A conservative activist is trying to draft Tancredo into the 2018 GOP contest

By John Frank, The Denver Post, August 23, 2017

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo is considering a run for Colorado governor in 2018 in a move that he hopes is a shot across the bow at the Republican Party.

The conservative firebrand told The Denver Post on Wednesday that he is thinking about another run after two losing bids in 2010 and 2014. “I certainly have concerns about the party and the people running,” he said in an interview.

Tancredo, a hard-line anti-immigration advocate and an ally of President Donald Trump, is “infuriated” at the party’s silence after a Colorado Springs resort canceled a conference reservation for the white nationalist organization VDARE Foundation, where he was scheduled to speak.

A writer for VDARE.com helped organize the demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., that turned violent and led to the death of a counterprotester. But Tancredo considered the Cheyenne Mountain Resort’s move to cancel the April 2018 event an affront to free speech.

“Not one Republican in this state, no one elected or running for office, has the guts to say, ‘What the hell is going on?’” he said. “What ever happened with the First Amendment? Have we totally annihilated it in our rush to appease the left?

“Honestly,” he added, “if you are going to run for public office I think it’s incumbent … to speak up.” [More]