This is the second profile in Colorado's Congressional elections, featuring Colorado's 6th district.
6th Congressional District
Profile of the 6th District
Census Data on 6th Congressional District
Bill Winter
Status: Winter has pretty much announced that he will take on the Tank. He is an official of Be the Change America. He has filed as a candidate in the 6th CD as a Democrat.
Biography: None posted yet, but he guest posted at this blog. Here is an exerpt:
My name is Bill Winter and I am a Colorado native and a 1982 graduate of Littleton High School, among many other things. For the last year I have been President of an organization called Be The Change USA. The name of the organization comes from Gandhi's famous quotation that you must be the change you wish to see in the world. Be The Change USA had a very successful year in educating, motivating and expanding a grassroots movement among progressives in Colorado. This will be important in achieving success in what will be the most historic election cycle in Colorado history. I will not, however, enter that cycle as President of BTC-USA.
I have been asked to take on, and I have accepted, the challenge of running for Congress against Tom Tancredo in Congressional District 6. I did not make this decision lightly and I am not in this to be a paper candidate or win moral victories. I have a total of ten years of service with the Marine Corps and the Navy, and in good Marine Corps tradition, I am in it to win it and I believe we can.
When I was 17, and again when I was 24, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I believe that I am still bound by that oath, and I believe that our Constitution is under attack now more than any other time in my life. I am running for Congress to defend the Constitution, to serve my Country, to serve my native state, and to serve the District where I grew up. And I am running for Congress to give our government back to the people, which is what our Founding Fathers intended in the first place!
Incumbent Tom Tancredo:
A perennial favorite of the looney right wing "patriots" and anti-immigrant crowd, Tancredo has been linked to crazy racists like Bay Buchanan. Earlier this year, Tancredo endeared himself to to Arab Americans by suggesting that the US conduct a nuclear attack on Mecca, Islam's holiest site. Don't believe me? The audio is right here. James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute called him "stupid, brazen and uncivilized." This lunatic was elected biggest C-SPAN ham by congressional staffers of both parties.
The Washington Spectator says he "may be the craziest member of the House of Representatives:
Tom Tancredo (R-CO) may be the craziest member of the House of Representatives--quite a distinction considering the current cast of characters. He's advocated for a moratorium on all immigration, the abolition of race-based Congressional caucuses and the bombing of Mecca in the event of another terrorist attack. Tancredo was one of eleven Republicans to vote against relief funding for the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina hit.
Now he's raising hell over a memorial dedicated to the victims of United Airlines Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. Titled "Crescent of Embrace," the memorial is intended as a symbolic circle broken by the path of the flight. Tancredo, however, views it as a crude appeasement of terrorists, "because of the crescent's prominent symbol in Islam and the fact that the hijackers are radical Islamists," he wrote in a letter to the National Park Service. Tancredo worries that the crescent sends the wrong message to Muslim extremists. Unlike, say, an air strike on Mecca.
Tancredo is an embarassment to the state of Colorado, and is even contemplating running for president on an anti-immigrant platform. This is despite rumors that Tancredo used illegal immigrants as labor to remodel his house.
The Denver Post issued a strong endorsement in 2004, not so much for his opponent, but against Tancredo and his off-the-rails lunacy.
Key Votes:
Bankruptcy Bill-Yes
War on Iraq-Yes
Terry Schaivo-Yes
US Casualties in Iraq from/near the 6th District which are directly related to Tom Tancredo's vote, to say nothing of the dozens of soldiers, sailors and marines who died because he advocated nuking Mecca.
City Name Rank Killed
Aurora Sanford Sr., Barry Staff Sergeant 7-Jul-03
Reyes, Luis R. Sergeant 18-Nov-05
Littleton Holder II, Theodore S. "Sam" Staff Sergeant 11-Nov-04
Rund, Gregory P. Lance Corporal 11-Dec-04
Monument Yashinski, Michael E. Sergeant 24-Dec-03
Morrison Pankey Jr., Larry Wayne Sergeant 3-Oct-05
Parker Atkins, Shawn M. Private 1st Class 14-Jun-04
US House - District 6
Winner Candidate Incumb. Votes %
X Thomas Tancredo (R) X 156,663 67%
Lance Wright (D) 70,204 30%
Adam Katz (LIB) 7,238 3%
HOME - RESULTS
COUNTY STATUS CANDIDATE COUNTY VOTE VOTE % PRECINCTS
Arapahoe Tancredo "80,290" 56% 100% of precincts reporting
Updated: 5:44 p.m. ET (Incumbent)
Conti "61,223" 43%
Woehr "1,686" 1%
Shevchuk 552 0%
Douglas Tancredo "75,535" 65% 100% of precincts reporting
Updated: 5:44 p.m. ET (Incumbent)
Conti "39,619" 34%
Woehr "1,076" 1%
Shevchuk 344 0%
Elbert Tancredo "7,932" 72% 100% of precincts reporting
Updated: 5:44 p.m. ET (Incumbent)
Conti "2,956" 27%
Woehr 98 1%
Shevchuk 57 0%
Jefferson Tancredo "46,628" 57% 100% of precincts reporting
Updated: 5:44 p.m. ET (Incumbent)
Conti "34,467" 42%
Woehr 925 1%
Shevchuk 256 0%
Park Tancredo "2,393" 58% 100% of precincts reporting
Updated: 5:44 p.m. ET (Incumbent)
Conti "1,605" 39%
Woehr 72 2%
Shevchuk 27 1%
Google News for Colorado's 6th Congressional District
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Campaign Funding for Tom Tancredo. Cash on hand: $271,810