Posted on 12/11/2006 9:49:51 PM PST by NapkinUser
WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Tancredo is headed back to Miami a month after sparking a tense exchange with Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by likening the city to a "Third World country."
The Colorado Republican, who vocally opposes illegal immigration - and who has never shied away from a chance to talk about it - plans a speech next week to the Miami Rotary Club titled, "Renewing America: The Need for Assimilation."
The speech will include more details about his thoughts on how to address "problems" in Miami, his spokesman Carlos Espinosa said.
Alia Faraj, Bush's communications director, said Tancredo is welcome. But she added, "I didn't realize we had a problem in Miami."
While visiting Palm Beach for an immigration conference last month, Tancredo angered Bush and others by criticizing Miami's poverty and crime. He said the city suffers because a growing number of residents don't speak English.
"Look at what has happened to Miami," he said to WorldNetDaily, a conservative online news site. "It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country."
Bush, who plans to move to Miami when he steps down as governor, replied in a letter defending Miami as "a wonderful city filled with diversity and heritage that we choose to celebrate, not insult."
Tancredo wrote back, saying he appreciated the need "to create the illusion of Miami as a multiethnic 'All American' city. Indeed sir, one of us is naive."
Since then, Tancredo has received numerous requests from Florida groups to return and talk more about his concerns, Espinosa said.
Bush still defends the city as the "gateway to the Americas," Faraj said.
"We welcome any visitors to Miami or the state of Florida," Faraj said. "The governor has clearly reminded the representative that we take pride in Florida's diversity. It is what makes Florida so strong."
I liked him when he was a bigot.
Saw Tancredo on a local TV spot tonight and they said some Floridians wanted an apology from him but he said he wouldn't give one. My kind of guy.
"It is what makes Florida so strong.""
utter BS!! We have to stand up with tancredo and call people on statements like this EVERY time they talk such nonsense.
What do they mean by STRONG???
What is the strength? the benefit endowed upon society in the name of something which is meaningless in definition..."diversity".
Diversity is the word liberals have used to replace "excellence" which nows is a devisive, exclusionary word which is bigoted against lesser-achievers...groan.
Demand facts! for ever more... demand standards... demand objectivity... demand colorblindness... demand excellence and demand equal rights and liberty....all of which are being deliberately destroyed as the liberal elites seek to subordinate the average citizen to their agenda, and hence their whims.
The border patrol recently said that due to "amnesty", they were coming across the border at about 10,000 per day. The bad news is that they are only stopping about 2,000 of them.
That is 3 million a year folks!
Ping!
He should announce for President to get secret service protection if he is going to stick his fist in the hornets nest like this. I appreciate his passion, and would like to see him run.
Amen
"That is 3 million a year folks!"
The President, Dane, Democrat voter registrars, pampered elites, and subsidized farmers will be thrilled.
The rest of us will be screwed.
Go Tom Go!!!
OMGoodness! Nothing is going to be done. It's too late already. We had a tiny bit of hope with Republicans in charge but no hope now. It's so depressing.
It eventually will even get "depressing" for the idiots that want the whole third world to come here!
Good for him for being willing to pursue this here, and good luck to him. Here's hoping there can be honest discussion and debate of the pro and con instead of a knee-jerk "gotta protect FL reputation at all costs" reaction.
I agree. The Dems beat us on our own turf last month. We stay away from their nasty cities and cede them to Dems. We should take them on with their crime, corruption, bad schools and sanctuary policies.
Its strange all the lefty race mongers brag about their lack of "Americaness" but when it is mentioned negatively they go 180 and pretend they are all Mayflower descendants.
Gov. Bush and his wife, Columba Bush, are true experts on this nation's borders. After all, she tried to smuggle nineteen thousand dollars ($19,000) in new clothing and jewelry into the country in 1999 following a Paris shopping spree. On two (2) seperate occasions, she lied to the U.S. Customs Service about the value of the foreign goods she had purchased, including her false statement on her mandatory declaration form that she had purchased five hundred dollars ($500) worth of goods. After Customs agents searched Columba Bush's luggage and found the merchandise, she confessed to all of her purchases. She paid a four thousand one hundred dollar ($4,100) civil fine.
Yep, I agree, and great for Tancredo to wade in there.
btw, here's part of the problem -- not enough people saying "Coke" in parts of FL. I'd like to overlay this map with the blue/red county by county vote map!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752564/posts#3
All us Tancredo Bashers are waiting for him to open his mouth and say something equally stupid this time around, with any luck he may make it to the Broward county line intact.
Fascinating. I am a pop girl, myself.
Tancredo can stick it in his culo.
Wont this fool Tancredhole does'nt know when to shut up? It is possible that the Dems are paying to come up with such crap, one of the best allies for the la Raza groups.
What potential candidate or candidates for president do you believe would make a good president?
What member or members of the United States House of Representatives or United States Senate best represent your views with regard to illegal immigration?
Did you support passage of S.6211, the Senate immigration reform bill that would have legalized millions of illegal aliens and provided them a path to citizenship?
What potential candidate or candidates for president do you believe would make a good president?
What member or members of the United States House of Representatives or United States Senate best represent your views with regard to illegal immigration?
Did you support passage of S.6211, the Senate immigration reform bill that would have legalized millions of illegal aliens and provided them a path to citizenship?
In other words, most Floridians would sooner wear a fur coat in July than fly the Confederate flag.
"Florida is not a "Su-thun" state."
Really? Looks pretty south on the map to me.
"In other words, most Floridians would sooner wear a fur coat in July than fly the Confederate flag."
Maybe, maybe not. Florida is one of only a handful of states that have a state-approved license plate with a confederate flag on it.
True, but I've never seen one in Miami or Boca. I have seen plenty of "Choose Life" plates, however (especially in Miami).
You're wasting your time, arnoldpalmerfan. Clemenza is one of the resident irrational anti-conservative Tancredo-haters here. I wouldn't be surprised if he made up his Miami story just so he could trash a conservative congressman on a conservative website.
DU and Daily Kos hates Tancredo much more. Why can't they take it there?
I lived in the Doral area, which is west of Miami airport. Has a few golf courses that you may have heard of.
Oh, by the way, Miami-Dade County has three Republican Congressman, something that can't be said of such "all-American" areas like Vermont, Maine, SE Michigan, and much of Wisconsin.
I lived in the Doral area, which is west of Miami airport. Has a few golf courses that you may have heard of.
Oh, by the way, Miami-Dade County has three Republican Congressman, something that can't be said of such "all-American" areas like Vermont, Maine, SE Michigan, and much of Wisconsin.
Tom Tancredo is a one-trick pony with a bad toupee who loves the sound of his own voice. He is nothing more than the John Schmitz of our time. Let's see if he gets busted for raping his baby sitter and his daughter gets knocked up by a 13 year old student, being that he seems to enjoy the role so much.
"For me, the issue of giving one's word and promising to do something like this is more important than the rest of it... The overriding motivation for me today to adhere to the term limits pledge is that I made a pledge... I took the pledge. I will live up to the pledge. That's it. That's the overriding issue." That was Tom Tancredo on his solemn promise to serve no more than 3 terms in Congress. How many are we on now? What an ass.
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