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Bill Winter vs. Tom Tancredo: Winter Can Win

Congressman Tom Tancredo's challenger Bill Winter has a diary over at Daily Kos today. He says he can win. He needs your support. Please, help him out. Here's a portion of his message today, aimed at Latino voters:

When white settlers came to what is now Colorado and Arizona and New Mexico and California, they found people already living there. Many of those people were dark skinned and Spanish speaking. Today even the names of many of these places are still in Spanish--Colorado, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles.

But now, in 2006 in America, people like Tom Tancredo say that Spanish is a danger to America, and those people, the ones who were here first, are somehow a threat to our culture and to our way of life. I believe in an America that is much stronger than this. I wish Tancredo believed in America the way I do!

People whose families have lived in America for generations, people who are citizens, people who have fought for this Country, people with proud names like Gonzalez, and Sanchez, and Becerra, and Salazar, and Ortiz, and Herrera--now these people are looked at with suspicion and they have to prove their loyalty and citizenship.

Well I'm here today to tell you that is WRONG and I'm not going to stand for it. I didn't give ten years of my life to the Navy and Marine Corps just to stand by and do nothing as hate and discrimination are written into the law!

Even if you don't live in Colorado, you can help vote the xenophobes out of office by contributing to Bill's campaign.

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    Re: Bill Winter vs. Tom Tancredo: Winter Can Win (none / 0) (#1)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 05:08:50 AM EST
    et al - From the post:
    those people, the ones who were here first
    Uh, someone should tell Winter that there were people there before the ones he spoke of... The world has record after record of groups displacing groups. Cultures being destroyed and replaced. If Winter doesn't understand that is necessary to have national boundaries then he shouldn't be sent to Congress.