Tom Tancredo (R - CO) and Bay Buchanan (sister of Pat Buchanan, director of the American Cause, and the manager of Pat's Presidential campaigns) came to Tucson on Friday in support of Randy Graf's unending campaign for Congress in CD8. The Bay and Tom show isn't just a one-off for Graf's benefit though, it is a national tour called the "Secure America Now" tour. Sound familiar? It should. It taps into the same issues and supporters that Arizona's "Protect Arizona Now" initiative did. At the breakfast one could find many of the same people who worked on PAN, not the least of which was Randy Graf himself.
Secure America Now is the road show for Team America, a Political Action Committee dedicated to border issues founded by Tom and Bay. Only by understanding the significance of the SAN tour and the history of the
Buchanans in American politics does the full significance of the tour's stop in Tucson really have a useful context. Randy Graf is only a small part of the story.
The SAN tour is not just mutual support by ideologically allied politicians. This is something much larger, and more crass. This is anti-immigrant sentiment becoming the new centerpiece of the extreme right agenda. This is Tom Tancredo's shake-down run for his Presidential campaign - one in which he may be positioning to take Buchanan's traditional place to right of everyone else, and Pat's campaign manager, Bay, as well.
The campaigns run by Bay are not traditional campaigns. Strategically they have a lot in common with Ralph Nader's campaigns - they seek to pressure the moderates to deal with ideas the fringes find compelling. Logistically they are pigeons to the Party nominee's Air Force One - lean and mean, they can keep
going with minimal financial support. Monetarily they are as different from a major party campaign as could be. Where losing candidates often retire from the field with millions in debts to retire, Buchanan's campaigns end heavily in the black with millions in tax-payer dollars in the bank and valuable assets, such as supporter databases, which can be used to support a permanent state of campaigning. With Bay at the helm of Tancredo's tour two things are sure: it will be a very efficiently run campaign, and it will be a very profitable one, even more so now that grassroots organizing and fund raising via the Internet has come of age.
Article comments
1 - Bing
Typical [Deleted] post by a typical left wing [Deleted].
2 - Michael D. Bryan
Wow. What an insightful comment. You've really added to the discussion, Bing. You should really be proud of your intelligent and persuasive commentary.
3 - Bing
Yeah the post was so intelligient itself, calling people who don't believe in allowing the country to be overrun by illegals racists.
Give me a friggin break.
4 - Andy Marsh
Michael - you said, If they were only concerned about the 'criminal element' among illegal aliens (which I would submit is no greater than among any randomly selected group of 12 million people) then they would look to consequence only criminals;
How can you say that ILLEGAL aliens aren't criminals? Does ILLEGAL mean something different in your dictionary?
Why should one extremely large group of people get amnesty for anything? I mean come on...let's just pardon ALL the criminals! Illegal is illegal is illegal...no matter where they came from they didn't do it the way my grandfather did it and because of that, I hate to say it, but they can all go fuck themselves on their way back home!
There's a pretty well known system in place to become a member of our society. If you don't use it you lose. They know they're breaking the law, that's why they cross the borders where they do.
Do it right or get out!
5 - ZAPATA
ANDY ARE YOU FUCKIN STUPID OR FUCKIN WHAT LEVA?, THAT SHIT YOU TYPED ON THIS FUCKIN PAGE IS ALL FUCKED UP! "THEY ARE ILLEGALS, THEY ARE CIMINALS", SHUT THE FUCK UP [Edited]! ID BET YOU [Edited] WOULD LIKE TO GO TO MEXICO JUST ON MUTHAFUCKIN VACATION, WE WOULDNT ASK YOU FOR ANY PINCHE PROOF OF MEXICAN RESIDENCY OR CITIZENSHIP
YOU MUTHAFUCKERS THINK YOU CAN DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT IN THE WORLD, BY STARTING WARS AND DOING WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT IN OTHER COUNTRIES THEN YOU PISS PEOPLE OFF AND ASK YOURSELVES WHY THEY HATE YOU PENDEJOS, WE LEAVE YOU THE FUCK ALONE, BUT WHN YOU PISS US OFF
YOUD BETTER HOPE WE DONT FIND YOU LEVA, AND ONE MORE THING IF YOU HATED TO SAY THAT WE CAN "FUCK" OURSELVES ON OUR WAY BACK TO MEXICO YOUR FUCKIN RETARDED BITCH, WE GO BACK WHEN WE HAVE THE MONEY WE WORKED FOR AND DODGED ALL OF YOUR RACIST BITCH LAWS AND THE POLITICIANS THAT RULE THIS COUNRTY, AND TO FINISH IT OFF THERE IS A LOT OF JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY LEFT, IF YOU ALL SAY WE TAKE YOUR BITCH JOBS THEN CLEAN MY FUCKIN BATHROOM BITCH, OR BIULD MY HOUSE IN MEXICO FOR 5 DOLLARS A DAY, THERE IS ALOT OF JOBS HERE, AND I YOU DONT HAVE ONE ITS BECAUSE YOURE A PENDEJO AND EXPEPECTS THAT EVERYTHING WILL COME KNOCKING ON YOU FRONT DOOR, WE LEFT OUR MEXICO TO COME HERE TO ANOTHER COUNRTRY AND GET A JOB, YOU BITCHES CANT EVEN WALK 2 BLOCKS FROM YOU HOUSE TO GET A JOB APPLICATION IN A CHEVRON GAS STATION FOR $6.50 AN HOUR AND WE GET CONSTRUCTION JOBS AND GET PAYED A MISERABLE WAGE OF $4 OR $5 DOLLARS AN HOUR BUT A FEW YEARS LATER WE HAVE OUR OWN FUCKIN COMPANIES BIULDING YOUR HOUSES, AND FAST TOO BECAUSE WE HIRE OUR OWN PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WORK HARD NOT LIKE YOU LAZY ASS LEVAS, AND AFTER YOU GET THAT JOB AT THE GAS STATION AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS YOUR MAKING ONLY $5 MORE THAN WHAT YOU STARTED AT SORRY LITTLE PUTO, THATS WHY WE COME HERE AND START OUR OWN SHIT RATHER THAT WORK FOR YOU BITCHES THAT DONT PAY FOR SHIT, CALLIN US "ILLLEGALS" AND THE SHIT YOU DO WITH US IS ILLEGAL BY PAYING LA RAZA IN MINIMUM WAGE,
CHECK YOUR MUTHAFUCKIN PINCHE SELF BEFORE YOU RUN YOU FUCKIN MOUTH ABOUT THE LAW PENDEJO,
THATS HOW IT IS BITCH!
ZAPATA FROM THE AZTLAN GUERRILLAZ