Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo's hate group links are being featured over on Crooks and Liars:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/...
For Coloradans this is old news. Back in 1998 Tancredo's opponent in the CD-6 race played a tape of a speech Tancredo gave to the Guardians of American Liberty, an organization listed by the southern Poverty Law Center as a militia group.
What did Tancredo tell the Guardians? Dig this: "I also must tell you that I believe with all my heart that there is a conflict in our culture today that is so very deep, and so very significant that it'll be played out really in one of two ways," Tancredo says on the tape, according to a transcript provided by Strauss. "It will be played out either at the ballot box or in the streets. That is how basic the division is." NB: Tancredo was talking to a militia group for pete's sake.
Tired of Tancredo's schtick? Send Bill Winter some money:
http://www.winterforcongress.com/
Newspaper cuttings below the fold.
TANCREDO BACKED EXTREME VIEWS IN TALK TO MILITIA, OPPONENT SAYS
Rocky Mountain News
Friday, September 18, 1998
Dan Luzadder, Rocky Mountain News Capitol Bureau
Republican congressional candidate Tom Tancredo advocated extremist views during a speech to a militia group four years ago, his Democratic opponent said Thursday.
Tancredo conceded speaking to the group, Guardians of American Liberty, but denied his remarks were extremist or showed a disgust for government.
Henry Strauss played a tape recording for reporters of the talk Tancredo made in Glendale in 1994. Guardians of American Liberty has been identified as a right-wing militia organization with links to anti-Semitic organizations by the Southern Poverty Law Center's militia task force, according to Strauss'staff. The FBI has labeled the group as "dangerous," they added.
Tancredo said he attended the 1994 meeting at the request of Marty Nalitz, a Christian-right radio talk-show host. He said he knew nothing about the group's philosophy....
Strauss said the tape recording reveals Tancredo expressing "disgust" of government as he advocates dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and other federal agencies.
Tancredo said Strauss mischaracterized what he said. "What I said was I had a 'distrust' of government" Tancredo said. "And I do. That really isn't a secret. And Strauss is right, I do want to do away with the education department."
Tancredo didn't apologize for speaking to the group. "I've talked to groups kookier than they (the Guardians) are," he said....
Strauss called Tancredo's points of view were radical, pointing to a remark by Tancredo that he said hinted at cultural warfare.
"I also must tell you that I believe with all my heart that there is a conflict in our culture today that is sovery deep, and so very significant that it'll be played out really in one of two ways," Tancredo says on the tape, according to a transcript provided by Strauss. "It will be played out either at the ballot box or in the streets. That is how basic the division is."
Oh, and what happened to former Colorado Christian Coalition honcho and longime Tancredo pal Marty Nalitz who invited Tancredo to speak to the Guardians of American Liberty?
EX-RADIO HOST HELD IN THEFT
Rocky Mountain News
May 1, 2004
Former Christian radio host Marty Nalitz was being held Friday on $1 million bail after he was arrested in Littleton on a felony theft warrant.
Golden police had been searching for Nalitz, 46, after they issued a warrant for his arrest on Wednesday on suspicion of theft. Detectives said they think Nalitz defrauded more than $1 million from a Golden company between October 2002 and December as part of a mortgage lending scheme....
Golden detectives also searched two offices that Nalitz uses in Arvada and confiscated evidence, police said. On Thursday deputies arrested Nalitz at the Holiday Inn Express in Littleton after someone called to report a suspicious man. When deputies questioned Nalitz, they found out about the arrest warrant out of Golden.
Nalitz was prominent in the 1990s, when he was a KNUS talk show host and the associate director of the Christian Coalition of Colorado.