Over the last two days, the JD Hayworth 'Infomercial' story has been all over the Internet!
Here is the FULL Infomerial:
CLICK HERE TO SEE JD HAYWORTH'S 2007 'INFOMERCIAL'!
Here is the FULL Infomerial:
CLICK HERE TO SEE JD HAYWORTH'S 2007 'INFOMERCIAL'!
Many pundits are saying that this may be the final 'nail' in Hayworth's coffin. Here is what is being said about JD Hayworth & the Infomercial Scam:
Then there's his voting record. During 12 years in Congress, Mr. Hayworth may have talked a good game about restraining spending. Far more than Mr. McCain, however, he was an "enabler" of questionable budget items. It was Mr. Hayworth, not Mr. McCain, who voted for a 2003 prescription drug benefit that added enormously to the nation's future liabilities. It was Mr. Hayworth who voted for bloated farm and highway bills, while Mr. McCain opposed them. It was Mr. Hayworth who was a consistent seeker and supporter of pork-barrel Congressional earmarks. Mr. McCain, on the other hand, never requested earmarks in appropriations bills and led many a crusade against those he felt were improperly slipped into bills.
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.
The video of the highlights of Hayworth's appearance on the infomercial spread rapidly Monday across political blogs and news websites, where several commentators compared Hayworth to Matthew Lesko, the flamboyant TV huckster in the question-mark-adorned suit who has made similar claims about free government money.
"The government has a chance and you have a chance to make an investment in yourself and, in fact, improve not only your personal economic situation, but put people to work and really help rebuild the economy," Hayworth says in the ad, repeatedly insisting that the grant program is "for real."
It is for real,” Hayworth exclaims in the 2007 infomercial for National Grants Conferences before reassuring viewers that, “It’s not free money, it’s your money.”
One Arizona TV station says it has exposed the $1000 conferences as a scam:
A grant expert tells us that the information they’re trying to
sell you is available for free – on the Internet or here, at the Pima County Public Library,” KVOA’s Tom McNamara said in the 2009 report. “No. 2, a simple Internet search inputting just the company’s name reveals hundreds of complaints from people all across the country about National Grants Conferences. And No. 3, some Better Business Bureaus nationwide rate the company an ‘F.’ Separately, the attorney general in Vermont sued the company and forced them to tone down their advertising and the claims they were making.
Did I say bump? Maybe I meant ditch. Ten-car pile-up? Spontaneous campaign combustion?
Dan Nowicki uncovers a 2007 infomercial that just-defeated former congressman J.D. Hayworth cut for the National Grants Conference, a flashy group that charges $1,000 or more to attend seminars on how to get your hands on government grants. It's... embarrassing.
Hayworth may talk the talk of the Tea Party movement, but when it comes to walking the walk he’s one of the biggest pork barrel spenders the Republicans have ever elected.
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