Posted on 06/21/2010 4:10:43 PM PDT by JRochelle
It appears the Senate campaign of J. D. Hayworth has hit a bump in the road. A big one:
Republican Senate challenger J. D. Hayworth appeared in a 2007 television infomercial in which he helped convince viewers that they could rake in big bucks by attending seminars that would teach them how to apply for federal grants that they wouldn’t have to pay back.
National Grants Conferences, the Florida-based company that hosted the classes and produced the informercial, has faced criticism from multiple state attorneys general and Better Business Bureaus. Hayworth, a former Arizona congressman who is running against incumbent Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the Aug. 24 GOP primary, made the infomercial after losing his U.S. House seat in the 2006 election. References to his TV appearance on behalf of National Grants Conferences appear in his Wikipedia entry, on the Internet Movie Database and other places on the Web. But the footage was unavailable. Highlights of Hayworth’s appearance are now posted on YouTube.com at this link.
The infomercial promotes seminars that ostensibly instruct attendees how to get the “free money grants.” Tucson TV station KVOA did an investigation of National Grants Conferences that you can watch here. The TV station’s investigative team found that the workshops cost from $999 to $1,200 and federal government grants really aren’t even available to individuals.
Did I say bump? Maybe I meant ditch. Ten-car pile-up? Spontaneous campaign combustion?
Tackiness aside . . . just to clarify, a guy claiming to be a fiscal conservative appeared in an infomercial urging folks to go to the government for grants to “send your kids to the best schools, buy your first home, renovate your house, become an investor, build wealth, and plan for a happy, secure retirement!” Urgh.
I have been vindicated!
Link to the video is at the site linked.
Go John McCain!!!
Nobody ever said J.D. was the brightest bulb on the tree.
He’s twice the fiscal conservative as McCain. For starters, he did not support McCain’s shamnesty, which according to the Heritage Foundation, would have cost 2.6 TRILLION. He did not support TARP, which spent $800 plus billion. And he does not believe in global Warming Cap and Tax which would be the largest wealth transfer in our history. McCain was front and center on ALL OF THESE!
I wish McCain had been as aggressive digging into the past of BHO as he is about JD. No matter how this election goes, McLame is still a back-stabbing snake who only fights hard against Republicans. How long after McCain wins do you suppose it will be before he “crosses the aisle” to work with his friends the ‘Rats to help them thwart those evil conservatives again? Juan McAmnesty reminds me of Joe Liebermann only without the integrity or charisma of Joe Liebermann.
Its embarrassing. When you do radio or TV for a living, sooner or later you’re going to do a commercial you ought not do.
Still, McCain is still McCain, and any random name from the phone book would be preferable to sending him back to do what he does. We keep saying never again and yet the guy keeps getting reelected.
I agree with you, J.D. is just plain DUMB!!!
And McCain is smart?
Dude. You too?
I’m not saying McCain is “smart”; I just said J.D. is DUMB. Have you ever watched the guy in an interview? And, no matter how you slice it, to do one of those commercials, was DUMB pissant. (I’m still rooting for him to defeat McCain.)
Yeah; me too. I’m embarrassed. Are you?
No, Dumb is supporting McCain whether by word or deed.
Well, they are both hostile to civil liberties, especially the first and fourth amendments.
Yes, they are birds of a feather only Liebermann does not pretend to be conservative for a few weeks every six years or so. Apparently, the McCain act has been good enough to fool people for quite some time now.
Folks should actually watch the video. JD’s portion is “not that bad” (although I agree it makes a negative headline).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WmeaywMcCE
Hmmm — it was posted from a youtuber who just signed up yesterday. A hatchet job from McCain groupies? nah... couldn’t be....
As to McCain, I wonder how proud he is of his Global Warming video. What a mean little man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb0ReiA2QA8
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