King’s twin Tancredo
Iowa 5th District Congressman Steve King calls himself the blue-eyed Tom Tancredo, and I got to hear that twin discussion from the other perspective, when Colorado Congressman Tancredo was in Sioux City yesterday morning. In opening remarks, brown-eyed Tancredo said he looks like his “dear friend Steve King,” and shared that King’s sister-in-law once mistook him for King. As Tancredo tells it, he was on C-SPAN one evening, and King’s wife got a phone call from her sister, saying how wonderfully King was doing in his House floor appearance. Well, Marilyn King responded, he’s not at the House, he’s here in this house, sleeping.
I kept looking at Tancredo at the hotel breakfast event, and the more I looked, the more I could see them as twins. Aside from the facial likenesses, he and King even look to be about the same height, share the same build.
Since the two look so much alike, Tancredo said, its a good thing “we think so much alike,” such as King being “as dedicated as I am on immigration reform.” The two Republicans also share a philosophy of making the government as small as possible.
Tancredo shared how his blasting of President Bush for not being tough enough on illegal immigration earned a rebuke from Bush’s top adviser, Karl Rove, who told Tancredo “not to darken the doors” of the White House. After that banishment, Tancredo said he and King were at a D.C. event where the president was in attendance. They decided to switch nametags to stir things up, which Tancredo said was “pretty brave” of King to agree to. But at the last moment, right before the receiving line, Tancredo said King asked to switch the nametags back, which Tancredo conceded was probably was the right thing to do.
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