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Why don't you ask your hero tom tancredo, who didn't follow the letter of the law when he built his basement theater in his house in Colorado. I could really care less if tom tancredo wishes to do home improvements, I do care when he is being a hypocrite about it and demagouging it.

More baseless lies and smears against Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo who has earned a 100% "Best and Brightest" rating from the American Conservative Union. Why do you hate conservative Republicans so much, Dane? Why do you demonstrate so much "ethnic animus" towards italian Tom Tancredo. You just hate WOPs and guineas, don't you.

Here are the facts of the case as it concerns your baseless allegations that conservative Republican Tom Tancredo hired illegal aliens.

Rep. Tom Tancredo did not hire illegal aliens. You are a liar and are repeating false information from a series of false attacks perpetrated by Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo's Democrat opponents.

Creative Drywall Design was contracted to do drywall for Rep. Tancredo's home theater. Creative Drywall Design was required by law to check the immigration status of its employees. Creative Drywall Design did, in fact, check the immigration status of its employees and they had all the legal documents from those employees which demonstrated that they were legal to be hired. Two employees later said that they had provided false documentation to Creative Drywall Design.

Neither Rep. Tom Tancredo, nor Creative Drywall Design were determined to have broken any laws. If you understood the laws you would understand that.

Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo believed he had hired a reputable contractor - who possessed appropriate contractor licenses, etc. - to perform the work in his home. Creative Drywall Design complied with the law and was able to produce the documentation that the employees had provided them. If Tom Tancredo had grabbed the hispanic, spanish-speaking employees that the contractor had hired and demanded to know their immigration status, you and the Democrats would have been charging him with racism or "ethnic animus". He could have been sued under the Civil Rights Act for doing so. He trusted the reputable company and the reputable company trusted that they had the right documentation. The Denver Post reported the following about the contractor:

Creative Drywall owner J.J. Fukunaga said he has documents on file showing that each of the company's 15 employees is legally entitled to work in the U.S. The documents vary by employee but in some cases include copies of Social Security cards and driver's licenses, he said. When asked to show copies of those documents, he declined. [This is a privacy issue. He should not produce such documentation to a newspaper reporter.]
The workers are paid by check and taxes withheld, Fukunaga said. "We are more organized and more in compliance than any other construction company out there," he said.
Fukunaga said the company pays competitive wages, and the two workers agreed, saying they were satisfied with conditions at Creative Drywall.

This whole situation has been checked out by Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo's Democrat opposition and they found that there was no legal issues here at all. In fact, they've dropped this particular smear because it has been discredited.

Immigration lawyers who have reviewed the case have cleared Rep. Tancredo of any wrongdoing or lawbreaking. The two illegal aliens who had provided false documentation to their employer and who had worked, unknown to Rep. Tancredo, on the basement project were motivated to come forward because they later heard of Rep. Tancredo's anti-illegal immigration positions and they knew that it would hurt Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo if they went to the liberal press with the story.

These are the facts of the case. You can either read them and understand them or you can ignore them and continue to use Free Republic - a conservative forum - to attack and smear Conservative Republican Tom Tancredo who has been awarded with a 100% "Best and Brightest" rating from the American Conservative Union.