Thread: Tancredo Questions McCain

Tancredo Questions McCain
By Jonathan Weisman


He may be the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, but John McCain has yet to heal all the wounds on his right flank.

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a failed presidential rival of McCain's and an anti-illegal immigration gadfly, launched into the senator from Arizona for meeting in secret with Latino leaders last week in Chicago. One participant in the meeting emerged to criticize McCain for taking a tougher stand on illegal immigration on the campaign trail than the line he allegedly used behind closed doors. Now, Tancredo is taking up the cudgel in an open letter to his party's presumptive nominee.

"Recently in Chicago, you had a closed door meeting with a group of Hispanic leaders," he wrote. "Strangely, the closed door meeting was not on your official events calendar, no press was invited and no press release appears to have been issued. Yet, according to several news reports, you promised the group that you plan to pursue 'comprehensive immigration reform.' Senator, given your past sponsorship of amnesty legislation, such statements raise troubling questions. Are you planning to break a promise you made in February to postpone all other immigration reform legislation until we have first secured our borders?"

Ahead of a scheduled McCain appearance in July before the National Council of La Raza, Tancredo warned, "I challenge you to deliver a message to that assembly which does not pander to their amnesty agenda. You should speak to the La Raza convention and to all Hispanic audiences about America's need for secure borders as a priority above all other immigration reforms. Moreover, I hope you take that opportunity to make it clear that it is in the long term interest of Mexico and other Latin American nations to halt the massive out-migration of their citizens."

McCain has promised Republican lawmakers and activists that he will set aside his push to grant illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship, at least until he can certify that the U.S. borders have been closed to illegal immigration. At the same time, he has tried to win back support from Hispanic voters who have fled the GOP since the party took up the immigration issue fervently in 2005.
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MC CAIN won't resopnd to the letter and the main stream media won't slam him for it either. He will just continue to do what our elected officials do and that is nothing but to keep putting this burden on citizens and preach that they are making a difference.

No he won't. Be he's on notice that Tancredo knows and so do we. Nothing in it is secret. You'd think he'd learn a lesson from Obama after his debacle in San Francisco. Suppose to be a private meeting yet it was on video and audio tape. What a dunce.

Tancredo Criticizes McCain Amnesty Meeting
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Sends open letter urging Senator to keep border security promise

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today sent a letter to Senator John McCain (R-AZ) criticizing his recent meeting with Hispanic leaders where he reportedly pushed his amnesty agenda.

A copy of the letter is below:
Dear Senator McCain:
Recently in Chicago, you had a closed door meeting with a group of Hispanic leaders. Strangely, the closed door meeting was not on your official events calendar, no press was invited and no press release appears to have been issued. Yet, according to several news reports, you promised the group that you plan to pursue “comprehensive immigration reform.â€

Tancredo takes McCain to task on immigration
Congressman's letter hints at accusations of pandering, flip-flopping

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Posted: June 24, 2008
9:54 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily


Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado drew attention early in the Republican primaries as a champion of securing our nation's borders against illegal crossing and fighting against amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Now, in an open letter to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, Tancredo is questioning McCain's role in a private meeting with Hispanic leaders in Chicago last week, and is challenging the candidate to stand firm on border security, regardless of the audience he's addressing.

The finger-in-your-chest tone of the letter may have subtly accused McCain of backpedaling on border security pledges in Chicago, where it was reported McCain promised an audience of 150 Hispanic leaders "comprehensive immigration reform."

"Senator," reads Tancredo's letter, "given your past sponsorship of amnesty legislation, such statements raise troubling questions. Are you planning to break a promise you made in February to postpone all other immigration reform legislation until we have first secured our borders?"

The letter goes on to allege that promises for secure borders have been dangled as carrots to lead legislators into voting for amnesty measures, but were then yanked away unfulfilled "after the amnesty was achieved."

"Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives are resolved to never let that happen again," the letter warns. "Are you prepared to wage war on conservatives to secure another amnesty for illegal aliens? I hope not," wrote Tancredo.


Tancredo's letter is only the most recent fire that McCain has drawn for his closed-door meeting last week.

In a conference call with reporters, Obama communications director Robert Gibbs spun the Chicago event as double-talk, referencing McCain's advocacy of immigration reform in 2006 and 2007, his rejection of the reform bills he once promoted and his new promises of reform once again.

Rosalanna Pulido, a Hispanic Republican who attended the Chicago meeting with McCain, told the Associated Press that the senator appears one way in front of white Republicans and another in front of Hispanics. "He's having his private meetings to rally Hispanics and to tell them what they want to hear," she said. "I'm outraged that he would reach out to me as a Hispanic but not as a conservative."

Tancredo's letter now serves a bold challenge to McCain as the senator prepares to address the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States according to its website, next month.

"Senator, you have said many times in recent months, 'I got the message' on border security," Tancredo's letter said. "If you go to the La Raza convention in San Diego and deliver a message that surrenders to their amnesty agenda, tens of millions of Americans who heard your earlier message will feel betrayed – and rightly so."

The letter concludes with a pair of jabs, challenging McCain to maintain a commitment to border security "whether the audience be black or white, Asian or Hispanic."

Tancredo also played on McCain's campaign slogan by writing, "Giving Americans 'Straight Talk' – telling them what they need to hear instead of what they want to hear – demonstrates leadership, and as you have correctly pointed out many times in the past, that is what America needs now more than ever."


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Originally Posted by Gogo

No he won't. Be he's on notice that Tancredo knows and so do we. Nothing in it is secret. You'd think he'd learn a lesson from Obama after his debacle in San Francisco. Suppose to be a private meeting yet it was on video and audio tape. What a dunce.

That's right GoGo. Whether he responds or not, McCain is now aware that he's fooling no one.

Now, if we could just get Tom to publish a similar, open letter concerning Bam Bam to also let him know that America is on to him as well..........

We all know that evil cannot prevail once it's brought into the light.

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He had to have the meeting behind closed doors so that way no one will know what went on in that meeting. Pretty dam sneeky of him to do that, sounds like he has a lot to hide. He is no one to be TRUSTED, and I cant see for the life of me why do people applied him, and they adore him?

Tom Tancredo is still out there batting for the American people. I am very proud to have an 8X10 of Tom and myself hanging on my living room wall. It's just too bad that the sleeping sheeple would not wake up and nominate Tom instead of this little traitor. There's no way he'll get my vote. I called his campaign and told them not to ask me for my donation or vote. To heck with this lesser of 2 evils stuff, I'm voting for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party for Pres and against incumbents the rest of the way down the ballot. Thanks again Tom Tancredo.

Don't forget McCains official campaign pandering to Mexican illegal aliens is all orhestrated by his "Hispanic Outreach Advisor".....JUAN HERNANDEZ...AND NOW McCain, Lindsey Graham and Lieberman are taking their official pandering straight to Mexico as they are allegedly making a trip to visit with Mexican offiicals...to talk about "immigration issues". Unbelievable...his campaign trail should stay in the U.S......he shows his contempt for the American people more and more everyday.