Seems there was other information also weighing into the decision.
Mr. Hayworth’s extensive ties to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff may still have been fresh in the minds of voters.
While in Congress, Rep. Hayworth accepted donations to his campaign and leadership PAC from convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s clients. Rep. Hayworth also used Mr. Abramoff’s skyboxes five times without reporting the costs in his Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings. Rep. Hayworth’s failure to report the skyboxes as campaign contributions violated federal election law, and Rep. Hayworth was later forced to repay the skybox owners.
Rep. Hayworth’s ties to Abramoff also enriched his family. Between 1999 and 2007, Rep. Hayworth’s wife, Mary, worked as the sole paid employee of TEAM PAC, his leadership PAC. During that time, Ms. Hayworth was paid over $140,000.
Mr. Hayworth served in the U.S. House of Representatives for twelve years before losing his 2006 bid for reelection in part due to his
People remember!
Do you remember that all those things that you and otheres keep bringing up were investigated for months and years, and no wrongdoing by JD was ever found?
Anyone who based their vote decisions on that is just plain ignorant and too easily led. There was also the Keating Five episode. And McCain is guilty of so many obvious flip/flops it's amazing that anyone can still take him seriously. There were many more weird dynamics at work in that race than you have bothered to mention.
Were you impressed with McCain's ad where he was walking along the border, saying build the dang fence? Old, tough on border enforcement McCain.
I’m not defending Hayworth. I’m telling the truth about the evil John McCain and Sarah Palin’s support of him.
Ever heard of: The Keating Five were five United States Senators accused of corruption in 1989, igniting a major political scandal as part of the larger Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The five senators...including John McCain...