10/30/2007
Tom Tancredo Won’t Seek Re-Election To House
(AP) Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said Monday he will not seek re-election to his Colorado seat in the House in 2008.
Long-Shot GOP Presidential Contender Will Retire From Congress After Term Is Up
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., voted in 2006 for 700 miles of fencing along the US-Mexican border. He has questioned other candidates’ commitment to border security.
He will continue his long-shot bid for the White House.
The five-term lawmaker said illegal immigration, his core issue, now has national prominence and he doesn’t need to remain in Congress to promote it.
“The issue now has a life of its own and it doesn’t need one particular person to champion it,” he said.
“I feel my job, my task, has been completed. And I am very much at peace with the idea that if I’m not elected president then I won’t be running” for another term in Congress, he said.
WonkoBlog linked with Tancredo hints at departure
October 31st, 2007 at 2:06 am
[…] Republican candidate and immigration reform champion Tom Tancredo is hinting that he might drop out of the Presidential race. He announced yesterday that he would not be running for congress for 2008: “The issue (immigration reform) now has a life of its own and it doesn’t need one particular person to champion it… I feel my job, my task, has been completed. And I am very much at peace with the idea that if I’m not elected president then I won’t be running (for another term in Congress).” […]