J.D. Hayworth (third from left) and Jon Kyl (fifth from left)

As Sen. Jon Kyl was making the rounds speaking to national and local media outlets about the Senate’s border security and immigration reform agreement Friday, KFYI talker J.D. Hayworth was railing about it on the air. He christened the day “Sellout Thursday.”

Kyl took the criticism in stride.

“One reason he’s in radio now rather than in the Congress is that he expressed points of view that I don’t think represented the majority view of Americans,” Kyl told me.

Hayworth, a six-term Republican incumbent, lost his office to Democratic challenger Harry Mitchell last year.

“I won my re-election by stressing the fact that I wanted to secure the border, I wanted a very strong employee verification system to ensure that nobody can ever be employed in the future who is not legal in this country, a temporary worker program that is truly for temporary workers … and dealing with the illegal immigrants who are already here in a humane way, in a way that didn’t amount to amnesty,” Kyl said.

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