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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Tom Tancredo

Tom Tancredo stories: 6 news summaries

Aide's Plea in Hate Crime Undercuts Tancredo

Speechwriter used racial slur, karate chop

Jun 2, 09 12:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - An aide to Tom Tancredo has pleaded guilty to a hate crime, compromising the former congressman's credibility as he helps lead the opposition to Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, the Washington Independent reports. Marcus Epstein, executive director of the onetime Republican presidential candidate's PAC, copped to using a... More »

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immigration • hate crime • racism • law school • Tom Tancredo • University of Virginia • assault • Sonia Sotomayor • Marcus Epstein • karate chop • Team America PAC

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Tancredo Throws in Towel

GOP longshot candidate couldn't get any traction, backs Mitt

Dec 20, 07 3:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Republican hopeful Tom Tancredo abandoned his long-shot bid for the presidency this afternoon, reports the AP, and in turn gave his endorsement to rival Mitt Romney. The Colorado congressman has been pushing his hardline views on illegal immigration throughout the campaign but hasn't been able to get his poll numbers... More »

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Mitt Romney • Republican • illegal immigration • Tom Tancredo • Republican candidate • Election 2008

Immigration
Fervor Could
Burn GOP

Rollback of Bush’s Hispanic-friendly
stance is risky

Dec 13, 07 1:19 PM CST
(Newser) - The GOP contenders embracing anti-immigrant fervor may be sorely miscalculating, Ryan Lizza writes in the New Yorker, in a piece looking at the party's dramatic turn from the Bush strategy of cultivating immigrants in 2000 and 2004. The nativist passions Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani have been fanning appeal... More »

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Mitt Romney • immigration • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Mexico • Mike Huckabee • Mexican border • Tom Tancredo • Hispanic • border security

In Pa. Field, 9/11 Memorial Takes Shape

Critics see crescent of Islam, but Flight 93 project goes forward

Sep 11, 07 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York isn't the only city with a stalled, controversial 9/11 memorial. In Shanksville, Pa., site of the crash of Flight 93, the new memorial park's architect has proposed an arc of red maple trees around the crater formed by the plane. But, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports, some conservative columnists... More »

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Pennsylvania • September 11 • Tom Tancredo • memorial • United Flight 93 • Shanksville

From Whispers, GOP Hopefuls Aim for a Roar

Backchannel back-stabbing on rise ahead of Iowa poll

Aug 9, 07 3:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - With second-tier candidates sensing that Saturday's straw poll may be their last, best chance to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Iowa is abuzz with whispering campaigns, Slate's John Dickerson says. The homegrown negative ads are a major tool for cash-poor politicians with names like Tancredo, Brownback... More »

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Sam Brownback • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Iowa • Republican • Fred Thompson • presidential campaign • GOP • Mike Huckabee • poll • straw poll • Tom Tancredo • Election 2008 • presidential election

GOP Candidates Play Nice in Iowa Debate

Repubs target Dems with tough talk on war, abortion, Obama

Aug 5, 07 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Republican presidential candidates were mostly civil to each other in today's debate in Iowa, but they hammered Democrats on foreign policy and taxes. The tensest exchange occurred early, the Washington Post reports, when Sam Brownback accused Mitt Romney’s wife of working for Planned Parenthood. Romney called the charge... More »

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Mitt Romney • Sam Brownback • Barack Obama • Iowa • Republican • Fred Thompson • presidential debate • vice president • Tom Tancredo • Ann Romney

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