$ 8,059.00: More On Tancredo

Joe McCutchen, who announced the formation of Protect Arkansas Now on Friday from the steps of the Capitol in Little Rock, was a member of the racist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) in 2001, according to the CCC’s newspaper. He gave a speech on a panel of that year’s CCC conference where he was joined by two well-known white supremacist immigrant-bashers.

[McCutchen in a later interview denied ever having been a member of the CCC. His lawyer, in a June 29 letter to the Southern Poverty Law Center, said McCutchen had “never enrolled knowingly as a member of the CCC” and, in any event, “has now distanced himself from the CCC.”]

Claiming an unlikely 26,000 members, the California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR) is headed by Barbara Coe, a woman who has referred repeatedly to Mexican immigrants as “savages.” Coe founded CCIR in 1994 as a co-sponsor of California’s Proposition 187, which would have denied social and medical benefits to illegal immigrants and their children.

Coe joined other co-sponsors in an attempt to recall California’s governor, who she derides as a communist and refers to as “Gov. Gray ‘Red’ Davis.”

Today, she claims to have exposed a secret Mexican plan to take over the American Southwest; favors using the military to seal the U.S.-Mexican border; and charges that a shadowy “New World Order” is being imposed on America by “globalists.”
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Coe and VCT chief Glenn Spencer stage annual Fourth of July rallies that have drawn prominent neo-Nazis. Barbara Coe’s political activities convinced the Orange County Weekly to name her in 1999 one of the “scariest” people in Orange County.

Barbara Coe, co-author of a 1994 California ballot initiative denying illegal immigrants access to public schools and hospitals, donated $500 to Tancredo’s 2004 campaign and has long been a key supporter. Proceeds from the “Tancredo for President” bumper sticker, which sell for $2 each, go to another Coe group, California Coalition for Immigrant Reform. Tancredo spoke at a 2003 event put on by that group.

Coe said she belonged to and spoke at an event of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that declares on its website that it opposes “all efforts to mix the races of mankind (and) to promote non-white races over the European-American people.” It sells T-shirts that say: “White pride. Save our Culture.”