 2006.</li>

<li>Jennifer Talhelm, <a href="http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_107185046.html" class="external text" title="http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_107185046.html" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo: He'd Campaign Against McCain In Primary,"</a> Associated Press, April 17, 2006.</li>

<li>Steve Goldstein, <a href="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/14476452.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/14476452.htm" rel="nofollow">"Vocal foe of amnesty pushes on,"</a> Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2, 2006.</li>

<li>Tom Barry, <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/barry05272006.html" class="external text" title="http://www.counterpunch.org/barry05272006.html" rel="nofollow">"Christian Crusader, Cultural Nationalist and Iran Freedom Fighter,"</a> CounterPunch, May 27-29, 2006.</li>

<li>Mary Benoit, <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4265.shtml" class="external text" title="http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_4265.shtml" rel="nofollow">"Anti-North American Union Resolution Introduced,"</a> The New American, October 14, 2006. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=North_American_Union" title="North American Union">North American Union</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600523.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600523.html" rel="nofollow">"Colo. Lawmaker Considers Run For President,"</a> Washington Post, January 17, 2007.</li>

<li>Klaus Marre, <a href="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/012507/tancredo.html" class="external text" title="http://thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/012507/tancredo.html" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo calls for prohibition of race-based caucuses,"</a> The Hill, January 25, 2007.</li>

<li>Rosa Brooks, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/18/1284/" class="external text" title="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/18/1284/" rel="nofollow">"The GOP’s Torture Enthusiasts. This Week’s Republican Debate Was a Jack Bauer Impersonation Contest,"</a> Los Angeles Times (Common Dreams), May 18, 2007.</li>

<li><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/05/audience-cheers-as-tancredo-slams-bush/" class="external text" title="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/05/audience-cheers-as-tancredo-slams-bush/" rel="nofollow">"Audience Cheers as Tancredo Slams Bush,"</a> Think Progress, June 5, 2007.</li>

</ul>

<h3>External articles by Tancredo</h3>

<ul>

<li>Tom Tancredo, <a href="http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/18/opinion/commentary/71705195445.txt" class="external text" title="http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/07/18/opinion/commentary/71705195445.txt" rel="nofollow">"CAFTA undermines immigration laws,"</a> North Country Times (CA), July 17, 2005.</li>

<li>Tom Tancredo, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/03/29/DI2006032901468.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/03/29/DI2006032901468.html" rel="nofollow">"Tancredo Discusses Immigration Reform Bills,"</a> Washington Post, March 30, 2006.</li>

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<table><tbody><tr class="rowTint"><td>National Assn of Realtors</td><td class="number">$45,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$45,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>Associated Builders & Contractors</td><td class="number">$35,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$35,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>National Auto Dealers Assn</td><td class="number">$30,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$30,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>Americans for a Republican Majority</td><td class="number">$28,439</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$28,439</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>Credit Union National Assn</td><td class="number">$23,550</td><td class="number">$500</td><td class="number">$23,050</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>National Assn of Home Builders</td><td class="number">$23,500</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$23,500</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>TransMontaigne Inc</td><td class="number">$23,000</td><td class="number">$23,000</td><td class="number">$0</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>Great-West Life Assurance</td><td class="number">$22,500</td><td class="number">$1,000</td><td class="number">$21,500</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>Keep Our Mission PAC</td><td class="number">$21,999</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$21,999</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>US Immigration Reform PAC</td><td class="number">$21,500</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$21,500</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>Majority Leader's Fund</td><td class="number">$20,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$20,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>National Assn of Convenience Stores</td><td class="number">$19,500</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$19,500</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>National Fedn of Independent Business</td><td class="number">$19,500</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$19,500</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>National Beer Wholesalers Assn</td><td class="number">$18,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$18,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>Union Pacific Corp</td><td class="number">$16,500</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$16,500</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>Lockheed Martin</td><td class="number">$16,350</td><td class="number">$7,350</td><td class="number">$9,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>DISH Network</td><td class="number">$14,450</td><td class="number">$4,950</td><td class="number">$9,500</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>Altria Group</td><td class="number">$14,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$14,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>National Restaurant Assn</td><td class="number">$14,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$14,000</td></tr><tr class="odd"><td>AT&T Inc</td><td class="number">$13,997</td><td class="number">$2,497</td><td class="number">$11,500</td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2 class="ruleAbove">Career Fundraising</h2>

<table id="summaryData" class="datadisplay"><tbody><tr><td>1989 - 2012 Total Receipts:</td><td class="number"><img src="/656919c6-32a2-5f2c-b74e-63485a3180a7.gif"/> $14,176,434</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>1989 - 2012 Total Spent:</td><td class="number"><img src="/77dec0c1-2dd3-53d7-b14c-0b98950a4653.gif"/> $14,037,219</td></tr><tr><td>Debts:</td><td class="number"><img src="/8056426a-5410-5ba9-9efd-63c324fb03c8.gif"/> $0</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>Last Report:</td><td>Wednesday, December 31, 2008</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2>Top 5 Contributors, 1998 - 2012</h2>

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<table id="topContrib" class="datadisplay"><thead><tr><th>Contributor</th><th>Total</th><th>Indivs</th><th>PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="rowTint"><td>National Assn of Realtors</td><td class="number">$45,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$45,000</td></tr><tr><td>Associated Builders & Contractors</td><td class="number">$35,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$35,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>National Auto Dealers Assn</td><td class="number">$30,000</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$30,000</td></tr><tr><td>Americans for a Republican Majority</td><td class="number">$28,439</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$28,439</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>Credit Union National Assn</td><td class="number">$23,550</td><td class="number">$500</td><td class="number">$23,050</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2>Top 5 Industries, 1998 - 2012</h2>

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<table id="topIndus" class="datadisplay"><thead><tr><th>Industry</th><th>Total</th><th>Indivs</th><th>PACs</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="rowTint"><td>Retired</td><td class="number">$481,250</td><td class="number">$481,250</td><td class="number">$0</td></tr><tr><td>Real Estate</td><td class="number">$195,805</td><td class="number">$148,805</td><td class="number">$47,000</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>Leadership PACs</td><td class="number">$189,482</td><td class="number">$0</td><td class="number">$189,482</td></tr><tr><td>Misc Issues</td><td class="number">$182,711</td><td class="number">$138,675</td><td class="number">$44,036</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td>Oil & Gas</td><td class="number">$180,017</td><td class="number">$120,667</td><td class="number">$59,350</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h2><a id="funds" name="funds"> </a>Source of Funds</h2>

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<table id="src_table" class="datadisplay"><tbody><tr><td><img src="/826e9045-40c1-564c-9e53-cb4c9e4352cc.gif"/></td><td>Individual Contributions</td><td>$8,262,223</td><td>(58%)</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td><img src="/b23365ab-9548-5628-bf15-df00547e1a07.gif"/></td><td>PAC Contributions</td><td>$1,335,863</td><td>(9%)</td></tr><tr><td><img src="/3f185857-34c0-5c22-a981-270c15a5d473.gif"/></td><td>Candidate self-financing</td><td>$6,000</td><td>(0%)</td></tr><tr class="rowTint"><td><img src="/2c5837a1-38f2-5b9f-b94b-be044166e013.gif"/></td><td>Other</td><td>$4,572,348</td><td>(32%)</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<h1 class="entry-title">U.S. Sheriffs Block New World Order: Absconding American Citizen’s Property By Colluding With Obama’s Unconstitutional Executive Order For U.N. Agenda 21.</h1>

<div class="entry-meta entry-header">by Admin on April 18, 2012 in <a href="http://congressmantomtancredo.com/category/agenda-21/" title="View all posts in Agenda 21" rel="category tag">Agenda 21</a>, <a href="http://congressmantomtancredo.com/category/iclei/" title="View all posts in ICLEI" rel="category tag">ICLEI</a>, <a href="http://congressmantomtancredo.com/category/tyrrany/" title="View all posts in Tyrrany" rel="category tag">Tyrrany</a> with <a href="http://congressmantomtancredo.com/u-s-sheriffs-block-new-world-order-absconding-american-citizens-property-by-colluding-with-obamas-unconstitutional-executive-order-for-u-n-agenda-21/#comments" title="Comment on U.S. Sheriffs Block New World Order: Absconding American Citizen’s Property By Colluding With Obama’s Unconstitutional Executive Order For U.N. Agenda 21.">7 Comments</a></div>

<address>Via: <a title="U.S. Sheriffs Block New World Order: Absconding American Citizen’s Property By Colluding With Obama’s Unconstitutional Executive Order For U.N. Agenda 21." href="http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/04/17/u-s-sheriffs-block-new-world-order-absconding-american-citizens-property-by-colluding-with-obamas-unconstitutional-executive-order-for-u-n-agenda-21/" target="_blank">PolticalVelCraft</a></address>

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Please join in support of Rural America at: <a href="http://www.supportruralamerica.com/" target="_blank">www.SupportRuralAmerica.com</a>

Four clean hydro-power <a title="Dam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam" rel="wikipedia">dams</a> in the <a title="Klamath Basin" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.0,-122.0&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.0,-122.0%20%28Klamath%20Basin%29&t=h" rel="geolocation">Klamath basin</a> are being targeted for removal.  <a title="Ken Salazar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Salazar" rel="wikipedia">Ken Salazar</a> (Dept. of the Interior) will be making his determination as soon as 2012.  These dams provide green power to 70,000 homes.  Isn’t green energy supposed to be good?

<a href="http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/07/21/state-governors-must-stop-obamas-executive-order-allowing-united-nation-control-of-americas-agriculture/">BREAKING => State Governors Must Stop Obama’s Executive Order: Allowing United Nation Control Of America’s Agriculture.</a>

Fish passage and watershed restoration are being listed as the ultimate reasoning behind this action.  Scientific studies show that the 22 million tons of sediment and heavy metal debris plunging into the river system will likely sterilize the river and kill off all the fish for many years and maybe forever.

History shows that prior to the dams, the <a title="Klamath River" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.5469444444,-124.083333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=41.5469444444,-124.083333333%20%28Klamath%20River%29&t=h" rel="geolocation">Klamath River</a> would go bone dry in many places for several months each year.  Don’t fish need water all year long?  This focus on the <a title="Coho Salmon" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/coho-salmon#Beachams_Guide_to_Endangered_Species_d" rel="answerscom">Coho Salmon</a> to the exclusion of people and economic impact is not only unwarranted, but indefensible.  Removing these dams will further devastate this area and their final industry … agriculture.

THIS IS AN ATTACK UPON THE UNITED ‘<a title="The States" href="http://www.history.com/topics/states" rel="historycom">STATES</a>‘ UNDER THE NAME OF ‘AGENDA 21′

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<li><a href="http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/10/11/stopping-agenda-21-obama-united-nations-surreptitious-attack-upon-america-to-control-your-property/">Stopping Agenda 21: Obama & United Nation’s Surreptitious Attack Upon America To Control Your Property.</a></li>

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