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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: MamaB
I would have some of my smoker friends join me.

I had breast cancer at age 26...it makes me biased.

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.

61 posted on 02/13/2007 8:42:45 PM PST by paulat
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To: Calpernia

Actually, Tancredo should just fart in Ellison's general direction.


62 posted on 02/13/2007 8:43:20 PM PST by prairiebreeze (I am PRO-VICTORY!!)
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To: prairiebreeze

I agree wholeheartedly. The cop should have put Ellison in his place and told him that there was nothing illegal about Tancredo smoking a cigar.

Outrageous.


63 posted on 02/13/2007 8:43:29 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: paulat

Oh Bullsh*t, He should have told the muzzie to blow it out his backside.


64 posted on 02/13/2007 8:44:13 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: NapkinUser

What a scumbag!

Tancredo would make someone a good VP.


65 posted on 02/13/2007 8:44:36 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors." GOHUNTER08!)
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To: prairiebreeze

I think I'm going to send him an endless supply of pork rinds to keep in an open bowl on his desk.


66 posted on 02/13/2007 8:44:37 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Peach

The cops reaction is perplexing too.


67 posted on 02/13/2007 8:44:46 PM PST by prairiebreeze (I am PRO-VICTORY!!)
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To: prairiebreeze
Yeah - I thought so. Too accommodating for something so frivolous. Since it wasn't against the law, why didn't they just tell Ellison that?
68 posted on 02/13/2007 8:45:54 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: groanup

That is a 48*7 Double dipped Monica for sure!


69 posted on 02/13/2007 8:45:56 PM PST by lawdude (2006: The elections we will live to die for!)
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To: NapkinUser

LOL

70 posted on 02/13/2007 8:46:48 PM PST by Lijahsbubbe
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To: NapkinUser
“I called because the smoke was coming through the walls,” Jauert said...

I call BS.

71 posted on 02/13/2007 8:46:55 PM PST by RGSpincich
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To: DB
If I were Tancredo, I pay someone to smoke cigars in my office full time after that...

How about playing some loud music too?

72 posted on 02/13/2007 8:47:05 PM PST by NewLand (Always remember September 11, 2001)
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To: Peach

Racist charges would have been leveled at the LEO for that.


73 posted on 02/13/2007 8:48:02 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: paulat

"I hate people who smoke and make people in adjoining rooms deal with it."

I hate people who complain about smokers smoking where they're allowed to smoke. Maybe people who don't want to breathe it in should move, maybe?

I don't even smoke.


74 posted on 02/13/2007 8:48:09 PM PST by NapkinUser (Free Ramos and Compean! Disbarment for the Nifong-wannabe Johnny Sutton.)
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To: imahawk

Oh yes I do. I am so sick of those complaining whiners that it makes me sick. You would think that they would be grateful they can come here and live freely with no Sharia law but no...They have to whine & complain .....What next..will they want to be judged under Sharia law too? If they can't adapt to the American way of life then go back to their homeland. I don't like them and I sure don't feel good about one being in office. I still remember 9/11. And if I sound mean about them oh well.....~P~


75 posted on 02/13/2007 8:48:13 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: NapkinUser

76 posted on 02/13/2007 8:48:44 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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To: NapkinUser

Ellison would come unglued if Tancredo started smoking camels. /sarcasm


77 posted on 02/13/2007 8:48:50 PM PST by PGalt
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To: paulat

I'm sorry, but your "arguments" make absolutely no sense, whatsoever.


78 posted on 02/13/2007 8:48:53 PM PST by khnyny
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To: NapkinUser

Keith, that's not a cigar. That's smoke curling out of his ears.


79 posted on 02/13/2007 8:49:00 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich!)
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To: NapkinUser
If the smoke from a cigar was coming through the walls, I want to see the size of this cigar. If Tancredo does indeed have THREE purifiers going there is no way smoke was going anywhere. See what supporting his 'right' to be sworn in on the Quran gets you Tom? Remember this lesson well.
80 posted on 02/13/2007 8:49:14 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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