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National Council of La Raza promotes radical groups - 8/03/2009

Tom Tancredo writes: The National Council of La Raza bills itself as "the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States" who works through "its network of nearly 300 affiliated community-based organizations." Among these affiliates are several chapters of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan) w...

NCLR makes hay out of opponents' mistakes (Sotomayor) - 6/03/2009

One would think that a group that gave an award to someone who'd proposed genocide wouldn't have much of a chance at beating their opponents. Yet, the National Council of La Raza is in the lucky position that most of their leading opposition doesn't have a clue about that organization or doesn't have a clue about the best way to oppose them. (For those curious, the way to oppos...

David Shuster tries to keep left from learning about NCLR giving award to someone who'd proposed genocide - 5/30/2009

... attached video shows former Rep. Tom Tancredo appearing on MSNBC's Hardball program discussing with David Shuster the issue of Sonia Sotomayor's involvement in the National Council of La Raza. On the downside, Tancredo doesn't back down from his comparison of that group to the KKK and, as happened during the election, he isn't able to very aggressively defend his points by dem...

Hispanic GOP strategists shocked enough by anti-Sotomayor comments to help Democrats (Lionel Sosa) - 5/30/2009

Lionel Sosa from MATT.org and other groups is an extremely ethnocentric GOP advertising consultant who worked on presidential campaigns by George W Bush and others. In 2007, he crossed over and supported Bill Richardson because, as he said at the time, "Blood runs thicker than politics". When the Richardson thing didn't work out, he switched to working for John McCain. Not only that...

Tamar Jacoby pins immigration "reform" hopes on Obama-induced "reformist mood", bad policy, racialization - 5/07/2009

... xenophobia", Lou Dobbs and Tom Tancredo are "anti-immigrant" with "inflamed, angry followers") together with things like this: Neither the economic downturn nor enhanced enforcement has driven 12 million illegal immigrants to leave the country. Enforcement is still far from effective, either on the border or in the workplace. That "enhanced enforcement" has been...

Arrest made in Tancredo UNC protest; Goode arrestees weren't from UNC-CH; SDS link; now it's farce - 4/29/2009

... in relation to the fracas at Tom Tancredo's UNC appearance of a couple weeks ago (link). Regarding the "farce" from the title, you can see a picture of Koch here, "dress[ed] in the traditional garb of the Himba tribe during a one-day visit in Namibia while on her travels in southern Africa". And, I believe but haven't confirmed that twitter.com/haleykoch is her; whoe...

Providence College refuses to let Tom Tancredo speak, thanks to Bishop Thomas Tobin - 4/27/2009

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo was planning to speak at Providence College in Rhode Island on Wednesday, but college officials denied the request (link). Instead, he'll be speaking at a VFW hall and in front of the college's gates. One reason given for the rejection is that the group that invited him - Youth for Western Civilization (link) - is not accredited. However, they're actual...

Fascistic open borders supporters smash window at Tom Tancredo event, shut it down; show no interest in free speech (UNC) - 4/15/2009

... disrupted and shut down a speech by Tom Tancredo at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina yesterday. Local news report here; first person account here; one video is attached and another is here. Shortly after he began speaking, students unfurled a "No Person is Illegal" banner in his face, which resulted in a tug-of-war. As that was going on, a protester who had bee...

Jake Tapper "news" is two months old; ABC News deletes comment pointing that out - 6/11/2008

For an unknown reason, on June 10, 2008 Jake Tapper of ABC News posted an entry entitled "Dragged Kicking and Screaming, Tancredo Will Pull Lever for McCain". The reader might remember that from a couple months ago, yet Tapper posted it like it happened just recently and with no acknowledgement that it was old news (link). The Tancredo quote referencing Hillary Clinton as a contender sho...

Felipe Calderon visits the colonies (safe, legal "migration") - 2/13/2008

... prosperity together." UPDATE 2: Tom Tancredo has sent a letter to Calderon. An AP report on Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa meeting with Calderon is here; per the comments, the L.A. Times doesn't seem to have reported on their meeting. The latest they appear to offer featuring both is a short report from Nancy Vogel (link), which doesn't mention anything that the reports abo...

Dana Milbank lies, misleads, smears (Tancredo) - 12/23/2007

... Vista" (link) about Rep. Tom Tancredo dropping his presidential bid. The problems start with the title, a childish attempt at irony. The running theme throughout is that Tancredo is angry; in fact he uses that word four times. Why is he an "angry man"? We know this because he has proposed dropping bombs on Mecca. We know this because he sang "Dixie" at a South Carolina ga...

Max Blumenthal lies about Tom Tancredo - 12/01/2007

Max Blumenthal offers "Tom Tancredo Hired Illegal Laborers to Renovate His McMansion" (alternet.org/story/69391). It's so full of misleading statements and lies it's difficult to know where to begin. However, the title itself contains a lie: Tancredo contracted with Creative Drywall Design of Denver; he didn't hire illegal aliens directly as the title states, the president...

Sister Toldjah edits, deletes comments - 6/10/2007

Reaching very, very low into the barrel, one of the comments I left on a post [1] by "Sister Toldjah" was edited, and another was deleted. Almost all comments forms have a box where you enter your URL, and I entered this site's URL in that field; she edited the first message to delete that URL (there were no URLs in the comment body itself). Since I used the name "TLB" as ...

Max Blumenthal feverishly uncovers the "anti-immigrant" movement - 5/03/2007

... They're a nativist movement... Tom Tancredo is allegedly at the "top" of the movement. And, of course, very few people are talking about forcibly removing all illegal aliens. I'm also not aware of any even slightly mainstream groups specifically targeting either "brown-skinned" people or "immigrants". He follows with the stock SPLC discussion of John Tanton...

Captain Ed: "Why Tom Tancredo Is Not A Serious Candidate" - 4/04/2007

... the Hugh Hewitt interview with Tom Tancredo here. Hewitt asked Tancredo about the John Campbell/Jim Gilchrist race in Orange County, taking him to task for supporting the latter: Hugh Hewitt: ... [L]et me move on. GOP question, just two years and three months ago, Tom, you endorsed an American Independent Party candidate over the Republican nominee in a special election out here in Orange County...

Ron Brynaert/Raw Story posts Tancredo smear - 4/02/2007

... Raw Story says: Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), a "dark horse" candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination admitted in an interview that he is a "controversial figure" who is sometimes prone to saying "outrageous things." Last November, Esquire Magazine wrote, "Tancredo is Tancrazy. Made his name calling for mass deportations of illegal immigr...

Bob Barr takes Bank of America's side; did the ACLU get to him? - 3/02/2007

... Republicans, like Colorado's Tom Tancredo and Californians Ed Royce and John Doolittle, who waxed indignant that banks engaged in such a free market activity as extending credit to someone who proved creditworthy but did not have a Social Security number. The problem is that that isn't the "free market", it's the "corrupt market". Banks were not originally allow...

Wells Fargo knows many of its customers are illegal aliens - 2/14/2007

... laundering." ...[Rep. Tom Tancredo] said he sent a letter to U.S. Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking them to look into the program. "I hope the administration will shut down this reckless and illegal program before Bank of America extends a line of credit to a potential terrorist," said Tancredo, a hard-line fo...

The Denver Post's sloppy journalism - 7/10/2005

... causes. And, they also oppose Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) because of his opposition to illegal immigration. With that out of the way, the Denver Post offers a profile of Molina-Soto entitled "Clash, acquittal stoke advocate's political fire". Suffice it to say that the profile practically elevates her to sainthood. And, it includes the following: "I want justice and I did not get...

Tying up the loose ends on Colorado's guide for the illegal alien - 2/09/2005

... First Data/Western Union. Rep. Tom Tancredo complained about the guide and caused it to be removed from Colorado's site. This, of course, caused the other side to fire up their race-baiting and strike back. From a group called ProgressNow (link): Colorado Department of Education Vice-Chairman asks: Does Gov. Owens Support Rep. Tancredo's anti-immigration/anti-Bush policy? The same week ...

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