Tancredo, Wadhams and the making of the 'deal to get out'

The Statesman is reporting on a conversation that they had with Tom Tancredo yesterday, pertaining to the ‘deal to get out’ that was offered to Dan Maes earlier this week.

Here is an excerpt from the article:

Just as we were about to go to press on Thursday, the “Tanc” himself poked his head into The Statesman office and was in a chatty, if somewhat rushed, mode. But if he thought he would escape without filling us in on the latest goings-on, he should have known better.

We fired away. He answered.

“I know Dick, God love him, I don’t fault him. When he calls me the day before yesterday he tells me he’s talked to Maes and he’s not going to get out.

“Before that we had these —maybe five — long discussions about the whole thing which started last weekend. I had heard that Dick had had a sort of ‘Come to Jesus’ meeting with Maes on Thursday and said to him, you can’t win this thing, you got no money, the RGA is walking away. And so I thought well, you know, let’s capitalize on that. And if the party is telling him that, then if I say by the way, if the party tells you this, I’ll get out if you get out...

“I made this offer to Dick and he liked it — a lot.

Tancredo continued, saying that Wadhams told him he could probably get former U.S. Senators Hank Brown and Wayne Allard aboard to support the plan.

“...I called Dick and said are you sure you talked to them, and he said he did. He says he called them and they said they would support Maes getting out."

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