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Tancredo wins surprise immigration vote
Rocky Mountain News ^ | June 15, 2007 | Chris Barge

Posted on 06/15/2007 1:13:17 PM PDT by The Blitherer

Washington, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives this morning voted to withhold federal emergency services funding for "sanctuary cities" that protect illegal immigrants.

Anti-immmigration champion Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., sponsored the measure, which he says would apply to cities such as Denver and Boulder. He was elated by its passage, which stunned critics and supporters alike.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
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To: mad_as_he$$
I added my regular funding to the Republican party to Tom’s war chest just now.

Good for you!

341 posted on 06/16/2007 10:14:50 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: The Blitherer
My tag line says it all.

Good job Tom.

342 posted on 06/16/2007 10:31:02 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter '08)
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To: Baladas
Tom Tancredo may be a one-trick pony, but that’s some trick he’s got there.

Tancredo may be the most vocal on the illegal alien issue, but he's not a one trick pony.

He's a conservative through and through ... voted against Bush's prescription drug give away and the No Child Left Behind. As a former educator appointed by Reagan as a regional representative to the Department of Education, Tancredo wants to abolish the United States School Board established by Jimmah Carter. He understands the threat of Islamofascism - they want to kill us because "it's a dictate of their religion."

He's a pro-life, pro-gun, small government conservative with the record to prove it.

But as Tancredo says, illegal immigration has an impact on nearly every major issue confronting the country today.

343 posted on 06/16/2007 10:33:24 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: EndWelfareToday
My tag line says it all.

Yes it does! I'll add you to the tancredo ping list if you're interested.

344 posted on 06/16/2007 10:34:55 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Ic þæt gehate, þæt ic heonon nelle fleon fotes trym, ac wille furðor gan)
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To: SittinYonder

That would be nice. Thanks!


345 posted on 06/16/2007 10:36:10 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter '08)
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To: The Blitherer; EQAndyBuzz; Soul Seeker; George W. Bush; cripplecreek; kidd; M203M4; Dane; ...
>> Here's a list of the Dem's who voted for the Bill. If you are a constituent (or know the contact info) please email/call/fax your approval and thanks! <<
>> “Holy crap. 50 democrats. Hopefully this is an indicator of how the House will vote on Bush’s Immigration bill.” Now, how many of those Democrats are blue dogs? The DNC may have opened Pandoras box and has no clue how to close it. <<
>> Certain blue dog Democrats that ran against amnesty are starting to get scared with their seats up next year and the Republicans they defeated ready to tell the constituents they lied about amnesty, and most Republicans in the House were solid to begin with. <<
>> The Blue Dogs are now likely to betray the Dims about as often as the RINOs betray us. And if Pelosi cracks the whip very hard, she'll end up Minority Leader in 2009 instead of Speaker. <<

Using The Blitherer's link, I have now complied a list of how FRESHMEN members of Congress voted on this bill. The nice thing is that every single one of them cast a vote on this one, so we know exactly where they stand. We can now determine once and for all if all the scary immigration hardliners in Congress that retired or were defeated got replaced with more "Hispanic friendly" candidates as the open-borders crowd on FR has alleged.

So, for your reading pleasure, here are the numbers:

HOW FRESHMEN MEMBERS OF THE 110TH CONGRESS VOTED ON TANCREDO'S BILL

VOTED AYE
Jason Altmire (D-PA)
Michelle Bachmann (R-MN)
Brian Bilbray (R-CA)
Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)
Nancy Boyda (D-KS)
Bruce Braley (D-IA)
Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
Steve Cohen (D-TN)
David Davis (R-TN)
Joe Donnelly (D-IN)
Brad Ellsworth (D-IN)
Mary Fallin (R-OK)
Gabrella Giffords (D-AZ)
Kristin Gillibrand (D-NY)
Dean Heller (R-NV)
Baron Hill (D-IN)
Jim Jordan (R-OH)
Ron Klein (D-FL)
Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
Nick Lampson (D-TX)
Tim Mahoney (D-FL)
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)
Harry Mitchell (D-AZ)
Patrick Murphy (D-PA)
Ed Perlmutter (D-CO)
Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH)
Peter Roskam (R-IL)
Bill Sali (R-ID)
Joe Sestak (D-PE)
Heath Shuler (D-NC)
Adrian Smith (R-NE)
Zack Space (D-OH)
Tim Walberg (R-MI)
John Yarmuth (D-KY)

VOTED NAY
Michael Arcuri (D-NY)
Chris Carney (D-PE)
Kathy Castor (D-FL)
Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
Joe Courtney (D-CT)
Keith Ellison (D-MN)
John Hall (D-NY)
Phil Hare (D-IL)
Mazie Hirono (D-HA)
Paul Hodes (D-NH)
Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Steve Kagen (D-WI)
David Loebsack (D-IA)
Jerry McNerney (D-CA)
Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Ciro Rodriguez (D-TX)
John Sarbanes (D-MD)
Betty Sutton (D-OH)
Tim Walz (D-MN)
Peter Welch (D-VT)
Charlie Wilson (D-OH)

VOTED PRESENT OR MISSED VOTE
None

Well, well, well. Even though the new freshman class has an extreme lopsided number of Democrats (due to the election results flipping Congress to Speaker Pelosi), a huge number of them crossed sides to vote with the GOP on this bill, so much that freshmen class voted IN FAVOR of the bill by a huge margin over the freshmen members voting NAY.

The few "radical" anti-illegal alien Congressmen that were defeated last year (J.D. Hayworth, etc.) appear to have been replaced with Dems that are just as equally pro-Tancredo on the immigration issue. And you will note that while many Dems crossed over to the GOP side on this issue, not a SINGLE freshman Republican voted with the RATs. Contrary to what the open borders crowd claimed on FR, quite a few of the newly elected Republicans (Roskam, Walberg, Buchanan, Bachmann, etc.) faced VERY close races and tough opponents, and were elected while openly running on an anti-illegal alien platform. You will also note that most of the newly-elected Dems who faced very close races in "swing" districts voted with Tancredo on this one, such as all three newly elected Indiana Democrats, and both Arizona Democrats. Almost all the freshmen Congress-critters voting "NAY" are in extremely safe, urban socialist RAT districts (Ellison, Clarke, Cythnia McKinney's replacement Hank Johnson, etc.), and I'm willing to beat that the few Democrats in swing districts that voted NAY on this one will go down in history as "one term flukes" after the 2008 election (Paul Hodes, I'm looking in your direction)

Perhaps the open borders crowd on FR would like to explain how a Democrat controlled House passed such a "radical, anti-hispanic, xenophobic, mexican-bashing" Tancredo-authored bill if their propaganda that "every candidate who ran on an anti-immigrant platform in a contested race was defeated last year" is true.

Anytime, guys. Really. Feel free to explain how this is such a "losing" issue.

346 posted on 06/16/2007 10:36:54 AM PDT by BillyBoy (FACT: Governors WIN. Senators DON'T. Support the RIGHT Thompson in '08: www.tommy2008.com.)
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To: BillyBoy
Anytime, guys. Really. Feel free to explain how this is such a "losing" issue.

<crickets>
347 posted on 06/16/2007 10:41:07 AM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudi & McVain: tough on terror, scared of Iowa)
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To: SittinYonder

“But as Tancredo says, illegal immigration has an impact on nearly every major issue confronting the country today.”

He is correct. It can’t be said loud enough.

Thank you for repeating it.

I am definitely in for Tancredo.

Anyone who says he is a one issue person boggles my mind. It is sheep mentality.

To those sheep: Baa (sheep talk).


348 posted on 06/16/2007 10:45:53 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: SittinYonder

Please add me to your Tancredo ping list.

Thank you.


349 posted on 06/16/2007 10:47:31 AM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: beaversmom

I am shocked but I also want to know whether this will ever get into real law. It has to pass the Senate and be signed by the Prez. This is an astonishing victory but not one that has any legal cred so far. When it does, then the entire nation can cheer.


350 posted on 06/16/2007 11:42:32 AM PDT by phillyfanatic ( w)
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To: NRA2BFree

If you take away the incentives (free medical, education, housing, food stamps, and jobs), for illegals to come here some will go back voluntarily and many not here yet will decide not to come.
1. No citizenship for anchor babies
2. Fine employers who hire illegals. Second offense mandatory jail time
3. No medical, education, housing, free food, etc. for illegals
4. Deportation for those apprehended.
5. Fine their country of origin $10,000.00 in the form of deducting in aid for each illegal caught. Second offense $20,000.00. Mexico would start patrolling their own borders if this provision was enforced.

I guarantee you that this would go a long way in solving this most pressing issue.


351 posted on 06/16/2007 11:53:19 AM PDT by doc
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To: The Blitherer
I wounder if San Franfreako is also included in this bill?? Berserkly and Santa Cruz should also have all monies stopped until they stop babying the ‘illegal’ immigrants.
352 posted on 06/16/2007 11:53:32 AM PDT by antiunion person (Tom Tancredo has the right idea. Let's follow him.)
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To: The Blitherer

I should be getting back to work on Monday, but to hear the President tell it,I won’t work.
I think President Bush is confusing his job with mine.


353 posted on 06/16/2007 11:53:33 AM PDT by Clear Rivers
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To: CottonBall
He's gone from being the lone voice against illegal immigration and being told not to darken the WH door - to being a presidential candidate and having this bill passed. He's relentlessly representing US! Bless him for having the courage other so-called representatives can't find.

Amen to the prayer, you offer!

Tancredo is absolutely correct as to the seriousness of what is at stake. We are careening towards ethnic chaos, not only here, but throughout the West, and so many have been misled by an educational establishment brainwashed by those who see the Nation State as a threat to their causes, that it is a terrible uphill fight to wake people up. The issue ultimately is what was won in 1776. We are about to lose it, for no reason other than people's inability to see beyond the nice sounding slogans of political air heads, spouting what fanatical, but patiently boring, Leftists have seeded in their "thinking."

354 posted on 06/16/2007 2:01:56 PM PDT by Ohioan
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To: UncleSamUSA

> Does anyone know where those 60 Democrats are from? Are they feeling the conservative heat or heat from unions and organized labor?

Unions and organized labor, you betcha, the last trumpetings of old dinosaurs. DIMS ARE REACHABLE ON THIS ISSUE — emphasize wage depression for the poor and lower middle class, and you’re speaking their language.

The important thing is that we stop this bill. If we play to their weaknesses, if we help them unwittingly save America, so be it.


355 posted on 06/16/2007 2:47:22 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: Scarchin

Well, that would be soooo sad! Cities like Austin, TX, that forbid their police to notify the INS when illegal aliens are arrested for crimes deserve to have their funds cut off.


356 posted on 06/16/2007 3:07:32 PM PDT by RightWingConspirator (Glad that Ted the Boorish Drunk, Hitlery the Witch and John Fonda/Fraud Kerry are not my senators.)
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To: The Blitherer

THROW THE DOG A BONE. KEEP HIM QUIET.


357 posted on 06/16/2007 3:11:19 PM PDT by amihow
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To: The Blitherer

Go go go go Tancredo!


358 posted on 06/16/2007 3:58:42 PM PDT by wastedyears (Check my profile for links to anti-illegal immigration T-shirts.)
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To: Baladas

Tancredo is not a one trick pony. I heard a speech of his regarding the threat of radical Islam and he didn’t even mention immigration.


359 posted on 06/16/2007 4:25:12 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: doc

If these things were done, we wouldn’t need to build a fence.


360 posted on 06/16/2007 4:31:07 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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