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Conservative radio commentator and former Scottsdale congressman J.D. Hayworth is consider a run against U.S. Sen. John McCain in next year’s Republican primary. A source in Arizona who asked not to be identified said Hayworth is pondering the move. The possible challenge also was reported Monday in the Washington Post.

Phoenix — “Senator McCain, what do you make of Arizonans who think that for the last ten years you’ve been America’s senator, and not Arizona’s senator?” That, from a local reporter here in Phoenix, was one of the opening questions last week when John McCain held his first press conference since losing the presidential race on November 4. McCain’s purpose was to announce that he will run for reelection in 2010 and to say, in effect, “Remember me? I’m your senator.” The reporter’s question was to remind McCain that a number of people in this state aren’t entirely happy about...

This morning’s “USA Today” reports “all of the GOP candidates except California Rep. Duncan Hunter will gather in Myrtle Beach today for a debate sponsored by Fox News Channel.” Yesterday, your humble blogger appeared on Fox’s “Your World With Neil Cavuto” to dispute the latest hyperspin in this hypermedia age: the notion that illegal immigration is suddenly no longer an issue in this presidential campaign. Of course, its just a variation by the Open Borders Crowd on the same old theme. After the 2006 Midterm it was framed this way: “GOP Loses Congress Because of Failure to Pass ‘Comprehensive’ Immigration...

LISTEN ONLINE ON WEDNESDAY A champion on the border issue, former Republican congressman JD Hayworth will have Peter Paul on his radio talk show on KFYI in Phoenix on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 5pm PACIFIC TIME. A few days ago, Hayworth talked about the Paul v Clinton case and linked the video, HILLARY UNCENSORED, on his website. HILLARY, the genie is coming out of the bottle.

PHOENIX -- Democrat Harry Mitchell's lead over Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth increased as elections officials continued to count ballots Monday in the 5th Congressional District race. Mitchell had a total of 88,302 votes, or 50 percent. Hayworth had 82,485 votes, or 47 percent, according to the Secretary of State's office, which continues to compile early and provisional ballots. Libertarian Warren Severin had 5,578 votes, or 3.2 percent. The Associated Press called the race for Mitchell last Tuesday. Hayworth has not conceded the race. Elections officials say it will take several days to finish counting the more than 100,000 ballots that...

J.D. Hayworth, who ended up on the short end of the vote count on election night, refused to concede defeat in his re-election bid for Arizona’s 5th Congressional District on Wednesday. the six-term Republican said he planned to wait out the final count. Election officials said more than 250,000 ballots cast in Maricopa County have yet to be counted. They were unable to immediately determine how many of those ballots were from the 5th district, which includes Scottsdale, Tempe, Ahwatukee Foothills, Fountain Hills and surrounding areas.

Hi fellow Freepers. A bit of news...just heard a lengthy interview on Hannity with JD Hayworth in which he stated ("in the immortal words of Yogi Berra...") his race ain't over. If I heard correctly, at least 100,000 votes remain to be counted; AP apparently jumped the gun with their projection. JD's opponent has not claimed victory nor has JD conceded. He said it may take a good week for all the "legal votes" to be counted.If this was posted elsewhere, I apologize...did a search and didn't see anything. Anyway, we could use a bit of optimism around this joint...

JD Hayworth has lost. I really liked him and thought he was a great statesman like Rick Santorum and Curt Weldon. All will be gone this Jan. I would like to thank all the conservatives whom wanted to sit out this election to punish the GOP. Thank you. You now have a Pelosi house to deal with. I hope you have the extra money to kick in because your taxes are going to be raised (I don't) and we can look forward to the attempted impeachment of GW for keeping us safe. Once again thanks. I want to put a...

As Arizona's J.D. Hayworth Goes, So Goes Republican Control of the House ... ? In an election for U.S. House of Representatives today, in Arizona's 5th Congressional District, prominent incumbent Republican J.D. Hayworth is in trouble, according to a SurveyUSA poll of 643 Likely Voters conducted exclusively for KPNX-TV Phoenix. Just as it was in SurveyUSA's most recent poll, released 10/16/06, the contest today is within the survey's margin of sampling error. But unlike 10/16, when Hayworth still clung to a 3-point lead, today it is Democrat challenger Harry Mitchell who is up by 2 points. Going back to SurveyUSA's...

“If Congress should ever send a guest-worker plan to the president for enactment, I think it may just seal our doom come November.” So warns Arizona Republican J. D. Hayworth, now in his sixth term in Congress, in an interview with National Review Online Editor Kathryn Lopez. Hayworth is the author of Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror, written with Joseph Eule. Kathryn Jean Lopez: How bad is illegal immigration in Arizona? Congressman J. D. Hayworth: It could not be much worse. Every night thousands of illegal aliens cross into Arizona. Most simply use...

Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for DATE HERE (not the live thread)Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page Meme: Don't believe what the dinosaur media is telling you about November, but don't discount it, either Topics: "Runs, Hits and Errors"A discussion of GOP prospects (from OpinionJournal web site) After Tom DeLay's departure, how bad does November's election now look for Republicans, and can they do anything to stop a rout? The 2006 elections: With DeLay out of the picture, can the GOP get its mojo back? (FNC web site)Baseball steroids (from OpinionJournal web site) Major League Baseball finally confronts...

Washington, D.C. - Congressman J.D. Hayworth today released the following statement on the Senate immigration reform compromise: "The Senate compromise is so convoluted, so complicated, and so unworkable that it surely must have been the work of Senators Rube and Goldberg. "This is deja vu all over again. The 1986 amnesty law had a similar approach, and that was a catastrophe. It said if you could prove you did agricultural work for just 90 days a year for the previous three years, you would qualify for a green card. The number of those applying for this benefit was three times...

House conservatives yesterday issued a dire warning to President Bush and Republican leadership that they will pay a devastating political price if they proceed with a guest-worker program or anything resembling amnesty for illegal aliens before securing the borders and enforcing existing immigration laws. "They will remember in November," Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Republican, said of voters nationwide. "And many of those who have stood with our Republican majority in the last decade are not only angry, many of them plan to be absent from the polls" this year when the entire House and one-third of the Senate is up...

Earlier this week, President Bush urged that the debate on illegal immigration be conducted in a “civil and dignified” manner. I agree. And perhaps no one needs to hear that admonition more than Mexican President Vicente Fox, with whom President Bush is now meeting. President Fox has made it clear that he has nothing but contempt for our laws and our people. And his remarks have been anything but civil or dignified. President Fox has called U.S. border control efforts in San Diego and Texas “discriminatory.” He said those of us opposed to illegal immigration are part of “minority, xenophobic,...

It's not often that Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton find themselves on the same side of an issue. But the Scottsdale conservative and Democratic presidential contender agree in their opposition to Bush administration support for letting a state-owned company from United Arab Emirates take over port operations at as many as 21 U.S. seaports, including New York, Baltimore, New Orleans and Miami. Hayworth has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives prohibiting companies or other groups controlled by a foreign government from overseeing operations at U.S. ports. Dubai-based DP World is acquiring a...

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a close associate of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, to plead guilty to corruption, other charges, source tells CNN. That is the teaser on CNN. CNN reported that Abramoff has agreed to a prison sentence of a maximum of 10 years, pending his full co-operation with the justice department. Updates will follow.

Before heading to Congress, Republican J.D. Hayworth of Arizona was a sportscaster with a signature home-run call: "It's vapor!" Now the conservative Hayworth, 47, is making a similar charge about President Bush's plan to tighten the border with Mexico and establish a limited guest-worker program. He is about to publish an anti-immigration manifesto, Whatever It Takes, that should rile up right-wing radio just as the White House was hoping to gain traction for a broad immigration-reform package. In the book, due out January 16 from conservative publisher Regnery, Hayworth calls for deploying active-duty troops to the border and considering a...

U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R.-Ariz.) said Thursday that Mexican President Vicente Fox should “shut up” about his opposition to a proposed U.S.-Mexico border fence. Fox on Wednesday called the idea of a fence “disgraceful and shameful.” “I’m going to step away from diplomatic rules and offer President Fox some straight talk: President Fox should shut up,” Hayworth told HUMAN EVENTS. “He should shut up about all of this because he is only fanning the flames of poor relations between our two nations. He needs to cease and desist.” Hayworth continued: “What’s disgraceful is President Fox presuming to lecture the United...

PHOENIX -- The president's plan for an expanded guest worker program is really amnesty for those who broke the law by coming here illegally, Congressman J.D. Hayworth said Tuesday. Hayworth criticized the call Monday by President Bush to make a new guest worker program part of any plan to deal with the problems of illegal border crossers. The six-term Republican congressman said new programs should not even be considered until the border is secure. Bush wants not only to expand existing programs but also to allow those here illegally to remain for up to six years if they already are...

Who was it who came up with the brilliant political strategy that called on Democrats Friday to put up or shut up on their Iraq war complaints? None other than Arizona Republican Rep. J.D. Hayworth, whose push for a full House vote on Rep. John Murtha's call for an immediate pullout had Democrats first squirming, then fuming that it was unfair for the GOP to call their bluff. The result: a 403 to 3 rout that turned the tables on the chorus of complainers - and had Republicans cheering that finally someone had figured out how to use their congressional...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) introduced a bill today to repeal an illegal alien harboring exemption for religious groups that was signed into law last week. Tancredo’s bill, H.R. 4321, would repeal the agricultural appropriations rider inserted by Senator Bob Bennett which allows religious groups to “conceal, harbor or shield” illegal aliens from federal law enforcement. The bill is co-sponsored by Representatives Todd Akin, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Virgil Goode, Gil Gutknecht, J.D. Hayworth, John Hostettler (Chairman of Judiciary’s Immigration Subcommittee), Steve King, Jack Kingston (Vice-Chairman of the Republican Conference), Mike Pence (Chairman of the Republican Study Committee),...

Brilliant, simple, stirring...deserving more attention than it got House Republicans News conference on the U.S. policy in Iraq (11/17/2005) Comments of J.D. Hayworth (R-Arizona): "J.D. Hayworth. Arizona Five." "There's no need to sugarcoat what has transpired today. People talk about exit strategies. Well, let's let the American people decide." "The majority's exit strategy is Victory and Freedom for the people of Iraq. Now, sadly, many on the Democratic side have revealed their exit strategy: Surrender." "The American people will not stand for Surrender. The American people are made of sterner stuff. And the American people understand that if we turn...

Delegation divided on immigration WASHINGTON When Congress takes up immigration reform next month, Arizona lawmakers will be at the forefront of the debate.There are major differences in the proposals put forward by the state's delegation.Twin bills introduced by Arizona Republicans Jim Kolbe and Senator John McCain would create a guest worker program and help illegal residents get legal status.On the other side, Congressman J.D. Hayworth advocates rigorous border enforcement and cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers.In the middle is Senator Jon Kyl. He's pushing a bill that would give illegal immigrants five years to leave the country, though...

America's borders are being overrun by illegal aliens and the blame for this failure rest squarely with the federal government. .....

Following last week's declaration of states of emergency by the governors of New Mexico and Arizona, done in order to get federal funds to help handle an influx of illegal immigrants, one Arizona lawmaker has announced plans to introduce a bill in Congress that would boost enforcement of the porous border. "When you have the situation that we have in Arizona — where, by some estimates, over 4,000 illegals attempt to cross every night — this is not just a crisis, it's a full-scale invasion," Rep. J.D. Hayworth (search), R-Ariz., told FOX News on Friday. "We've been talking about it...

"Americans should be told that diseases long eradicated in this country — tuberculosis, leprosy, polio, for example — and other extremely contagious diseases have been linked directly to" illegal immigrants, Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) told the Business Journal of Phoenix last month.

Hayworth Statement at Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus News Conference "What the Minutemen proved to the American people was this: the federal government can do something about illegal immigration other than to raise a white flag and surrender to the invasion on our southern border. "Now it's up to every American to get involved in this critical struggle to preserve our security and our sovereignty by demanding that this administration and this Congress stop thinking about amnesty and start enforcing our immigration laws. "I saw the Minutemen at the border up close and in person and I was amazed by...

PHOENIX - Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., announced Wednesday he will not challenge Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano in 2006, saying he will seek another congressional term instead. Hayworth, a six-term congressman who had been regarded as a leading candidate for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, said he believes another Republican can regain the governorship the party lost when Napolitano was elected in 2002. "As the first Arizonan to serve on the House Ways and Means Committee and its Social Security and Health subcommittees, this is not the time to turn away from the difficult challenges fueling our retirement and Medicare systems," Hayworth...

Mexico's Foreign Ministry has produced and distributed a Guide for the Mexican Migrant, which is essentially a "how to" manual for illegal entry into the United States.Unfortunately, it goes even further by providing recommendations for illegal aliens in evading detection of federal authorities once in the United States. ("Avoid attracting attention," etc.) Not once does the guide mention how a Mexican migrant can come to the U.S. legally!While many Americans were shocked to find out that the Mexican government is a witting accomplice in breaking our laws, the assault on our sovereignty by Mexico has been going on for years.Indeed,...

In his apology to the families of the victims of 9/11, Richard Clarke said, "Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you, and I failed you." The 9/11 Commission's report shows that last statement, "I failed you," to be truer than we knew. I encourage every American to read the section in the 9/11 Commission Report titled, "The Desert Camp, February 1999," which can be found beginning on page 137, in chapter four. The section discusses a plan by the Clinton administration to target Osama bin Laden while he was at a desert hunting camp in the...

Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) planned to show off the work of a company from his district when he arranged a photo op with a special Army Humvee in front of the Rayburn Building yesterday. What he got instead was a partisan food fight. Hayworth appeared with officials from Tempe, Ariz.-based ArmorWorks, which just received a contract to supply the Army with 1,500 armor kits for the all-terrain vehicle. To illustrate the need, Hayworth told of his trip to Iraq a month ago, when he witnessed an Arizona guardsman fashioning armor himself out of scrap metal. But some on hand were...

"We are continuing a defense buildup that is consuming our resources with weapons systems that we don't need and can't use." — John Kerry in 1984 on the Reagan defense build-up. What are some of these weapons systems that John Kerry said "we don't need and can't use?" The list might surprise you. It includes many of the most important weapons in our arsenal and weapons that have performed brilliantly in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Among the systems John Kerry said he wanted to cancel were the B-1 bomber, the Apache helicopter, the Patriot anti-missile system, the Aegis...

<p>If John Kerry had prevailed in his calls for cuts in specific defense programs 20 years ago, AH-64 Apache helicopters, made in Mesa and seen as vital in two wars, would not have been built, U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth charged Friday.</p>

<p>Arizona Republicans are bracing for a hard-fought presidential tussle with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who won the Grand Canyon state and four other crucial contests Tuesday.</p> <p>Anxious for the campaign to commence, Republicans are eager for President Bush to attack Kerry's record on national security. The Bush team in Arizona pointed out that Kerry voted against the first Gulf War in 1991 and didn't approve funding to keep U.S. troops in Iraq.</p>

Last week I sent President Bush a letter, co-signed by 62 House colleagues, asking that during his upcoming discussions with Mexican President Vicente Fox, he "make clear this nation's determination to establish and enforce an immigration policy that celebrates our immigrant heritage, secures our borders, draws a bright line between legal and illegal aliens, and rejects any and all forms of amnesty." Judging by his remarks during a recent visit to Arizona, it is more important than ever that President Fox hear precisely that message. Fox sugarcoats his countrymen's illegal invasion of Arizona and the United States by mislabeling it...

Navarrette: Mexico has no interest in stemming illegal immigration By Ruben Navarrette Jr. The Dallas Morning News DALLAS -- Judging from the reaction I get from audiences whenever I speak about the United States and Mexico, a lot of Americans are fed up with what they see as a one-sided relationship. Yet on a recent swing through the Southwest that included stops in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, Mexican President Vicente Fox went with his usual shtick -- making the case that his nation and ours have a shared destiny while trying to build grass-roots support for a stalled immigration...

Press Room House Republicans Want ‘Bedrock Principles’ To Guide U.S. Immigration Policies 63 Members Sign Hayworth Letter to President Bush As U.S.-Mexico Resume Talks on Border Issues November 12, 2003 WASHINGTON – A group of House Republicans today urged President Bush to support an immigration policy with Mexico “that celebrates our immigrant heritage, secures our borders, draws a bright line between legal and illegal aliens, and rejects any and all forms of amnesty.” The letter, written by Rep. J.D. Hayworth and co-signed by 63 House members, was sent to the White House today as the U.S. and Mexico opened a...

November 03, 2003, 8:08 a.m.Year of the HorseWe can't cut and run from Iraq. By Representative J. D. Hayworth Iraq is not Vietnam. But you would never know that by listening to the Democratic candidates for president.With the possible exceptions of Dick Gephardt and Joe Lieberman, the candidates recommend that America abandon Iraq to either the terrorists or the U.N. So while the situation on the ground in Iraq bears no resemblance whatsoever to Vietnam, the Democrats advocate the same approach they did 30 years ago — cut and run. As in Vietnam, this would amount to snatching defeat...

<p>WASHINGTON - Arizona GOP Rep. J.D. Hayworth, in a letter to President Bush, declares that a "balkanization" of the United States must not be allowed and accuses Mexico of acting "more as an accomplice in illegal immigration than a partner in preventing it."</p>

<p>Arizona GOP Rep. J.D. Hayworth, in a letter to President Bush, declares that a "balkanization" of the United States must not be allowed and accuses Mexico of acting "more as an accomplice in illegal immigration than a partner in preventing it."</p>

The fog of antiwarriors The performance of the liberal media and the Democratic presidential candidates the past few weeks is proof positive that Bush hating addles the mind and rots the senses. With their reckless charges and the wholesale rewriting of recent history, the Left has gone completely off the rails, and it is time to start setting the record straight. Repeated ad nauseam is that charge that the Bush administration claimed the threat from Iraq was "imminent." Indeed, Gen. Wesley Clark has made that charge a major talking point. But it's rubbish. Here are the president's own words: "Some...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Rep. J. D. Hayworth (R-AZ), along with ten co-sponsors, is actively promoting a bill that would enforce Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, giving sole legislative responsibility to Congress. The Congressional Responsibility Act of 2003, or H.R. 110, was created to prevent bureaucratic regulations from being added to laws without the approval of Congress. This bill would require them to be approved by Congress before going into effect. The bill is currently being considered in the House Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Supporters of this bill say it is needed for three reasons....

April 29, 2003, 9:25 a.m.War Was Justified……With or without WMDs.By Rep. J. D. Hayworth Having been proven so spectacularly wrong about the war in Iraq, anti-liberation liberals have shifted to lower rhetorical ground. Now they argue that if no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq then the entire enterprise was illegitimate.New York Times columnist and war critic Nicholas Kristof writes if WMDs are never found in Iraq, "then Bush has plenty of explaining to do to the children of the Americans, Britons and Iraqis who died in the war."The Nation's David Corn was on Greta Van Susteren's...

<p>U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth is quietly gearing up for a run for governor.</p> <p>Republican pundits believe that if Gov. Janet Napolitano doesn't run for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2006, Hayworth would provide a tough, intriguing matchup for her. The theory is that Hayworth, a congenial conservative, would pose problems for the incumbent governor on several fronts.</p>

R epresentative J. D. Hayworth, Republican from Arizona, had never heard of Columbia University assistant professor Nicholas DeGenova before last Friday. But when Hayworth read DeGenova's comments at an antiwar "teach-in" held inside Columbia's Low Library last week, the House Ways and Means Committee member knew he had to speak out. The result is a letter to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger — now making its way through the House of Representatives — that calls for DeGenova to be dismissed. "I heard the press accounts and I think I reacted as most Americans did — with outrage and disbelief,"...

The prospect of Congressman Jeff Flake taking on incumbent John McCain in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate next year is intriguing. And there's at least a superficial plausibility to it. Flake is known to harbor, along with colleagues J.D. Hayworth and John Shadegg, aspirations to the Senate. Moreover, Flake is no careerist. He's likely to honor his term limit pledge, which would have him leaving the House in 2006 anyway. Flake's mostly a contrarian in the House and wouldn't be losing much by giving up two years there to take a chance against McCain in 2004. The term of...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ohio Rep. Deborah Pryce is the front-runner to become the new Republican Conference chairman, which would make her the highest ranking woman in the House GOP leadership. Pryce, 51, is in a contest that also includes Rep. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona, a conservative former sports broadcaster, and Rep. Jim Ryun of Kansas, another conservative best known as the former world record holder in the mile. Republican aides said Pryce appears to be ahead, although her two rivals continue to pursue uncommitted lawmakers. The party's leadership elections will be Wednesday, with Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois retaining his...