The top news story on JD Hayworth's site brags about how he recently rode in on his white horse to save the day for the Rio Salado riparian wildlife area.  JD unjustly implies that he is the mastermind behind the request for $8.4 million from the Army Corp of Engineers to the Rio Salado project. 

The truth is Hayworth did his duty and fell of the log that just happened to be in the same district as the Rio Salado.  Hayworth is trying to portend a shred of caring for the environment when in fact he has done nothing.

The Rio Salado project was initially funded in 1998 during the Clinton Years.  Congressman Ed Pastor is the real power house that actually sits on the Energy and Water Subcommittee that approved the initial allocation.  A rule the Army Corp of Engineers set for the money was that it had to be requested for each and every year it was needed until the project was completed.

This means the Rio Salado allocation was almost automatic….and here we have JD claiming he actually did something to get it.  That is real desperation and just proves you must question everything that leaves his lying lips. 

Quotes from the peacock's web page are as follows:

At the request of Congressman J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) the Energy and Water appropriations bill includes $8.4 million for the Rio Salado restoration project along the Salt River. This was one of the few Army Corps of Engineer projects to receive full funding in the bill.

The project restores native plant and wildlife communities on some 169 acres of river habitat along the Salt River. The extended irrigation initiatives due to begin final construction in 2007 will make these areas once again attractive to wildlife and nature enthusiasts.

"We are committed to restoring the beauty of the Salt River," said Rep. Hayworth. "For much of the 20th century, man-made constructions such as dams have caused perennial flows to the Salt River to dwindle and the condition of the river has been drastically degraded, nearly killing the river's ecosystem."

 

It is amazing he has the nerve to lie like this on his web page by implying he was behind the whole project ("At the request of JD Hayworth…").  The saying must be true: If there's a bandwagon withing a 100 feet of JD, he will be the first one on it.  

The headline for what JD Hayworth considers "news" reads, "JD Says No Way to New Taxes".  Sounds good on the surface, which is JD's forte, but if you read it and think about the consequences it will shock you right in the pocketbook.

 The big tax relief he is talking about refers to extending the alternate minimum tax (AMT) for just ONE YEAR.  That's it.  We must live year to year in fear that the government will slam the middle to upper-middle class with an antiquated tax rule.  JD has been in office for over a decade and has done nothing to permanently protect his constituency from this sleeping dragon.

The AMT was devised in the 60's in order to make sure the rich pay their fair share of taxes, but it has never been adjusted for inflation.  Because of that is had crept down to the middle and upper-middle class.  Those that make over just $125,000 per year could be hit with the biggest tax increase in history if nothing is done about it permanently.

Quick fixes - that is what JD is all about.  Call him today and ask him to permanently fix the pending AMT doom. 

JD's governement web site is offering concierge services to his constituents.  Yes, you read that right.  In an effort to kiss the collective butts of District 5, JD has started offer help with White House tours, obtaing flags flown over the US Capitol, offering information on Congressional Interns, and taking suggestions for military acadamy nominations from the, glup, general public of CD 5. 

Hayworth's office is also offering itself as an ombudsman for folks with problems with federal agencies.  Perhaps immigrants waiting for a green card should submit a help request.

The lesson in this is that JD no longer can rely on his "default" status.  He has to actually do something for the folks of CD 5 in order to get elected.  Now that Joe Eule is done writing JD's book, he must be looking for other ways to spend his days.

Ending the Iraq War would be nice.  

When does JD speak without thinking about the consequences?  The internet does not have enough bandwidth to list the ways, but Hayworth is helping himself out on his free, government sponsored web page. 

He continues to lament efforts to fix the immigration problem by presenting his own one-dimensional solutions to a very complex problem.  Instead of participating with Congress on trying to fix the immigration problem in this Country, JD has chosen to sit back and criticize.  His latest catch phrase of the day is calling the efforts of Congress "a lick and a smile". 

Nice snap, but where's the beef? 

What else would Hayworth do other than build a billion dollar wall, throw border-crossers in already crowded prisions, and have the national guard shoot them on site on the way to this country? Again, JD is good at complaining, but his solutions are one dimensional. 

• Who is going to pay to build the prisons JD wants to throw all these people in?  The taxpayers.
• Who is going to pay for that 20-foot wall (when the immigrants have 21-foot ladders)?  The taxpayers. 
• How much is the going to cost?  JD does not care because his plan does not go past square one.  He's all mouth and no depth.

And just as a reminder:

• How long are we going to continue to pay for a worthless war in Iraq?  (Remember that, JD?)

The cost of that war would have built a wall around the world.

The Immigration process in the Country is broken.  Because of this the Senate is trying to alleviate some of the current problems with solutions such as caps on visas based on a per County basis rather than volume of applications (eg, Mexico has many more applicants than Switzerland), and alleviation of the current backlog of green card applications by issuing temporary cards.

While the Senate is trying to do something about the problem, JD is fighting even the main stream Republicans by promoting isolationism.  Hayworth’s mantra is painting legitimate immigration as amnesty.  Hayworth promotes ridiculous solutions such as building multi-billion dollar walls that would be worthless waste of money in the long run.  He spends more time critizing Arizona's governor than trying to solve the immigration problem he holds so dear.

JD Hayworth wants to close the borders to even legitimate immigration because of fear.  Hayworth told the Arizona Republic today that streamlining the immigration process as proposed by the Senate “will be an invitation to fraud on a massive scale.”

Hayworth’s only apparent action thus far is to promote fear of immigrants, mostly through his new book, “Whatever It Takes”.  Hayworth is quick to criticize the Congress for tying to tackle the problem, but it’s a fact that JD has not proposed one line of legislation aimed at fixing the problem.    

It's easy to sit back and complain.  Let's see a little less lip from JD and a little more action on solving this problem.