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Tancredo's man on the ground [Iowa Campaign Chair Bill Salier]
Rockymountain News ^ | May 4th, 2007 | M. E. Sprengelmeyer

Posted on 05/06/2007 9:57:57 AM PDT by James W. Fannin

Tancredo's man on the ground

Judy DeHaas © The Rocky

Tom Tancredo's Iowa presidential campaign chairman Bill Salier, of Nora Springs, says that there are very few things as sweet as a baby pig as he holds one one of his month-old of piglets.

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By M. E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News
May 4, 2007

NORA SPRINGS, Iowa — Sow Number 68 is a little sluggish these days.

She's a new mom again. Recently gave birth to about a dozen more little piglets. She's looking a little skinny. And she's moody, too.

The friendly farmer knows she needs a little extra attention.

Long and lanky Bill Salier stoops in his patched-up jeans. He stares her in the snout. He tells a visitor how he wants her to regain her strength before he lets her out of this musty, farrowing shed and back to the barnyard with her muddy-hooved lady friends.

Suddenly, there's a call on the cell phone that's always wired into the farmer's right ear.

It's somebody from Rep. Tom Tancredo's presidential campaign staff.

They talk for a few minutes about the congressman's next round of Iowa barnstorming. Salier tells the caller they need to get the best voter database anywhere.

Excerpted. Story continues in multiple parts here

(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: gop; iowa; salier; tancredo
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Interesting multi-part story.
1 posted on 05/06/2007 9:58:02 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: pissant; Ladycalif; T.L.Sink; LFOD777; westcoastwillieg; Ultra Sonic 007; SierraWasp; Carry_Okie; ..

ping


2 posted on 05/06/2007 10:00:52 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: James W. Fannin

Bill Salier is a fine man.

If it wasn’t for the betrayal of conservatives by the RNC in the 2002 primary, there’s a decent chance he’d be a US Senator right now, and Commie Tommy Harkin would be retired.


3 posted on 05/06/2007 10:34:36 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("A [Free] Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: EternalVigilance

It’s a big tent, though!


4 posted on 05/06/2007 10:37:23 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: EternalVigilance
Many of us are disgusted that our party didn’t back Salier in the primary.
I still have my Salier sign in the garage.
5 posted on 05/06/2007 10:39:54 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: James W. Fannin

Heh. They always say that as they’re trying as hard as they can to kick out the center poles...


6 posted on 05/06/2007 10:40:54 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("A [Free] Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: HereInTheHeartland

I hear ya.


7 posted on 05/06/2007 10:41:24 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("A [Free] Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: James W. Fannin

Good for Tancredo an Salier. This is what we need. The backbone of America.


8 posted on 05/06/2007 10:59:08 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: freekitty

Thank you, Kitty. Help spread the word. I’m not asking people to decide and vote for Tancredo yet, but he and Hunter are the only candidates I see as being able to save the country.


9 posted on 05/06/2007 11:00:48 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: EternalVigilance
Salier may be anti-tax and anti-big govt, but he doesn't seem to be anti-big ag subsidy.

He is listed on the EWG ag subsidy database at over $114 thousand while Norma Salier is at $28 thousand.

10 posted on 05/06/2007 11:12:37 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

I don’t blame him for not unilaterally disarming economically.


11 posted on 05/06/2007 11:13:52 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("A [Free] Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Ben Ficklin; EternalVigilance

Did it ever occur to you that the free ride we’ve given our corporations to China is the biggest subsidy ever in the history of American government?


12 posted on 05/06/2007 11:19:18 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: EternalVigilance

I wish I had the option to not unilaterally disarm.


13 posted on 05/06/2007 11:19:53 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Buy a farm. A million bucks should get you set up with a small one.


14 posted on 05/06/2007 11:20:57 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("A [Free] Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: James W. Fannin

Trancredo had an intersting interview on ABC this morning. He said, in effect. I wish these guys would all level with us and tell us what they really believe. Just the way he said it impressed me. He wasn’t spinning.


15 posted on 05/06/2007 11:21:53 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: James W. Fannin

Why don’t you whip out your spreadsheets and show me?


16 posted on 05/06/2007 11:22:01 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Because you don’t have a clue what value really is. You need a spread sheet to show you.


17 posted on 05/06/2007 11:23:19 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: EternalVigilance

Welfare for the rich.


18 posted on 05/06/2007 11:23:57 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Food supply is a national security issue. Always has been, ever since Joseph and the Pharoah.


19 posted on 05/06/2007 11:24:57 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("A [Free] Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: James W. Fannin

Are you recieving ag subsidies?


20 posted on 05/06/2007 11:25:12 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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