Say what you want about Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton), but he does have a warped sense of humor. The place he chose for an interview with me five years ago was Benny’s Restaurante & Cantina, where he was very pleasant to the Mexican waitress and joked about how nobody would recognize him there. And while he swore Sonic was his favorite food, Senor Broken Borders had no trouble wolfing down the salsa and chips as he expounded on his favorite theme of illegals overrunning the country.

Trouble is, some of the folks really believe(d) his immigration rhetoric, which he admits had made him sound a bit like a one-note pol since going to Washington in 1998.

But with his time in office ending next January, the former Drake Junior High civics teacher (pictured with one of his "Red" constituents) needs to move on, I mean progress, er, get it right – at last. So he announced that he would be a candidate for one of the new “conservative professor” gigs at CU. Citing the Minutemen and Pat Buchanan as references, his tongue-in-cheek press release noted that “I should be the clear favorite for the job. Who doesn’t want a slightly used Congressman, with a 98% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, educating their children?”

Ah yes. He says his classes would be the threat of Islamofascism, English Only 101, and American Assimilation, which would replace Chicano and ethnic studies. And he promised to secure CU’s border with a 20-foot- high fence.

In the interest of helping give back to someone who has done so much for my district, I propose a poll to see what Tom T should do.
In the meantime, if anyone has a spare helado pushcart, maybe you could you hook up Tom. Who knows? He might enjoy circling Sloan's Lake -- and meeting some new friends.