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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 12:41 AM
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Bush, Rove Addressed La Raza, Deemed "Latino KKK" by Tancredo (Kos)
by Avenging Angel
Thu May 28, 2009 at 03:57:18 PM PDT

... In an apparent effort to top Newt Gingrich's slanders Wednesday, Tancredo on CNN launched a blistering assault on Sotomayor's membership in a group whose slogan reads "strengthening America by promoting the advancement of Latino families" ... On July 6, 2000, then candidate Bush appeared before 1000 people at the group's annual meeting ... And in 2004, La Raza applauded Bush's choice of Alberto Gonzales as his new Attorney General. Recognizing the growing importance of the nation's 43 million Hispanic voters to the Republican Party, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was among the featured speakers at La Raza's 2006 annual meeting. And two years after Bush's Brain appeared before the group, John McCain pitched La Raza during the 2008 campaign ... http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/28/736430/-Bush,-Rove-Addressed-La-Raza,-Deemed-Latino-KKK-by-Tancredo
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 12:44 AM
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1. Yeah, the Latino KKK, like we really tar and feather white people and
burn crosses on their front yards. :grr:
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 01:13 AM
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3. Tancredo sings Dixie with bigots (2006)
jim spencer | columnist
Tancredo sings Dixie with bigots
Posted: 09/18/2006 01:00:00 AM MDT

... Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo wasn't whistling. He was singing Dixie. He was also standing in a Columbia, S.C., museum room with Confederate flags and a picture of Robert E. Lee.

The guy who booked the room once protested the placement of a statue honoring black tennis star Arthur Ashe.

Tancredo spoke to a crowd that included the League of the South, a secessionist organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a bigoted hate group ...

First, Tancredo's spokesman said the flags were part of a museum display. After a museum spokesman said the room was empty before the speech, Tancredo's people conceded that the flags had been moved in from an adjacent room by people attending the event ...

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4354511



Congressman addresses hate group
by Alexander Zaitchik
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=79
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 12:55 AM
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2. Signs of LAST THROES......much crap with no creds...who listens? 15%?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:31 AM
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4. Remember, the mentality of the Repukes made the pacifist Quakers
into a terrorist organization ... while leaving the KKK off the list ...
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