The hypocrisy is breathtaking, but not surprising. Wouldn’t you think that Colorado’s Tom Tancredo, the GOP presidential wannabe who is running as a single issue (”Build the Wall”) candidate by bringing up The Brown Menace at every opportunity would want to Buy American when he is renovating his home?
Nope. He has a “sanctuary mansion” of his own. Max Blumenthal:
When Tancredo hired a construction crew to transform his drab basement into a high-tech pleasure den in October 2001, however, he did not express concern that only two of its members spoke English. Nor did he bother to check the workers’ documentation to see if they were legal residents of the United States. Had Tancredo done so, he would have learned that most of the crew consisted of undocumented immigrants, or “criminal aliens” as he likes to call them. Instead, Tancredo paid the crew $60,000 for its labor and waited innocently for the completion of his elaborate entertainment complex.Tancredo’s head-purposely-in-the-sand attitude when it comes to personally benefiting from the cheap labor provided by undocumented workers is shared by many Americans — and pols like Mitt Romney, who also employed people here illegally to work on his landscaping. You just have to shake your head at the bald hypocrisy.During the renovation process, two illegal workers hired by Tancredo were alerted to his reputation for immigrant bashing. They went straight to the Denver Post to complain. Tancredo “doesn’t want us here, but he’ll take advantage of our sweat and our labor,” one of the workers complained to the Post on September 19, 2002. “It’s just not right.”
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I believe Willard’s response to reports that he had hired a landscaping company that used undocumented workers, was “Well, it was the company’s job to make sure; I hired the company.”
Sounds like Tancredo (doesn’t that sound like an immigrant’s name?) will most likely use the same excuse. Which means he has no valid excuse.
Its absolutely amazing what the Republicans have trotted out as viable candidates this campaign season. Or is it simply the punishment deserved to come for a party that has made hay for lots of years by dragging up every foible of every democratic contender before them?
Not that I encourage closed campaigns where, like Larry Craig, one world for us and another for them exists (which I think still does regardless), one certainly can’t help but think that the tiger they let lose so many years ago has finally come back to its den.
Oh, by the way, in this same article, it is noted that Tancredo got a deferrment on the grounds of having a mental illness. Does he maintain treatment? Did God cure him suddenly sometime in 1972?
I for one, would like to know.
BWAHAHA!
Why does this…individual…think he still has a chance?
Did you all hear about the contractor who got prison time while building a wall along the border because — drum roll — he used illegal aliens?
The Republicans are racists. Flat out, end of story. The reason why this ironic shit keeps happening isn’t because they are failing to implement their policies, but because the point of their policies is NOT to prevent brown people from being in the U.S. but to reintroduce Jim Crow. They want quiet brown people to do their work, not complain, and not fucking unionize. Since they can’t do this to black people anymore (well, not easily) they turn to Mexico.
Every economist worth his salt knew NAFTA would cause illegal immigration to skyrocket. That was a benefit for the elites. The problem is, Republicans can’t run on the truth — Bush found that out when he created his half-assed “rich people winzzz!” immigration policy that neither punished brown people enough for rightwingers nor treated them like humans for the rest of us. They have to lie and say they’re against illegal immigration, even though they’re not.
The levels of hypocrisy never cease to amaze me. If there was anything you’d think they’d be sincere in, it would be their hatreds.
Lenin was absolutely right when he said a capitalist will sell you the rope with which to hang him.
Its absolutely amazing what the Republicans have trotted out as viable candidates this campaign season.
In all fairness, Tancredo isn’t a viable candidate any more than Duncan Hunter is or, on our side, Mike Gravel is. Okay, he’s a little more viable than Gravel, but that’s only because Republicans are batshit insane. I mean, Alan Keyes got what, 29% in Illinois against Obama?
Wow, that is old news. It broke here in Colorado years ago. It was covered fairly extensively for a couple of week prior to his 2002 election. He weaselled some crap about “not knowing” and the Post and the Rocky dropped it.
I thought this was a well known fact about Colorado’s Favorite Lunatic.
These Republicans are worse than racists. Actual racists hate others. These guys only want to secretly exploit them while out in public claim to hate them. And since there are so many more racist-enablers than racists out there, that’s why the problems persist.
I could make an analogy to Islamic terrorists and their terrorist-enablers, but those Republicans are Christians rather than Muslims so they’d never be able to actually think about it in relation to themselves.
Oh, by the way, in this same article, it is noted that Tancredo got a deferrment on the grounds of having a mental illness. Does he maintain treatment? Did God cure him suddenly sometime in 1972?
Yea, Tancredo is a real piece of work. I keep getting confused about Republican War Monger Deferments during the Vietnam years.
Cheney: Other Priorities.
Limbaugh: A boil on his butt.
Tancredo: Mental Instability. (Does this mean he jumped up and down on the Group W bench singing a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant before walking out?).
Being a current crazy Republican I suppose we can wonder whether he walked in with a special friend and sang a few bars of Alice’s Restaurant In Harmony and walked out.
That’s pretty much what I said. In this era, I’ll be blown over when they find an HONEST Gopper. Something tells me I’ll wait for a long time.
I’m shocked, shocked to find that hypocrisy is going on in here!
None of you get it: he set up a trap, see? Yeah, that’s it, a trap. How did they get away? Uh…the gays! Yeah, the gays did it!
Tancredo/Congo the Dog ‘08*
*Seriously, can’t you imagine Tancredo teaming up with that German Shepherd who mauled the hell out of an illegal immigrant in Jersey?
I’m not too bothered by the mental illness thing because in WWII they 4Fd a physicist on mental grounds for being a nail-biter. Then he got pulled into the Manhattan Project. The military seems to have very different ideas about mental instability from the rest of us.
As for the hypocrisy– this seems to be the motto of the GOP: “Force us not to do what we think we shouldn’t do, but do anyway.”
ROTFLOL
Anyone who says they had no idea that some contractor was using undocumented workers is someone who didn’t review the labor-cost component of the bids they got.
Tom Tancredo hired undocumented aliens to build his rooms. This is hilarious.
Now, I’m waiting for Racist Tancredo to make an attempt to defend this.
…or try to deny this very vaild charge.
Why are people so down on hypocrisy? What else separates us from the animials, fer crissakes?
PWNED1!!1!!!1!
But in all seriousness, this does not surprise me.
You just have to shake your head at the bald hypocrisy.
Ultimately, I find it hard to get mad at the politicians. They know that their hypocrisies mirror those of the people they rule. They know that the people are stupid and will accept lies and evasions. In their circumstances, I find it hard to really blame them for taking advantage of the public’s gullibility. Ultimately, though, I hate the evil and damage that hypocrites like Tancredo wreak on society.