The Talent Track
14 05 2008
Tancredo Jokes He Wants To Be CU Professor
Republican congressman Tom Tancredo has fired off a wisecracking press release saying he wants to be a professor of conservative politics at the University of Colorado — a school often criticized by conservatives as being too liberal.
The outspoken opponent of illegal immigration is suggesting classes in “English Only 101″ and “American Assimilation.” He’s also proposing a 20-foot-high fence around the border of the university’s Boulder campus.
This is in reaction to the news that CU is actively seeking conservative profs.
If you don’t want to think that TT is being facetious, then consider that Jim Talent left the U.S. House after several terms in 2000, taught at Wash. U. from then until 2002, and then won election to the U.S. Senate that year. If TT takes on Ken Salazar and beats him in ‘10, and teaches at CU in the interim, then the timing, along with the first letter of their last names, will be the same. But I hope Tom would last more than two-thirds of a term in the Senate.
