Lakewood, CO-- Former Congressman Tom Tancredo
today sent a letter to Colorado House Speaker
Terrance Carroll asking him to retract his
statements to the Denver Post on February 6 and to
"speak honestly about the genuine problem of civic
illiteracy" in the nation.
Carroll's statements called Tancredo's advocacy
of civics literacy test "hateful" and
hinted that his criticisms of President Obama are
racially motivated.
"To suggest that a civics literacy test will
necessarily be discriminatory is absurd," said
Tancredo.
"I have long advocated a civics literacy test
for voters, and have often suggested we could
use the same test as used for immigrants seeking
to become naturalized citizens," Tancredo told
Carroll.
Tancredo sent Speaker Carroll a copy of the
federal government's official civics quiz for
immigrants seeking to become naturalized
citizens and asked Carroll to "tell me which of
these questions you think are racial in
character and how such a test is
discriminatory."
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