PHOENIX (AP) - Rep. John Shadegg, who announced earlier this week that he wouldn't seek an eighth term, may be reconsidering his decision to retire, a newspaper reported Thursday. The East Valley Tribune said Shadegg, 58, has wavered after learning that more than half of the Republicans in the House signed a letter urging him to stay.
"I think I have an obligation to take a look at it and consider it," Shadegg told the Tribune. "If it's 138 members, if it really is 138 members, then I've got a duty to at least look at it and give their request fair consideration."
Shadegg was flying to Phoenix on Thursday night and was not immediately available for comment, his Washington office told The Associated Press.
The Tribune said the Shadegg letter - written and circulated by Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana and Reps. Jeb Hensarling of Texas and Peter Hoekstra - states, in part: "Your intellectual consistency in defense of the Constitution and passionate articulation of conservative principles is in need now more than ever."
Shadegg announced Monday that he wouldn't seek re-election, becoming the 29th House Republican in the past 13 months to either leave office or decline to seek re-election.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hmmm, just have to ask, 'where have y'all been up til now in discussing, let alone defending, the Constitution, and what about them 'conservative principles'?
Exactly how many of y'all have been voting no on all this gawd-awful legislation that has been passed all these past years?
Shadegg tried for years to get the Enumerated Powers Act legislated into being--an act which would have at least required the congresscowards to cite article and section of the Constitution from which they believe the authority for such legislation resided.