It's been an exciting week for our boy Tom! It's been full of some wonderful events, endorsements, challenges and just all-around wonderfulness!
Follow me past the jump to learn the latest!
First up: From the Muscatine Journal we learn of the support our candidate has from young people and we also discover how much excitement his Iowa rallies seem to be generating!
Muscatine’s Ryne Honts, a 17-year-old self-described "stout conservative," introduced presidential candidate Tom Tancredo to an audience of about 16 people in Muscatine High School’s auditorium Thursday night.
There's more!
Because his plane was delayed, he showed up late to a "Come shoot with a straight shooter" event held by Muscatine’s Izaak Walton League Thursday night. At least two dozen people turned out for the shooting event held to appeal to hunters and gun enthusiasts and to spread the word on his positions. But Tancredo only got a few words and a few shots in before heading to MHS for the next scheduled event.
In endorsement news, Team Tancredo was proud to announce that former state senator and Iowa Eagle President Kitty Rehberg is now a proud member of Team Tancredo!
What I most love about Kitty is her stance against the Homosexual Agenda:
All across our nation, the homosexual activist have worked secretly to get their agenda drafted into law. In Iowa, we believed this issue would never be given a chance to be debated. Well, we were wrong and now, we either speak up or it will be crammed down our throats and we will be forced to endorse a behavior that scriptures tell us is wrong.
Lord, those homosexual working secretly to shove things down Kitty's throat doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?
In other news, those homosexuals (or are they illegals? I can't remember) at Colorado Media Matters are making some baseless accusations against our Tom:
On the October 25 broadcast of his 630 KHOW-AM show, Peter Boyles supported a claim by U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo's (R-CO) chief of staff, Mac Zimmerman, that an October 25 Denver Post article "omit[ted]...a passage in the [House] ethics rules" in order to give the impression that Tancredo had committed a violation with regard to the posting of material on his official House website and on his Republican presidential campaign website. Zimmerman went on to state that "we were pretty surprised ... because our spokesman actually talked at some length about that part of the ethics rules that deals with the press releases with the reporter yesterday, and for some reason it wasn't included in the story." In fact, the Post quoted Tancredo congressional spokesman T.Q. Houlton addressing the issue that Zimmerman falsely claimed "for some reason ... wasn't included."
The Post article, "Tancredo's Web postings challenged," concerned an October 23 press release, "Tancredo Introduces 'No-Match' Letter Legislation," which appeared the same day on Tancredo's official House and presidential campaign websites. According to the Post, "Presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo on Tuesday published the same news release on his U.S. House and campaign websites, despite ethics rules prohibiting 'campaign or political activity from taking place in a congressional office.' " The Post noted, "The House rule book on campaign activity says members' campaigns must wait a few days after a news release is issued before reproducing its contents."
And in light-hearted campaign news, Tom challenged cult member Mitt Romney to quit the race if the Red Sox lose the World Series. In exchange, Tom offered to quit the race if the Rockies lose.
Mitt didn't take Tom up on the offer, but some cynical reporter at something called RADAR accuses Tom of using that offer of a bet as some kind of slam against Mitt:
Romney didn't take the bait, but we imagine longshot Tancredo enjoying a few moments in the spotlight that he otherwise avoids. But was the whole thing a subtle jab at Romney's Mormonism? It wouldn't be the first time Tancredo has used the religion for a headline or two. Last time, he challenged Romney to a loser-drops-out trap shooting contest.
Romney's religion strictly prohibits him from betting.
According to Mormon doctrine: "The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or so-called business, which takes money from the person who may be possessed of it without giving value received in return. It is opposed to all practices the tendency of which is to encourage the spirit of reckless speculation, and particularly to that which tends to degrade or weaken the high moral standard which members of the Church, and our community at large, have always maintained.... We therefore advise and urge all members of the Church to refrain from participation in any activity which is contrary to the view herein set forth."
Investing $17 million of one's own money in a presidential bid must constitute an exception.
That's all I have for this week!
Go Team Tancredo!!