John David "J.D." Hayworth Jr. (born July 12, 1958) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representativesfrom 1995 until January 4, 2007, representing the 5th District of Arizona (map). He was a television sportscaster and radio journalist before being elected to the House. He currently hosts a radio program on KFYI in Phoenix, AZ weekdays from 4-7 pm. Official portrait. ... The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. ... Arizonas 5th congressional district contains the northeastern suburbs of Phoenix, including the cites of Scottsdale and Tempe. ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Harry Mitchell is the current Congressman from Arizonas 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. ... is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Location in Guilford County and the state of North Carolina Country United States State North Carolina Counties Guilford, Randolph, Davidson, Forsyth Government  - Mayor Rebecca Smothers Area  - City  95. ... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      Baptist is a term describing individuals belonging... is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The United States House of Representatives (or simply the House) is one of the two chambers of the United States Congress; the other is the Senate. ... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ... 550 AM KFYI is a news/talk radio station broadcasting out of Phoenix, Arizona. ... Phoenix is the capital, largest city and largest metropolitan area in the state of Arizona, United States. ...

Hayworth conceded to Harry Mitchell on November 14, 2006, despite the fact that early votes, absentee, and provisional ballot counts were still underway. Hayworth himself commented that he did not expect the margins between him and Mitchell to close significantly. Subsequent counts of all ballots have since confirmed Hayworth's defeat in the election, but most major news media had already projected Hayworth's defeat on election night.^[1] Harry Mitchell is the current Congressman from Arizonas 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. ... is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Early life, education, and broadcasting career

Hayworth was born in High Point, North Carolina. His father, Ray Hayworth, was a Major League Baseball catcher from 1926-1945. He received a bachelor's degree in speech communications and political science from North Carolina State University in Raleigh in 1980. Nickname: Location in Guilford County and the state of North Carolina Country United States State North Carolina Counties Guilford, Randolph, Davidson, Forsyth Government  - Mayor Rebecca Smothers Area  - City  95. ... Ray Hayworth, circa 1934. ... North Carolina State University is a public, coeducational, extensive research university located in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. ... Nickname: Motto: You Can See the Whole State from Here Map of Wake County, North Carolina Coordinates: , Country United States State North Carolina County Wake County i Founded 1792 Government  - Mayor Charles Meeker (D) Area  - City  134. ...

He was a sportscaster for WFBC-TV (now WYFF-TV), the NBC station in Greenville, South Carolina, from 1981 to 1986. While in Greenville, he was a member of Edwards Road Baptist Church. From 1987 to 1994, he was the sports anchor on the news reports of KSAZ-TV, the FOX-TV affiliate in Phoenix. WYFF-TV is the NBC television affiliate based in Greenville, South Carolina. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Greenville is the sixth largest city in the state of South Carolina. ... KSAZ-TV is the owned-and-operated FOX station in Phoenix, Arizona. ...

Hayworth married in 1989.^[2] He and his wife Mary have three children.

U.S. House of Representatives

Hayworth served on the Resources and the Ways and Means committees during his term in the House.

Campaigns

In 1994, Hayworth defeated incumbent Democrat Karan English, winning 54% of the vote. Hayworth criticized English's support for the Clinton budget plan, which Hayworth termed the largest tax increase in history. English had been endorsed in her successful 1992 campaign by the former Arizona Republican icon, Barry Goldwater when she ran against Doug Wead but not in 1994 when she ran against Hayworth. This article needs to be wikified. ... Barry Morris Goldwater (January 1, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–87) and the Republican Partys nominee for president in the 1964 election. ...

In 1996, Hayworth fired two of his campaign aides for their part in forging his signature to file a campaign affidavit on time. Hayworth said he was unaware of the forgery and was not charged. He won in 1996 with 48 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat Steve Owens, a friend of then–Vice President Al Gore. Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. ...

In 1998, Hayworth signed and filed the form in person, with television cameras, campaign volunteers, and the Arizona Secretary of State watching. He again defeated Owens, 52 percent to 45 percent.

His next three elections were not especially close: He won in 2000 against Larry K. Nelson, 60 percent to 37 percent; in 2002, against Craig Columbus, getting 61 percent of the vote; and in 2004, against Elizabeth Rogers, getting 60 percent.

Speaking out

Known for his outspoken nature — he called President Clinton an "unprincipled philandering president" who had "the most corrupt administration in U.S. history" — Hayworth is a frequent guest on conservative TV and talk radio. He sometimes substitutes as host of the nationally syndicated Laura Ingraham political commentary show on the Talk Radio Network. Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1964 in Glastonbury, Connecticut) is an American conservative talk radio host and author. ... Talk Radio Network is a syndicator of talk radio programming. ...

In 1998, Hayworth was voted the second biggest "windbag" in Congress in Washingtonian magazine's survey of 1,200 congressional staff members of both parties. "I was hoping to get the number one spot", Hayworth said. "I was last time." The Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distrubuted in the Washington DC area. ...

Hayworth has never shied from controversy. In the same campaign letter in which he criticized Clinton, he said his Democratic opponent was "bankrolled by trial lawyers, radical homosexual rights groups, environmental extremists ... along with almost every other left-wing wacko group you can think of."

Political positions

Hayworth was generally known as one of the most conservative members of Congress. He has said he believes border security and interior enforcement of immigration laws are the solutions — not a temporary worker program as proposed by President Bush for illegal Mexican immigrants. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Map of the world with countries colored according to their immigrant population as a percentage of total population: Immigration is the movement of people from one nation-state to another. ...

In January 2006, Regnery published Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror, a book by Hayworth and his chief of staff, Joseph J. Eule. In the book, Hayworth said that President Bush dances to a tune of big GOP contributors from the agribusiness, meat packing and construction industries who are "addicted" to a steady stream of workers from Mexico and Central America to keep wages down. Hayworth also describes what he considers a misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, says that a child of illegals born in the U.S. should not be given U.S. citizenship, and advocates the "Americanization" program Henry Ford advocated in "The International Jew."^[3] Unfit for Command, published by Regnery Publishing. ... Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. ... The International Jew: The Worlds Foremost Problem is a four volume set of books originally published and distributed in the early 1920s by Henry Ford, an American industrialist, automobile developer and manufacturer. ...

The ever-so-successful process that used to be called "Americanization" was a major movement in the early 1900s … Henry Ford, a leader in this movement, said, "These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live." Talk like that today and our liberal elites will brand you a cultural imperialist, or worse. But if you ask me, Ford had a better idea.

(from Whatever It Takes)

Controversies

Payments to Hayworth's wife

Between 2001 and 2005 inclusive, Hayworth's wife Mary was paid $20,400 per year by TEAM PAC, Hayworth's leadership political action committee. In 2002, a spokesman for Hayworth said that his wife handled bookkeeping and many administrative details for the PAC.^[4] In the United States, a political action committee, or PAC, is the name commonly given to a private group organized to elect or defeat government officials in order to promote legislation, often supporting the groups special interests. ...

Hayworth's wife had been the only employee of TEAM PAC after December 1999. Through the end of 2004, the fund had paid $107,000 for her salary and payroll taxes, or roughly 26% of its $411,000 in revenue. The PAC also paid $70,000 to an outside political consultant and a California bookkeeper, bringing fundraising and administrative expenses 43% of the total revenue.^[5]

In 2002, the Phoenix New Times questioned whether a variety of TEAM PAC expenditures were in fact for personal use of Hayworth and his wife.^[6]

Between January 2001 and February 2006, TEAM PAC took in $538,109. Administrative costs for the period were about $165,000, about 30% of contributions during the period, including $102,000 for Hayworth's wife. As of July 31, 2006, TEAM PAC had received $92,000 during the 2006 election cycle (January 1, 2005 – December 31, 2006) and had $15,000 cash on hand.^[7] It was paying Mary Hayworth $2,076 every month. It was also reporting about ten expenditures per month, with half related to her employment.^[8] is the 212th day of the year (213th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Abramoff and Indian tribes

Main article: Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal

In 1997, Hayworth helped stop a proposal to tax Indian casinos, which would have taken $1.9 billion off reservations. In 2002, Hayworth played a key role in preventing a change in the law that allowed Indian tribes to contribute to an unlimited number of federal candidates with an aggregate cap in dollars.^[9] This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Between 1999 and 2005, Hayworth received $69,000 from convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his clients, primarily from Indian tribes. $62,000 of the money went to TEAM PAC.^[10] Hayworth decided to keep the donations. His chief of staff, Joe Eule, said to the Arizona Republic, "The tribes have told us, 'We love you. We loved you before we met Jack Abramoff, and we love you after Jack Abramoff, and we think it would be foolish of you to (give back) the money.'"^[11] Hayworth was co-chairman of the Native American Caucus in Congress. Hayworth did give $2,250 representing the total of personal campaign donations from Abramoff to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in 2005. Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1958) is an American political lobbyist, a Republican political activist and businessman who is a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. ... Lowest pressure 902 mbar (hPa; 26. ...

Hayworth had free use of Abramoff's sports skyboxes for five fund-raisers,^[12] the first in 1999. In 2004, some months after Abramoff's millions of dollars of lobbying fees from Indian tribes was first reported in the news, Hayworth paid the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana nearly $13,000 for the use of the skyboxes. Eule did not respond to repeated calls asking for documentation why the tribes should be paid (the box was in Abramoff's name) and how it was determined that they should receive equal amounts. Federal lobbying records showed that the Chitimachas were not registered as paying clients of Abramoff when four of the events took place.^[13] For other uses, see Choctaw (disambiguation). ... Chitimacha The Chitimacha (also Chitimachan, Chetimacha) are a Native American group that lives in the U.S. state of Louisiana, mainly in St. ...

2006 campaign

See also: United States House elections, 2006

The Fifth District is comprised mainly of Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale and Fountain Hills, suburbs of Phoenix. In 2004, John Kerry won 45% of the vote in Hayworth's district. President Bush meets with Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer (then House Minority Leader and Minority Whip, respectively) at the Oval Office in the White House. ... Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated November 29, 1894 Government  - Mayor Hugh Hallman Area  - City  39. ... Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Government  - Mayor Keno Hawker Area  - City 125. ... Nickname: Location in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA Coordinates: , Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Government  - Mayor Mary Manross (D) Area  - City  184. ... The world famous fountain of Fountain Hills, Arizona, spews water to a height of 562 feet, once per hour. ... Nickname: Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: , Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Government  - Type Council-Manager  - Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area  - City  515. ... John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, in his fourth term of office. ...

Hayworth had considered running for the governor of Arizona in the 2006 elections, but in March 2005 he announced that he preferred to stay in Congress.

On the evening of November 7, election day, most major news media declared former state senator Harry Mitchell the winner of the Congressional race, as the state poll numbers demonstrated a clear victory, but Hayworth refused to concede while the prospects for victory remained with the significant number of absentee and early-voting ballots to be counted. Harry Mitchell was a former State Democratic Chair, and also a former mayor of Tempe.^[14] As the ballots were counted and the results were updated each day, Hayworth never demonstrated the significant gains he anticipated and ending up losing the election by more than 8,000 votes or a 3.4% margin. Hayworth finally conceded on November 14. Mitchell did not acknowledge his victory until November 22. is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Harry Mitchell is the current Congressman from Arizonas 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. ... Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated November 29, 1894 Government  - Mayor Hugh Hallman Area  - City  39. ...

On Monday, April 23, 2007 it was announced on Phoenix radio station KFYI that Hayworth would begin hosting an afternoon drive time (4–7 PM) radio talk show on the station starting Thursday, April 26, 2007.

References

1. ^ http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006//pages/results/states/AZ/H/05/county.000.html
2. ^ "Celebrating 9 years of a happy marriage, and urging members to help end the marriage tax penalty", remarks in the House of Representatives, February 25, 1998.
3. ^ BlueField News: "Whatever It Takes" Offers Solutions to Illegal Immigration Crisis by Border State Congressman J.D. Hayworth
4. ^ Jon Kamman, "Gaming tribes donate freely to Hayworth", Arizona Republic, October 21, 2002
5. ^ Jon Kamman, "Campaign committee nepotism under fire: Family ties are legal but are they right?", The Arizona Republic, April 10, 2005
6. ^ Amy Silverman, "Money for Nothing: Halloween is still a week away, but are contributors being tricked into paying for J.D.'s treats?, Phoenix New Times, October 24, 2002
7. ^ Summary data on TEAM PAC, Opensecrets.com, accessed September 17, 2006
8. ^ http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expend.asp?strID=C00341768&Cycle=2006 Expenditure data for TEAM PAC], Opensecrets.com accessed September 17, 2006
9. ^ Amanda B. Carpenter, "House Democrat Boasted of Saving Tribal-Contributions Loophole", Human Events Online, March 14, 2006
10. ^ "Jack Abramoff Lobbying and Political Contributions, 1999 - 2006", Center for Responsive Politics
11. ^ Ed Montini, "On the political calendar, every day is Christmas Day", December 27, 2005
12. ^ Jonathan Weisman and Derek Willis, "Democrat on Panel Probing Abramoff to Return Tribal Donations", Washington Post, December 14, 2005
13. ^ Jon Kamman, "Hayworth, 2 others account for skyboxes: New filings omit links to lobbyist", The Arizona Republic, May 10, 2005
14. ^ HarryMitchellforCongress.com

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External links

• Campaign website
• Associated Press profile
• Voting record maintained by the Washington Post