{"id":25907,"date":"2010-07-25T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T08:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/major-development-tancredo-threatens-to-jump-in-colorado-gov-s-race-as-third-party\/"},"modified":"2010-07-25T08:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T08:08:34","slug":"major-development-tancredo-threatens-to-jump-in-colorado-gov-s-race-as-third-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/major-development-tancredo-threatens-to-jump-in-colorado-gov-s-race-as-third-party.php","title":{"rendered":"MAJOR DEVELOPMENT! Tancredo threatens to jump in Colorado Gov.’s race as Third Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>American-Constitution Party<\/strong><\/p>

Colorado Republicans were on their way to an easy win for Governor, after 4 years of Democrat Bill Ritter. Then frontrunner Scott McInnis became immersed in a plagiarism scandal. Second-place runner Dan Maes, the more conservative Tea Party favorite, never caught on. His campaign has been regarded as lackluster. <\/p>

Now a major development is threatening to rock the Colorado race. <\/p>

Showdown! To GOP contenders: Leave by Noon Monday<\/strong><\/p>

The Denver Post<\/a> reports this morning:<\/p>

Former Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo demanded today that the two GOP gubernatorial candidates drop out of the race. <\/p>

If they don’t, he said he will run for governor as an American Constitution Candidate, a move likely to split the Republican Party in November’s general election. <\/p>

“There’s nothing left to split. The reality is that with the two candidates we have, we will lose the general election,” Tancredo said in an interview. <\/p>

Tancredo called upon Scott McInnis and Dan Maes to commit to leaving the race Aug. 11, just hours following the results of the primary. That way a Republican vacancy committee could appoint a replacement. Tancredo said he doesn’t care if the substitute is not himself. <\/p>

He gave both candidates until noon on Monday to release public statements agreeing to his terms. <\/p><\/blockquote>

Obama worse than Soviets remark a precursor to race?<\/strong><\/p>

For many years, Tancredo served as President of the libertarian Independence Institute out of Golden, Colorado. <\/p>

More recently, he received national attention and excited rightwing libertarians with his statement at a Tea Party rally, that Obama was as big a threat to the United States as Communism and Islamo-Fascism. From LR<\/a> July 9:<\/p>

\"We had that threat [from the former Soviet Union] and we survived it. Later we found out we had another threat to our way of life and that was al-Qaeda. We found that out on 9\/11.<\/p>

But I firmly believe this... the greatest threat to the country that was put together by the founding fathers is the guy that is in the White House today.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>

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