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Posted on 09/20/2002 5:39:11 PM PDT by Tancredo Fan
Drywall installer angrily challenges illegal-alien claim
By Heather Draper And M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News
September 20, 2002
A Denver businessman accused of using illegal workers to remodel U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo's basement said Thursday he would welcome a visit from immigration officials.
J.J. Fukunaga, who has owned and operated Creative Drywall Designs of Denver for 19 years, said he was blindsided by the accusations and frustrated that he didn't know who was making them.
The Denver Post, citing unnamed sources, reported Thursday that illegal immigrants were used to finish Tancredo's basement and install a home theater system - charges that Fukunaga angrily denied.
The newspaper interviewed two workers who said they took part in the job.
"I can't believe the story came out without anybody doing their homework," Fukunaga said.
He said he has documentation on all his employees and has been meeting with his lawyer to determine what he should do next. He said he would happily allow U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents to go over the paperwork.
Fukunaga and several members of his family also run Denver Audio Design, which worked on Tancredo's home theater system, installed during the basement remodeling. Denver Audio currently only has one employee on its payroll, store manager Brett Olkowski, who said he was born in Buffalo, N.Y.
Olkowski said he and two other men worked on Tancredo's audio system - Jeff Wolff, who was born in Denver, and Brad Brock-Purviance, who was born in San Diego.
"We're all definitely legal citizens," Olkowski said.
Tancredo's offices in Denver and Washington were flooded with calls, mostly in his support, his staff said.
Tancredo, a Republican from Littleton representing Colorado's 6th Congressional District, said he had no evidence that the companies involved in his renovation project did anything wrong, so he planned to take no action.
"I have nothing to tell the INS about these two alleged illegal aliens who are felons," Tancredo said.
"I don't know who they are and I don't even know if they are real people.
"I have no information to lead me to believe the company has done anything wrong. I don't even know, frankly, that those people really are here illegally. They could be people who didn't even work in my basement, but they despise me."
The man being accused of hiring illegals can sue the Denver Post for libel if it isn't true. A story like that could kill his business. I hope he does and takes them to the cleaners.
The Denver Post, the Daily Camera, and the Rocky Mountain News are all owned by the same liberal open-border whackos. I suspect that they went ballistic when they realized they blew it with their BS story with the illegal aliens. When Tancredo demanded the INS in Denver do their jobs, and it was exposed that the loathsome Mexican government had a part in this sob-story ploy to try to get Colorado taxpayers to part with their money to try to educate a bunch of border-hopping criminals who should have been deported log ago, they had to cover their behinds. They blew that, too.
Unnamed sources... what was that 70's song? A Source with No Name"?
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Probably the RNC.
Maybe there will be an unintended consequence...employers will be very, very careful to know where the people they hire were born.
This silly attempt to bag Tancredo had to have been directed to other congress people that they should watch out if they speak out in defense of borders and valid citizenship.
I'm beginning to wonder about my party affiliation...
God knows illegal Mexicans are a high priority in these troubled times.
Maybe when he's done kicking out all of the illegal Mexicans he can get rid of the Mafia.
Actually, I have in a scrapbook a retraction that the National Enquirer ran years ago. They had run a story alleging actor Ed O'Neill ("Al Bundy" from Married...With Children) was cheating on his wife with a woman that, the Enquirer conceded, he had never even met once in his life. The funny thing was the way the retraction was written; the words were couched as if they had just received new information, and were "happy to report" that O'Neill's marriage was not in trouble at all!
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