jim spencer | columnist
Tancredo sings Dixie with bigots
Posted: 09/18/2006 01:00:00 AM MDT
... Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo wasn't whistling. He was singing Dixie. He was also standing in a Columbia, S.C., museum room with Confederate flags and a picture of Robert E. Lee.
The guy who booked the room once protested the placement of a statue honoring black tennis star Arthur Ashe.
Tancredo spoke to a crowd that included the League of the South, a secessionist organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a bigoted hate group ...
First, Tancredo's spokesman said the flags were part of a museum display. After a museum spokesman said the room was empty before the speech, Tancredo's people conceded that the flags had been moved in from an adjacent room by people attending the event ...
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4354511Congressman addresses hate group
by Alexander Zaitchik
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=79