Thomas Tancredo's Notes
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Dear Houston and Dallas-area friends of Tom Tancredo,
I wanted to write and give you an update on Tom. Two days ago this campaign released the most hard-hitting and candid ad of the campaign season. Entitled, “Tough on Terror” the ad chronicles the consequences of a lax border policy and spineless politicians who choose complacency over security. The ad is garnering a flashflood of media coverage and our offices are inundated with calls from all the major media outlets. You can view the ad at: http://www.teamtancredo.or
As you probably know by now, Congressman Tancredo will be at the following two events on the 19th and 20th. Both are fundraisers for Tom. The money raised will assist in increasing the size of campaign operations and purchasing playtime for ads like the one above.
These two events are too important to miss!
Dallas area
Type: Reception, hors d’oeuvres and drinks
Date: November 19th
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM CST
Location: 523 Ridge Point Drive, Heathridge, TX (near Dallas)
Contribution: $250 for 1 ticket, $450 for 2 tickets
Attire: Business casual
Contact: (see below)
Houston
Type: Reception, hors d’oeuvres and drinks
Date: November 20th
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM CST
Location: Maggiano’s Italian Restaurant, 2019 Post Oak Blvd
Contribution: $250 for 1 ticket, $450 for 2 tickets
Attire: Business casual
Contact: (see below)
RESERVE YOUR TICKET TODAY!
• Credit Card (preferred)
o Call 888-GOTOM08 and ask to speak with “Beau”. Your spot(s) can be reserved today!
• Check (must arrive no later than Saturday)
o Addressed to: 501 Church Street, Suite 212, Vienna, VA 22180
o Check made to: “Tancredo for President”
To Victory,
Beau Correll, Esq.
National Coalitions Director
Tancredo for President
888-GOTOM08
www.teamtancredo.org
I wanted to write and give you an update on Tom. Two days ago this campaign released the most hard-hitting and candid ad of the campaign season. Entitled, “Tough on Terror” the ad chronicles the consequences of a lax border policy and spineless politicians who choose complacency over security. The ad is garnering a flashflood of media coverage and our offices are inundated with calls from all the major media outlets. You can view the ad at: http://www.teamtancredo.or
As you probably know by now, Congressman Tancredo will be at the following two events on the 19th and 20th. Both are fundraisers for Tom. The money raised will assist in increasing the size of campaign operations and purchasing playtime for ads like the one above.
These two events are too important to miss!
Dallas area
Type: Reception, hors d’oeuvres and drinks
Date: November 19th
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM CST
Location: 523 Ridge Point Drive, Heathridge, TX (near Dallas)
Contribution: $250 for 1 ticket, $450 for 2 tickets
Attire: Business casual
Contact: (see below)
Houston
Type: Reception, hors d’oeuvres and drinks
Date: November 20th
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 PM CST
Location: Maggiano’s Italian Restaurant, 2019 Post Oak Blvd
Contribution: $250 for 1 ticket, $450 for 2 tickets
Attire: Business casual
Contact: (see below)
RESERVE YOUR TICKET TODAY!
• Credit Card (preferred)
o Call 888-GOTOM08 and ask to speak with “Beau”. Your spot(s) can be reserved today!
• Check (must arrive no later than Saturday)
o Addressed to: 501 Church Street, Suite 212, Vienna, VA 22180
o Check made to: “Tancredo for President”
To Victory,
Beau Correll, Esq.
National Coalitions Director
Tancredo for President
888-GOTOM08
www.teamtancredo.org
Tancredo then offered to take the debate one step further. "A hundred years ago, you would test someone's veracity by a duel, or some other kind of physical test," Tancredo said. "I'll do this, I challenge Governor Romney to a trap-shooting contest here in New Hampshire. Loser drops out."
From NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli
N.H. -- Tancredo, who skipped the NRA Convention in Washington on Friday, put his Second Amendment credentials on display here Sunday, serving as the Celebrity Guest Shooter at a fundraiser for local Republicans. “As opposed to other people who have made the statement, I have actually hunted all my life,” Tancredo said.
The Colorado congressman played the mark, meaning anyone who hit more targets than him in the three-phase competition was entered into a raffle for prizes, which included frozen turkeys. Tancredo, who did not use any of his own guns, joked after that he shot just poorly enough to ensure that everyone finished better than him. “It’s just what you have to do, right?” he asked.
“I think he did pretty well,” said Juliana Bergeron, chair of the Cheshire County GOP. “Everybody says it’s different if you’re not shooting with your own guns.”
Actually, there was some confusion over the rules. The second phase of the competition called for shooting a moving deer target. Tancredo connected four out of six times, but not in the right spot. “I hit it in the gut a couple times, so they won’t count it,” he said, after learning he should have aimed for the lungs.
The Cheshire County GOP invited all the candidates to join them at the local Fish and Game Club, but Tancredo was the only one to take them up on the offer (if you don’t count Daniel Gilbert, who insisted he’s a candidate as well). Most of the other GOP campaigns were represented on this crystal clear early fall day, however, either with signs or surrogates sporting candidate flair. Even Giuliani, whose gun control efforts as mayor have some sportsmen wary, had representatives on hand. “I don’t see him going after the guns,” said Ron Vars, chair of New Hampshire Sportsmen for Rudy. “If I thought that, I wouldn’t be involved.”
Several of the attendees acknowledged that there is still dissatisfaction with the current Republican field. “I think the field needs to narrow down,” Bergeron said. “There are so many issues [aside from Iraq and immigration] that we need to hear about as well.” Jim Coburn, a Mike Huckabee backer and the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate last year, said the field doesn’t “resonate with a lot of voters. “The average voter hasn’t even heard of most of the candidates yet, other than Rudy perhaps,” Coburn said.
Jim Kenney, a state senator running for governor in 2008, called Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani the early frontrunners, and that Fred Thompson “comes in a little handicapped.” “That doesn’t mean he can’t catch up,” he said. He added that Huckabee “has really impressed” Republicans, and that Ron Paul “has a very strong following” here.
As for Tancredo, he admits it’s a tough road ahead. “My message sort of resonates. But I don’t have $100 million in the bank or $350 million in my own personal bank account, so I have to do it the old fashioned way.” Best known for his immigration position, he also made a pitch on second amendment grounds today. “It’s sort of clichéd to say it but it’s true, that all of our other rights are dependent on that one being intact,” he said.
N.H. -- Tancredo, who skipped the NRA Convention in Washington on Friday, put his Second Amendment credentials on display here Sunday, serving as the Celebrity Guest Shooter at a fundraiser for local Republicans. “As opposed to other people who have made the statement, I have actually hunted all my life,” Tancredo said.
The Colorado congressman played the mark, meaning anyone who hit more targets than him in the three-phase competition was entered into a raffle for prizes, which included frozen turkeys. Tancredo, who did not use any of his own guns, joked after that he shot just poorly enough to ensure that everyone finished better than him. “It’s just what you have to do, right?” he asked.
“I think he did pretty well,” said Juliana Bergeron, chair of the Cheshire County GOP. “Everybody says it’s different if you’re not shooting with your own guns.”
Actually, there was some confusion over the rules. The second phase of the competition called for shooting a moving deer target. Tancredo connected four out of six times, but not in the right spot. “I hit it in the gut a couple times, so they won’t count it,” he said, after learning he should have aimed for the lungs.
The Cheshire County GOP invited all the candidates to join them at the local Fish and Game Club, but Tancredo was the only one to take them up on the offer (if you don’t count Daniel Gilbert, who insisted he’s a candidate as well). Most of the other GOP campaigns were represented on this crystal clear early fall day, however, either with signs or surrogates sporting candidate flair. Even Giuliani, whose gun control efforts as mayor have some sportsmen wary, had representatives on hand. “I don’t see him going after the guns,” said Ron Vars, chair of New Hampshire Sportsmen for Rudy. “If I thought that, I wouldn’t be involved.”
Several of the attendees acknowledged that there is still dissatisfaction with the current Republican field. “I think the field needs to narrow down,” Bergeron said. “There are so many issues [aside from Iraq and immigration] that we need to hear about as well.” Jim Coburn, a Mike Huckabee backer and the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate last year, said the field doesn’t “resonate with a lot of voters. “The average voter hasn’t even heard of most of the candidates yet, other than Rudy perhaps,” Coburn said.
Jim Kenney, a state senator running for governor in 2008, called Mitt Romney, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani the early frontrunners, and that Fred Thompson “comes in a little handicapped.” “That doesn’t mean he can’t catch up,” he said. He added that Huckabee “has really impressed” Republicans, and that Ron Paul “has a very strong following” here.
As for Tancredo, he admits it’s a tough road ahead. “My message sort of resonates. But I don’t have $100 million in the bank or $350 million in my own personal bank account, so I have to do it the old fashioned way.” Best known for his immigration position, he also made a pitch on second amendment grounds today. “It’s sort of clichéd to say it but it’s true, that all of our other rights are dependent on that one being intact,” he said.
By Jo Mannies
09/22/2007
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., asserted Friday that his anti-immigration message, which brought a crowd here to its feet, is also dragging down his Republican bid for the White House.
Why? "Money," or rather, lack of it, replied Tancredo, as he mingled with the audience of activists with Eagle Forum, a social conservative group holding a national meeting this weekend at the Frontenac Hilton.
The major presidential fundraisers, regardless of party, "are taking money from executives with corporations that have a very big stake in this,'' Tancredo said. They oppose his candidacy, he said, because big business favors "massive importation of very cheap labor." But the Republican base does not, he added.
Tancredo drew supportive cheers during his speech when he declared, "Cheap labor is cheap only to the employer. It costs the rest of us a fortune."
Tancredo blamed illegal immigrants for rising crime — "90 percent of the murder warrants in LA are for illegal immigrants" — as well as the rising cost of health care and the economic decline in the housing market.
Tancredo contends that illegal, and legal, immigrants are harming the nation because many of the newcomers "refuse to assimilate."
Even many legal immigrants fail to learn English or embrace American culture, choosing instead to keep their old customs and religion, he said. "The American melting pot is broken."
He asserted that such practices are destroying the cultural ties that long bound Americans together. The crowd roared in agreement when Tancredo shouted, "I'm tired of pressing '1' for English, and '2' for Spanish!"
He also linked illegal immigration to the nation's fight against terrorism and Islamic extremists. Tancredo asserted that some Iraqis were paying $50,000 to be smuggled across U.S. borders.
They're avoiding coming through proper channels, he said, because they seek "to do something dangerous."
Tancredeo acknowledged during in an interview after his speech that he's stuck in the GOP's "second tier'' of presidential contenders. But he believes that he has forced the Republican front-runners to be more forceful against illegal immigration than they'd like.
Afterward, Eagle Forum president Phyllis Schlafly praised Tancredo's bravery, while warning that social conservatives aren't happy with some of his better-known Republican rivals.
Gazing around the ballroom, Schlafly said, "I don't think (New York Mayor Rudy) Giuliani would get any votes here."