Tancredo and supporting veterans. For those not aware, when you get wounded and you are unable to return to duty, the Department of Defense releases you to the Veterans Administration. In essence, supporting the troops means supporting the VA and issues important to the Disabled American Veterans. He started out pretty good, then realized that no one really cares for veterans, when it started getting expensive because of Iraq casualties (49,000) well the following spells it out. Did you know that 30% of homeless men are veterans?
2004 Representative Tancredo supported the interests of the Disabled American Veterans 0 percent in 2004.
2004 On the votes that the The Retired Enlisted Association considered to be the most important in 2004, Representative Tancredo voted their preferred position 33 percent of the time.
2003-2004 Representative Tancredo supported the interests of the Vietnam Veterans of America 38 percent in 2003-2004.
2003 On the votes that the Disabled American Veterans - House considered to be the most important in 2003, Representative Tancredo voted their preferred position 50 percent of the time.
2003 Representative Tancredo supported the interests of the American Veterans 100 percent in 2003.
2001 On the votes that the Disabled American Veterans considered to be the most important in 2001, Representative Tancredo voted their preferred position 100 percent of the time.
Source Vote-Smart.org
Thursday, May 12, 2005
By Way of Introduction...
There's really no clever way to introduce myself, other than straight up. I'm Raf Noboa, and I'll be one of your blogging hosts for the next 11 months--and, depending upon which way the tides of next November blow, for a while after that.
I've been blogging on my own blog off and on for the last five years. I've also been contributing to a couple of other blogs, but now that I've decided to enter the world of partisan candidate blogging, I'll be curtailing my activities there to devote my attentions here.
The blogging world is, admittedly, a truly fascinating one, and as others have mentioned, it's definitely got the capability to transform electoral politics in some fairly interesting ways. Within my lifetime as a political activist, online activity has gone from being very hierarchical (as witnessed in the 1996 campaign) to being very decentralized (the netroots managed to draft GEN Wesley Clark as a Presidential contender, and single-handedly turned Gov. Howard Dean from an asterisk into a star).
One of the mistakes, however, that many candidates make is to simply assume that the netroots are a glorified cash machine. That's a mistake that comes from the frankly mind-boggling amounts of money that Dean supporters raised for their candidate's campaign through the Internet. That attitude mistakes a leaf for the whole tree. While we will be asking you for money from time to time--sadly, you can't grow the grassroots and the netroots without it--what we will be asking you for more often is for your time and attention so that, together, we can take down and toss out one of the most radical and extremist Republican leaders in Congress.
Speaking of which--together. It's a beautiful word, and wouldn't it be an even more beautiful world, if we could all live together, helping each other, appealing to the better angels of our nature, as history's greatest Republican once said?
Tragically, that's not a word that Tom Tancredo believes in. And while it would be one thing if Tancredo came by his beliefs out of pure principle, it seems they are born out of a shameless political expediency. While Tancredo has been railing against multiculturalism and immigration from the well of the House of Representatives, the simple fact is that, according to this article from the Denver Post, Tancredo's never--not once--passed a single piece of legislation about immigration or multiculturalism.
Tom Tancredo's world isn't the same world that Honest Abe embraced. Tom Tancredo doesn't want you to hear the better angels of your nature; he wants you to echo his discordant chords of strife and chaos, because that's the only way he gets any attention. Tom Tancredo doesn't care one bit about you or about me; he only cares about what's broken in America and who America can blame for it, because he sure doesn't care about fixing it--and his sad, sorry record of blame and demagoguery, reminiscent of a tinpot political hack, shows it.
Well, we don't just care about what's broken; we want to know how to fix it. And you don't do it by just blaming every Jose, Paco, and Pablo on the block, and crossing your arms; we've had enough of blame. We need compassion, for our fellow brothers and sisters. And it's with compassion, not without, that we'll fix what's broken with America, and together, hand within hand, arrive at last to the mountaintop, and cross, together, into the promised land.
Will you join us? Give us what you can; and together, next November, we'll start our long journey to the promised land.
I've been blogging on my own blog off and on for the last five years. I've also been contributing to a couple of other blogs, but now that I've decided to enter the world of partisan candidate blogging, I'll be curtailing my activities there to devote my attentions here.
The blogging world is, admittedly, a truly fascinating one, and as others have mentioned, it's definitely got the capability to transform electoral politics in some fairly interesting ways. Within my lifetime as a political activist, online activity has gone from being very hierarchical (as witnessed in the 1996 campaign) to being very decentralized (the netroots managed to draft GEN Wesley Clark as a Presidential contender, and single-handedly turned Gov. Howard Dean from an asterisk into a star).
One of the mistakes, however, that many candidates make is to simply assume that the netroots are a glorified cash machine. That's a mistake that comes from the frankly mind-boggling amounts of money that Dean supporters raised for their candidate's campaign through the Internet. That attitude mistakes a leaf for the whole tree. While we will be asking you for money from time to time--sadly, you can't grow the grassroots and the netroots without it--what we will be asking you for more often is for your time and attention so that, together, we can take down and toss out one of the most radical and extremist Republican leaders in Congress.
Speaking of which--together. It's a beautiful word, and wouldn't it be an even more beautiful world, if we could all live together, helping each other, appealing to the better angels of our nature, as history's greatest Republican once said?
Tragically, that's not a word that Tom Tancredo believes in. And while it would be one thing if Tancredo came by his beliefs out of pure principle, it seems they are born out of a shameless political expediency. While Tancredo has been railing against multiculturalism and immigration from the well of the House of Representatives, the simple fact is that, according to this article from the Denver Post, Tancredo's never--not once--passed a single piece of legislation about immigration or multiculturalism.
Tom Tancredo's world isn't the same world that Honest Abe embraced. Tom Tancredo doesn't want you to hear the better angels of your nature; he wants you to echo his discordant chords of strife and chaos, because that's the only way he gets any attention. Tom Tancredo doesn't care one bit about you or about me; he only cares about what's broken in America and who America can blame for it, because he sure doesn't care about fixing it--and his sad, sorry record of blame and demagoguery, reminiscent of a tinpot political hack, shows it.
Well, we don't just care about what's broken; we want to know how to fix it. And you don't do it by just blaming every Jose, Paco, and Pablo on the block, and crossing your arms; we've had enough of blame. We need compassion, for our fellow brothers and sisters. And it's with compassion, not without, that we'll fix what's broken with America, and together, hand within hand, arrive at last to the mountaintop, and cross, together, into the promised land.
Will you join us? Give us what you can; and together, next November, we'll start our long journey to the promised land.
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