Draft Gore 2008 PAC

CQPolitics reports that Tom Tancredo will be doing an exploratory tour of Iowa's GOP, and "is scheduled for several book-signings at Barnes & Noble stores in the Des Moines area, where he will discuss his hard-line views on illegal immigration."

We spent last summer working in the IA-01, IA-02, and IA-03. There are thousands of bi-lingual Spanish-English native US citizens (from Texas/Tejas) working in the meat packing industry in Eastern Iowa. Joyce Schulte ran against Steve King in the IA-05 with no DCCC money, did rather well with what little she had. Steve King works the same rhetorial vein of xenophobia, paranoia, and privilege as Tom Tancredo, and does very lettle else, even when his party controlled both Houses of Congress and all three branches of government. In Western Iowa drought is a profoundly important issue, and we hope that when it comes to a choice between a candidate running on race and fear, and a candidate running on water and work, that water and work will win in '08.

Of course, we'll have to work to realize that hope. It won't be enough to just cherry pick delegates in Iowa then rush off to the next show. We have to work there in the Fall of '08 to win what we, and others, will promise, in the Winter of '07/08.