{"id":134875,"date":"2017-10-01T23:03:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T05:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134875"},"modified":"2017-10-01T23:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T05:49:52","slug":"yes-just-colorado-needs-political-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/01\/yes-just-colorado-needs-political-future.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, this is just what Colorado needs in its political future"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Steve Bannon-backed Tom Tancredo GOP candidacy for governor.<\/p>\n

Part of me wants to see it happen because I think that not in a million years could Tancredo (my [sigh] former US Representative, two-time failed gubernatorial candidate, and a guy who’s managed to alienate both the state’s Dems and<\/i> the state’s GOP) possibly win.<\/p>\n

On he other hand, I thought the same thing about Donald Trump.<\/p>\n


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\nSteve Bannon met with Tom Tancredo about a possible run for Colorado governor, Tancredo says<\/a><\/span>
\nTom Tancredo said Thursday that he sat down with former White House strategist Stephen Bannon and hinted that the two hard-right agitators discussed the possibility of Tancredo running for Colorado\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Steve Bannon-backed Tom Tancredo GOP candidacy for governor. Part of me wants to see it happen because I think that not in a million years could Tancredo (my [sigh] former US Representative, two-time failed gubernatorial candidate, and a guy who’s managed to alienate both the state’s Dems and the state’s GOP) possibly win. On … Continue reading “Yes, this is just what Colorado needs in its political future”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1140,380,740],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-134875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2018","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-race-racism","tag-gop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tancredo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12179,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/29\/ta_ta_tom.html","url_meta":{"origin":134875,"position":0},"title":"Ta-ta, Tom","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Oct-07 6:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Colorado, at least, won't have Tom Tancredo to kick around any more. 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