DENVER—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.
Tancredo spokesman T.Q. Houlton said Wednesday Tancredo doesn’t really want a job at CU when he retires from Congress in January. He’s just poking fun at reports that CU wants to establish a new position for a professor of conservative thought and policy.
Tancredo briefly ran for the GOP presidential nomination last year. In recent weeks he has been pushing for a fence on the U.S.-Mexico border.
