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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

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: gop; iowa; salier; tancredo
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To: RobbyS
. He said, in effect. I wish these guys would all level with us and tell us what they really believe.

One of the best moments of the first GOP debate:

Tancredo (?): After 40 million dead because we have aborted them in this country, I would say that that would be the greatest day in this country's history when that, in fact, is overturned.

21 posted on 05/06/2007 11:26:00 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: EternalVigilance

Of course there are a lot of producers contributing to the food supply who don’t get subsidies. I wonder what Salier’s “living wage” is.


22 posted on 05/06/2007 11:27:59 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
We all are:

America's Wars: U.S. Casualties and Veterans

American Revolution (1775–1783)
Total servicemembers 217,000
Battle deaths 4,435
Nonmortal woundings 6,188
War of 1812 (1812–1815)
Total servicemembers 286,730
Battle deaths 2,260
Nonmortal woundings 4,505
Indian Wars (approx. 1817–1898)
Total servicemembers 106,0001
Battle deaths 1,0001
Mexican War (1846–1848)  
Total servicemembers 78,718
Battle deaths 1,733
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 11,550
Nonmortal woundings 4,152
Civil War (1861–1865)  
Total servicemembers (Union) 2,213,363
Battle deaths (Union) 140,414
Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Union) 224,097
Nonmortal woundings (Union) 281,881
Total servicemembers (Conf.) 1,050,000
Battle deaths (Conf.) 74,524
Other deaths in service (nontheater) (Conf.) 59,2972
Nonmortal woundings (Conf.) unknown
Spanish-American War (1898–1902)  
Total servicemembers 306,760
Battle deaths 385
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 2,061
Nonmortal woundings 1,662
World War I (1917–1918)3
Total servicemembers 4,734,991
Battle deaths 53,402
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 63,114
Nonmortal woundings 204,002
Living veterans fewer than 500
World War II (1940–1945)3
Total servicemembers 16,112,566
Battle deaths 291,557
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 113,842
Nonmortal woundings 671,846
Living veterans 4,762,0001
Korean War (1950–1953)
Total servicemembers 5,720,000
Serving in-theater 1,789,000
Battle deaths 33,741
Other deaths in service (theater) 2,827
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 17,730
Nonmortal woundings 103,284
Living veterans 3,734,0001
Vietnam War (1964–1975)
Total servicemembers 8,744,000
Serving in-theater 3,403,000
Battle deaths 47,410
Other deaths in service (theater) 10,789
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 32,000
Nonmortal woundings 153,303
Living veterans 8,295,0001
Gulf War (1990–1991)
Total servicemembers 2,225,000
Serving in-theater 665,476
Battle deaths 147
Other deaths in service (theater) 382
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 1,565
Nonmortal woundings 467
Living veterans 1,852,0001
America's Wars Total
Military service during war 42,348,460
Battle deaths 651,008
Other deaths in service (theater) 13,998
Other deaths in service (nontheater) 525,256
Nonmortal woundings 1,431,290
Living war veterans 17,578,5004
Living veterans 25,038,459
1. Veterans Administration estimate as of Sept. 30, 2002.
2. Estimated figure. Does not include 26,000–31,000 who died in Union prisons.
3. Years of U.S. involvement in war.
4. Approximately 1,065,000 veterans had service in multiple conflicts. They are counted under each conflict, but only once in the total.
Source: Department of Defense and Veterans Administration.

23 posted on 05/06/2007 11:28:06 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: James W. Fannin

Are you recieving ag subsidies?


24 posted on 05/06/2007 11:31:00 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
Yes, the food I eat is cheap and plentiful, and the ground it's grown on was captured and held by the blood of more than a half million men who died in arms to capture and preserve it.

Now go check your spread sheets and see if that adds up.

25 posted on 05/06/2007 11:32:34 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: James W. Fannin

In what war did we capture Iowa?


26 posted on 05/06/2007 11:35:05 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Which wars weren’t fought to defend Iowa?


27 posted on 05/06/2007 11:38:39 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: James W. Fannin

How many other businesses in the US were defended in all the wars? Salier is a hog and Tancredo is two-faced.


28 posted on 05/06/2007 11:42:19 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Namecalling so soon?


29 posted on 05/06/2007 11:45:27 AM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: James W. Fannin

gimee-gimee-gimeeeeeee


30 posted on 05/06/2007 11:55:28 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

You’ve already got it. You’re here. You’re free. You can walk around on this hallowed ground. Enjoy it while it lasts.


31 posted on 05/06/2007 12:02:16 PM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: James W. Fannin
In 2002, he was a first-time candidate when he ran for the U.S. Senate. Salier pushed an unbending anti-abortion, anti-taxes, anti-big-government message. In the Republican primary, he was out-spent 10-1 by a sitting congressman, Greg Ganske...The under-funded Salier took 41 percent of the GOP vote...

That is quite impressive. 4`% while being outspent 10-1 by someone with real name recognition...I can understand why other campaigns wanted him.

32 posted on 05/06/2007 12:10:04 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: James W. Fannin
And that is because my taxes enable Salier to be Tancredo's unpaid advocate?

Not so.

The fact is, Salier is not anti-tax or anti-big govt.

33 posted on 05/06/2007 12:12:51 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
The fact is, Salier is not anti-tax or anti-big govt.

What did you personally do to keep Tommy Harkin (stem cell research champion) from being reelected? Would you have supported Greg Ganske over Salier? By the way, Ganske is supporting McCain now. Does that make you proud?

34 posted on 05/06/2007 12:24:37 PM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: James W. Fannin
What does all that have to do with Salier wallowing at the trough?
35 posted on 05/06/2007 12:51:07 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
Compare the candidates. Tancredo has the most conservative, pro-growth voting record of the candidates currently in the race.

I know those opposed to Tancredo don't like him over the term limits issue, but most of that crowd who came into the House in 1992 ran on term limits and then ignored them when their time was up.

I'm not saying it's right, but Tancredo believes he should have stayed in because he was a lone voice on immigration, and I don't disagree with that.

36 posted on 05/06/2007 1:04:56 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: Ben Ficklin

You wallowed in the trough when you started calling Salier and Tancredo names.


37 posted on 05/06/2007 1:10:21 PM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: Ben Ficklin

How much government subsidy have you ever left on the table?

Do you have kids under 18? If so, do you refuse the $1000/Child Tax Credit on your tax return? If not, go ahead and tell us you’d refuse it if you had the chance.

And no, I don’t receive farm subsidies, either.


38 posted on 05/06/2007 2:23:51 PM PDT by newgeezer (Iowan since 1960.)
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To: newgeezer

What the free traders fear the most is an end to corporate welfare.


39 posted on 05/06/2007 2:42:50 PM PDT by James W. Fannin
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To: EternalVigilance
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.

Yep. Ganske was a disgrace.

40 posted on 05/06/2007 3:02:16 PM PDT by xjcsa (xjcsa...source of number one Google result in search for the word "ecotard" [pleased with self])
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