JD Hayworth has hit an all-time low with his Environmental Policy record.  The League of Conservation Voters has released its 2005 National Environmental Scorecard and JD scored a blazing 6 out of 100.  

According to the Environmental News Service:

WASHINGTON, DC, February 24, 2006 (ENS) - Following a session of Congress in which many of America’s core environmental laws were under attack, and against the backdrop of the country’s worst natural disaster and record high energy prices, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) Thursday released its 2005 National Environmental Scorecard.

Based on a scale of 0 to 100, the U.S. Senators and Representatives were scored on the number of pro-environment votes cast out of the total number included for 2005. Absences are counted as a negative vote. Among the votes scored are those on national energy policy, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling proposals, environmental funding, public health and endangered species.

"In a year when elected officials in Washington were given numerous opportunities to cast votes on issues vital to our energy future as well as clean air, clean water and key conservation initiatives, the 2005 National Environmental Scorecard offers a clear-eyed look at just where our members of Congress stand," said LCV Legislative Director Tiernan Sittenfeld.

Hayworth’s 6 percent record was not only low, but embarrassingly low compared to the national average of 45 percent for Representatives and 45 percent for Senators.

JD is on one of his famous tunnel-vision rampages again.  He ignores his own scandalous activities (bribes and gifts form Abramhof) to denounce his fellow Republicans for pursuing a guest worker program.  The governor or Arizona, Janet Napalotano, supports a guest worker program as a sound financial solution to illegal workers in Arizona.

JD has been quoted as lashing out, saying the following about the guest worker program in a radical right wing mag interview:

Make no mistake about it, this guest-worker program is driven by the most craven and cynical special interests. Big Business believes it gets an almost endless supply of cheap labor. The left believes it gets a source of cheap votes.

JD is classifying the immigrants as "cheap" and believes if they had a vote it would be worthless?  Also, translate "Big Business" into "Republicans".  He just stops short of throwing the knife into his own party’s back. 

How can he properly represent District 5 when he can’t get along with anybody?  He promotes hatred in order to get his agenda through.  Just say NO to JD’s hatred next fall.

JD has been in denial over his roll in the Abramoff scandall from Day One, however he can’t run from the facts.  Last December Phillip Shennon of the New York Times Reported the following: 

"I think a lot of voters are beginning to recognize the name Jack Abramoff," said Harry Mitchell, chairman of the Arizona Democratic Party. Mr. Mitchell said in an interview that the disclosures had given the party a clear opportunity to unseat at least one of the state’s Republican House members, Representative J. D. Hayworth of Scottsdale.

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, a research group in Washington that monitors the influence of money in politics, Mr. Hayworth was the largest single Congressional recipient of donations from Mr. Abramoff and his family, his associates, his Indian tribe clients and a gambling cruise ship line that he owned, with more than $101,000 going to Mr. Hayworth and his political action committee since 1999. Mr. Hayworth was also a frequent guest in sports skyboxes controlled by Mr. Abramoff and his clients, and at Signatures, a Washington restaurant owned by the lobbyist.

Mr. Mitchell said Mr. Hayworth needed to return donations linked to Mr. Abramoff if he wanted to prove that he was not involved in "all the corruption that’s been going on in Washington." In the meantime, Mr. Mitchell said, the party was looking for a strong candidate to challenge Mr. Hayworth in a race that, he said, would now focus in large part on the incumbent’s ties to Mr. Abramoff.

Mr. Hayworth’s chief of staff, Joe Eule, said in a statement that he did not take Mr. Mitchell’s threats seriously and that the congressman had no intention of returning the money.

He said that Mr. Hayworth, co-chairman of the House Native American Caucus, "has been a hero to tribes nationwide" and that it was not surprising that "tribes, including a few formerly affiliated with Mr. Abramoff, have been generous in supporting Mr. Hayworth’s political efforts."

JD continues to lie to his district about his corrupt political practices.  Arizona District 5 deserves much more than this theif to represent their interest in Washington. 

Mike Graham, journalist and member of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation, is concerned that the Republicans have become racist and discriminate against Native Americans. 

Certainly that would not be acceptable in Arizona with such an important population of Native Americans, but again JD Hayworth has embarrassed the State by standing with his racist buddies against naming a national holiday in honor of Native Americans.  Graham points out we have Columbus Day, Martin Luther King Day, President’s Day, why not Native American Day? 

The American Chronical article goes on as follows: 

The list of Republican representatives against bringing about Native American Day is nation wide. Arizona Republican U.S. Congressman J.D. Hayworth, founder of the Congressional Indian Caucus with over one hundred members has stated he will not add his name in support of National Native American Day.

So JD will take money from Abramoff that is stealing from the Indian Tribes, but he will not recognize them nationally.  Perhaps the Tribes have not given him enough money for this particular task.