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News and Information
-Monday, July 26 2010-
-Colorado Election Special Edition-
EXTRA!! EXTRA!
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*Tom Tancredo Announces Constitution Party Candidacy For Governor of
Colorado!*
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*"I will officially announce at noon that I will seek the nomination of the
Constitution Party,"*
Tancredo told the Post.

Ex-congressman Tom Tancredo has entered the race for Colorado
governoras
a third-party candidate, setting off a nasty battle among Republicans
in
this political bellwether
state,
*The Denver Post* reports.

Former congressman Tom Tancredo joined the Colorado governor's race Monday
as a third-party candidate. He served for five terms in the U.S. House of
Representatives as a Republican.
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By Charlie Neibergall, AP

Tancredo will make the formal announcement of his candidacy later today as a
member of the American Constitution Party, the paper reports. Tancredo
served five terms in Congress as a Republican and briefly ran for the GOP
presidential nomination in 2008 on a platform that focused on stopping
illegal immigration.

Tancredo, in a radio appearance today, said he was trying to do "my level
best to do what's necessary for the conservatives in this state" by entering
the race.

As our colleague Kathy Kiely noted last week, the Republican establishment
disagrees with Tancredo's move. Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick
Wadhams has warned that Tancredo's bid will throw the
governorshipto
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the Democrat who is running unopposed
for
his party's nomination.

Trancredo had warned the two Republican contenders, Scott McInnis and Dan
Maes, that he would enter the contest if they refused to end their campaigns
after the primary if polls showed the winner falling behind Hickenlooper.

According to *The Denver Post*, Wadhams and Tancredo had an "all-out brawl"
on a Colorado radio station this morning and called one another liars. On
Sunday, the leaders of nearly two dozen Tea Party groups also asked Tancredo
to refrain from entering the race.

In a letter, they urged Tancredo to "stay in the Republican Party, let the
process play out for the governor's race ... In other words, to trust and
respect the newly awakened, energized and informed voters of Colorado."

[*This is just one of a number of national news media stories breaking at
this moment on the Tancredo Constitution Party Gubernatorial Candidacy in
Colorado*]

*Note:* The *American Constitution Party* is the official name of the
Colorado state affiliate of the Constitution Party.

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