The Flag-Bearer

Tom Tancredo is on a crusade to save America -- and he's looking for recruits.

A A A Comments By Michael Roberts Thursday, Jul 3 2003

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In the end, Tancredo stayed on the International Relations committee, and last year, the usually uncooperative President Bush signed into law a bill authored by Tancredo that promotes peace in Sudan, which has suffered through civil war and every other imaginable kind of strife in recent years.

Tancredo sees this as a huge accomplishment -- arguably his biggest since he's been in Congress -- and for it, he's received not one-tenth of the notice he routinely gets for his immigration pronouncements. That's okay with him, though. He's on a crusade, and he vows not to stop whether he's in Congress or not.

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Congressman Tom Tancredo today.

The early years: Tancredo at his most adorable.

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"Honestly, if I lost, or if I saw another, better way to press this issue even more effectively, I'd take it," he says. "I'm not popular with the Democrats, and there are some places in the Republican party where it's pretty dicey, too, but I can't let that stop me. I'm just trying to do what's right, and I think there are a lot of people out there who feel the same way I do."

The politicians don't know, but the Colorado Federation of Republican Women understand.