My chat with JD Hayworth...

self | August 21, 2010 | Hildy

[Hildy]

OK, so before I get started I have to tell everyone here that JD Hayworth reads what we post here. And he REMEMBERS! LOL! I am a JD supporter, and several months ago when I met him for the first time, he told me he likes to come here to FreeRepublic and read what we have to say. I was going to have him come here, but I never followed through, which was my fault. However, I have been hard on him in recent weeks.

I have to say that because Mohave County, where I live, is so conservative, conservative candidates take us for granted. Mohave County is NOT McCain land, so it's hard for me to gauge what's really going on around the State. I hadn't seen many JD ads and frankly, McCain is spending all his money attacking (in a very ugly manner) Hayworth. If everyone in Mohave would get off their asses and vote, we'd sway this election and there'd be no more Senator McCain. But we all know that's not the way it works.

However, someone high up in Republican politics from Phoenix told me the other day that she believes JD has a very strong chance as she knows NOBODY who is voting for McCain. So although I don't see the campaign too much here in Mohave, I understand now that he has been working really hard in Maricopa where elections are won and lost. That made me feel better as I slipped into my seat at the Mohave County Republican Picnic today.

I saw Hayworth and went over to say hello. The first thing he did was hug me and then ask me why I've turned on him! (Of course, this was all done with a smile on both our faces)...He proceeded to recite back to me some of the things I've written here on FR. LOL! I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHAT I WRITE FROM DAY TO DAY..the guy has an incredible memory!

So, I know he's reading this now, and I have to tell you that he must have taken his "adorable pills" because he was sweet and adorable and NOT bombastic like I have said in the past!

Seriously, the bottom line is we must defeat McCain. If only that Jim Deakins (who is a nut and I hope he's reading this too) would have done the right thing and stepped aside, I'd feel much better about everything today.

My support for JD has never swayed. I support him, I'm voting for him and I am asking everyone from Arizona to vote for him on Tuesday.

GOOD LUCK ON TUESDAY, J.D.!!!!

[Hildy]

When did jd say that?

[Hildy]

well, we’ll see, won’t we?

[stephenjohnbanker]

B T T T

[stephenjohnbanker]

Thanks for all of your work, and for keeping us informed of events.

[MaggieCarta]

Buck McCain!

[stephenjohnbanker]

;-)

[MaggieCarta]

...what that 20 million to win a primary could have done to help conservative candidates....

Thank you, BQ! THAT is what really frosts me about Mr. Campaign Finance Reform. I haven't revisited the CFR thing in a while, but I have to guess that there is a provision for this very thing---funds left from national runs used for the candidates re-election. (And, what has HRC done with her left over dough?...hmmmm?)

Yeah, Campaign Finance Reform, indeed.

[MaggieCarta]

Arrrghhh!

candidates = candidate's.

I really hate seeing that stuff just after hitting "post"

[Borax Queen]

It’s so disgusting how far gone we are that certain elites get to do whatever they want to, and rules (and cameras watching us everywhere) are only for the little people. ARGGGHHHHH

[Arizona Carolyn]

I hope so........ I still think her tax stance was wrong...

[Arizona Carolyn]

I missed your post, glad to see you found it without our help... tomorrow I will go to the polls and do my part for JD.

[MaggieCarta]

And yet, they purport to represent us. It is sad.

[Borax Queen]

Everything’s so upside-down right now. I don’t know if I should take a news-fast (after the primary tomorrow, here in AZ, and after the Nov elections) or what. Gotta hold out hope for the moment, I guess.... keep walking door-to-door, all of that... We have a proposition on the ballot here against CommieCare so that’s a good thing...

[AuntB]

There's is a good article today outlining the too close relationship between McCain and lobbyists. The author is a liberal who doesn't like conservatives like Hayworth, but he makes the point about Mccain and his lobbyist friends like Rick Davis that I talked about in my article, Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440173/posts

John McCain Still Pallin' Around With Lobbyists

Aug. 21, 2010

[snips]McCain has sullied his carefully crafted legacy by swinging sharply to the political right, betraying his once hard-forged positions on everything from immigration reform to global warming.

In many respects, the McCain image as a "maverick" and "reformer" has always been something of a charade. McCain's seminal role in the Keating Five scandal during his first term in office forever tarnished his reputation. Indeed, there are many who would argue that what we are now seeing is the real McCain--stripped bare of the fanciful narrative--whose guiding light is neither public virtue nor principle, but raw ambition and a lust for power.

"There are two John McCains," a close friend of the senator's told New York Magazine's Joe Hagan. "The one I love is a very big man, and he's willing to take on big issues in a big way. Then there's another side of John, he'll admit, that is petty and angry and petulant and small, and that side has overtaken the other one."

For all his proclamations about congressional earmarks and fiscal transparency in the federal budget, McCain has always run with a close coterie of DC-based lobbyists, particularly during the campaign season, when his political ambitions merge with those of special interest groups who have poured money into his campaign coffers.

At the center of McCain's lobbying controversies has been uber-lobbyist Rick Davis, his on-and-off-again presidential campaign manager who, according to Hagan, has sold what was left of McCain's soul to the devil this summer in the blistering Arizona desert.

Davis has long been a shady and controversial figure around McCain. A University of Alabama drop-out and former political operative in the Reagan White House, Davis worked his way into McCain's inner-circle in the late 1990s by forging a relationship with McCain's wife, Cindy, who once described Davis to Katie Couric as "our closest friend."

During the 2008 campaign, it was Davis--who after being demoted for a second time by McCain--was assigned the task of overseeing the selection process of the senator's running mate, a process which he bungled badly. Not only did he fail to lay the political groundwork for McCain's first choice of Joe Liebermann....

Davis himself was the focus several negative stories directed at the McCain campaign. First there were the revelations that Davis had worked for the Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska and had set up a meeting in Switzerland with McCain and Deripaska, whose "suspected links to anti-democratic and organized-crime figures are so controversial," the Washington Post reported, "that the U.S. government revoked his visa."

Then came the revelations that Davis's lobbying firm was paid nearly $2 million by Freddie Mac--the controversial federal mortgage giant that was placed in receivership during the middle of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Davis and McCain were also linked to gambling interests in a celebrated New York Times expose that featured an account of McCain tossing $100 chips at a craps table in a Connecticut casino with Davis at his side--this at a time when McCain was regulating the operation of Indian casinos as a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.

Less well known was what one senior McCain advisor called a "kickback scheme" orchestrated by Davis to skim five percent of all expenditures from the McCain campaign into a partnership, Management Alliance Realty, Inc., created by Davis's friend and lobbyist Scott Reed and Reed's controversial client, Indian-casino developer and lobbyist Richard Fields. According to the Wall Street Journal, Davis also formed a company (3eDC) overseeing McCain's internet campaign contributions for which he initially charged the campaign more than $1 million.

For all the controversies, Davis is once again riding shotgun with McCain in Arizona, serving with another controversial lobbyist, Charlie Black, as senior advisors to the campaign. It has been based on Davis's advice, according to Hagan --with apparently little regard for public perception of McCain's integrity--that McCain has denied his "maverick" legacy and is sounding more and more like the right-wing Republicans with whom he once waged battle.

The sad truth of the matter is that having his lobbyist pals at his side probably hasn't hurt him. He has raised nearly $20 million to Hayworth's $2.5 million. He may have once branded himself a political reformer, but with John McCain, the democratic process has always come with a price attached.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/john-mccain-still-pallin_b_689909.html

[McGavin999]

Oh me too Carolyn, I’m hoping we can hold her feet to the fire, but we’ll just have to wait and see. Her popularity will plunge to earth so fast it will make your head spin should she turn out to be a McCain republican.

[MaggieCarta]

...I don’t know if I should take a news-fast (after the primary tomorrow, here in AZ, and after the Nov elections) or what...

I know that feeling! I do that every now and then. I watch re-runs of shows and just veg out.

[Borax Queen]

I watch re-runs of shows and just veg out.

Hahah, me too... but then something ticks me off on a show and I have to start flipping around... ("Law and Order," for ex. is so political now, it probably always was but seems soo brazen with their agenda the last few years). Old black and white movies, or westerns, are safe... :0))

[MaggieCarta]

:o) Have a great day, BQ! I will be thinking of AZ tomorrow!(I actually have an invite to a JD election party in Scottsdale, but nothing suitable to wear, even if I had the $$ for plane fare--and the time)

Perhaps there will be a FR "virtual election night" thread...yeah...that's it...

[Hildy]

Just spoke with JD’s office and he will be reading this when he gets to the office. So say whatever you want to say, and say it now!!!

[Borax Queen]

Wow about your invitation, way cool!! And thank you very much Maggie!
I *might* be going to one of the victory parties for the CD8 runoff, we’ll see (here in Tucson, nothing too glam :0), but maybe I’ll see you online afterwards or something.