Posted on 11/05/2004 10:34:53 AM PST by stopillegalimmigration
Rep. Tom Tancredo coasted to an easy victory Tuesday, clobbering his Democrat opponent for a fourth term in Congress.
Tancredo beat challenger Joanna Conti, capturing 60 percent of the vote.
Tancredo first won the office in 1998, pledging then to serve only three terms in Congress. Last year he decided to seek a fourth term and Conti tried to exploit the issue, saying he'd broken his term-limits pledge.
Tancredo was a prominent figure in the term-limits movement in the 1990s, playing a central role as head of the Colorado Term Limit Coalition in convincing voters to approve term limits for state and local politicians. Since the 1990s, however, the term-limits movement has largely fizzled.
Tancredo emerged as a leading figure in the debate over immigration reform in Congress, where he serves as chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. He favors strong restrictions on illegal immigration, a position that has earned him national accolades from immigration reform groups and scorn from others.
Tancredo has been a reliable vote for limited government and smaller taxes.
Conti was a successful businesswoman who left the Republican Party in 2002 because she said the party had moved too far to the right. She started her own software and food companies in the 1980s and 1990s after working as a manager for Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup Co.
She started the Alliance for Youth Achievement, a non-profit organization that helps thousands of orphans each year in Africa and Asia.
Conti attacked Tancredo for his stands on illegal immigration, saying he had alienated members of the Republican Party by his views on immigrants.
Unlike previous challengers, Conti vowed to give Tancredo a serious run. She raised more than $711,000 by the middle of October, falling short of Tancredo's fund-raising by only about $53,000. Conti also hired a professional staff to run her campaign.
Colorado's 6th Congressional District has been a reliable seat for Republicans. The district rings metro Denver to the South in Jefferson, Park, Douglas, Arapahoe and Elbert counties.
In 1998 Tancredo won the seat by nearly 28,000 votes. In 2000 he beat Democrat Ken Toltz by almost 31,000 votes and in 2002 he trounced Democrat Lance Wright by 87,524 votes.
Conti lost by almost 70,000 votes.
He has been thrown out of the White House by Karl Rove and taken to the woodshed by Tom DeLay for his anti-Hispanic activities. He made a total nuisance of himself at the national convention.
He even proposed a 5% tax on transactions that primarily applied to only one company. When he was informed that the company was headquartered in his district and was the largest employer in his district he did the fastest crawfish DC has seen in years.
Tancredo will not be able to hire any first rate campaign staff. No serious contributers will back him. No reputable Republicans will endorse him.
Tancredo will probably be taken out in the next primary just like Rove and company took out Daschle this year. His only hope is to fire his idiot campaign manager now and blame everything on him.
Tancredo is among the few with the guts to take on the immigration crisis. Too bad the president refuses to. I'll take principle over pander any day.
You may take your marching orders from Rove. Many of us look at voting records instead.
You may take your marching orders from Rove. Many of us look at voting records instead.
He must be doing something right. The buchanan's wouldn't keep him on if he wasn't making them money somehow.
Thenn send him your money.
Who is your favorite congressperson and senator?
60%!!! Great!!!
Not many congressman can claim that.
Down here in south Texas all the Democrat congressmen were re-elected overwhelmingly.
My new one. I don't remember his name. He didn't advertise but he carried counties in which I couldn't even find someone willing to hold a Republican primary 20 years ago.
The amnesty party is foaming at the mouth because of Tancredo's overwhelming anti-illegal mandate.
He sold his district out to Buchanan. Watch what happens this next session.
It will be interesting to see if and when any talk about immigration issues surfaces in the next 4 years. I bet Bush dusts off his "Amnesty" program sometime late next year.
He may have cost the GOP a senator in CO.
Tancredo must be doing something right to have been easily re-elected, again.
Tom's great. Didn't know he was very pro home-schooling too.
Tancredo's anti-Mexican hate campaign will alienate Hispanic voters just as Buchanan's hate filled rhetoric hurt the GOP in the last 20 years.
The GOP has no option but to oust him.
Bush's open-borders policy will destroy this nation. Let's pray that men like Tancredo will ultimately carry the day.
Agreed. They really are just behaving precisely like liberals. Misrepresenting him, then attacking the misrepresentation.
"Conti was a successful businesswoman who left the Republican Party in 2002 because she said the party had moved too far to the right."
Wooops!! Mistake! She obviously moved too far to the left.
And I too, would like to see Tancredo given better publicity.
Most Hispanic American citizens are NOT interested in pandering to illegal invaders and most legal immigrants do not support line jumpers.
If the Repubs are smart, they can keep the Hispanic vote and STILL do something about our hemorrhaging borders.
Getting in leauge with Buchanan aint a sin. Being thrown out of the White House and attacked by Rove and Delay is a badge of honor. When Bush and company are mad its the only sign you are doing something right. Im sure no reputable Republican would endorse him, and that Rove very well would purge any immigration reformer from congress. Another badge of honor. Globalist insiders will be globalist insiders.
He isnt mindlessly following Bush, that is what makes him nervous.
"He has been thrown out of the White House by Karl Rove "
I would consider that an honor!!
He gets my vote.
Can you provide any proof that Tancredo is anti-Mexican as opposed to him being anti-Mexican illegal immigrant?
Spoken like a true Buchanan/Tancredo devotee.
Bush won, get over it.
BTTT
Cool.
That's gotta tick off the liberal (R)'s.
(Some of whom are on this very thread :-)
Indeed, Bush won. And thank goodness that immigration reform didnt loose, because Tancredo and members of the immigration reform caucus won also.
And? Patty Murry didn't have any problems either.
I wholeheartedly support REPUBLICAN Tancredo in all future campaigns and do not support Pat "Reform Party" Buchanan for any office (though Pat DOES manage to get it right on the immigration issue -- too bad he's wrong on everything else)
You're right, Bush WON nationwide, and especially won COLORADO by an a decisive margin, so many you Tancredo hating RINOs should "get over it" and stop spewing this "Tancredo hurt Bush" stuff. Perhaps you can start a therpy group with fellow Tancredo-hating RINOs like "Republican" Wizard, he blindly votes for anyone "his president" endorses in the primary, and as a result you have scum like Arlen Specter getting re-elected and "delivering" their states to a bright shade of Kerry red.
You RINOs should get a clue and stop being little mouth pieces for Karl Rove's personal preferences in the primary. But if you guys prefer a socialist like Arlen Specter over a patriot like Tom Tancredo, that's your problem. Certainly the Republican voters in those respective states got a lot more of their "base" out with Tancredo than Specter.
If the Repubs are smart, they can keep the Hispanic vote and STILL do something about our hemorrhaging borders.
That's the way to do it. A firm stance on legal immigration & sealing the border BACKED by like minded Hispanics.
Use the power of the WH to raise the visibility and importance of Hispanics groups for legal-only immigration.
Still doing your shilling for the illegals, eh?
Bayourod is a pro-illegal alien shill.
Bush won. Get over it.
BUMP
2008=Sanford/Tancredo!
Hey bayourod, do you have anything better to do besides babbling you're nonsense on every immigration/Tancredo thread? Why don't you get a clue. Are you an illegal mexican or do you just profit from employing illegals? Which is it? Did Tancredo run over you're dog or something?
(The DCCC thanks you for your contribution to socialist Joanna Conti though!)
I know I'm very late to this thread, but here goes: the chairman of the republican party, Kenneth B. Mehlmen, just endorsed Tancredo for 2006.
Another one for the bayourod "boy was my face red" files.
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