From the "Tancredo for President" blog, a backhanded compliment.

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Blogged by JC on 09.15.05 @ 12:25 PM ET

Sometimes Compliments Come From the Strangest Places :rofl:

From the "Tancredo for President" blog, a backhanded compliment.

http://tancredo4prez.blogspot.com/2005/09/tancredo-votes-against-hate-crime-bill.html

Thursday, September 15, 2005
Tancredo Votes Against "Hate-Crime" Bill

Leftists have been looking for ways to pass their unpopular "hate crime" legislation for quite some time. The scheming leftist Rep. John Conyers of Michigan recently found a way to do this by tacking on his legislation to the Children's Safety Act. The Children's Safety Act was a good bill designed to force sex-offenders to register with authorities or face prison time. However, with a stroke of evil-genius Conyers was able to get his unrelated "hate-crimes" bill tacked on thus making it very hard for Congressmen to vote against the measure, which is still titled the Children's Safety Act. Tancredo, of course, is not like most Congressmen and voted AGAINST the new "Hate-Crimes" bill. From the Rocky Mountain News:

Reps. Joel Hefley, R-Colorado Springs, and Tom Tancredo, R-Littleton, were on the losing side of a 371-52 House of Representatives vote approving the Children's Safety Act. It would create a national child sex-offender registry and impose lengthy prison sentences for those who fail to register.

Hefley and Tancredo said they objected to an amendment by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., that would allow some crimes involving sexual orientation, gender or disability to be prosecuted as hate crimes.

"From my point of view, it was a poison pill in the bill," Tancredo said.

posted by tancredo4prez @ 10:35 AM

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1. gee wonder what

the Hate Crimes bill was all about.. yeah that evil Conyers.... tackin on another piece of legislation to get it through never heard of that before ....


wait wait, would this Hate Crime Bill punish people for making racist statements and threats towards religious locations which could incite the worst of the Holy Wars.... is that the one??????