Tom Tancredo goes rogue

With current Colorado politics having more twists than the “Bernie Guenther” detective thrillers by Phillip Kerr, Tom Tancredo is the player in the latest chapter. Last week, the former Republican House member from Colorado (2000-08) and nationally known foe of illegal immigration said he would run for governor as the candidate of the small American Constitution Party.

The former congressman (lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 98%) and ’08 Republican presidential hopeful was referring to former four-term Rep. Scott McInnis, who has been rocked by plagiarism charges, and little-known, politically inexperienced businessman Dan Maes. After admitting that he had plagiarized essays on water rights and promising to return to the Hasan Family Foundation the $300,000 it had paid him to write the essays, McInnis has rebuffed calls from newspapers and party leaders to get out of the race. Maes might have emerged as a formidable alternative, but he has been widely criticized in the press for business practices, and has been hit with attacks by his former employer.   – More –