Schweikert Gets Important Endorsement.

The Political Action Committee of Concerned Women for America (CWA) has announced its endorsement of David Schweikert for Congress in Arizona's 5th Congressional District.

CWA is the nation's largest public policy women's organization with more then 500,000 members.

The incumbent Member of Congress from CD 5 is Harry Mitchell. The CWA Legislative Action Committee says that Mitchell's rating with them is poor, having voted against their position on 25 out of 36 votes in congress.

Penny Nance, the CEO of CWA's Political Action Committee said, "David Schweikert is a stark contrast to liberal Congressman Harry Mitchell."

She pointed out that Harry Mitchell, whose voting she said matched House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 80 percent of the time, "suggest that he would prefer to listen to her than to his much more conservative district which voted for John McCain in 2008."

"My hunch is that David's personal story of adoption as a child and his strong pro-life legislative credentials will make him an irresistible choice over a partisan politician like Harry Mitchell," Nance said.

Concerned Women Political Action Committee's mission is to elect solid pro-family, pro-life conservatives to Congress. Concerned Women PAC sends out a monthly letter to members encouraging them to financially support candidates like David Schweikert.

This is an important endorsement for Schweikert which you probably wont read about in the mainstream press.

Hayworth Considering Run Against McCain

According to a report in the Washington Post by Chris Cillizza, "former representative J.D. Hayworth is weighing a candidacy against Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) in 2010, according to sources familiar with his thinking. Hayworth, a former sportscaster who spent more than a decade in Congress before he was defeated in 2006 by Rep. Harry Mitchell (D), is a popular figure among grassroots conservatives -- a status McCain has never courted or achieved. McCain already faces a primary challenge from Chris Simcox, a founder of the Minutemen -- a leading anti-immigration group. While there is considerable resentment from some grassroots conservatives toward McCain, it's not clear that he is vulnerable to a primary challenge. McCain ended June with $4.65 million in the bank."

Congress Works for Who Pays Them.

Congressmen Harry Mitchell wrote an Op-Ed for the Arizona Republic today and boasted that he joined with Rep. Ron Paul of Texas to once-again introduce the Stop the Congressional Pay Raise Act, HR 156.

Mitchell pointed out that, "This was the wrong time for Congress to raise its own pay." Unemployment is now at 8.1%, home values are falling and foreclosures are on the rise, "a Congressional pay raise seems glaringly out of touch."

The American Conservative Republican agrees with Mitchell, Congressional pay is out of touch, and this is the wrong time for Congress to raise their own pay. Perhaps Congressional pay wouldn't be so out of touch with the American people if the Congress didn't have the power to raise their own pay.

If someone works for whom pays them, then who does Congress work for, themselves?

Any time is the wrong time for Congress to pay themselves, they are supposed to work for WE THE PEOPLE, not for themselves.

The Congress has the power to appropriate money from the federal treasury to pay the bills of the federal government and the salary of employee's of the federal government including, the President and the judicial branch, they, should and do, have the power to determine how much to pay the President and other federal employees, but they should not be allowed to raid the federal treasury and determine their own pay.

The United States are a federal republic and the Congress of the United States represent the individual states in that republic, therefore, Congress works for the states and the people and, therefore, the states should determine how much to pay their representatives in Congress and pay them out of their own state treasuries.

By prohibiting the Congress from paying themselves and having the states pay Congress, the states and the people will have more control over our representatives to the federal government and therefore over the federal government itself, which was the basic idea behind forming our federal government in the first place.

If someone works for whom pays them, let the states pay Congress and have them work for us instead of for themselves.