AlterNet: Tom Tancredo Hired Illegal Laborers to Renovate His McMansion

AlterNet: Tom Tancredo Hired Illegal Laborers to Renovate His McMansion: "Tom Tancredo Hired Illegal Laborers to Renovate His McMansion By Max Blumenthal, AlterNet Posted on December 1, 2007, Printed on December 2, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/69391/ When Republican Representative Tom Tancredo isn’t railing against the “scourge” of illegal immigration on the presidential campaign trail, he relaxes in the 1053 square foot basement recreation room of his Littleton, Colorado McMansion. There, he and his family can rack up a game of billiards on their tournament size pool table, play pinball, or enjoy their favorite movies in the terraced seating area of a home theater system. Tancredo, who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War by producing evidence that he suffered from mentally illnesses, especially likes entertaining his buddies with classic war movies. “We have friends over and I have now shown Pearl Harbor about six times,” Tancredo boasted to the Rocky Mountain News about his 102-inch television. “But I mainly just show the attack scene because the sound is so good.” When Tancredo hired a construction crew to transform his drab basement into a high-tech pleasure den in October 2001, however, he did not express concern that only two of its members spoke English. Nor did he bother to check the workers’ documentation to see i"