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The Cost Of Crazy

by David Kurtz
08.09.10 | 6:23 am

You gotta hand it to Tom Tancredo. The nativist former Republican congressman’s third party candidacy for governor of Colorado has by all accounts thrown the race to the Democrat, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.

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