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Rep. Ellison calls the cops to snuff Tancredo’s cigar
The Hill ^ | 02/14/2007 | Betsy Rothstein

Posted on 02/13/2007 8:09:35 PM PST by NapkinUser

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) believes it is his right as a Muslim to be sworn into Congress with the Quran. But apparently, the freshman lawmaker doesn’t believe it’s Rep. Tom Tancredo’s (R-Colo.) right to smoke a cigar in his congressional office.

Ellison’s office called the Capitol Hill Police on Tancredo last Wednesday night as Tancredo was in his office smoking a cigar. The lawmakers have neighboring offices on the first floor of the Longworth House Office Building.

Tancredo was still stunned a day later. “It’s very bizarre,” said Tancredo, who has never met Ellison. “Seemed to me not a good way to say hello.”

And let’s face it. Calling the cops on a colleague takes the cake for the nerviest behavior so far among members of this year’s freshman class of Congress.

This is how it all went down. On Wednesday evening, around 6 p.m., Tancredo was preparing for his trip to Mississippi. And as he so often does, he was unwinding with a cigar.

Soon enough, however, a police officer walked in to check on the smoke. The officer told Tancredo that the officer came because he was required to do so and not because the officer wanted to. The officer had already told Ellison that Tancredo was permitted to smoke in his office. The visit was more a formality.

Tancredo said he would not stop smoking in his office. “Heck, no!” he said. “If he [Ellison] would have [had] the courtesy to say something I’m sure I would have been more accommodating to his wishes.”

To help keep his office free of impurities, Tancredo has three air purifiers. And he has no plans to meet Ellison anytime soon. “I’m sure we will, but I’m not going to make a point [of it],” the presidential hopeful said, adding that he supported Ellison’s right to be sworn in with the Quran.

Ellison’s press secretary, Rick Jauert, made the call to the Superintendent’s office when he noticed the smoke. “I called because the smoke was coming through the walls,” Jauert said, adding that the Superintendent’s office referred him to the Capitol Police.

Jauert said he then informed his boss what he had done. He said “fine,” Jauert said. “He’s complained of the smoke before.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 110th; ellison; islamonazi; pufflist; smoking; tancredo
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To: Luis Gonzalez
It is illegal to smoke in Federal buildings

Read the article.

221 posted on 02/14/2007 7:53:15 AM PST by jmc813 (Please check out www.marrow.org and consider becoming a donor. You may save a life.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Why is Tancredo, or for that matter any member of Congress, "permitted" to violate laws they themselves enacted?

Do you know how Tancredo voted on the bill banning smoking, or is this just part of your Tancredo witch hunt?

222 posted on 02/14/2007 7:54:24 AM PST by jmc813 (Please check out www.marrow.org and consider becoming a donor. You may save a life.)
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To: NapkinUser

Well, now that Ellison is aware the cops can't do s**t, time for Tancredo to burn them 24/7.


223 posted on 02/14/2007 7:55:44 AM PST by Lazamataz (Global warming turns people gay.)
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To: paulat
I have no idea what's going on.


224 posted on 02/14/2007 7:59:50 AM PST by Lazamataz (Global warming turns people gay.)
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To: NapkinUser

"Ellison" WHAT A BUT HEAD--- Pun intended. Amen.


225 posted on 02/14/2007 8:04:04 AM PST by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: paulat
I hate smoke with a passion (I hate the sin but love the sinners, LOL!!)

I love Arnold's "smoking tent." I hate people who smoke and make people in adjoining rooms deal with it.

That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

226 posted on 02/14/2007 8:19:50 AM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell)
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To: paulat
I had breast cancer at age 26...it makes me biased.

And you blame this on smoking?

227 posted on 02/14/2007 8:22:43 AM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell)
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To: jwh_Denver
"No nads to try to work it out yourself?"

LOL! Why would such a act require nads? You reveal much about yourself and none of it is complimentary.


228 posted on 02/14/2007 8:32:54 AM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: paulat

"When little-boy Tancredo can get elected Governor...then he can have his smoking tent."


It tickles me to see how much the OBL liberals that like Arnie take exception to a real conservative like Tancredo.


229 posted on 02/14/2007 8:33:11 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: paulat
Until then...he just shows how lacking he is in concensus skills.

Your post makes absolutely no sense. Exactly what consensus did Tancredo violate? Something with Ellison, who he never even met?

The guy was smoking a cigar in his own office and it offended the muzzies next door long enough to put down their hookahs and file a frivolous complaint. Consensus has nothing to do with it.

230 posted on 02/14/2007 8:34:39 AM PST by lqclamar
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To: BlueMondaySkipper; paulat
I had breast cancer at age 26...it makes me biased.

And you blame this on smoking?

DO YOU HAVE SMOKING BREASTS?

231 posted on 02/14/2007 8:35:01 AM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell)
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To: paulat
Until then...he just shows how lacking he is in concensus skills.

Apparently your hatred of smokers has destroyed your reading comprehension skills.

If anyone has a problem with consensus skills it is Ellison and his staff. Instead of knocking on Tancredo's door and discussing the issue they called the cops. What a bunch of whiney crybabies, and your support of them makes you no better.

232 posted on 02/14/2007 8:43:12 AM PST by Gabz (I like mine with lettuce and tomato, heinz57 and french-fried potatoes)
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To: Carolinamom
Will someone explain to me how smoke can go through walls?

That's what I'd like to know.

233 posted on 02/14/2007 9:58:53 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: I see my hands

"Got a gripe with a human? Call a cop."


I totally disagree.

Cops have better things to do than mediate between two cranky neighbors.


234 posted on 02/14/2007 10:30:44 AM PST by agent_delta
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To: La Enchiladita
Enchi, you hot chilita,...

...you set my heart on fire! ; )


235 posted on 02/14/2007 11:01:38 AM PST by TigersEye (Ego chatters endlessly on. Mind speaks in great silence.)
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To: NapkinUser; NormsRevenge
“I called because the smoke was coming through the walls,”

An obvious lie.

236 posted on 02/14/2007 11:06:58 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it! Supporting our troops means praying for them to WIN!)
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To: Gabz; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084

This is the true face of rabid smoker hater syndrome, with a little bit of the "I can't mind my own business" bug threw in for good measure. Now Rep. Tancredo knows how those of us in oHEILo feel.

Ain't it nice to se how many of our COC's support the jihadist over Tancredo???


237 posted on 02/14/2007 11:53:17 AM PST by 383rr ((those who choose security over liberty deserve neither) GUN CONTROL=SLAVERY)
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To: NapkinUser

So will Ellison complain about Obama's smoking, (Yes I know Obama is in the Senate).


238 posted on 02/14/2007 11:56:07 AM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: paulat

I agree wholeheartedly. Everyone should just give up cigs and fart instead.


239 posted on 02/14/2007 11:56:33 AM PST by doberville
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To: xzins
“I called because the smoke was coming through the walls,”

An obvious lie.

You have GOT to be kidding.

I live in an apartment building constructed in 1928. It has been through major earthquakes in Seattle...and it is now as porous as all get out.

You obviously don't know about old construction.

240 posted on 02/14/2007 11:58:49 AM PST by paulat
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