Posted on 01/11/2004 6:58:47 AM PST by sarcasm
CENTENNIAL — The phone rang, and Carol Koeppen picked up.
"Congressman Tancredo's office," she said.
Pause.
"I know you're furious," she replied gently. "A new party? You want to draft the Congressman for president? I'll let him know."
It was call No. 260 in less than two days. Angry voters were vowing to chuck their Republican Party membership into the nearby South Platte River over President Bush's proposal Wednesday to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to work here legally for a period of time.
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The combative Republican hails from one of the state's major GOP strongholds, a Bush bastion that voted 60 percent for the president in the 2000 election. But in the past two days, Tancredo has shown up on nearly 25 news programs bashing the new immigration plan for "rewarding illegal behavior."
"There has never been an issue, never been any kind of event triggering the kind of response we've had so far," he said. "I don't think the (administration) understands the depth of feeling and emotion that surrounds this issue."
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