Rockies Lose Tancredo Too
EmailABC News’ Z. Byron Wolf Reports: Colorado lost more than the World Series on Sunday night. Rep. Tom Tancredo, a fifth term Republican and current presidential contender, has announced he will not seek reelection to the House but will continue to try and reach the White House in 2008.
Tancredo, R-Colo., told the Rocky Mountain News, "It’s the fact that I really believe I have done all I can do in the House, especially about the issue about which I care greatly (immigration)."
The conservative Congressman had already broken a pledge to voters to only serve two terms, claiming at the time that he saw no one in the political field who would devote as much passion to his signature issue.
Tancredo said he would announce his plans regarding Congress after the World Series (presumably, of course, the suburban Denver politician hoped for a better outcome). He also challenged Republican nomination rival Mitt Romney, R-Mass., to a World Series wager which would have raised the stakes for both men: Tancredo said he would drop out of the presidential race if the Red Sox won, provided Romney do the same if the Colorado Rockies managed to topple the streaking Sox.
Romney’s camp declined the offer, and it seems in doing so, have prolonged Tancredo’s presidential season.
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Rep. Tancredo is from the district here in Jefferson County just south of the district I live in.
Posted by: kishor | October 29, 2007, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm
I know Tom is the best candidate for president and I think his shyness and inability to get his message accross in public is the only thing that keeps him from moving up.
He only needs to work on his public speaking. I know he is short of funds and can’t afford the speach writers but that would help him tremendously.
Posted by: eva hafer | October 30, 2007, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm