March 23, 2007 03:35 AM UTC

Open the CD-6 Floodgates

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• by: Colorado Pols

Tom Tancredo announced today that his Presidential exploratory committee has raised more than $1 million, which means, as the Rocky Mountain News reports:

…he had set a goal of raising $1 million for his exploratory committee, Tancredo for a Secure America, by the end of the first quarter of this year.

Crossing that goal, “kicks my enthusiasm level up about a million times,” Tancredo said in phone interview. “It just simply means it’s certainly more likely that we will announce I will be a candidate for president,” he said.

He’ll make a final decision within two weeks.

And as Colorado Confidential explains:

More importantly for Colorado, Tancredo’s fundraising success means that he is less likely than ever to run for re-election to his congressional seat. Several Republicans, including state Sens. Tom Wiens and Ted Harvey, and Wil Armstrong, son of GOP patriarch Bill Armstrong, have already been putting together shell campaigns for taking a run at CD-6 in the event that Tancredo doesn’t run for re-election; expect them, and others, to speed up the process in the next couple of weeks.

Gentlemen…engines…start…ready?