Posted on 03/30/2007 9:09:25 AM PDT by John Jorsett
WASHINGTON (AP) - Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo, an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration, will announce his bid for president on Monday.
Tancredo will kick off campaign with an announcement in Iowa, where political caucuses start whose the presidential nominating season, an official close to the congressman said.
Tancredo has flirted with a presidential bid for more than a year and began raising money for the effort in January. After taking in more than $1 million in two months, he has decided to make his run official, said the official, who asked not to be named ahead of Tancredo's official announcement.
Tancredo's office on Friday morning said that he will make a "major announcement" Monday on a Des Moines, Iowa, radio station.
Tancredo spokesman Carlos Espinosa would say only that Tancredo will announce his intentions and that his decision whether to run for president won't affect whether he will run again for his House seat.
Tancredo, a five-term House member who represents the Denver suburbs, is a leading supporter of securing the nation's Southern border with Mexico and cracking down on illegal immigration. He has used the issue to take on President Bush and Arizona Sen. John McCain, a leading contender for the GOP nomination.
Tancredo acknowledges that he is a long shot for president, but he has made no secret that he hopes to rattle McCain's campaign in Iowa by appealing to conservatives on immigration, abortion and other issues.
McCain last year co-sponsored a bill creating a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country now, though he has played a smaller role in the issue this year.
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I'm not surprised that you are afraid to give names.
Rep. Tancredo, incidentally, was ranked as the third most fiscally conservative member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 2005 by the National Taxpayers Union (NTU). He also earned a Taxpayers' Friend Award for 2005 and 2004 from the NTU.
What members of Congress are more fiscally conservative than Rep. Tancredo?
We now have two flyweights in the heavyweight contest.
Great idea! I think I might contribute to Tancredo. He's the most conservative, pro-American candidate of the GOP presidential candidates.
Tommy Thompson is almost certainly not running for president.
Among those persons that clearly are running for president such as McCain, Romney, Guiliani, Hunter, Paul, Brownback and Huckabee, who do you believe would make a good president?
Tancredo is also a human rights advocate (not in the liberal way) and is a strong fiscal conservative.
2nd and 3rd generation Hispanics support Tancredo as well.
Ben Ficklin repeatedly comes to threads about Rep. Tancredo to attack him. I, on the other hand, do not make a habit of going to threads about other GOP presidential candidates and attacking them.
Send some in for me too.
You listed 7 candidate for prez but didn't list you know who.
Hahhahhahhah
I'd like to hear this explanation also.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Obviously, you don't support Rep. Tancredo. There was no point in his inclusion in the list. Which candidate among those listed do you believe would make a good president?
What immigration bill in the 110th Congress do you support?
I also didn't list any Demcoratic candidates because I assume that you don't believe any Democratic candidate for president would make a good president. However, all the Democrats do share the belief that millions of illegal aliens should be rewarded with legal status and a path to citizneship.
Do you believe millions of illegal aliens should be rewarded with legal status and a path to citizenship?
He is also going to give some of the money to Team America Pac..
Yes. I never thought I would live to see the day when such a large percentage of Americans live without a backbone or pride in their country and culture.
It is depressing really, and I'm afraid it is about to get much worse.
As I said up thread, the GOP is still split on this(and many other) issue. Given this split, the dems will get most of what they want.
"Yes. I never thought I would live to see the day when such a large percentage of Americans live without a backbone or pride in their country and culture."
We have one chance left to turn it around. We MUST stop Bush. If amnesty goes through, America is finished.
Your response is laughable.
You demanded that I list a specific immigration bill in the 110th Congress that I support. Yet when I ask you to do the same, you refuse to name even one bill that you support.
I should have guessed that even though you demanded that I name a specific immigration bill in the 110th Congress that I support, you would be afraid to name even one immigration bill that you support.
We're waiting.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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