John Shadegg | |
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| Chair of theHouse Republican Policy Committee | |
| In office January 3, 2005 – January 13, 2006 | |
| Leader | Dennis Hastert |
| Preceded by | Chris Cox |
| Succeeded by | Adam Putnam |
| Chair of theRepublican Study Committee | |
| In office January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Sam Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Sue Myrick |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromArizona | |
| In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Jon Kyl |
| Succeeded by | Ben Quayle |
| Constituency | 4th district (1995–2003) 3rd district (2003–2011) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Barden Shadegg (1949-10-22)October 22, 1949 (age 76) Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. |
| Party | Republican |
| Spouse | Shirley Lueck |
| Relatives | Stephen Shadegg (father) |
| Education | University of Arizona (BA,JD) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Air Force |
| Years of service | 1969–1975 |
| Unit | Arizona Air National Guard |
Shadegg supporting the State High Risk Pool Funding Extension Act of 2005. Recorded July 27, 2005 | |
John Barden Shadegg (/ˈʃædɪɡ/; born October 22, 1949) is an American politician and formerU.S. representative forArizona's 3rd congressional district, serving from 1995 until 2011. He is a member of theRepublican Party.
The district, numbered as the 4th district before the 2000 census, included much of northernPhoenix.
Shadegg is the son of Eugenia Kerr andStephen Shadegg. The senior Shadegg, a conservative political consultant and public relations specialist, supportedBarry Goldwater's 1952, 1958, 1968, 1974, and 1980 U.S. Senate campaigns and worked withF. Clifton White andPeter O'Donnell to organize theDraft Goldwater Committee in the 1963–64 presidential campaign.[1]
The Shadeggs are of partialSwiss descent.[2]
John Shadegg was born in Phoenix and received aBachelor of Arts from theUniversity of Arizona atTucson in 1972 and aJuris Doctor from theUniversity of Arizona Law School, also in Tucson, in 1975. He served in theArizona Air National Guard from 1969 to 1975.
In 1975, he went to work for the law firm of Treon, Warnicke, Dann and Roush. In 1982, Shadegg led the re-election campaign ofRobert Corbin, for Arizona Attorney General. The election was challenged with claims that Corbin buried the prosecution looking into the murder of organized crime investigative reporterDon Bolles which Corbin's former employer was suspected in. Shadegg served as Special Assistant Attorney General for Corbin between 1983 and 1990. He was also Corbin's chief lobbyist, where he was the point man for the impeachment of Gov.Evan Mecham.[3]
Shadegg served as special counsel to the Arizona state House Republican caucus in 1991 and 1992 and an adviser to theUnited States Sentencing Commission before entering the House.
From 2000 to 2002, Congressman Shadegg served as chairman of theRepublican Study Committee (RSC), a group of conservative House Republicans.
Following the 2004 election, Shadegg was elected Chairman of theHouse Republican Policy Committee, the fifth-ranking position in the House Leadership. He was the only member of theRepublican Class of 1994 serving in leadership until resigning the post to run for Majority Leader in January 2006.
On January 13, 2006, Shadegg officially joined the race for theHouse Majority Leader as a compromise alternative candidate to RepresentativesRoy Blunt andJohn Boehner. Shadegg received the support of theNational Review,[4] theClub for Growth,[5] and theArizona Republic.[6] Feb. 2, after Shadegg came third in the first ballot, his supporters switched to second place Boehner, ensuring Boehner's election on the second ballot.
Shadegg ran forHouse Minority Whip following the loss of Republican control of the House in November 2006, losing to Blunt.
From the104th Congress to the111th Congress, Shadegg introduced theEnumerated Powers Act, although it has not been passed into law. At the beginning of the105th Congress, theHouse of Representatives incorporated the substantive requirement of the Enumerated Powers Act into the House rules.
In 2007, he opposed several bills to set a deadline to withdraw troops from Iraq.[7][8][9][10][11][12] Shadegg voted against theFair Minimum Wage Act of 2007, which increased the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour.[7][13] Shadegg voted for a bill to build a 700-mile (1,100 km) fence along the border between the United States and Mexico (Secure Fence Act of 2006).[7] In 2005, Shadegg voted against a bill to create a flag-burning amendment to the Constitution.[7][14]
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Shadegg is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of onlinepoker. In 2006, he cosponsored H.R. 4411, theGoodlatte-Leach Internet Gambling Prohibition Act[15] and H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act.[16]
Shadegg is vehemently opposed to the Healthcare Reform Package that was tabled in October 2009. He said the reform package is a "Soviet-style gulag health care", and will make American healthcare something akin to that available to the prisoners of Russian gulag.[17]
On October 14, 2009, Shadegg joined with three fellow Representatives in calling for the investigation of CAIR (theCouncil on American-Islamic Relations) over allegations of trying to plant "spies", based on a CAIR memo indicating that they "will develop national initiatives such as Lobby Day, and placing Muslim interns in Congressional offices." The request came in the wake of the publication of a book,Muslim Mafia, the foreword of which had been penned by CongresswomanSue Myrick, that portrayed CAIR as a subversive organization allied with international terrorists.[18] CAIR has countered that these initiatives are extensively used by all advocacy groups and accused Shadegg and his colleagues of intending to intimidate American Muslims who "take part in the political process and exercise their rights."[19][20]
In November 2009, New York City MayorMichael Bloomberg expressed confidence in the security of having five 9/11 suspects brought to trial in lower Manhattan, to which Shadegg gave an overheated response: "Well mayor, how are you going to feel when it is your daughter that is kidnapped at school by a terrorist?".[21] He later apologized to the mayor and his family for "the insensitivity of my remarks."
On March 17, 2010, after criticizing the lack of asingle-payer health care system or an alternativepublic option in health insurance reform proposals by the Obama administration, Shadegg, who has previously responded to the possibility of such a system as, "full on Russian gulag, Soviet-style gulag health care",[22] stated in an interview, "I would support single-payer."[23] Shadegg's spokeswoman later clarified the remark, explaining that the Congressman believes that "Forcing them [health insurance companies] to compete, even through a public option, would be better than anindividual mandate which will not work."[23]
On September 29, 2008, Shadegg voted against theEmergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 which created theTroubled Assets Relief Program.[24]
Despite his support of the second economic stimulus package bill, he voted "NO" on the first Economic Package and he also was a proponent of the2009 Tea Party protests which condemned any bailouts, and even spoke at a rally in Phoenix.[25]
On November 30, 2010, Shadegg declared his opposition to the extension of unemployment benefits on the basis that "the unemployed will spend as little of that money as they possibly can", having commented to Mike Barnicle "Your answer is it's the spending of money that drives the economy and I don't think that's right."[26]
Shadegg entered the Republican primary race for Arizona's 4th District in 1994 after four-term incumbentJon Kyl began what turned out to be a successful run for theUnited States Senate. Shadegg won a four-way primary with 43 percent of the vote, and won in November. He was reelected seven times.
In 2006, the Democratic Party nominee was Herb Paine, who barely defeated his Democratic primary opponent, to face Shadegg in his November 2006 bid for reelection. Shadegg retained his seat with nearly 60% of the vote.
Shadegg announced on February 11, 2008, that he would not run for an eighth term, saying that he wanted to "seek a new challenge in a different venue to advance the cause of freedom." However, Shadegg retracted the statement on February 21 and announced he would seek reelection.[27][28] Although it was speculated that he would run for theUnited States Senate in 2010 ifJohn McCain had become president,[29] Shadegg had expressed his intention to leave public life and return to the private sector[28] before changing his mind.
On January 14, 2010, Shadegg announced he would not run for reelection to a ninth term. In his statement, Shadegg says he will "pursue my commitment to fight for freedom in a different venue."[30]
Early in 2011, Shaddeg joined theGoldwater Institute in Phoenix as a senior fellow; but he is no longer formally affiliated with the group.[31]
In 2011, Shadegg joined the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP as a partner, working out of their Washington, DC, and Phoenix offices. In 2016, Shadegg joined the Polsinelli PC law firm in Phoenix as a partner.
| Year | Democratic | Votes | Pct | Republican | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | |||||
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| 1994 | Carol Cure | 69,760 | 35.98% | John B. Shadegg | 116,714 | 60.19% | Mark Yannone | Libertarian | 7,428 | 3.83% | |||||||||
| 1996 | Maria Elena Milton | 74,857 | 33.22% | John B. Shadegg | 150,486 | 66.78% | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | Eric Ehst | 49,538 | 31.19% | John B. Shadegg | 102,722 | 64.68% | Ernest Hancock | Libertarian | 3,805 | 2.40% | Doug Quelland | Independent | 2,757 | 1.74% | |||||
| 2000 | Ben Jankowski | 71,803 | 32.71% | John B. Shadegg | 140,396 | 63.96% | Ernest Hancock | Libertarian | 7,298 | 3.33% |
| Year | Democratic | Votes | Pct | Republican | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | 3rd Party | Party | Votes | Pct | ||||
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| 2002 | Charles Hill | 47,173 | 30.29% | John B. Shadegg | 104,847 | 67.32% | Mark Yannone | Libertarian | 3,731 | 2.40% | ||||||||
| 2004 | (no candidate) | John B. Shadegg | 181,012 | 80.10% | Mark Yannone | Libertarian | 44,962 | 19.90% | ||||||||||
| 2006 | Herb Paine | 72,586 | 38.23% | John B. Shadegg | 112,519 | 59.27% | Mark Yannone | Libertarian | 4,744 | 2.50% | ||||||||
| 2008 | Bob Lord | 115,759 | 42.07% | John B. Shadegg | 148,800 | 54.08% | Michael Shoen | Libertarian | 10,602 | 3.85% |
Shadegg is anEpiscopalian.[33]
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromArizona's 4th congressional district 1995–2003 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromArizona's 3rd congressional district 2003–2011 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Chair of theRepublican Study Committee 2001–2003 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chair of theHouse Republican Policy Committee 2005–2006 | Succeeded by |
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