Sunday, November 19th, 2006...5:26 pm
The Lottery Ads Were Off: Hayworth Didn’t Play, So Mitchell Won
Some of you may be familiar with the lottery system for congressional offices. Before each new congress, offices that have been vacated by retiring or defeated members are put into a pool, and other members get those offices based on seniority and, in the case of ties, a lottery. Offices vacated by members moving up are then given to other members moving up and so on. The basic idea is that long time members can move up into larger and more presitigious offices, while newer members get the smaller offices befiting their positions at the bottom of the House food chain.
J. D. Hayworth, being a long time member and one that was moving up in the House leadership, had swanky digs in the Rayburn House Office Building. The office was not only on an upper floor, but in a corner with a nice view. For a number of reasons, not least being that his re-election bid was officially up in the air, Hayworth’s office was never entered in the lottery. Oops.
So, Hayworth’s old office was allocated to the member that defeated him, Harry Mitchell.
Most freshman and even sophmore members get offices in the depression-era Longworth House Office Building or the cramped and decrepid Cannon House Office Building. Mitchell got to leap frog all of that and get Hayworth’s much sought after space. There are more than a few senior members who are less than amused.
Hayworth showed some grace and took Mitchell on a tour of his new office.
NB - Does Mitchell also inherit Hayworth’s creepy talking website?
11 Comments
November 19th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
“Well we’re movin’ on up”
Nice catch, Tedski.
November 19th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
Tedski,
Fabulous post!! Have no clue how you learn this stuff, but keep it up!
(This is x4mr, by the way. Yea, went beta and got locked out.)
November 19th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
I have frightened more then one person with that creepy website.
November 19th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Enjoy your one term SS Harry Mitchell….can you say Sam Coppersmith? ROTFLMFAO!!!!
November 19th, 2006 at 8:39 pm
My question is: was this due to the delay in confirming Mitchell’s win, or was it due to the gratitude of the Dem leadership for finally ridding them of JD?
November 20th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Rayburn looks like a spider. It has the bigger offices, but is a total bitch to get around. But, he should be thanking his lucky stars that he does on have to take the elevator in Cannon. What a bitch.
November 20th, 2006 at 8:03 am
I had heard this last night and was gonna mention it, but Tedski has beaten me to the punch! Doh!
November 20th, 2006 at 8:04 am
Hey, Tony G.,
That one term is already one more term than you were predicting he would have a couple months ago.
Who knows what will happen in two years. I expect Mitchell to have a hard time defending the seat. Of corse, six months ago he wasn’t expected to win in the first place.
November 20th, 2006 at 8:12 am
My nightly AZCW routine was like this:
http://www.house.gov/renzi
http://www.house.gov/franks
http://www.house.gov/shadegg
[skipped Pastor, he never has news]
http://hayworth.house.gov
[realize that my sound is on]
“HI THIS IS CONGRESSMAN J.D. HAYWORTH-”
[oh jesusgod turn it OFF already]
[turned sound off]
http://www.house.gov/flake
…
Anyway, the point — please, Harry, no talking websites. Sight-impaired people have special tools that read websites for them. Please think of the bloggers!
November 20th, 2006 at 10:31 am
What Jane, no Raúl?
November 20th, 2006 at 11:32 am
I’ll give you all the dish on the talking website.
State Rep. David Bradley’s (D-28) son, Nathan, is an owner of the company audioeye.net. When I was working in the Phoenix area, Nathan approached me more than once to have this “technology” installed on my company’s website. He even brought Barry Goldwater, Jr. along for support. My guess is that he approached JD and managed to sell him on it. I don’t remember that exact price tag but it was in the $10k’s.
Also, if you check out www.azleg.gov, they have the same audioeye.net “technology” available for use. I don’t believe Dave Bradley was connected to the legislature wasting on that money on Nathan’s company.
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