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Michael J. Mawson, Lieut. Colonel, USAF COLORADO SPRINGS...
...position - no "amnesty," crack down on employers who break the law - has had little trouble earning credibility among the state's more hard-line immigration activists. Last week, the anti-immigration movement's standard-bearer, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, dropped out of the race and threw his support to Romney. But on the ground in Iowa, most of Tancredo's support appears to have shifted to Thompson, including former U.S. Senate candidate Bill Salier, who was Tancredo's state campaign director, and Angie Weaver Anderson, who ran the western end of the state for Tancredo. "I don't know anybody...
...wishful thinking. Though Republicans followed suit in moving their caucus up as well, the corresponding decisions by Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to schedule their primaries or caucuses even earlier in the 2008 calendar - not to mention the choice by such crucial states as California, Arizona and Colorado to join the flood of states holding their primary on February 5 - stole most of the thunder from Nevada...
...Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo announced last week that he was withdrawing from the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Right after that surprising announcement in Des Moines, he sat down with TIME to reflect on the impact he's had on the race and how he hopes to continue exert influence with his endorsement of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Excerpts...
Describe to me when you first got interested in this issue? Oh, man that goes back before I was in Congress, that goes back a long, long way. Maybe the first time was when I was in teaching in junior high in Jefferson County, Colorado. And Colorado passed a bilingual education bill and all of a sudden I started seeing kids getting taken out of classes and put into Spanish speaking classes even when they couldn't speak a word of Spanish themselves but their last name was Hispanic. So, they had a terrible time and I kept thinking "Where...