Andy Martin for U. S. Senator

ANDY MARTIN unleashes new ads against Mark Kirk

2010-09-30T01:03:00.000-07:00

Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin is broadcasting new attacks on military pretender Mark Kirk’s falsifications of Kirk’s service in the U. S. Navy. Martin’s new ad is on his web site and he is collecting contributions to begin airing the commercial on Illinois radio stations. Martin also plans an anti-Kirk television campaign if sufficient funds are available. Martin says Mark Kirk is a disgrace to the Republican Party. Other than Kirk, Martin is voting a straight Republican ticket. “I cannot in good conscience support Kirk,” Andy says. “Mark Kirk is a disgrace and dishonor to everything our party stands for.”

Illinois Corruption fighter Andy Martin releases his first General Election ad in the Illinois U. S. Senate campaign

Martin says he will not let Illinois’ crooked election laws discourage him from seeking votes as a candidate for U. S. Senator

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Illinois Reform Party
for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

Andy Martin’s anti-Kirk blogs:

www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com;
www.MarkKirk.us

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Could Andy be planning a new lawsuit as part of his General Election campaign for the U. S. Senate? Stay tuned

Martin’s first ad is now on his website!

“TV is next if funds are available,” Andy says

(CHICAGO)(September 29, 2010) Illinois Reform Party U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin has posted his first General Election campaign ad on his website:

http://www.andyforussenator.com/andys_ads.htm

“We are raising money to buy ads,” Martin says. “We hope to do TV next month if money is available. We are in this race to be a factor in every aspect of the campaign. We are going to keep telling the truth about Mark Kirk, an ‘officer’ in name only who is the biggest disgrace in U. S. Navy history.

“I don’t know how many people share my views and want to contribute, but if they do they can mail us a check or make an online donation at http://www.andyforussenator.com/.

“We’re in this race until November 2nd. Mark Kirk is bad for Illinois and bad for America.

“Otherwise, I plan to vote for every other Republican candidate. Kirk is a special exception.”

Andy is fighting to keep his name on the ballot and plans to solicit write-in votes if his ballot efforts are unsuccessful.

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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ANDY MARTIN asks Appellate Court to put his name on the ballot

2010-09-23T16:16:00.000-07:00

Illinois corruption-fighter Andy Martin, whose brawling style of pursuing Chicago gangster politicians and judges fits snugly in the Illinois milieu, has asked the Illinois Appellate Court in Chicago to place his name on the November 2nd ballot. Martin says Illinois politics is hopelessly corrupt, from the father daughter “crime family” of Lisa and Michael Madigan, to crooks in the Illinois Republican Party. Martin says that machine politicians in both parties want to deprive voters of meaningful choices in November. Martin says Mark Kirk is unfit to hold office.

NO: 1-10-2726

IN THE
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS
FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT
__________________________________________________

ANDY MARTIN,

Appellant,

vs.

ILLINOIS STATE BOARD
OF ELECTIONS, et al.,

Appellees.
__________________________________________________

EMERGENCY MOTION TO EITHER ORDER THE PLACEMENT OF
APPELLANT’S NAME ON THE BALLOT PENDENTE LITE OR TO SUSPEND
THE PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF GENERAL ELECTION BALLOTS

Pursuant to Local Rule 6 Appellant moves this Honorable Court to order the placement of his name on the General Election ballot, pendente lite or, in the alternative, to direct the State of Illinois and its subdivisions to suspend the printing and distribution of ballots.
I.
THE FACTS APPLICABLE TO THIS MOTION
A. Who is the Appellant?
The Appellant has been fighting corruption in Illinois politics for forty-four years, since he was a law student at the University of Illinois College of Law. He first gained some notoriety in 1968 when he exposed that Secretary of State Paul Powell was collecting bribes; Powell died shortly thereafter and left behind shoeboxes stuffed with cash.
It is axiomatic that someone who has devoted his entire .professional life to fighting corruption is highly unpopular in both the political and judicial spheres of Illinois.[1] And appellant is unpopular, precisely because he seeks to protect and vindicate constitutional rights and oppose the corrupt practices which are so prevalent in this state.
Nevertheless, it is precisely because Appellant is willing to fight for the Constitution that this Court should afford him some measure of respect.
B. What is the State’s strategy?
The Attorney General told the circuit judge that the state wanted new hearings before the State Board of Elections if the Appellant prevailed in court. In other words, the state wants hearings after the election is over concerning whether a candidate is qualified to run in already-conducted election. The political machine of Michael Madigan and his daughter Lisa Madigan is just as corrupt and odious as the political machine of Pat Brady and the Illinois Republican Party who are acting against Appellant.
The current “joke” in the media is that Madigan has chosen his own Republican to run against. See attached Chicago Tribune story. What the author John Kass leaves out is that the Republican Party is chiding Madigan to draw attention from its own corrupt shenanigans against Appellant and other candidates before the State Board, employing straw men, conduits and illegal payments under federal law.
Can it get any worse? Should appellant be ridiculed for trying to clean up the Illinois cesspool one campaign for office and one election at a time?
C. The Emergency

Every two years Illinois courts conduct “election litigation” while votes are being cast in the very election where the courts are reviewing the qualifications of candidates. This year is no different. The attached articles confirm that (i) votes are being cast and ballots are being distributed while Appellant and other new political parties are fighting to be on the ballot; and (ii) in an ultimate paean to absurdity, election officials hope that citizens will not cast votes because of the unsettled state of the ballot.
D. The Illinois judicial system as an institution is
delegitimized when it participates in the electoral charades and sham election litigation involving straw men, conduits and perjured testimony that have become a hallmark of the election process in Illinois

When a court allows itself to be a part of a charade, the court suffers as an institution. Citizens believe that Illinois politics are corrupt. To the extent that the courts participate in a corrupt process the courts ultimately and eventually lose legitimacy as impartial arbiters of constitutional rights and procedures.
There is no rational reason why Illinois should be unlike other states, almost all of which manage to avoid electoral litigation altogether by prohibiting straw men/conduit “objectors” and endless proceedings over ballot access, and which (ii) manage to resolve ballot issues before the ballots are printed and distributed, not after.
The current system of conducting Illinois elections serves the interests of corrupt public officials and corrupt political parties. Ipso facto, the system violates the U.S. Constitution as applied to candidates for federal office.
II.
LEGAL BASIS TO GRANT RELIEF
A. The Court has authority to award relief pendente lite

The Court has the authority to issue orders which protect the rights of the Appellant while the Court considers the unusual constitutional issues presented. And, after placing Appellant on the ballot pendente lite, the Court can always remove him nunc pro tunc if it later finds he should not prevail. But voters will be allowed to “cast their votes” on Appellant’s candidacy “at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner.”
B. The Court owes a higher duty to federal candidates
State courts are presumed to be competent to adjudicate federal constitutional rights and enjoy concurrent jurisdiction, Taflin v. Levitt, 493 U. S. 455, 458, 110 S. Ct. 792 (1990).
Regrettably, federal courts have held that state and local candidates are entitled to less procedural and substantive protection in electoral disputes than candidates for federal office. But there is a principled constitutional basis for that distinction.
Federal candidates are created by the U. S. Constitution; their candidacies are supervised by federal election officials at the Federal Election Commission and U. S. Senate; state officials play a limited, ministerial role as to candidacies and even ballot procedures must conform to the higher standards of the U.S. Constitution and federal law. Thus the Court has a basis to order the placement of Appellant’s name on the ballot.
The Court certainly reserves the right to rule adversely to the Appellant a later date, but the Court will no longer be conducting serious constitutional litigation under the hydraulic pressure of voters who are literally voting in the election where Appellant is a candidate.
Ironically, if this Court were to take a strong stand against present practices and issue a favorable interim ruling in Appellant’s favor, the General Assembly might in the future amend the election laws to afford judges a more rational period of time to resolve election disputes before ballots are printed and voters start voting. The current system is “broken.”
This is the classic case in which to order relief because the decision of the circuit court is objectively illogical and absurd: the court ruled that despite a very explicit and detailed statutorily-mandated procedure for service of process created by the Election Code, the fact that the respondent State Board of Elections failed to serve the Appellant was irrelevant and meaningless. The Appellant was deemed to be “aware” of the proceedings because he fled a lawsuit protesting the lack of proper statutory-mandated service!
Nothing could be more calculated to make the Illinois courts look ridiculous than a ruling in which protesting you have not been served suspends the need for actual service of process.
As long as the Courts act in a supine manner and pretend to ignore the reality of what is going on, the charade will continue.
DATED: September 23, 2010
Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

PRINCIPAL ADDRESS FOR
SERVICE OF NOTICES:
ANDY MARTIN
NATIONAL LITIGATION CENTER
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-2639
Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639
E-mail: AndyMart20@aol.com (text only)

Additional courtesy copy (not principal
address for service) requested to:

ANDY MARTIN
REGIONAL LITIGATION SUPPORT
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723

SERVICE OF NOTICES IS RESPECTFULLY
REQUESTED BY FAX OR E-MAIL

Additional e-mail address available
upon request

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify I have served the parties as set forth in the Notice of Filing on September 23, 2010

ANDY MARTIN
[1] The Illinois State Senate once passed a resolution condemning State Senator (later U. S. Senator) Paul Simon for authoring an article calling his body a corrupt institution. Prophets are indeed without honor in Illinois politics.

ANDY MARTIN: NBC News payback time for the Green Party that attacked Andy’s petitions

2010-09-23T00:20:00.000-07:00

Andy Martin exposes LeAlan Jones as a political fraud and a corrupt or fraudulent candifate for the United States Senate. The Green Party previously attacked Martin’s nominating petitions. “I have a long memory,” Andy says. “Especially for political slimeballs that attack me. Mr. Jones should go soak his head; he is an embarrassment to the Green Party, as are his buddy Rob Sherman and Sherman’s ‘attorney.’ Their attack on me has backfired.” Martin tells NBC News that Jones is such a joke he hasn’t even filed an FEC Form 2 with the U. S, Senate, to confirm Jones has spent/received a total of $5,000 in his campaign.

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Illinois Reform Party for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
Web site: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

Please donate:

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Blogs:

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Andy Martin’s anti-Kirk blogs:

www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com
www.MarkKirk.us

September 23, 2010

Steve Capus
NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

Re: Meet the Press debate Kirk/Giannoulias

Dear Mr. Capus:

I am not writing to insist that you include me in the Kirk/Giannoulias Meet The Press debate on October 10th.

Rather, I am writing to tell you that LeAlan Jones, who is demanding to be on the program, is a complete moron who has no basis on which to run for United States Senator. Jones wrote to you and tried to play the race card. Jones is a jerk of the type we find all too many of in Illinois.

First, Jones can’t even write proper English. You would think that a letter as important to him as the one he sent to you would have proper grammar. Nope. He is the “only African/American running this (sic)…”

Second, senate seats are not “historically” white or black. Appeals to racial prejudice are embarrassing.

Finally, Jones’ candidacy is a joke and a fluke. The Green Party enjoys no public support in Illinois. Illinois has a weird system of elections (rotten and corrupt through and through) in which any party with a gubernatorial candidate that receives 5% of the vote is automatically on the ballot four years later.

In 2006, Judy Topinka, a complete disgrace to the Republican Party, and the infamous Rod Blagojevich, were running against each other. Voters were outraged and disgusted and voted “Green” out of protest, not party affiliation.

This election cycle Jones slipped on the ballot without any meaningful scrutiny (the entire party slate is automatically placed on the ballot, not just the gubernatorial candidate).

The final and most devastating reason why Jones is a joke?

Yesterday I was checking with the U. S. Senate as to who has filed FEC Form 2’s with the Senate. You file a Form 2 once you spend and/or receive five thousand dollars ($5,000) as a federal candidate.

Mr. Jones has yet to file a Form 2.

Jones is a race-baiting clown who deserves no attention and no respect as a candidate. A candidate for U. S. Senator who can't even comply with federal law and file a Form 2 is a joke candifate. In other words, Jones is either violating federal law by failing to file a Form 2, or he hasn’t spent and/or received a total of $5,000. Some Green Party candidate.

The only reason to put Jones on TV would be to show he can make an ass out of himself. But then you would be accused of anti-Black prejudice for showcasing a clown like Jones.

Enough said.

In closing, full disclosure mandates that I should point out that Jones’ proxies, led by the Green Party attorney and a shill “objector,” Rob Sherman, attacked my candidacy last summer. They were obviously trying to support Jones by harassing his opponents. Sherman is a complete clown who brags about getting his car washed at sex washes. Both Rob Sherman and LeAlan Jones belong in a straightjacket. In one election cycle, Greens have gone from outsiders to being as slimy and noxious as the Republicans and Democrats in this state. Now that’s some accomplishment!

If, on the other hand, you want to invite me to join Markie and Alexi on Meet the Press, I would probably show up the Kirkster and the Jokester. At least I understand television and could help make the program electrifying.

We are just getting our campaign up and running. I am committed to staying in the race to defeat Mark Kirk, the “Closeted Congressman” who was for the Republican Party before he was against it.

Cordially,

ANDY MARTIN

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ANDY MARTIN asks Appellate Court to block Republican vote fraud

2010-09-23T00:19:00.000-07:00

Andy Martin exposed in greater detail Tuesday how Pat Brady, Brien Sheahan and John Fogarty, jr. are committing criminal violations of federal law by using Andrew Heffernan as a stooge to conduct harassing litigation against political opponents. Martin asked the Illinois Appellate Court in Chicago to block further vote fraud efforts by Brady, Sheahan and Fogarty.

IN THE ILLINOIS APPELLATE COURT
FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT

Docket Number: 10-2726

ANDY MARTIN,

Appellant,

vs.

ILLINOIS STATE BOARD
OF ELECTIONS, et al.,

Appellees.

MOTION TO PRECLUDE REPUBLICAN PARTY ATTORNEYS
FROM PROCEEDING IN THIS COURT WITHOUT A BONA FIDE CLIENT

Illinois’ election laws are a virtual temple of corruption and accommodation to corrupt machine politics. Everything that can be done to deny democracy to the people of this state can be found in the Election Code.
One of the particular banes of democracy in Illinois is election "objectors” who are not objectors at all but merely shills/fronts/stooges for “election lawyers” who are surreptitiously paid by both political parties to hamstring their opponents with lawsuits.
While Illinois may be free to encourage corrupt practices as to state elections, Illinois is only an agent for the federal government when it conducts elections for federal office. Appellant is a legally qualified candidate for federal office (see attached). Legal status as a candidate is conferred by federal law, not by state election statutes.
Andrew Heffernan is a Republican Party shill. The Heffernan name pops up in court as a proxy used by Republican State Chairman Pat Brady (a former federal lawyer who should know better himself), Brien Sheahan ("General Counsel" for the Illinois Republican Party), and John Fogarty, Jr., a Republican factotum. Heffernan is a “party” to this litigation in “name only.”
On September 20th the ultimate absurdity and fraud of the Republican Party was exposed in circuit court.
Mr. Sheahan appeared and claimed he had “not been served” with the circuit court proceedings. The reason Sheahan had not been served was because the Election Code mandates service on the objector, not the attorney. Circuit court review is treated as an independent level of litigation.
In other words, Sheahan confessed he was not communicating with his “client” but that he was nevertheless there to “represent” someone who is not even remotely his bona fide client.
The terms of a bona fide attorney/client relationship are well known to this Court. They involve, at a minimum, client meetings, payment of fees, a written retainer agreement and appearances in court. On information and belief Heffernan satisfies none of these criteria.
Given that Heffernan did not authorize his attorney to appear in court on September 20th, and that Heffernan himself defaulted and did not appear, Appellant asks this Court to declare that Heffernan is not a party on appeal and that Sheahan and Fogarty may not further represent straw parties with whom they do not enjoy a documented bona fide attorney/client relationship.
There is a further criminal dimension to this controversy. Federal courts have been somewhat lax with their supervision of state elections for state offices. But elections for federal office are conducted under federal, not state, law even though the mechanics are conducted by the several states.
Federal law requires full disclosure, and bars both surreptitious receipts and expenditures by candidates or persons supporting or opposing federal candidates. What Messrs. Heffernan, Brady, Sheahan and Fogarty have been doing appears to amount to federal criminal activity, because it is designed to defraud both the State Board of Elections and the Illinois state courts as to who is really importuning, promoting and maintaining election litigation, see United States v. Mariani, 212 F.Supp.2d 361, 373-379 (M.D. Pa. 2002).
No court should tolerate lying and misrepresentation by officers of the Court concerning the true nature of who is paying counsel fees and who is trumping up lawsuits. Proxy parties are unlawful unless full disclosure is made to the tribunal.
It is regrettable that this is the first instance and first intermediate appellate court in Illinois that has now been asked to put an end to proxy litigation being orchestrated and paid for by the Illinois Republican Party (or by the Democratic party for that matter). But, better late than never, the issue is now sub judice.
Most respectfully, this Court is asked to enter an order awarding both Appellant and the appearance of justice in the judicial system appropriate relief.

DATED: September 21, 2010
Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN
PRINCIPAL ADDRESS FOR
SERVICE OF NOTICES:

ANDY MARTIN
NATIONAL LITIGATION CENTER
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-2639
Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639
E-mail: AndyMart20@aol.com (text only)

Additional courtesy copy (not principal address for service) requested to:

ANDY MARTIN
REGIONAL LITIGATION SUPPORT
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723

SERVICE OF NOTICES IS RESPECTFULLY
REQUESTED BY FAX OR E-MAIL

Additional e-mail address available
upon request

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify I have served the parties as set forth in the Notice of Filing on September 21, 2010
ANDY MARTIN

ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk’s lawyers get caught in a lie

2010-09-20T22:39:00.000-07:00

Illinois corruption-fighter Andy Martin caught Mark Kirk’s lawyers in a lie. In a heated Monday morning hearing in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kirk’s attorneys, who are trying to keep Martin off the ballot, admitted they had lost contact with their “client” Andrew Heffernan. Heffernan faces possible criminal charges for violating federal election laws by falsely claiming he was interested in opposing Martin, when Heffernan was only a front man for the Republican Party. Federal Election law makes it a felony to engage in “conduit” political activity in federal campaigns.

Corruption fighter Andy Martin says that DuPage County Republican sex fiend Brien Sheahan admitted in open court he and John Fogarty, Jr. are basically conducting fraudulent litigation against Andy

ANDY ANNOUNCES THE RETURN OF HIS CAMPAIGN “BUNKER BUSTERS” IN A TUESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Illinois Reform Party
for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

Andy Martin’s anti-Kirk blogs:

www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com;
www.MarkKirk.us

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin was in the Circuit Court of Cook County Monday when Republican sex fiend Brien Sheahan admitted he was not communicating with his own “client”

Martin is working to put an end to the fraudulent Illinois campaign practice of “fronts” and “shams” used by Pat Brady and the Illinois Republican Party to conduct election litigation on behalf of Mark Kirk

Martin says that Tuesday afternoon he will hold the first of his new series of “Bunker Buster” news conferences.

(CHICAGO)(September 21, 2010) Illinois Reform Party U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin, whose “Bunker Buster” news conferences and political advertising earlier this year opened the door for national media to destroy the political career of Closeted Congressman Mark Kirk, will launch new attacks Tuesday on Kirk and the corrupt leadership cadre of the Illinois Republican Party.

On Saturday, Martin helped trigger massive demonstrations against Glenn Beck’s presence in Illinois on behalf of Pat Brady and other corrupt Republicans.

“There is a massive disconnect between ‘Illinois Republicans’ and the Illinois Republican Party,” Martin says. “Most Illinoisans who vote Republican are honest, hard-working, God-fearing citizens. They are pretty good conservatives. But the management of the ‘Illinois Republican Party’ is nothing but a bunch of crooks, led by Pat Brady and his sleazy staff, including legal masquerader Brien Sheahan.”

Brien Sheahan is the DuPage County Republican factotum who was engaged in a scandalous sexual relationship with a married Republican official; Sheahan reportedly got married recently to deflect rumors that he is gay.

“Most Republicans do not realize that when they contribute their precious, hard-earned money to the Illinois Republican Party, Pat Brady is siphoning off that cash to pay Brien Sheahan $35,000 a year for serving as ‘General Counsel,’” Martin notes. “John Fogarty, Jr. also profits from cash which contributors believe will be used to fight Democrats. Brady, Sheahan and Fogarty are looting the Republican Party for their own political and personal enrichment. The rest of the office staff of the Party is not much better, if at all.

“I am working on behalf of good Republicans, not the crooked cabal of ‘Republicans’ that is part of the bipartisan ‘Combine of corruption’ in Illinois politics.

“Monday Mr. Sheahan was caught in a lie, in open court, on a transcript. Sheahan told Circuit Judge Robert Bertucci that Sheahan had ‘not been served’ with Martin’s appellate materials. As required by state law, I was serving Sheahan’s ‘client,’ not Sheahan personally. Sheahan didn’t even know what the statute required. Sheahan’s confession was recorded on tape as well as being taken down by a court reporter.

“We now have conclusive evidence that Andrew Heffernan, who faces federal prison because of his fraudulent election affidavits and blatant perjury before the Illinois State Board of Elections, no longer communicates with Sheahan and Fogarty. Heffernan has belatedly realized that he is being used as a ‘chumbolone’ by the higher-ups in the Illinois Republican Party. Heffernan is committing the actual crimes, by lying abut his relationship to Sheahan and Fogarty as well as by lying about Heffernan’s real role as a stooge ‘objector’ for Illinois Republican Party leaders.

“What was the General Counsel of the Illinois Republican Party doing in court Monday claiming to act as the ‘attorney’ for someone who is supposed to be an independent ‘citizen objector?’ Obviously, Heffernan now realizes he has been used, and he could go to jail, while Sheahan collects $35,000 a year from the Republican Party for doing nothing. It is sleazy.

“But the real majordomo of sleaze in Illinois Republican circles is Mark Kirk, the ‘Closeted Congressman’ who is famous in Chicago’s ‘Boys Town’ for his escapades as a ‘gay blade’ in that neighborhood.

“Last year I told Pat Brady if he ran a crooked primary on behalf of Kirk, he and Kirk would pay for it this November. Brady ran a crooked primary, and they will be paying for it between now and November 2nd. Tuesday we drop the first ‘Bunker Buster.’ There are plenty more to come,” Martin says. “And the great thing: all of my evidence and accusations are truthful. I have a proven track record of breaking news and telling the truth about Kirk. Mark Kirk, on the other hand, uses lies to promote himself; I am using the truth to demote him.”

STAND BY LATER MONDAY/EARLY TUESDAY FOR NEWS OF TUESDAY AFTERNOON’S “BUNKER BUSTER” NEWS CONFERENCE

-----------------------------ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk’s lawyers get caught in a lie

2010-09-20T22:36:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Judge sets injunction hearing in Illinois vote fraud lawsuit

2010-07-15T10:18:00.000-07:00

A Sangamon County Circuit Judge has set a July 23rd emergency injunction hearing on a vote fraud lawsuit filed by Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin. Martin’s lawsuit seeks to end the practice by Illinois politicians of using “straw men” and corrupt attorneys to file “objections” to candidate petitions while concealing the identity of the person actually orchestrating the objection process and paying the legal bills. Martin will be filing an amended complaint Monday adding Du Page County sex fiend Brien Sheahan as a defendant. “I am fighting for the people of Illinois,” Martin says. “I am fighting for the right to run for office without sleazy lawyers filing fraudulent claims on behalf of straw men who represent hidden political interests. I will be in court on July 23rd to fight for clean politics in Illinois. Illinois is ready for reform.” The State Board of Elections held some sort of secret hearing on Martin’s candidacy. Martin is also challenging the SBE’s lack of notice and improper procedures as applied to federal candidates. Martin is adding SBE official Philip Krasny to the suit as a defendant as a result of Krasny’s secret hearing.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

IN CHANCERY
CASE NO. 2010 CH 786

ANDY MARTIN,

Plaintiff,

vs.

DONNA HEFFERNAN, et al.,

Defendants.

NOTICE OF HEARING

[This Notice of Hearing is amended to include the actual date and time of the hearing]

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on Friday, July 23, 2010, at 8:45 A.M., I will appear before the Honorable Peter C. Cavanaugh, sitting in his Courtroom at the Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. Ninth Street, Springfield, Illinois 62701, and present the accompanying motions:
1. Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction
2. Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint (all parties/add Krasny, Sheahan as defendants)
3. Motion to confirm service of process on Andrew Finko
Dated: July 15, 2010
Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN
NATIONAL LITIGATION CENTER
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-2639
Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639
E-mail: AndyMart20@aol.com (text only)

Additional courtesy copy requested to:

ANDY MARTIN
REGIONAL LITIGATION SUPPORT
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723

SERVICE OF NOTICES IS RESPECTFULLY
REQUESTED BY FAX OR E-MAIL

Additional e-mail address available
upon request

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify I have served, the defendants at the fax numbers or addresses known for them:

Donna/Andrew Heffernan: 3931 Scoville Ave., Stickney, IL 60402
John Fogarty: fax (773) 681-7147
Sharon Meroni: One Surrey Lane, Barrington Hills, IL 60010
Andrew Finko: fax (773) 453-3266
Robert Sherman: 778 Stonebridge Lane, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
State Board of Elections: (217) 782-5959; (312) 814-6485
Mark Kirk: fax (847) 559-2940
Philip Krasny: fax (State Board of Elections)
Brien Sheahan: fax (630) (866) 796-5676

on July 15, 2010

ANDY MARTIN

CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE: Andy Martin will not support Mark Kirk

2010-02-04T06:14:00.000-08:00

CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE: Thursday February 4th

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says he will not support Mark Kirk for election

Martin says the Republican Party primary process in which Kirk was selected was fundamentally corrupt and rigged

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THURSDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin calls Mark Kirk a “fundamentally immoral” individual who is unfit to serve in the U. S. Senate

Martin will work to defeat Kirk

(CHICAGO)(February, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Thursday, February 4th to announce he will not support, and will work to defeat, Mark Kirk for U. S. Senator.

"Mark Kirk is a fundamentally immoral individual,” Martin will charge. "He worked to cover-up pedophilia in the U. S House of Representatives and tried to get pedophile Mark Foley to run for reelection. I find Kirk’s behavior sickening.

“Kirk shamelessly lies about and inflates his military record. Kirk’s military falsifications and exaggerations were an issue late in the primary. My advertising attacking Kirk’s abuse of the U.S. Navy uniform was later picked up by a reporter.

“I will continue my Freedom of Information activity to seek the release of Kirk’s hidden military files. There is nothing more despicable than a fraud such as Kirk who seeks to falsify his military service and ‘rip off’ the valor of our men and women in uniform. Kirk is a sick, sick man.

“Kirk should be criminally prosecuted for his military abuses and falsifications.

“The slimy Illinois news media have been Kirk’s accomplices in spreading Kirk’s bogus military claims. In one utterly absurd example in January, Kirk issued a false press releases to the Associated Press, when then uncritically reported Kirk’s lies. Kirk then printed the AP’s lies on his own campaign literature, in effect laundering his lies through the Associated Press. This is journalism? I have posted the U. S. Navy’s response to my earlier FOIA request, in which the Navy could find no records to confirm Kirk’s claim that he ‘served’ in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2008. [See www.markKirk.us]

“In reality and practicality Kirk has been a visiting congressman who tried to collect a second salary by falsely claiming he was doing ‘double duty.’

“In endorsing Mark Kirk, left-wing Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg called Kirk a ‘new Dick Durbin’ and Richard Daley’s favorite Republican. Is this what Republicans really want? Another Durbin? A Daley Republican? Is Kirk part of the corrupt bipartisan Combine, or what?

“Finally, Kirk bribed the Republican Party with $50,000 in cash to rig the primary in his favor. The ‘election’ was a travesty. Cash-and-carry democracy is not democracy at all. It is Washington Beltway corruption and control of our local electoral process. Kirk used the Republican Party’s apparatus as his own campaign machinery. When a primary is rigged, the candidates that emerge from that process are not entitled to party loyalty.

“I will not support Kirk. I will work to defeat Mark Kirk. He is a fundamentally immoral individual.

“I plan to support all of the other members of the Illinois Republican ticket.”

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February 4th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN: Thursday, February 4th 2:00 P.M.

WHAT:

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says he will not support and will work to defeat Mark Kirk. Martin calls Kirk “immoral.”

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

WEBSITE: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010
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Illinois Republican Primary a potential disaster for the Party

2010-02-04T06:13:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin emerges as the big winner. Both the corrupt bipartisan “Combine” and so-called “conservatives” suffer near-death experiences. Martin offers his counterintuitive analysis of what happened on February 2nd. Although Republican Party bravado claims “Illinois is next,” Illinois is still last. The media continue to be fascinated with Andy’s advertising operations, http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
Web site: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

Please donate:

www.AndyforUSSenator.com

Blogs:

www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

www.MarkKirk.us

February 3, 2010

Dear Republican:

To all of you who voted for me, supported me and encouraged me in the primary I am deeply appreciative. Thank you.

You are probably wondering what happened in the election yesterday. The usual blather from the liberal media conceals, not reveals, the truth. I was the big winner. The corrupt bipartisan “Combine” and the so-called “conservative” wing of the Republican Party were both big losers. Surprised at my conclusions? Let me explain. After a little reflection I think you’ll agree with my analysis.

First, let me take you behind the scenes of my own campaign.

I. Andy’s team prepares to run a primary campaign

The biggest problem we faced during the campaign was a corrupt Republican Party leadership that was trying to rig the primary for Mark Kirk. Beginning on August 20th the resident thug Randy Pollard refused to let me speak at Republican Day in Springfield. The adulterous “legal counsel” of the party, Brian Sheahan, tried to harass me at the State Fair. On and on it went. A circuit judge had to order them to stop harassing me.

In preparing an advertising campaign, we faced a major problem. Because of the large number of anti-Kirk candidates (5), we felt that any ads we ran could help the other candidates as much as my ads helped me. I don’t know if Kirk “salted” candidates in the primary to split up the opposing vote but it sure looks that way. But even if all of the other four candidates were genuine, they were dividing the Kirk opposition vote five ways. Not good for me.

Finally, in mid-December we reached the moment of truth. If we ran no ads, or only generic ads, their impact would be limited. If we ran hard-hitting ads, they might damage Kirk but benefit all of his opponents.

Negative ads work best in a two-person race. If you hammer your opponent successfully, voters switch to you because there is nowhere else to go. If you hammer one of five candidates, people may decide to vote against the target candidate but then support one of the other opponents. We took the risk of running hard-hitting ads because only aggressive anti-Kirk ads could break through the media fog of unabashed support for the Kirkster. In other words, we ran hard-hitting ads because practically speaking we had no other option but to take the risk of helping Kirk’s other opponents as well.

II. Andy’s ads start hitting Kirk with the truth

On December 28th we began bombarding Kirk with the truth. Pat Brady immediately tried to smear me. As he did through the campaign, Brady was actually working against Kirk’s interests. During the next month we exposed Kirk as both a personal and political fraud. Kirk did nothing while a pedophile, Mark Foley, roamed the House of Representatives importuning the children who work there as pages. Kirk was part of the pedophilia cover-up.

Kirk shamelessly inflates his military credentials. We exposed his fraudulent military claims. Each of my commercials was meticulously documented. We exploded the false image of Kirk that the media were feeding Republican voters.

Unfortunately for me, the attacks on Kirk also energized his other opponents to think they had a chance of winning the primary. One candidate attacked my ads publicly and then used Paul Caprio to distribute the same material privately. My ads took Kirk down from what might have been a blowout victory and dropped him into an embarrassing situation where almost half of the Republican Party’s primary base voted against him.

III. Is Kirk really a winner?

Half the primary electorate voted against Kirk despite media claims that his opponents lacked the resources to run an effective campaign. So, if your five opponents lack any money, and only one of them runs broadcast ads on a limited basis (me,) and the rest run no ads or virtually no ads (Hughes) how can that farcical imbalance be deemed an electoral victory?

“Winners” emerge from real contests, not from lopsided and rigged campaigns where everything is fixed in advance and half the voters still reject the favorite. Kirk was a big loser on February 2d. Don’t believe the media and the Pat Brady-inspired lies to the contrary.

IV. Republicans saw a similar situation in the gubernatorial primary

The same thing that happened to me, where my advertising either benefited or encouraged other candidates, also happened in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Senator Bill Brady lacked the money to run ads in the Chicago TV market. In the closing days of the primary, Andy McKenna began to run ads attacking Kirk Dillard for his 2008 support of Barack Obama.

Although McKenna was trying to knock off Dillard so McKenna himself would win, McKenna was not strong enough to reach the top. Instead, McKenna’s attacks on Dillard appear to have had the unintended consequence of nominating Bill Brady.

That’s what happens when you run attack ads in a multi-primary candidate. Your ads could end up benefiting someone other than yourself. In the governor’s race, it is clear that McKenna’s attacks were the little extra needed to cut down Dillard so Brady could eke out a victory. I am sure that is not the outcome McKenna wanted.

V. So-called “pro-family” conservatives became a laughingstock

Patrick Hughes hired Paul Caprio to “bag” endorsements for his flatulent senatorial candidacy. Caprio created the bogus “STOP” campaign as a fig leaf to promote Hughes. Christian conservatives were invited in August to attend a “screening” meeting that Caprio had rigged in advance in favor of Hughes. From the first day he announced, when he claimed he had $400,000 in "commitments,” Pat Hughes was a liar and a loser.

In the closing days of the primary Hughes was shoveling conservative “endorsements” out the door. Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Conservative “this” and Conservative “that.” In the end he had a long list of “endorsements” but none of them actually campaigned for him. On Election Day he could not break 20%. Hughes will go down in history as the man that blew a half million dollars without ever running a single broadcast ad. But his chauffeur was paid $10,000.

Now Hughes is supporting “party unity” and, no surprise, Paul Caprio has his palm out to be greased again. And they call themselves Christians. The “pro-family” movement was exposed as a bunch of incompetent, conspiratorial blowhards. Jack Roeser, who funds almost all of these weenies, lost three out of four campaigns and attacked the only genuine conservative who ran an honest campaign (me). Roeser is another imperious joker.

VI. Where do I go from here?

I will be taking time off and going on vacation. Lots of things get put on hold when you become involved in a statewide race.

I was interviewed in December by NBC News for a special program to air on MSNBC in March. I still can’t tell you what the program is about, because they were never clear, but no doubt I will continue to be a national figure in the anti-Obama movement.

I have blocked out ten days in April to return to Hawai’i to do continuing research on Barack Obama’s origins. I don’t yet know if the sponsorship for the trip will be available.

Locally, before I leave I plan to announce an anti-Mark Kirk effort. Kirk and his supporter Pat Brady ran a dirty campaign and they will not receive my support. I urged Brady to stop the dirty tricks, so the party could unite after the primary. Brady refused. The party will not unite. By comparison, the Democrats that voted for various U. S. Senate candidates will all support the winner.

In the Republican Party, the Republicans who voted against Kirk in the primary will not support him in the general election. Had Brady run a fair and honest primary, I was prepared to support the winner of the primary, as I have in the past. But because Brady is just as crooked as the rest of the sleazy people in the Republican Party’s leadership, Brady has forfeited party unity.

Summing up, the bipartisan “Combine” of corruption was a big loser. The candidates closest to the Combine did not win yesterday. And instead of having a gubernatorial winner, Republicans temporarily have two “winners” who are going to have to fight it out until one of them is acknowledged as the undisputed nominee. Not good. No one has and idea how long that could go on.

In the senate race, because Pat Brady ran a dirty campaign and poisoned the process, he has a candidate, Kirk, who is popular with the media but who was rejected by almost half of the Republican base. To me, that rejection is not a good sign. Kirk may have drawn Quislings like Pat Hughes and John Arrington to his “unity” breakfast on Wednesday, but neither of them has much to offer a statewide campaign. There is no unity when half the candidates refuse to appear with the “winner.” As Kirk’s homosexual Praetorian Guard takes working control of the Republican Party the “rumors” about Kirk will become shriller and more insistent.

As for me, with the limited resources available to my campaign we did a good job of telling the truth about Mark Kirk and stopping the media from completely stealing the senate primary. I feel good about my efforts. That’s why I believe I am a big winner. I live to fight another day for truth, justice and the American way.

As always,

Andy

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P. S. I’m not asking for a recount. The primary was rigged from start to finish.

Andy Martin: a passion for public service and public integrity. Please vote February 2nd

2010-02-02T09:08:00.000-08:00

Andy Martin recalls forty years of public service to the people of Illinois, and promises a renewed passion to rebuild the Illinois economy. Martin makes an appeal for votes in the February 2nd Illinois Republican primary.

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
Web site: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

Please donate:

www.AndyforUSSenator.com

Blogs:

www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

www.MarkKirk.us

February 2, 2010

Dear Republican:

Now it’s up to you. Please vote. We need every vote. We need the votes of your family and friends. Just two years ago in the U. S. Senate primary I received nearly a quarter of a million votes (240,548). That was a presidential year when turnouts are traditionally higher. But if we could get everyone who voted for me in 2008 to vote for me in 2010, we could win the U. S. Senate nomination and change the politics of this state.

Monday we completed a 700-mile trip across the State of Illinois. We met with both media and ordinary citizens. The response from local Republicans was always enthusiastic.

All of the Republican senate candidates have adopted roughly similar platforms. All of them claim to oppose gun control. All of them claim to oppose abortion. One candidate calls himself as “Reagan conservative.” Puuuulease. All of us are Reagan conservatives. No candidate has a monopoly on President Reagan.

So why vote for me?

In one word: passion.

As campaigns wear on, candidate stock speeches often get stale. But I don’t have a stock speech. Every speech I give every day is new, fresh, original.

My opponents look at politics as a vocation, a business, a profit-making venture. I consider the opportunity for public service a call to arms, a call to action, a call to passion.

Ever since I began fighting local corruption as a young law student at the University of Illinois, my passion for corruption-fighting and for public integrity has distinguished me from my competitors. Over forty years ago a background check found that I was a leading conservative and a staunch opponent of the New Left. No other "conservative" Republican has my forty-year record to offer you as a starting point for service in the U. S. Senate.

Most candidates go through the motions with little emotional investment in the outcome. Voters want “jobs?” They discuss jobs. They deliver what the public appears to want. They use polls to test their responses.

I don’t need a poll to tell me our nation is under attack; our values, our way of life, our economic system are under attack from Democrats in Washington and Springfield. I see Illinois cities hurting. I see politicians profiting while the people are impoverished. I see Illinois futures dying and children leaving.

I promise you a passionate defense of American values. I promise you a passionate attack on the economic problems that confront Illinois. My plan to use high-speed passenger rail development to jump start economic development is a commitment I believe in.

Over thirty years ago my passion for the people of Rockford and Winnebago led me to answer a call to help local residents fight for better transportation. We went to the Governor’s office to protest cuts in Highway 51. I proposed we create a new Interstate highway. My efforts culminated in the construction of Interstate 39.

Yesterday I drove on I-39. My concept had been turned into concrete. My dreams had been realized. I saw an incredible stream of trucks carrying commerce across the state. How would we have accomplished the same goals if the opponents of I-39 had succeeded? My passion carried the day. Today the highway I helped create delivers the goods.

Now I have to ask for some of your passion. The forces of corruption and inertia are in control of both political parties. Politicians become more and more powerful as our state teeters on the brink of bankruptcy. I need your passion, your commitment, your energy to vote for me.

Please vote for real change, not hollow promises. Please vote for a proven champion who has delivered real results. Please vote for the future of today’s children and grandchildren. We cannot fail. We cannot tire. We must succeed to save Illinois from the forces of corruption and calamity.

Together we can succeed. Together we can build high-speed rail into a major new economic engine of this state. Together we can preserve our home towns and expand economic prosperity to every corner of this state. Together.

I am ready to serve you in Washington.

So vote. Please vote for our future. Vote for a better and brighter future. Vote for the future of this great state of Illinois. I need your vote.

My pledge is a simple one. To follow God’s plan for us. The Prophet Micah (6:8) says that we must “do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.” That is my promise to you.

If we band together as a team, our votes collectively can become a powerful force in Illinois politics. Your vote is needed and appreciated, today. I ask you again for your vote. Thank you.

As always,

Andy

SUNDAY NEWS CONFERENCE-BELVIDERE: Andy Martin promises a “Rockford (Ill.) Rail Revolution”

2010-01-31T01:14:00.000-08:00

“Illinois Tough” U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will charge at a Sunday (today) Belvidere news conference that the Rockford area would not have been ignored for federal stimulus funding if he had been in Washington. “The Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson region needs a Washington fighter, not another Washington insider,” Martin says. “My principal opponent Mark Kirk was said by the Chicago Sun-Times today (Sunday) to be hiding in a ‘bunker.’ If Kirk is hiding now, what will he be like after he is elected? My political activism spearheaded the development of I-39,” Martin notes. “Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson Counties need a vigorous advocate, not losers of the Quinn-Durbin variety. If Durbin can’t deliver for Illinois with his stooge in the White House, what is he going to do when Republicans take over in November?” Martin will state. Martin will also speak to Boone County Republicans at a Lincoln Day Luncheon. Martin promises to “Deliver for Downstate”

BELVIDERE NEWS CONFERENCE: Sunday January 31st

“Illinois Tough” U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says passenger rail should run through Belvidere, not Genoa

Martin says that Governor Quinn’s Saturday promises were a response to the embarrassing loss of federal funds.

Martin says that although both parties have failed Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson, he will fight for the area in Washington

Martin is credited by the Chicago Tribune with spearheading the creation of I-39 in the 1970’s

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUNDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN BELVIDERE

Andy Martin says Durbin and Quinn have failed to deliver for Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson Counties

Martin says that high-speed rail, not Toonerville Trolleys to Dubuque, should be the first priority

Martin says high-speed rail would tie Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson Counties to O’Hare and the Chicago area, creating a local economic boom

Andy promises to “Deliver for Downstate”

MARTIN HAS THE ONLY CAMPAIGN WEB SITE WITH A SPECIAL LINK SUPPORTING HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE

(CHICAGO)(January 31, 2010) “Illinois Tough” Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Belvidere (Boone County) news conference Sunday, January 31st to promise that he will lead a “Rockford Rail Revolution” when he becomes United States Senator. Martin says that Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson leaders have failed abysmally.

At his news conference Martin will brandish “studies” from as long as ten years ago to show the complete impotence of local representatives of both parties to move forward with rail service.

“Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson Counties have lacked an effective voice in the U. S. Senate. Dick Durbin has proven to be totally ineffective, even with his pet rock in the White House,” Martin says. “Pat Quinn? Don’t ask. If I had been in Washington the Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson area would not have been shut out of stimulus funding and high-speed rail cash. No one is going to run over me.

“I favor a ‘Manhattan Project’-style simultaneous design and build high-speed rail program to get America moving and get Illinois ‘on the right track, not the side track.’ Trains in staid Great Britain already go 200 miles an hour. Why should Americans be satisfied with less than half that, a decade from now?

“Governor Quinn’s face-saving promise Saturday to deliver Illinois capital funds for rail service is only a desperate, last-minute pre-primary device to stave off the embarrassment of having failed to deliver for Illinois.

“I believe that high-speed rail can only come through Belvidere to Rockford and Freeport. We want to connect an existing corridor of economic activity that can benefit from high-speed connections to the O’Hare and Chicago economies. We need to integrate Rockford Airport into the Chicago regional economy. What is in Genoa?

“Three decades ago I spearheaded the effort to upgrade Highway 51 into an Interstate highway. I have proven I can produce results. Illinois is falling further and behind other states. Dick Durbin is an effective stooge for labor racketeers and other special interests. But he has failed to deliver for ordinary Illinoisans. I will.

“I have the only campaign website [www.AndyforUSSenator.com] with a separate web page showcasing my commitment to high-speed train service [www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com].

“In the Republican primary I am ‘primarily’ running against Mark Kirk, a man who doesn’t even know where ‘downstate’ is. The Chicago Sun-Times reports today that Kirk is hiding in a ‘bunker’ somewhere, maybe to avoid my ‘Bunker Busters.’

“I am not going to Washington to be an insider. I am going to represent the people of Illinois. Kirk can’t deliver his own presence in Boone-Winnebago-Stephenson. How is he going to deliver for the struggling economy of this region?

“High-speed rail. High-speed rail. High-speed rail. This region needs access to the national economy. We need to make Rockford Airport part of the national economy, not a leftover stopover. I will deliver that connection as U. S. Senator. I-39 shows I will ‘Deliver for Downstate.’ Has any Republican shown they can do better?

“We need hard-hitting bi-partisan competition in Washington, not a one—party government. I am the only candidate in either party with a long track record of fighting for ordinary citizens.”

Martin is making his last stop in the area before Tuesday’s primary.

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January 31st Belvidere news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Belvidere Community Center, 111 W. 1st Street, Belvidere
(Lincoln Day Luncheon)

WHEN:

Sunday, January 31st 2:00 P.M.

WHAT:

“Illinois Tough” U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin
promises to lead a “Rockford Rail Revolution” bringing high-speed passenger rail service to Belvidere, Rockford and Freeport.

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010
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Chicago News Conference: Andy Martin calls Pat Hughes “disgraceful” candidate

2010-01-29T23:14:00.000-08:00

U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin responds to a request by so-called “pro-family” leaders to withdraw by suggesting that their candidate, Patrick Hughes, be the one to exit the senate primary. Martin ridicules “Imperial” Hughes for paying a personal chauffer $10,000 while running out of money to pay for broadcast advertising. “This man is going to ‘balance the budget,’” Andy asks. “Hughes can’t even manage his own campaign budget.”

CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE: Saturday January 30th

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Patrick Hughes should withdraw as a Senate candidate

Martin says that Hughes has run a “disgraceful, disingenuous and dishonorable” campaign

Martin says Hughes’ “$10,000 chauffer” was emblematic of a ridiculous campaign

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SATURDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin calls on Patrick Hughes to withdraw as a senate candidate after Hughes’ “disgraceful, disingenuous and dishonorable” campaign

Martin notes Hughes spent a half million dollars of campaign funds on luxuries such as a $10,000 chauffer but never aired a single broadcast ad

Martin says Hughes fraudulent list of “endorsements” this week was a disgrace to the political process

(CHICAGO)(January 30, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Saturday, January 30th to ridicule Patrick Hughes’ latest request that other candidates withdraw in favor of Hughes. Martin will counter that Hughes has run a “disgraceful and dishonorable” campaign and should himself withdraw.

“From the first day Hughes announced, Patrick Hughes has been lying, dissembling, misrepresenting and exaggerating his resources to Illinois Republicans,” Martin will state. “Having offered Illinoisans and campaign contributors a pack of lies, it is Mr. Hughes himself who should withdraw.

“His campaign has now run out of cash without ever running any broadcast advertising.

“On August 20th when he announced as a candidate, Hughes said he had ‘commitments’ of $400,000. He never even raised a large fraction of that amount. At the gitgo, Hughes was lying. There were no ‘commitments.’

“Hughes spent six months exaggerating, and running a grossly incompetent campaign. Hughes had no money for broadcast advertising but found $10,000 in campaign cash for a personal chauffer:

http://teamamerica10th.blogspot.com/2010/01/patrick-hughes-senate-campaign-spends.html

“Hughes was the ‘imperial’ candidate, driving around the state with his chauffer while being unable to raise funds or rouse supporters.

“Hughes said Mike Ditka was on his Finance Committee. Ditka never served on any such committee. Hughes did manage to extort a lukewarm ‘endorsement’ out of Ditka after Ditka was embarrassed by his own confusion and malapropism.

“During the past few days, Hughes has cemented his status as one of the most dishonest candidates in Illinois political history. He falsely claimed that some Republican Party officials had endorsed him. They denied Hughes’ claim:

http://teamamerica10th.blogspot.com/2010/01/patrick-hughes-senate-campaign.html

“Throughout Hughes six-month charade, so-called ‘pro-family’ poseurs have encouraged and endorsed Hughes after every embarrassment and disaster. But these so-called leaders never generated any significant financial support for Hughes.

“Hughes has been a world-class namedropper. He shamelessly drops the names of State House Republican leader Tom Cross and State Senator Kirk Dillard. He claimed that Richard Perle was his ‘adviser’ but Perle never appeared anywhere to confirm that fact. He claimed to have the endorsement of talk show hosts, but in one case that endorsement (Mark Levin) disappeared from the radio host’s web site. None of these people hosted a fundraiser or did anything commensurate with Hughes claims of ‘support and endorsement.’ The only person Hughes has not claimed an endorsement from Lady Gaga.

“Sadly, Hughes proved himself to be a complete chumbolone. Everyone took him to the cleaners. He hired a $10,000 ‘chauffer.’ He paid out tens of thousands of dollars in staff salaries. But he never aired a single broadcast ad. Instead, he ran a handful of cable TV advertisements as a face-saving gesture.

“Hughes promised Jack Roeser he would dump Paul Caprio, but failed to do so. Caprio collected another check from Hughes in the recent financial forms. Roeser’s own mascots, John Biver and Doug Ibendahl, have shamelessly promoted Hughes. For what?

“Illinois Review? The ‘Crossroads of the Chumbolone Community?’ The IR weenies have been in overdrive over Hughes.

“I am the only candidate who can stand up to Barack Obama. I am the only candidate who has stood up to the crooked Republican Party leadership in Illinois and exposed Mark Kirk as a military masquerader and worse.

“Unlike Hughes, who has been badgering his opponents to withdraw for months, with a conspicuous lack of success, I would never ask another candidate to withdraw.

“When this primary is over, the false prophets of the so-called pro-family movement need to do some deep soul-searching about their misguided role in the primary. They met in secret last summer to endorse Hughes, after cash changed hands. They took their Thirty Pieces of Silver and delivered their endorsements. Phyllis Schlafly did not even know she had endorsed Hughes, raising a cloud over her own mental competence to be a leader of Illinois voters from a residence in Missouri. I could go on, but you get the point.

“Hughes greased palms from Chicago to Washington, and it got him nothing but a lot of empty promises and hollow endorsements.

“We still have time to unify against Kirk, and to work on a united basis against the Democrats. If voters want to join me, I am prepared to lead,” Martin will state. “Hughes is no leader. He proved to be the Sad Sack of the so-called pro-family movement.”
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Andy Martin
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron
Chicago, Illinois 60611-4723

January 28, 2010

Dear Mr. Martin,

As leaders of many of the pro-family groups in this state, we want to thank you for your willingness to put your personal life on hold in order to run for Senate. We know it is a sacrifice and we are grateful to you for that.

We have a common purpose. We all love our country and our state and are concerned about the moral and fiscal chaos we’ve seen at home and in the nation’s capitol. We are certain your motivation to get in this race was to change that.

But we ask you now to consider doing something difficult in the best interest of the state and the nation. Patrick Hughes is the only conservative candidate who has enough support to beat the very liberal and well-funded Mark Kirk. Even if we can unite conservative voters in the state, it will still be an uphill battle. But it is certain that Mark Kirk will prevail if all current candidates remain in the race.

We implore you to drop out of the race and throw your support behind Patrick Hughes as soon as possible. We are asking Kathleen Thomas, Judge Don Lowery and John Arrington to do the same. As it stands now, we will be doomed to yet another Democratic victory in the fall if we don’t have a strong conservative candidate to face them in November. Voters will stay home if Mark Kirk wins.

If you will do this, we as family leaders in the state will remember your demonstration of selflessness in this race in the future.

If you can respond to this letter, we will send out a press release praising you for this move. Voters won’t forget what you did.

With respect….sincerely,

Phyllis Schlafly Founder and President of Eagle Forum*
David Smith Director of the Illinois Family Institute*
Sandy Rios President of Culture Campaign*
Ralph Rivera Director of Illinois Citizens for Life PAC*
Bob Van Den Bosch Founder of Concerned Christian Americans*

*Organizations and titles for the purposes of identification only

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January 30th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Saturday, January 30th 2:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin calls on his opponent Patrick Hughes to withdraw after Hughes’ “disgraceful, disingenuous and dishonorable campaign”

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

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Obama drops homosexual rights “bomb” on the Illinois primary

2010-01-28T01:53:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin demands that Mark Kirk announce his stand on Barack Obama’s proposal to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military. With the Illinois primary only hours away, Barack Obama has dropped an unexpected ‘bomb’ on Obama’s favorite Republican, senate frontrunner Mark Kirk. Patrick Hughes has also been skittish about gay issues. Martin is demanding answers. Martin supports continuation of “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin set to challenge Mark Kirk at Effingham County Republican Party Lincoln day Dinner: tell Obama to drop repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell”

Martin says every Republican candidate for U. S. Senator should take a firm and public stand against Obama’s promise to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell”

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin also set to challenge Patrick Hughes, who has been afraid to address homosexual issues: “Where do you stand on repeal of Don’t ask, don’t tell?’”

Martin calls Mark Kirk “the darling little boy of the homosexual lobby”

Martin says no one has a “right” to serve in the military

(NEW YORK)(January 28, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will throw down the gauntlet to Mark Kirk, Patrick Hughes and other Republican candidates at the Effingham County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner Thursday evening when he uses some of his allotted speaking time to say: “Tell Barack Obama to drop his efforts to repeal ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’”

“One of the disclosures that came out of the recent controversy about my advertising involving Mark Kirk’s private life was the unanimous declaration by homosexual activists and media that Mark Kirk was ‘their guy,’ Martin says. “Well, is Kirk the ‘guy’ of the gay lobby? Republican primary voters have a right to know. On the eve of the Illinois primary, Barry Obama has thrown down the gauntlet. I propose that we throw it right back at him. There is no need to change the ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy. The policy strikes an appropriate balance between the right to privacy and the right to military unit cohesion and decorum. The last thing we need to do in the middle of a war is invite the gay lobby to start filing discrimination lawsuits against our men and women in uniform. Recruitment will suffer. A lot of parents are not going to want to send their kids into a gay-orchestrated military environment.

“Likewise, Patrick Hughes has been afraid to tackle the controversy over gay rights. Well here is Hughes’ chance to tell his supporters where he stands.

“I challenge Kirk and every other Republican to tell Obama ‘No: do not repeal ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’’ I am sure the Associated Press reporter who covers Mark Kirk like a cheap blanket, Deanna Bellandi, can get the Kirkster on the phone. Let’s find out what the little critter has to say about his friend Obama’s latest ‘bomb.’ Let Kirk tell his admirers in the gay community he is against allowing gays to serve openly in the military.

“The issue is not homosexual rights. Homosexuals deserve the very same protection of the law as every other American. They are entitled to the same full protection of the law.

“Unlike Kirk, I do not have a military commission; but I do have an Honorable Discharge from the U. S. Air Force Reserves.

“But unlike Kirk, who fantasizes that he is the greatest ‘fighter’ since Genghis Khan, I have actually been in combat, in the jungle, and in many other precarious military situations. A war zone, a battlefield, a combat unit is no place for political correctness or sexual politics. Not even the kind of ‘fantasy’ war zones Kirk claims to be ‘fighting’ in.

“Obama is wrong. Conservative Republicans are right on this issue. Will Illinois Republicans stand up, despite the homosexual staff operating under State Chairman Pat Brady, with John McGovern acting as the Party’s de facto state executive director, and condemn repeal of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell?’ I will pose that question Thursday evening in Effingham.

“Will Deanna Bellandi call Kirk to find out where he stands? Or is the Kirkster still in hiding? Republican primary voters want to know.”

“Of course, I have a ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ complaint pending against Kirk at the Navy Department. In a sense, Kirk has been boxed in by his own supporters and his own hypocrisy.”

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

All Aboard! Andy Martin whistle-stops across Illinois

2010-01-27T21:42:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will whistle-stop across eastern and central Illinois Thursday, January 28th campaigning in Chicago, Kankakee, Champaign, Mattoon and Effingham for his plan to build a “21st Century” high-speed passenger rail network. Martin will ridicule Barack Obama’s “19th Century” proposal to marginally increase train speeds. Martin says Obama’s timidity will never create jobs or stimulate the economy. Martin favors a “Manhattan Project”-style campaign to “design and build” new high-speed rail networks on an emergency basis. “We must have a ‘fierce urgency of now’ to build major public improvements (where have we heard that phrase before?),” Martin says, “not a lackadaisical plan to spend billions on worthless incremental improvements.” Martin favors competitive bidding and private sector control of the new “land grant” program to rebuild America’s transportation network. Warren Buffet: are you listening? Martin will also slap his opponents Mark Kirk and Patrick Hughes for being political frauds.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin slams Obama’s “Toonerville trolley” plan for “hy-speed’ trains. Martin backs a 21st century high-speed rail plan for Illinois and the Midwest

Martin says Obama’s “hy-speed’ proposal shortchanges Illinois and the Midwest

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THURSDAY NEWS CONFERENCES IN CHICAGO, KANKAKEE, CHAMPAIGN, MATTOON AND EFFINGHAM

Andy Martin says Illinois needs a “21st Century” high-speed rail system, not Barack Obama’s “19th century” improvements

Martin calls for a “Manhattan Project”-style emergency building program

Martin renews his charges that Mark Kirk and Patrick Hughes are political frauds

(CHICAGO)(January 28, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a series of news conferences across eastern and central Illinois to slam Barack Obama for a “hy-speed” rail proposal that only marginally increases train speeds.

“Obama is proposing improvements to a 19th century system," Martin says. “We need a ‘Manhattan project’-style program to build a 21st century high-speed rail network in Illinois and parts of the Midwest.

“A 21st century high-speed rail plan would create hundreds of thousands of jobs. If we proceed on an emergency basis with a simultaneous ‘design and build’ approach, we can start building within months.

“What does high-quality high-speed rail cost in the long run? Zero. The added value to our economy, the added real estate values in communities along the high-speed rail network would pay for the system.

“Property in Kankakee would skyrocket if there was a high-speed train to the loop in thirty minutes. Champaign? One hour. People could commute from Champaign to Chicago. Mattoon and Effingham? One and a half hours. Carbondale? Two and a half hours. By comparison, Obama’s plan to spend billions on worthless improvements to a broken system would add little value to the economy. It’s typical Barry Obama: too little, too late, too timid. Thank God this guy is not Commander-in-Chief.

“High speed rail would tie this state and region together. People could live in their homes and commute to central cities. Our children would no longer have to move to the coasts to find excitement and economic opportunity.

“America’s private enterprise built the ‘war machine’ that saved the world in World War II. Private enterprise can save America in 2010 if we will only have the courage to think big thoughts and invest in our economic future,” Martin says. “This is not a Republican thing or a Democratic thing. This is an American thing.” Martin holds an Economics degree from the University of Illinois.

Martin says all of his opponents in both parties lack the vision and courage to propose major infrastructure investments.

Martin will also slam Mark Kirk and Patrick Hughes as political pretenders who are lying to the people of Illinois.

Martin will attend the Effingham County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner Thursday evening at the Effingham Knights of Columbus Hall.

Media are welcome to join our trip transportation.
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January 28th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin whistle-stops across Illinois opposing Barack Obama’s “19th century” “hy-speed” train proposal. Martin backs an emergency “21st Century” plan to create jobs and economic development across Illinois

#1 WHERE AND WHEN:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago
Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:00 A.M.

#2 WHERE AND WHEN:

AMTRAK STATION, 199 S. East Avenue, Kankakee (main door)
Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:00 A.M.

#3 WHERE AND WHEN:

AMTRAK STATION, 45 E. University Avenue, Champaign (main door)
Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:00 A.M.

#4 WHERE AND WHEN:

AMTRAK STATION, 1718 Broadway Street, Mattoon (main door)
Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:00 P.M.

#5 WHERE AND WHEN:

AMTRAK STATION, 401 W. National Avenue, Effingham (main door)
Thursday, January 28, 2010 3:00 P.M.

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE: Mark Kirk will destroy Illinois Republican Party

2010-01-24T23:24:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin predicts that the nomination of Mark Kirk will prove to be a debacle for Illinois Republicans and conservatives in particular. Martin says that Kirk’s gay “advisers” delivered Congress to the Democrats in 2006. Martin says the pro-Kirk liberal media bias is overwhelming. Kirk has purchased Republican Party leaders’ support with a cash donation of $50,000.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says that Republican leaders now concede the senate primary is a two-man race

Martin says that Mark Kirk’s nomination for U. S. Senator would bring homosexual control of the Illinois Republican Party

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MONDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says that Republican leaders have finally confirmed the senate primary is a race between Martin and Mark Kirk

Martin says that he is battling overwhelming media bias. The liberal media in Illinois want to "bury” conservatives

Martin lays down a challenge for Republican primary voters: will homosexual activists such as Mark Kirk’s “adviser” John McGovern assume complete control of the Republican Party?

(CHICAGO)(January 25, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Monday, January 25th to challenge Republican voters: if Mark Kirk wins the primary, homosexuals led by John McGovern will assume complete control of the Illinois Republican Party.

Martin says that conservative leaders are “playing with fire” by “playing along” with the doomed campaign of Patrick Hughes and other “vanity candidates.” Martin says that Mark Kirk, John McGovern and their associates will bury Illinois conservatives if Kirk wins the senate nomination.

“Last week State Chairman Pat Brady attacked all of Mark Kirk’s opponents. Brady’s language could not have been clearer: http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/
illinoisreview/2010/01/the-dump-mark-kirk-question.html

“But Brady then backtracked and falsely claimed he had only been attacking me:
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/
2010/01/il-gop-chairman-brady-clarifies-dump-mark-kirk-comments.html

“Why the reversal?

“Brady and the liberal media are focusing their attacks on me for one reason: I am the only candidate with a credible campaign to defeat Mark Kirk. I carried or nearly carried forty-five counties two years ago; I received nearly a quarter of a million votes. I am the only Republican candidate who has ever run statewide before.

“I am all that stands between Republican primary voters and assumption of complete control of the party by Republican homosexual activists. John McGovern was one of Dennis Hastert’s gay lieutenants. Then he was a Kirk ‘adviser.’ Them McGovern helped cover-up the pedophilia of Mark Foley. All of these individuals deny they are gay. But it is strange how all of them keep turning up on each other’s plates. And how they are always linked to the same sexual innuendoes.

“The media are trying to steal this election. Only my campaign advertising, literally ‘advertising’ the truth to Republican primary voters, has preserved the semblance of an election. Political pretenders such as Patrick Hughes are about to inflict a serious and possibly fatal injury on Illinois conservatives. The vanity candidates will siphon enough votes in the primary to nominate Kirk. The result will be the death of the Illinois Republican Party.

“Carol Marin and other flacks for Kirk pretend that Kirk’s nomination will lead to a ‘competitive’ senate election in November. Precisely the opposite is true. Kirk’s nomination will be the final nail in the coffin of Illinois Republicans.

“Channel 5 has become a virtual campaign headquarters for Kirk. They even show pictures of an unidentified woman in red with Kirk, the same type of woman in red I used to see on Mark Foley’s arm. It’s a scam, and the media are perpetrating the scam in conjunction with Kirk, John McGovern and the other Beltway hypocrites.

“Republican primary voters have one week to come their senses. A vote for one of my opponents is a vote for Kirk. A vote for Kirk is a vote to turn the Republican Party over to control of John McGovern and his homosexual operators. It’s that plain. These same individuals destroyed Dennis Hastert, sabotaged the Republican Party and turned Congress over to the Democrats in 2006. The consequences of Kirk’s nomination will be that destructive for the conservative movement,” Martin will charge. “My campaign will continue to fight right down to the last minute when the polls close. I will not abandon either the principles of Abraham Lincoln or the party of Lincoln.”

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January 25th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Monday, January 25, 2010, 3:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Republican Party leaders confirm the senate primary is a two-man race

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010
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U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin appeals for campaign contributions to defeat RINO Mark Kirk

2010-01-21T11:18:00.000-08:00

Martin’s appeal says: “Barack Obama does not want Andy Martin in the U. S. Senate. That’s why you do.”

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says his advertising team beat their own schedule. His new anti-Kirk/Obama ad begins running statewide today

Martin’s new ad links Mark Kirk to Barack Obama

Martin is making a nationwide fund appeal to defeat Barack Obama’s favorite Republican, senate candidate Mark Kirk

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

January 21, 2010

Dear American:

Barack Obama does not want Andy Martin in the U. S. Senate. That’s why you do.

How would you like to send Barack Obama a message that will shake the rafters of the White House? Donate to my campaign.

Barack Obama is quietly supporting my primary opponent, Mark Kirk. Kirk is Obama’s favorite Republican. Kirk supports the complete Obama agenda: cap and trade, gun control, hate crimes, internet restrictions, abortion, etc. You name it; Kirk and Obama are two peas in a pod.

If I win the Illinois primary Tuesday, February 2nd, it will be an event bigger political explosion than Scott Brown’s election.

The hard left is terrified I am going to win. In a recent televised debate, the media impresarios directed almost all of their attacks to my campaign. A hard-left writer recently said “Martin…is a popular figure within far-right Tea party circles…” One of my primary opponents has tried to purchase Tea Party support with cash. My campaign does not engage in “pay-to-play.”

We have the potential to pull off one of the biggest upsets in American political history. But we need more money. We need to increase our ad budget in the closing week. Our new radio ad should be on www.AndyforUSSenator.com later tonight.

My nomination would be Barack Obama’s worst nightmare. I have been asking the hard questions about his incomplete résumé for years. Take a look at the Hannity video on my web site. Obama’s crew is desperate to defeat me in the primary.

Please give generously, and give online. Every dollar we receive goes right up on the air. We can scale up our radio campaign overnight; we have a new TV campaign ready to go.

With your help, we can win!

Faithfully,

ANDY

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

ANDY MARTIN: The next “Massachusetts Message” will be in the Illinois Republican U. S. Senate primary

2010-01-20T00:06:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin works overnight to produce new advertising “nationalizing” the Illinois U. S. Senate primary on February 2nd. Martin, known for the Republican Party’s hardest-hitting advertising, is scheduled to produce a new “national” ad Wednesday, January 20th. The anti-Obama ad will start airing across the state Friday, January 22nd. Martin is expanding his fundraising operation to seek contributions nationally in order to defeat the corrupt Illinois Republican Party establishment.

. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says he will “nationalize” the Illinois U. S. Senate primary

Martin’s advertising operation is working overnight to produce a new anti-Obama, anti-Kirk ad on Wednesday, January 20th

Martin is developing a national fundraising strategy to carry his message to Illinois voters

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF WEDNESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says his advertising team is working “overnight” to produce a new “national” advertising commercial on Wednesday

Martin says that his anti-Obama advertising will start airing statewide on January 22nd

Martin’s advertising agency has a reputation for producing hard-hitting commercials based on original research

Martin’s statewide campaign is “surging” as rival candidates fall by the wayside

(CHICAGO)(January 20, 2010) “Illinois Tough” Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Wednesday, January 20th seeking to “nationalize” the Illinois U. S. Senate primary and capitalize on the “Massachusetts Message.”

“We are working all night to produce new advertising on Wednesday that will carry forward Scott Brown’s ‘Massachusetts Message,’” Martin says. “We are tailoring the anti-Obama advertising to a more conservative Illinois Republican primary electorate.

“Our studies of the WLS-TV Channel 7 debate found that Republican voters appreciated my ‘tough’ message. They saw a fighter on TV, not a patsy for liberal media hatchet-men. Our new campaign slogan: ‘Illinois Tough.’

“Without getting into all of our psychographic analysis, we have seen a palpable change on the campaign trail: the more the leftist media attack me, the warmer the Republican Party response. The more the Chicago Republican Party establishment attacks me and supports my opponent, the stronger I become.

“Tuesday evening we received an extraordinarily warm welcome from Winnebago County Republicans. Downstate Republicans know I do my best to attend every downstate function I can. I am the ‘downstate’ Republican candidate for United States Senator.

“The dynamics of the U. S. Senate primary have shifted radically since the WLS-TV debate. One candidate who boycotted the debate lost ground. One candidate who appeared was discredited. As we enter the final days of the campaign, all of my rivals are losing ground. We are gaining.

“In Washington I will partner with Senator Scott Brown to stop the Obama agenda. Republicans want progress. Republicans want reform. I am a reformer and a corruption fighter. But we oppose Barack Obama’s radical agenda: cap and trade taxes, higher income taxes, abortion, gun control, Internet restrictions and a myriad of other extreme proposals Obama is trying to force on the American people. ‘National security’ has become an oxymoron under Obama.

“Illinois Republicans are realizing I have been Barack Obama’s most formidable opponent since my appearance on Sean Hannity’s show in 2008 (got to www.AndyforUSSenator.com to see the 2008 video). They sense that Obama is scared of me. They can see I am not afraid of Obama. My ‘secret weapon’ is the biased liberal media that attack me and distort my campaign. Republicans love that I fight back.

“Wednesday we are producing a new ‘national’ advertising campaign. Friday we start airing the campaign across the State of Illinois. February 2nd I will stage an upset victory, win the U. S. Senate nomination and turn politics in this country upside-down. I made this promise on December 28th and step-by-step we are implementing the plan.

“We have an organized and disciplined campaign strategy to win the Republican Party nomination and stun the corrupt Republican Party establishment in Illinois,” Martin says. “My primary campaign will now morph into a ‘national’ campaign to join Senator-elect Scott Brown in defeating the Obama agenda.

“Because we have our own in-house advertising agency, we can react literally overnight. Wednesday we produce; Friday we air.”

http://www.wrex.com/Global/story.asp?S=11849000

Martin will be in New York Thursday and Friday for radio and TV network interviews.

Martin’s campaign accepts contributions online at www.AndyforUSSenator.com

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January 20th news conference details:

WHO:

“Illinois Tough” Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 1:00 P.M.

WHAT:

“Illinois Tough” Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin moves to “nationalize” the Illinois U. S. Senate primary with advertising attacks on Barack Obama. Martin is nationally known for creating the Republican Party’s hardest-hitting advertising.

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

“Illinois Tough” U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin heads to Rockford

2010-01-19T10:27:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold Rockford and Lake Forest news conferences today as he takes his surging senate campaign across northern Illinois. Tuesday evening Martin will address a meeting of Winnebago County Republicans.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Rockford news conference today, Tuesday, as his campaign continues to surge after last Thursday's WLS-TV debate victory

TUESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE: Andy Martin, "The Father of Interstate-39," promises to connect Rockford to a high-speed rail network and upgrade Rockford Airport connections

Martin adds a Lake Forest news conference today to challenge so-called conservatives WLS-AM’s Don and Roma to stop playing “patty cake” with Mark Kirk

Martin’s campaign rapidly expands to fill the vacuum left by the implosion of Patrick Hughes’ campaign

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
"The Name You Can Trust"
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEWS CONFERENCES IN ROCKFORD AND LAKE FOREST

Andy Martin will hold a Rockford news conference today and then address a meeting of Winnebago County Republicans

Martin, who is recognized as the "Father of Interstate-39," will promise to connect Rockford to high-speed rail links and upgrade Rockford Airport

In Lake Forest, Martin will challenge WLS-AM’s “Don and Roma” to stop asking Mark Kirk softball questions on their program.

(ROCKFORD, IL)(January 19, 2010) “Illinois Tough” Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent "Internet Powerhouse" Andy Martin will hold a Rockford news conference today Tuesday, January 19th to hammer away at the need for a new high-speed rail system connecting Rockford to Chicago. Martin will then speak to a meeting of Winnebago County Republicans.

"Republicans are desperate for an alternative to the effete Mr. Kirk. Kirk has never appeared at a single public function since becoming a candidate for senator, and always insists on controlled-access locations. I have become the 'Kirk Killer.'

"The media are pro-Kirk, and anti-Martin, but like moths drawn to a candle, they keep attacking me and focusing on my campaign. Why? I have stripped the bark off Kirk's bogus military accomplishments as well as other unsavory aspects of his life in Congress. Nuff said. Kirk remains in seclusion.

"Tonight, on a positive note, I will renew my pledge and promise Winnebago Republicans to replicate my effort which led to the construction of Interstate 39, by building a new high-speed rail link for Rockford, and by also upgrading the Rockford Airport. I am the only candidate for U. S. Senator who is a 'builder' with a proven record of delivering for Winnebago County. If you don't believe me, come to Rockford and see Interstate Highway 39 that I brought into existence," Martin says.

MARTIN will issue a reaction comment later Tuesday to the latest embarrassments of the Hughes campaign. “Hughes may be collapsing,” Martin says, “But we are there to offer his supporters a conservative refuge. We are Illinois Tough. Hughes wasn’t. He would not even discuss or debate conservative social issues. Good riddance to Mr. Hughes.” Watch for Andy’s remarks Tuesday evening/Wednesday morning.

COMING: Martin plans an explosive new announcement at a news conference later Wednesday.
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January 19th ROCKFORD news conference:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:
Corner sidewalk entrance to Winnebago County Courthouse, 400 W. State Street, Rockford (coordinate by cell phone-see below)

WHEN:

Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 5:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Rockford needs a new high-speed rail connection to Chicago to save the Rock River Valley from economic stagnation; Martin also favors upgrading Rockford Airport connections.

January 19th Lake Forest news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, Main entrance to Metra Station, Lake Forest, Chicago

WHEN:

Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 2:30 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin challenges WLS-AM radio personalities Don and Roma (Wade) to stop playing “patty cake” with Mark Kirk and start asking tough questions about the embattled congressman. For example, “Why won’t Kirk join other Republicans in calling for the removal of Kevin Jennings from the U. S. Department of ‘Education?’”

MEDIA CONTACT:
(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329
WEBSITE:
http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-MAIL:
AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

Andy Martin calls for ouster of sexual predator Kevin Jennings from U. S. Department of Education

2010-01-18T23:56:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says he will work to remove Kevin Jennings from the U. S. Department of Education. Martin says “Kevin Jennings is not only an affront to family values; he is an affront to human values. Barack Obama’s choice of Kevin Jennings to protect children is disgraceful. Jennings is a sexual predator who has no business being in the federal government.”

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says he will fight to remove Kevin Jennings from the U. S. Department of Education

Martin says that Barack Obama’s appointment of Jennings is a disgrace

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF TUESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says that as a U. S. Senator he will work to remove Kevin Jennings from the U S Department of Education

Martin says that Barack Obama has created the “sickest” administration in history with sexual predators in sensitive jobs

Martin continues to lambaste his opponent, Liberal Republican and Obama supporter Mark Kirk, who is afraid to call for Jennings’ removal

(CHICAGO)(January 19, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Tuesday, January 19th to call for the removal of Kevin Jennings from the U. S. Department of Education.

“Barack Obama has the worst judgment of any president in history,” Martin says. “He has staffed his administration with sexual predators such as Kevin Jennings and Peter Orszag.

“What Mr. Jennings does in the privacy of his own home, or other private facilities, is Jennings’ private business. Period. I respect and defend the right to privacy. Consenting adults should be left alone.

“But when Obama appoints a predator such as Jennings to act as a fiduciary for school children, that is a perversion of the public trust.

“Everyone has a right to privacy, no one has a right to claim public employment and advocate policies that endanger children,” Martin states. I will strive to defund his office and eliminate Jennings’ government job.”

Martin will also hold a Tuesday news conference in Rockford, Illinois at 4:00 P.M.

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January 19th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 12:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin vows to remove sexual predator Kevin Jennings from the U. S. Department of Education.

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010
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Andy Martin “follows the flag” at the Winnebago County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner

2010-01-18T23:53:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin “speaks from the heart” about his memories of young Americans on military duty who serve us. Martin delivers his remarks at the Winnebago County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner. Martin announces he will be dropping a “Bunker Buster” on Patrick Hughes January 18th, while his new anti-Mark Kirk “Bunker Buster” advertising begins airing statewide.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin delivers a stirring patriotic message at the Winnebago County (Rockford) Lincoln Day Dinner

Martin says that his next “Bunker Buster” will land on “pretender candidate” Patrick Hughes

Martin’s new anti-Kirk ads also begin airing statewide on Monday

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
"The Name You Can Trust"
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ADVISORY ON UPCOMING MONDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin’s “Bunker Buster” assembly line is planning to drop a Bunker Buster on Patrick Hughes Monday afternoon, January 18th

Martin delivered a stirring patriotic message to Winnebago County Republicans Friday evening

Andy Martin compares Mark Kirk’s “fighting wars” to Hillary Clinton’s “being under fire” in Bosnia

Martin renews his demand that Mark Kirk release all of his military records since becoming a congressman

(CHICAGO)(January 16, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent "Internet Powerhouse" Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Monday, January 18th to drop a “Bunker Buster” on Patrick Hughes. “I hear complaints that I only drop Bunker Busters on Mark Kirk. Well, we do not discriminate. We go where the evidence takes us. Mr. Hughes is next. Stay tuned for details.”

Friday evening Martin delivered stirring patriotic remarks at the Winnebago County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner.

“The program did not call for speeches,” Martin says. “I was caught completely by surprise when I was asked to be the first speaker at the Lincoln Day Dinner. And so I spoke from the heart. I spoke of ‘following our flag’ around the world, of my memories of brave young men and women in uniform who stand guard for us.

“I spoke of seeing our flag when I lived in Iraq (2003), and when I was in Asia (1967-1971), and Southwest Asia (1979-80). I spoke of my enduring love for the proud young Americans whose lives are engraved on my memory.

“Unlike Mark Kirk, who is a military imposter with an imaginary record of ‘fighting’ in wars where he was never in harm’s way, I have never been on active military duty. But I have been in combat. I have seen men die. Unlike Mr. Kirk, who was never at risk, except in his own vivid imagination, I have dodged bullets, mortars, rockets and more.

“But I have never confused my efforts to get at the truth or to serve my country with the work being done by the American men and women who were doing the fighting. The ones who ‘humped’ the weapons across rice paddies and deserts. The ones who did the real fighting. I am no hero. But I know who our real heroes are. And Mark Kirk is not one of them,” Martin says.

“Mark Kirk ‘dodged fire’ the same way Hillary Clinton ‘came under fire’ in Bosnia. Mark Kirk is as much of a ‘fighter’ as Clinton.

“I have challenged Kirk to release all of his military records since becoming a congressman. He has refused to do so. I have offered media a FOIA release for any of the government’s files on me, some of which may not yet have been declassified. I have no secrets to hide. Kirk does.”

“Mark Kirk does hold a reserve commission. But he uses that commission as a political prop, not as part of genuine service to our nation. Let’s see your military records, Mark. I have opened my files. Why won’t you open yours? What are you hiding?”

While Martin is holding a Bunker Buster news conference on Patrick Hughes, Martin’s “Bunker Buster” advertising challenging Kirk’s misleading and exaggerated military claims also begins airing statewide on the 18th. The Martin campaign continues to ramp up as voters approach Election Day, February 2d.

Andy Martin holds an Honorable Discharge from the United States Air Force Reserves. He did not serve on active duty.
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

Andy Martin drops new “Bunker Buster” ad on Mark Kirk: Kirk inflates his military service

2010-01-18T23:50:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin charges that Mark Kirk has inflated and falsified his military records. Martin says Kirk is "double-dipping" by collecting two paychecks for one job. Martin releases a U. S. Navy letter saying the Navy has no records to document Kirk's presence in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2008. Martin begins a new round of statewide advertising, and says Kirk should release all of his military records since becoming a congressman. Martin compares Kirk’s exaggerated military claims to Hillary Clinton’s false statements she was “under fire” in Bosnia.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk appears to be inflating and falsifying his military service

Martin says that the U. S. Navy has no record of Kirk’s 2008 Afghanistan “deployment”

Martin begins airing a new statewide “Bunker Buster” ad attacking Kirk’s misuse of the military for campaign purposes

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF FRIDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin demands that Mark Kirk stop misusing the U. S. Navy and U. S. Navy personnel as political props in his senate campaign

Martin demands that Kirk release all of his military records since becoming a congressman

Martin releases a copy of a U. S. Navy letter starting the Navy has no record of Kirk’s presence in Afghanistan when Kirk claimed to have “deployed” to Kandahar

“Is Mark Kirk the latest ‘Tail Gunner Joe?’” Andy asks

Martin says Kirk is a financial “double dipper” who collets two paychecks for doing one job

Martin has new embarrassments in preparation for Kirk

(CHICAGO)(January 15, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Friday, January 15th to release his new statewide “Bunker Buster” advertising campaign charging that Mark Kirk appears to have falsified and inflated his military service.

Martin promised to drop a “Bunker Buster” on Kirk at the WLS-TV senate candidates’ debate Thursday evening, and closed by announcing that he had received a letter from the U. S. Navy stating the Navy has no records to document Kirk’s presence in Afghanistan in 2008. Martin released copies of the Navy letter at a post-debate news availability.

Martin compares Kirk to the notorious Wisconsin political fraud U. S. Senator Joe McCarthy, who falsely portrayed himself as “Tail Gunner Joe” to win election. McCarthy had no military record to speak of, and was never a “tail gunner.” McCarthy went on to become notorious for red-baiting and other activity, and gave the name “McCarthyism” to the term.

“Mark Kirk seems to be the latest in a long line of military frauds, the most notorious of which was ‘Tail Gunner Joe,’ Senator Joe McCarthy who terrorized the senate in the 1950’s,” Martin will charge. “The U. S. Navy has no record of Kirk’s ‘deployment’ to Kandahar. I asked Mark Kirk to authorize the release of his military records, and he has refused. It is time for Kirk to release and authorize the Department of Defense to release all military files and records since Kirk became a congressman.

“Kirk appears to be engaging in ‘double-dipping’ payroll fraud. He goes overseas, where he is treated like and acts like a congressman, meeting with senior officials, all while collecting a second paycheck for a ‘deployment’ that is a ‘deployment’ in name only. Kirk times his military excursions to benefit his political campaigns,” Martin charges, “and collects two paychecks for one job. What a Washington beltway fraud. No true Republican and no veteran can vote for a huckster and masquerader like Kirk.”

Martin plans to keep hacking away at Kirk’s endless series of lies, prevarications and exaggerations about Kirk’s personal and military history. The Bunker Buster assembly line remains open.

Martin’s advertising attacks the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times for parroting Kirk’s military propaganda and failing to see actual documentation for Kirk’s service activity.

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January 6th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Friday, January 15, 2010, 3:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin launches new a “Bunker Buster” anti-Mark Kirk ad, saying Kirk may have falsified and inflated military records. Martin demands that Kirk release all of his military records since becoming a congressman.

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010
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CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE: Conservatives withdraw Patrick Hughes endorsement, Hughes campaign collapses

2010-01-18T10:41:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin highlights the withdrawal of an endorsement of his opponent Pat Hughes, by a conservative group. Hughes’ collapse began after Martin exposed Hughes as a fraud in a WLS-TV debate. Hughes’ own law school classmate calls Hughes’ campaign “moribund.” “The Illinois U. S. senate primary boils down to Martin v. Kirk on February 2nd. If I finish off Mark Kirk on February 2nd,” says Andy Martin, “then that’s a real Reagan revolution.” Martin’s next embarrassing scandal involves a “link” between Governor Jim Thompson and Mark Kirk. Listen to Andy TODAY on WJBC-AM 1230 Bloomington.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Patrick Hughes is living off his wife’s earnings, is a closeted “Mr. Mom”

Martin says that “Hughes the home builder” is not building any homes or “developing” any land

Martin exposed Hughes as a fraud in Channel 7 debate

Martin exposes that Hughes’ wife works for the Chicago Tribune, explaining why the Tribune is concealing embarrassing details of Hughes campaign buffoonery

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MONDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin calls Pat Hughes “Humpty Dumpy Hughes” and says withdrawals of endorsements have effectively ended the Hughes campaign

Martin says that the blog postings by groups that have withdrawn endorsements, and the “fork” by law school classmate “TeamAmerica10th” have buried the Hughes campaign

Martin challenges Hughes to release locations of his “home building” and “real estate development,” says Hughes’ business entities are defunct at the Secretary of State

Martin says the fact that Hughes’ wife is a partner in the law firm that represents the Chicago Tribune explains why the Tribune has not exposed Hughes’ campaign fraud

Martin says Hughes has made a laughingstock of “conservatives” who support Hughes

LISTEN TO ANDY TODAY ON WJBC-AM BLOOMINGTON (4:40 P.M.) AS MARK KIRK ROLLS INTO MCLEAN COUNTY WITH STOOGE PAT BRADY

(CHICAGO)(January 18, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Monday, January 18th to claim that Patrick Hughes is a “closeted Mr. Mom who masquerades as a ‘home builder’ and ‘developer’ but is really a stay-at-home dad who lives off the earnings of his wife.”

Martin charges that the Chicago Tribune is concealing embarrassing news about Hughes because Hughes’ wife is a partner in the law firm which represents the tribune.

Martin says that his disclosure in a Channel 7 televised debate Thursday that Hughes’ contributors were withdrawing support has caused a cascade of withdrawals of support and collapse of the Hughes campaign.

Martin says Hughes is increasingly making a “laughingstock” of the “conservatives” who supported him. “They bought a pig in a poke,” Andy says. “Paul Caprio has pulled off the biggest political scam in history, and made conservatives look like jerks. Jack Roeser has been taken to the cleaners by John Biver and Doug Ibendahl. Heads will roll.

“Pat Hughes claims in campaign forums and claimed on WLS-TV’s televised debate that he is a ‘home builder’ and ‘developer.’ My campaign has done a diligent search of records. We cannot find any ‘homes’ that Hughes is ‘building.’ We cannot find any land that Hughes is ‘developing.’ All we can find based on our investigative methods is that Hughes is a stay-at-home dad who is supported by the earnings of his wife.

“Now there is nothing wrong with being a Mr. Mom. And if Hughes was honest about his lack of employment, and stopped lying abut ‘home building’ and ‘developments,’ I would be the first to congratulate him as Mr. Mom. But just as I have exposed Mark Kirk’s hypocrisy, I now expose Pat Hughes hypocrisy as well. Both are hollow men with paper maché public lives.

“I challenge Mr. Hughes to disclose the locations of any ‘homes’ he is ‘building.’ I challenge him to disclose the locations of his current ‘developments.’ I challenge Mr. Hughes’ ‘conservative’ backers to demand the same evidence. I challenge the media to do likewise. The only development Hughes has been identified with is the Ocean Atlantic fiasco that has defaulted on its performance bonds.

“Hughes’ initial claim to be a developer rested on two separate operations. Both appear to be defunct or nearly bankrupt at this time. The website for Ocean Atlantic development claims that “Prior to joining Ocean Atlantic, Mr. Hughes was a founding member of Kelly Hughes Homes, LLC and AEH Properties”:
http://www.ocean-atlantic.com/team/hughes.html

“AEH appears to be defunct:
http://www.ilsos.gov/corporatellc/CorporateLlcController

“Kelly Hughes has failed to file its reports and may be defunct:
http://www.ilsos.gov/corporatellc/CorporateLlcController

“So, if Hughes’ firms are defunct or inactive, he is not currently a ‘real estate developer’ or ‘home builder’ based on those organizations. They are history.

“Ocean Atlantic claims that Hughes is a ‘General Counsel’ for that firm:
http://www.ocean-atlantic.com/team/hughes.html

“While Hughes’ actual relationship with Ocean Atlantic is unclear, that firm is still in business although just barely. Hughes’ current claim to be a ‘developer’ appears to rest on his connection with an Ocean Atlantic project, Westbury, which is a failed real estate ‘development.’

“Sadly, if Hughes’ claim to be a real estate developer in the present or recent past is based on Westbury, Hughes is living in a delusional, Walter Mitty world. ‘Westbury’ is dead as a doornail. Hughes was linked to Westbury at its inception:
http://www.ocean-atlantic.com/
projects/featured_westbury.html

http://www.allbusiness.com/
construction/residential-
construction/5380603-1.html

“But Westbury has been controversial and troubled from its inception:

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-169618547.html

“Most recently, Westbury’s on site marketing was found to be ‘faded and unattractive,’ http://www.yorkville.il.us/documents/
EDCminutes6-2-09_000.pdf

“The City of Yorkville has apparently defaulted Hughes’ firm and called on bonding companies to make good on their fidelity bonds:
http://www.yorkville.il.us/
documents/AGENDAcc5-26-09_000.pdf

“Defaulted bonds? Faded and unattractive on-site marketing?

“What kind of a ‘real estate developer’ was Patrick Hughes?

“Is Pat Hughes now just a Mr. Mom who is masquerading as a businessman? The time for truth-telling is here, Mr. Hughes.

“Hughes’ campaign has been devastated by defections, withdrawn endorsements and back-stabbings by ‘friends’ since the Channel 7 debate on January 14th:

http://teamamerica10th.blogspot.com/2010/01/patrick-hughes-loses-major-conservative.html

“Hughes’ own law school classmate calls his campaign ‘moribund:’

http://teamamerica10th.blogspot.com/2010/01/patrick-hughes-sacrifices-conservative.html

“All of this is happening in the wake of the Channel 7 debate, where I skewered Hughes and exposed him as a pompous name-dropper who dropped the names of Kirk Dillard and Tom Cross without any basis to do so.

“Mr. Hughes, go home. Your scam has been exposed. Your campaign is over. ‘Humpty Dumpy Hughes’ cannot be put back together again. The ‘TeamAmerica10th’ blog postings confirm that fact. All someone has to do is read the links in this column, and see the truth for themselves,” Martin says.

ANDY IS SCHEDULED TO BE INTERVIEWED TODAY ON WJBC - 1230 AM, BLOOMINGTON, 4:40 P.M; MARK KIRK AND HIS SOCK PUPPET PAT BRADY ARE ALSO IN BLOOMINGTON

ANDY MARTIN’S NEXT SCANDAL: THE LINK BETWEEN GOVERNOR JIM THOMPSON, MARK KIRK AND THE BOGUS “DEBATE” KIRK IS SCHEMING TO PRODUCE
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January 18th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Monday, January 18, 2010, 4:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Patrick Hughes campaign is over, exposes Hughes as a closet “Mr. Mom,” says “Hughes the home builder” is not building any homes

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010
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Illinois Republican Andy Martin becomes a small factor in Massachusetts U. S. Senate race

2010-01-17T15:39:00.000-08:00

National media query Martin on the legal basis for the claim that Obama was born illegitimate because his parents were never legally married and could not be legally married under Hawai’i law. Obama’s putative father, Barack, senior, was a bigamist. Martin appeals for contributions to his U. S. Senate campaign.

Illinois U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin becomes a factor in Massachusetts U. S. Senate race

Martin is contacted by media seeking clarification concerning Barack Obama’s illegitimate birth

Martin appeals for campaign contributions as “Obama’s worst nightmare”

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
"The Name You Can Trust"
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ADVISORY ON UPCOMING MONDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says attempts to smear Scott Brown as a “birther” are despicable distortions

Martin confirms Barack Obama was illegitimate under Hawai’i law.

Obama’s father was a bigamist and therefore the “marriage” of Obama’s parents was void under Hawai’i law

(CHICAGO)(January 17, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent "Internet Powerhouse" Andy Martin has unexpectedly become a small factor in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts.

Martin has been contacted by national media seeking clarification concerning a statement by Republican Scott Brown concerning Barack Obama’s parents’ marriage.

“The attempts to smear Scott Brown as a ‘birther’ are nothing but a liberal media fraud. The term ‘birther” was invented by the media to describe individuals who believe Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Neither I nor Brown fall into that category.

“I have consistently taken the view that Obama was born in Hawai’i as he says. Neither I nor Brown are ‘birthers.’ Neither of us believes Obama was born anywhere but Hawai’i,” Martin says. “Obama was born in Hawai’i.”

“But, the issue of whether Obama was legitimate, and whether his parents were legally married, is an entirely different matter.

“Under United States law, in 1961 we followed British law in recognizing non-US marriages (we still do). Under British law, Barack Obama senior was legally married in Kenya. Liberal media have tried to adopt the racist view that ‘tribal marriages’ were not legal. But under British colonial law, the marriage of Barack (Sr.) and Kezia Obama was 100% legal under British law.

“The argument that Barack Onyango Obama, President Obama's grandfather, would have allowed his son Barack senior to engage in an illegal marriage in Kenya is sheer nonsense. The Kenyan marriage was 100% legal. Period. I do not think you could find anyone in Kenya who would argue otherwise. Because the Obama marriage in Kenya was legal under British law, President Obama’s father’s purported marriage in Hawai’i was bigamous and therefore null and void under Hawai’i law.

“Hawai’i law is very clear on that fact. Tagupa v. Tagupa, 121 P.3rd 924 (Hawai’i App. 2005).

“No competent attorney who is familiar with marriage law could argue to the contrary. Barack senior was legally married under British-Kenyan law, with a family. He came to Hawai’i while legally married. He purported to marry a second time.

“The Obama ‘marriage’ in Hawai’i was bigamous and therefore null and void. When Barack was born, he was born in Hawai’i, but his birth was illegitimate.

“Obama’s sense of shame that he was illegitimate may explain his reluctance to release his original, typewritten 1961 birth certificate,” Martin says.

“I do not think the term ‘illegitimate’ is used generally any more,” Martin concludes. “But in Obama's case the term still applies. Unlike a child born of two unmarried parents, who can now be called a ‘nonmarital’ child, Barack Obama was born of a void marriage, due to the prior valid marriage of his father.

“So the Obama ‘marriage in Hawai’i enjoyed no legitimacy under either American or Kenyan law. President Obama could not, for example, have inherited from his father had the father left an estate when he died.

“Both Barack Obama and I know the truth. That's why he constantly has his smear artists attacking me and trying to stop me from becoming the Republican Party candidate for U. S. Senator in Illinois.

“Obama’s latest attempt to smear Scott Brown with lies is despicable. Why won’t Barack Obama just admit the truth to the American people and be done with it? Obama’s ego is so colossal and his arrogance is so all-encompassing that he is mentally incapable of admitting to the American people the true facts concerning his birth: born in Hawai’i, to parents who could not be legally married because his father was already legally married and therefore a bigamist.

“Americans would feel a whole lot better about Barack Obama if he stopped lying to us and just faced the truth. The truth may be painful for Obama to acknowledge. But the truth is the truth. Obama should stop smearing people who tell the truth about his unfortunate legal situation when he was born. Obama himself did nothing wrong; it was his putative parents who broke the law. Still, the fact that he was the product of an illegal and void marriage under Hawai’i law is a legal fact that he cannot deny or conceal.

“Scott Brown was absolutely correct to express his concerns. Maybe he had read my book, ‘Obama: The Man behind The Mask.’”

Go to www.AndyforUSSenator.com to watch Andy Martin’s new movie “Obama: The Hawai’i Years,” which covers Obama’s life in Hawai’i from the ages of 10-18.

“I would remind every American that we welcome contributions to my U. S. Senate campaign. Andy Martin in the U. S. Senate is Barack Obama’s worst nightmare. Not because I lie about Obama. But because I scrupulously tell the truth about him. The 'truth' is 'kryptonite' to Obama & Co. Please donate at www.AndyforUSSenator.com,” Martin appeals.

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

Chicago News Conference Wednesday: “Bunker Buster” coming for Illinois’ Channel 7 debate

2010-01-13T00:02:00.000-08:00

Andy Martin will be simultaneously dropping one of his “Bunker Busters” on Mark Kirk in the WLS-TV studio Thursday while Martin also attempts to pursue Kirk in East Peoria where Kirk is “hiding out” to avoid debating his primary opponent. At his Wednesday news conference Martin will ridicule Kirk: “From ‘Lincoln-Douglas Debates’ to ‘Cut and Run Kirk.’ What a disgrace.”

CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY: MARTIN BLASTS KIRK

ANDY MARTIN PLANS TO PURSUE MARK KIRK IN EAST PEORIA THURSDAY NIGHT; MARTIN SAYS DOWNSTATE COUNTY CHAIRMEN SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR “HARBORING A DESERTER”

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
"The Name You Can Trust"
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF WEDNESDAY MORNING NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Martin will expose that Kirk’s East Peoria last minute desperation “event” was only announced Monday afternoon (January 11th)

Martin says that Kirk is fleeing a televised confrontation with Martin after Kirk promised WLS-TV he would appear

Martin promises to drop an anti-Kirk “Bunker Buster” in the Channel 7 studio; “He can run, but he can’t hide,” Andy says

Would Mark Kirk qualify as one of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “girly men” for ducking the Channel 7 debate?

(CHICAGO)(January 13, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent "Internet Powerhouse" Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Wednesday morning, January 13th in front of 190 N. State Street to accuse Mark Kirk fleeing the City of Chicago to avoid debating his opponents.

“Illinois, the home of ‘Lincoln-Douglas debates,’ has now become the fly-over residence of ‘Cut and Run Kirk.’ What is the Kirkster afraid of? Little old me?

“Well I have news for Mr. Kirk. Thursday night we are going to drop a Bunker Buster in the WLS-TV studio. Kirk won’t be there to respond. He ought to be.

“But just so Kirk won’t forget he has a primary, and I am his principal opponent, I plan to dog Kirk in East Peoria. We are trying to organize a demonstration at the Embassy Suites Hotel in East Peoria where Kirk is hiding out.

“I am a little surprised that the county chairmen are indulging Kirk’s ‘escape from Chicago.’ The last time I checked the law, harboring a deserter was almost as bad as desertion. Kirk is a deserter. Are the county chairmen going to join hands and form a protective cordon around Kirk when my supporters approach the little critter and try to ask him why he is ‘hiding out’ in East Peoria?

“Kirk agreed to participate in the WLS-TV debate, and then he reneged. And this man wants to lead the Republican Party in November? The Democrats are watching Kirk. ‘See Mark run.’

“On one level, Kirk’s ‘escape’ is sad. Kirk is over his head in statewide politics. He ran a liberal political shop on the North Shore, but he has no business using downstate precinct committeemen as a beard for his cowardice. What a strategy.

“On the other hand, Kirk is an embarrassment to the people that chose him and sought to make him their standard bearer. Did the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times know what a scardy cat Kirk is? Kirk is embarrassing his supporters by fleeing the city to avoid the televised debate,” Martin will charge at his news conference. “From ‘Lincoln-Douglas’ to ‘Cut and Run Kirk.’ No wonder this state is in such sad shape. The political establishment is rotten to the core.

“I am the only Republican for U. S. Senator who is ‘Illinois Tough.’ I am the only candidate who is ready to lead Republicans against the Democratic Party in November. No one believes I am afraid of the opposition. Quite the opposite. My campaign strikes fear in the heart of the Democrats. Liberals are afraid they will have to face me instead of ‘Cut and Run Kirk.’”

January 13th news conference and media availability details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, in front of 190 N. State Street, entrance to WLS-TV, Chicago

WHEN:

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:15 A.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is embarrassing Illinois Republicans by his cowardice in fleeing Chicago to avoid debating his opponents on WLS-TV. Martin promises a “big surprise” in the Channel 7 debate that will shock Republicans and the media chumbolones who support Kirk.

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin highlights his WLS-TV video

2010-01-13T00:00:00.000-08:00

Martin supports health care reform and a conservative foreign policy in his Channel 7 presentation

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
Web site: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

Please donate:

www.AndyforUSSenator.com

Blogs:

www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

www.MarkKirk.us

January 13, 2009

Dear Friend,

Just a short note with some campaign updates.

You have probably learned by now that Mark Kirk has fled the City of Chicago to avoid debating me on WLS-TV. What is he afraid of? Does Kirk’s behavior constitute “cowardice in the face of the enemy?”

WLS-TV also offered all of the Senate candidates a 5-minute video for the Channel 7 web site. The station has done an excellent job of bringing you the information you need to make an intelligent decision.

In a campaign that is unfortunately very acrimonious and adversarial, I wanted you to see a different side of me, and hopefully share my passion for genuine health care reform as well as my belief in the need for a more conservative foreign policy. So we adopted a softer format for the WLS-TV video. Let me know what you think (the link below has two lines):

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/feature?section=
news/politics/local_elections&id=7211744

Right now we are finalizing our TV budget for the last weeks of the campaign. If you or someone else would like to make a contribution to nominating the strongest candidate for Illinois Republicans, please go to our web site, www.AndyforUSSenator.com where you can make an online donation.

Be sure to watch the Channel 7 Republican Senate candidates’ debate Thursday night. You will be surprised by what you learn about Mr. Kirk.

And do see if you can round up some cash so we can round up our TV ad budget. We have a strong message to share with Republican voters. We need your help to broadcast that message.

Best wishes,

ANDY

Mark Kirk’s campaign tries to torpedo Channel 7 debate, flees Chicago

2010-01-11T22:31:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin’s “Bunker Busters” cause panic in the Mark Kirk campaign. The supposedly-inevitable liberal Republican primary winner, Kirk is terrified to face Martin in a televised debate at WLS-TV. After agreeing to debate on Channel 7, Kirk organizes a rival event in East Peoria to undermine WLS-TV’s debate. Martin calls Kirk’s maneuver “the most obvious sign of complete panic in the Kirk campaign. Mark Kirk is a coward.” Martin’s next “Bunker Buster” attack on Kirk begins airing January 18th. “He can run, but he can’t hide,” Martin says. “What are they going to do in Peoria, watch the WLS-TV debate? Kirk’s ‘escape’ from ABC-TV is hilarious. Illinois, you now have a real primary thanks to ‘Andy’s Air Force.’”

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk’s campaign is “in a state of panic”

After agreeing to participate in a debate on Chicago’s Channel 7, Mark Kirk has fled the city and organized a rival event in East Peoria

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
http://www.illinoishighspeedtrains.com/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Mark Kirk flees Chicago, reneges on agreement to debate on WLS-TV

Andy Martin promises a “sizzling” Channel 7 debate, with or without Mark Kirk

Kirk’s “default” is unprecedented in American politics

Martin says his “Bunker Busters” have devastated Kirk’s campaign

Martin’s next Bunker Buster will be produced January 14th, begins airing statewide on the 18th

Andy promises an “explosive” disclosure at the Channel 7 debate

“Andy’s Air Force” will continue to bombard Kirk

(CHICAGO)(January 12, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin announced Tuesday that Mark Kirk has fled the City of Chicago after agreeing to a televised debate on Channel 7 Thursday, January 14th. Mark Kirk agreed in December to participate in a Republican candidates’ debate, as part of a series of debates of Democratic and Republican Party candidates for U. S. Senator and governor produced by WLS-TV.

Kirk has apparently now withdrawn his agreement and left the City of Chicago. In disgrace.

“What does it say for ‘Gungha Kirk,’ who claims to be winning the Afghan war single-handedly, that he is afraid to debate his opponents?” Martin asks. “It says that Kirk is terrified he is losing the primary and has moved into full panic mode.

“Kirk’s East Peoria event was only announced on Monday. He is using ‘pay-to-play’ to lure county chairman to schedule a bogus ‘meeting’ as a diversionary tactic. The Bunker Busters have broken the morale of Kirk’s campaign. The candidate is afraid to appear. Kirk has not been seen at any function open to the public since returning to Illinois. He only appears at closed, controlled-access meetings. This is the media’s darling? This is the ‘establishment’ candidate? Kirk is not Illinois Tough; I am,” Martin says.

“I did a little quick research,” Martin notes. “There is no record that a statewide candidate for national office in any state has ever failed to debate after agreeing to do so. It's an unprecedented collapse in American political history. Kirk is in full panic mode. While the effete, elite media sing his praises with citations to Kirk’s imaginary military record, in reality Kirk’s campaign is dying.

“The senate primary is now a two-man race between me and Kirk. I mean no disrespect to the other candidates, but no one takes them seriously as opponents for Kirk, or the Democrats. No one doubts I am ‘Illinois Tough’ and ready to fight to the death for conservative principles. No one doubts that it was my Bunker Busters that broke Kirk's will to fight. I will do the same to the Democrats.

“The fact that Kirk is not at the debate will only increase the intensity of the attacks. Thursday night's WLS-TV debate is going to be a historic TV event. Kirk is a coward. A candidate who was genuinely forty points ahead, as the Chicago Tribune’s bogus poll indicated, would not cut and run. He would stand and fight if he had a secure lead.

“The humiliation of defaulting after agreeing to debate is shattering to the Kirk image. And the Kirkster is all image. Obviously, his 'lead' has evaporated. Kirk’s campaign is collapsing.

“My attacks on Mr. Kirk have admittedly been unpleasant. I wish I didn’t have to make them. But they were 100% fair and accurate. I have unfortunately had to expose the true nature of Kirk’s two-faced life and career. And there’s more to come. The Bunker Busters will keep rolling as long as money permits. We are out beating the bushes for more cash to run ads. We are looking for TV money. Now people can now see that my claims we are taking down Kirk are not an exaggeration. I took a candidate the Chicago media worships and literally ran him out of the city. That’s an Internet Powerhouse for you.

“Kirk will be hiding out in East Peoria while the debate will go on in Chicago. The little critter is afraid to face me. I have half a mind to send a few Asian carp downriver to chase after him,” Martin says. “The Bunker Busters have brought reality crashing down on Mark Kirk.

“Stunningly, the Democrats are also observing Kirk’s retreat. They smell the blood in the Illinois River. Kirk’s credibility and inevitability is shattered. Kirk’s ‘escape from Chicago’ has confirmed my claim I am going to pull the upset of the decade on February 2nd.”

Kirk’s last-minute announcement, released Monday January 11th:

You're Invited

A Special Republican Joint Meeting of the Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford County Central Committees

For Precinct Committeemen and Spouses

To Meet Congressman Mark Kirk, Candidate for United States Senate

Thursday, January 14, 2009

7:00 Meet and Greet
7:30 to 8:30 Questions and Answers Program

Embassy Suites Hotel Conference Center, 100 Conference Drive, East Peoria
(Off of Camp Street, right next to the Bob Michel Bridge)

Please come and participate in a presentation with direct questions from Precinct Committeemen to candidate Mark Kirk and listen to his answers first-hand.

The event is free of charge and open to all Precinct Committee members and spouses.

Mark Kirk called a military imposter

2010-01-08T09:57:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk “shamelessly exaggerates” his military role. Martin says Kirk tries to dress up congressional visits as “fighting” and “tours of duty.” “Kirk is a complete nut case,” Martin says. “Once again we see the media lying to voters about who Mark Kirk really is. Every veteran should be outraged at the way Mark Kirk tries to make a joke of the chain of command.”

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is a “military masquerader”

Martin says that news media broadcast Kirk’s lies about his “service” because the media is promoting liberal Republican Kirk

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

ATTENTION: DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SPRINGFIELD AND PEORIA NEWS CONFERENCES
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8TH

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin says Mark Kirk exaggerates and misrepresents his military activity and is a disgrace to the U. S. Navy

Martin says junior officers on “duty” do not tell generals how to win wars after a few hours “in country”

(CHICAGO)(January 8, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold Springfield and Peoria news conferences today, Friday January 8th, to accuse Mark Kirk of being a “military masquerader.”

“Mark Kirk holds a reserve commission in the Navy,” Martin says. “That’s where reality ends and Mark Kirk's lies begin.

“Proof of Kirk’s misrepresentations is hard to come by because he avoids public contact and meets in secret with powerful lobbyists and business interests. But Thursday the curtain was pulled back by NBC News, and the result was shocking:

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local-beat/
Mark-Kirk-Im-Not-Gay-80906492.html

“When a reserve officer is actually ‘on duty’ or ‘serving a tour of duty,’ as Kirk claims he was, that officer is subject to the strict military chain of command. Any veteran knows that. I hold an Honorable Discharge from the USAF reserves although I was not on active duty. Junior officers know their place.

“What does Kirk say he did in Afghanistan? According to NBC News, Kirk says he ‘came up with a number of recommendations that I gave to Gen. McChrystal.’ In other words, junior officer Kirk was meeting with and telling military expert general McChrystal how to fight McChrystal’s war. Hello? A few hours after arriving in Afghanistan? Kirk knew more and better than the general?

“This is Kirk’s idea of ‘service’ and ‘active duty?’ Telling the generals what to do after arriving in that country a few hours earlier? Kirk's behavior is a sickening spectacle and abuse of the Navy. Kirk is a military imposter who tries to misrepresent what he does.

“Senators and Representatives go on inspection tours all the time. That kind of oversight is entirely appropriate and constitutional. But it is not constitutional or proper military etiquette for a congressman to claim he is ‘serving’ as a junior officer ‘on a tour of duty’ when in fact he is using his congressional position to tell the general how to fight the war. The idea that Kirk knew more about the war than the general, a few hours after Kirk arrived there, is an example of Kirk's megalomania.

“Kirk has been engaging in these charades for years. He claims to have ‘fought’ in several wars. His political brochures display him in a flight suit (hello George Bush?). Yesterday he told the Associated Press he was ‘fighting’ in Afghanistan last week. Does a congressman telling the general how to ‘fight’ qualify as ‘fighting?' Obviously not. The Associated Press and Sun-Times printed sheer nonsense:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/1979459,mark-kirk-gay-ad-response-010710.article

“Only in Mark Kirk’s vivid imagination is what he did in Afghanistan last week ‘fighting.’ His shameless exaggeration and gross misrepresentation devalues the real fighting being done by real warriors to fight terrorism.

“Kirk is either a pathological liar, or a crass politician who has contempt for both the public and the media, or one of the great military imposters of all time. Real veterans and real officers and enlisted men should be outraged by Kirk's perversion of the chain of command to promote his political campaign. The sad thing is that if Kirk told the truth--that he went on a congressional inspection visit--he would be well within his right to do so. In other words, Kirk invents lies to flatter himself, when the truth would be a respectable explanation for his activity. Such inflational behavior is a sign of Kirk's mental illness. He has to lie because the truth is not big enough for him. He is playing games with reality when he says he was ‘serving’ as a junior officer and telling general McChrystal how to fight the war.

“Any veteran who pauses to reflect on how Kirk manipulates his reserve status to falsely claim he is ‘fighting’ and serving ‘on duty’ when he is merely on a congressional trip, would be sickened at the way Kirk is misusing our brave men and women as political props for his campaign,” Martin charges.

“I love our flag and I was proud to serve, and all of us are indebted to our brave men and women who serve the cause of freedom 24/7. But Mark Kirk is a disgrace to the Navy and a disgrace to himself. He is a Walter Mitty ‘warrior’ and nothing more. He needs to see a doctor.”

NEWS CONFERENCE LOCATIONS FOR FRIDAY, JANUARY 8TH

SPRINGFIELD, 3:3-0 P.M., State Capitol Press Room

PEORIA 6:00 P.M. Gateway Center, 200 NE water Street (LOOK FOR candidate forum)

Mark Kirk may face criminal charges in Navy fraud probe

2010-01-07T17:46:00.000-08:00

U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Illinois Chairman Pat Brady has destroyed the Republican Party and destroyed Mark Kirk by trying to rig the 2010 primary in Kirk’s favor. Martin blames Brady’s character assassination and dirty tricks for the negative campaign which has been generated by Brady’s underhanded leadership. Martin notes he warned Brady months ago to stop the dirty tricks, and Brady only increased his improper activity. Brady has endorsed Kirk, and Kirk has given the state party $50,000. Martin is preparing to “dial up” his attacks on Kirk with Bunker Buster ads #3 and #4.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is being destroyed by Republican Chairman Pat Brady

Martin says that Kirk has allowed Brady to conduct a crooked primary on Kirk’s behalf, and the result has been a total disaster for Kirk

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

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Andy Martin says Pat Brady’s attempts to demonize and destroy Andy Martin have resulted in a blowback campaign which is destroying and demonizing Kirk

(CHICAGO)(January 7, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin told a Chicago news conference Thursday evening, January 7th that he has filed charges against Mark Kirk with the Secretary of the Navy.

Martin’s accusations follow this release. Martin’s allegations involve both possible criminal conduct by Kirk and a “don’t ask, don’t tell” suggestion to the Navy Secretary. Martin expects Kirk to leave the Navy shortly to avoid investigation.

Martin blamed Illinois Republican Chairman Pat Brady for the dirty campaign that has developed.

“For the last year, Andy McKenna and Pat Brady have been sticking it to me with dirty campaign tactics and dirty politics. Well, now I am sticking it back to Brady and Mark Kirk. Brady endorsed Kirk and has tried to make the Republican Party an extension of Kirk’s campaign. Kirk in turn played the sleazy old Illinois game of ‘pay-to-play’ by trying to purchase the nomination with a $50,000 cash donation to the Party.

“For example, Brady locked me out of the Party’s ‘Voter Vault’ while giving McKenna and Kirk access. I was forced to waste time on lawsuits to obtain basic information. We are still in court. Kirk supporters tried to have me arrested at the State Fair. Someone has to be held accountable for these abuses.

“Brady smeared me on December 28th, but has never questioned or challenged Republican McCain majordomo Kevin DuJan who published a ‘secret plan’ by the Democratic Party to defeat Kirk through homosexual innuendos. Why was I ‘bizarre’ when the Republican Party was winning and dining DuJan, whose attacks on Kirk were much more graphic?

“Once again, Brady has proven to be a corrupt and—worse—incompetent leader. He tried to rig the dice in Kirk’s favor and only achieved a collapse of the casino.

“Last week, Brady tried to demonize and destroy me and to define my 40 years of honorable service to the people of Illinois through the warped prism of Brady’s support for Mark Kirk. I am compelled to destroy Kirk in return. I fight fire with fire.

“Kirk has constantly demonized Chicagoans as 'goons' and 'thugs.' Well this Chicagoan is going to give Kirk a beatdown he will never forget.

“I did not think there could be a worse state chairman than Andy McKenna. Brady proved me wrong. Brady is worse than McKenna. Instead of running a fair primary and treating all candidates equally, so we could come together after the primary, Brady has tried to load the dice in Kirk's favor. In the process he has orchestrated the political death of Mark Kirk.

“If Brady wants to publicly apologize to me for his personal attacks on December 28th, and withdraw his claims, and promise to ‘sin no more,’ I am open to settlement negotiations. Otherwise, the demolition and destruction of Mark Kirk will proceed.” Martin stated. “Kirk is being demolished by his supporters.

“They have a chance to apologize and make amends, or they have the opportunity to ensure that Kirk comes out of the primary totally devastated as a person. The choice is theirs. My phone is working.

“This I know. If Brady does not apologize, the senate campaign is going to get worse before it gets better. We have all the Bunker Busters we need to bomb Mark Kirk into political oblivion, and we intend to use as many as we need to accomplish that mission.”

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“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
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Chicago, IL 60611-4723
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January 7, 2010

Secretary Ray Mabus
Office of the Secretary of the Navy
2000 Navy Pentagon
Washington, DC 20350-2000
via IG fax (202) 433-2613,
NCIS fax (202) 433-9242

Re: Mark Steven Kirk, USNR

Dear Secretary Mabus:

I wish to file a two-part complaint against Mark Steven Kirk.

First, I wish to formally lodge a “don’t ask, don’t tell” complaint against Mr. Kirk. Although Mr. Kirk denies that he is a homosexual, the entire gay media world says that Kirk is gay. I find it hard to believe such a large and informed sampling of public opinion is wrong.

In addition, Mr. Kirk allowed the pedophilia of Mark Foley to continue in the House of Representatives for many years. Although there does not appear to be a clinical connection between homosexuality and pedophilia, the existence of potential multiple systems disorders may reflect a cumulative impact on Mr. Kirk's personality structure.

Second, I am fully aware, as you should be, of federal criminal laws which prohibit the use of Navy property and facilities for political campaigns. What Mr. Kirk has been doing for years is claiming he is on “reserve” status and heading for a Navy facility, where he claims to be “serving” instead of merely being on a congressional junket. Kirk claims to have fought in several wars, though I doubt he has ever been actively assigned to a combat area (he may have been in a generic “war zone” but not everyone in a war zone is in a combatant area).

What do Navy records reflect about Kirk’s service and whereabouts, in comparison with what he has claimed in his political campaigns? Voters and media have a right to know.

When a candidate for federal office makes an issue of his Navy service, the Navy cannot cover-up conflicting or contradictory records. How did Kirk get to Afghanistan this month? His travel records are obviously readily available and totally unprivileged materials. Please release all of them on FRIDAY, January 8th.

What did Kirk do there? Who guarded him? Where did he stay? These are questions that are put in play by Mr. Kirk's pre-programmed political speeches which he scheduled prior to leaving the country and which he is now delivering after his return from a “combat” zone.

I have asked Mr. Kirk to waive any privacy rights he may have and he has refused. Kirk wants to have it both ways, making exaggerated claims that he is “fighting” while barring any public access to actual Navy records which document his presence overseas. This legerdemain must stop.

Most respectfully I demand that you take personal command of this scandal and personally see to the release of the full record of Mr. Kirk’s alleged most recent trip to Afghanistan. I want no more double-talk and delays in releasing documents from the Navy. The Navy is aiding and abetting Kirk in perpetrating a military masquerade.

Kirk has effectively waived any privacy issues by making a big political issue of his “fighting for freedom in Afghanistan” today, and repeatedly using Navy photographs in his campaign materials. Personally, I doubt Kirk was anywhere near hostilities. Kirk cannot be allowed to use his status as a Navy officer as a prop to campaign for political office. His behavior is disgraceful, and most likely criminal.

This is not the first time Kirk has used DOD premises for political promotion. This abuse of the Navy and DOD must STOP. Serving in the reserves is intended to enhance the service, not to provide a platform for masquerading military pretenders such as Kirk to drop in on Navy facilities “on active duty” for the purpose of having Navy photographers take pictures for use in his political brochures and pamphlets.

I respectfully request that you immediately do the following:

1. I ask that you immediately release all Navy Department records concerning Kirk’s latest trip to Afghanistan, and all prior trips as well since 2001 when Kirk entered the U. S. House. Do so this WEEK. Voters have a right to the truth about Kirk. NOW. His travel appears to have been a series of transparently political junkets and did not involve any material “active duty” whatsoever.

2. I ask that you open a "don’t ask, don’t tell" investigation. There is sufficient circumstantial evidence to support an independent investigation by the Navy.

3. I ask that you notify the U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia of Mr. Kirk’s apparent criminal activity. The claim that Kirk is on active duty as he flies around foreign bases, when he is in fact only politically profiteering at taxpayer expense and with the Navy's connivance, active or passive, is criminal behavior.

The hundreds of thousands of brave patriots who serve Americans in uniform are being used by Mr. Kirk as his political props. He has done this over and over again in the past. Now that I am his opponent I intend to stop this use, misuse and abuse of uniformed service personnel to support Mr. Kirk’s personal political campaigning.

Mr. Kirk should be separated from the service at the earliest opportunity consistent with due process of law.

Please feel free to contact me.

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

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Mark Kirk faces picketing Thursday morning over misuse of U. S. Navy, Pentagon

2010-01-07T00:52:00.000-08:00

Andy Martin will be outside the Union League Club of Chicago where Kirk is pandering to the corporate elite. Martin says Kirk is committing criminal violations by using his military uniform and “duty” gigs to shamelessly promote his political campaign. Kirk refuses to answer questions over his role in the Mark Foley sex scandal.

ANDY MARTIN PICKETS UNION LEAGUE CLUB TO PROTEST MARK KIRK’S MISUSE OF THE MILITARY

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is misusing taxpayer funds and misusing his military uniform to promote Kirk’s political campaign

Martin says he intends to file a complaint with Secretary of Defense William Gates to stop Kirk’s abuse of reserve status

Martin says Kirk's private appearance at Chicago’s Union League Club is proof positive that Kirk is the candidate of Chicago’s corporate elite

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
"The Name You Can Trust"
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
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Martin demands that Mark Kirk release his complete military records to public scrutiny.

Should someone who covered up pedophilia in Congress be in a U. S. Navy uniform, Martin asks? What about the plethora of gay media that say Kirk is a homosexual?

Is the Obama administration allowing Mark Kirk to violate federal laws against misuse of military property for political purposes in order to promote Kirk as a “Manchurian Candidate” in the Republican Party?

(CHICAGO)(January 7, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent "Internet Powerhouse" Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference and ongoing media availability Thursday morning, January 7th from 7:15 A.M. to 9:15 A.M. in front of the Union League Club to accuse Mark Kirk of illegally using taxpayer funds and a military uniform to promote his political candidacy.

“Normally, we honor our men and women in uniform,” Martin will state while he pickets the Union League Club. “I know I do. I revere military service. I am very proud of my Honorable Discharge. But when Mark Kirk gives a ‘special briefing’ to Chicago’s corporate stuff shirts after a quick visit to Asia, Kirk is stealing from U. S. taxpayers and misusing the Navy uniform to promote his political candidacy.

“Kirk performed no useful services wherever he was traveling on his latest political joy ride. Kirk's behavior is a gross misuse of his reserve status, and he has been committing these abuses for years without any searching inquiry from his liberal constituents on the North Shore.

“The U. S. Navy is not a Motel 6 where Mark Kirk can check in for a few days to polish his political candidacy with Navy 'service' days before an election.

"I have no problem with honest and open congressional trips to visit war zones. I have seen legislators in Baghdad when I was there in 2003. But in reality and practicality Kirk is traveling as a congressional VIP, not as an ordinary officer. If he wants to prove me wrong, let him ask Secretary Gates to release all of the Pentagon's files on Kirk's travel to military zones, both current and past.

“Kirk's misuse of his reserve status is an insult to the patriots who are serving our nation, and whose families are sacrificing and who do not get to do 'weekend' duty for political campaigns. Kirk is once again traveling under false pretenses in life when he claims he is ‘serving’ the Navy. In reality he is only serving his political campaign. This is gross misuse of the uniform.

“There are federal criminal laws that prohibit the conduct of politics or the use of military property for political purposes. They are designed to prevent precisely the type of trips Kirk uses to promote himself politically. He goes off for a few days as a VIP and claims he is ‘serving on reserve duty.’

“It is time for Mark Kirk to stop committing criminal acts (misuse of military premises). The Union League Club promptly planted a picture of Kirk on its website. Who took the photograph?

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Union-League-
Club-of-Chicago/69867969293#/pages/Union-
League-Club-of-Chicago/69867969293?v=wall
“How did Kirk travel to Afghanistan or wherever he was? As a Member of Congress? Or as an ordinary serviceman?

“We also have had evidence that Kirk has apparently duped his former ‘wife,’ Kimberly Vertolli, about his ‘action’ status. While I do not doubt Kirk actually holds a commission, we have a growing body of evidence that suggests Kirk is a world-class ‘Walter Mitty warrior.’ There is much, much more to come on the scandal involving Kirk’s misuse of the military. Once again, we have caught the ‘mainstream’ media napping.

“I previously asked Kirk to disclose all of his military records to document his earlier claims. Kirk refuses to do so. He refused to provide the public and voters with any supporting documentation of how he goes overseas, and what he actually does. In other words, once again we see Mark Kirk ‘posing’ as something he is not, and misusing the process to advance himself personally.

“The Union League Club should be embarrassed to promote Kirk this way. Last month the Union League Club expressed interest in sponsoring a candidates’ forum, including Kirk and other candidates. Kirk convinced them to provide him with a private opportunity to address the corporate elite of Chicago. Kirk does not represent Illinois. Kirk represents Washington to the corporate members of the Union League Club.

“The scandal over Mark Kirk’s misuse of his military uniform, and the way the Obama administration is allowing Kirk to politically campaign in war zones, is just beginning. Stay tuned.”

Martin will picket the Union League Club from 7:15 A.M. to 9:15 A.M.

January 7th news conference and media availability details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, in front of Union League Club of Chicago, 65 W. Jackson Street, downtown Chicago

WHEN:

Thursday, January 7, 2010 7:15 A.M. – 9:15 A.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is illegally using the Department of Defense to promote his political candidacy; Martin will ask whether Kirk’s abuses indicate he is being used as a “Manchurian Candidate” of the Obama administration in the Republican Party

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
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Andy Martin resolves confusion with Iowa TV station

2010-01-07T00:49:00.000-08:00

Both parties come to an agreement that a clarification was needed.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin resolves problem with Iowa TV station

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(NEW YORK)(January 7, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin issued a statement Thursday morning indicating he had resolved a conflict with an Iowa TV station. “I am gratified to announce the station and I were able to correct a misapprehension. The station has published my remarks both on its web page and in a broadcast newscast. We always respond to media inquiries promptly. I could see, however, how the overnight employee left early in the day and was not at work when my response to his inquiry arrived.”

http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?s=11772529

The TV’s station’s report previously appeared on the web and in a local Iowa-Illinois broadcast. These reports were corrected.

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.] MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

Liberal media frenzy builds as conservative Andy Martin may defeat liberal Republican Mark Kirk

2010-01-07T00:46:00.000-08:00

Martin establishes a two-man race for the Illinois Republican U. S. Senate nomination. Martin’s commercials end up on liberal blogs almost as soon as they are released to radio stations. Martin’s campaign is based on a disciplined game plan to defeat Kirk.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin builds “Bunker Busters” as liberal media elite starts to panic

Martin says Mark Kirk is about to be defeated by a conservative “surge”

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

National frenzy builds in liberal media as Andy Martin closes the gap with liberal Republican Mark Kirk

Andy builds a “Glenn Beck-style” revival movement in the Republican Party

Andy Martin’s “Bunker Busters” enter the national conversation as left-wing media cadge Martin’s ads almost as quickly as they are broadcast across Illinois

As Kirk fades from sight, the Kirk campaign doubles media spending in a desperate effort to stave off Andy Martin’s “surge”

Will Mark Kirk appear at the WLS-TV Channel 7 debate? Doubts about Kirk’s “appearance” increase

Andy Martin revs up his campaign against Wall Street greed, starts post-primary planning for a vicious campaign against Democratic party hypocrisy and greed

(NEW YORK)(January 7, 2010) Within hours of Andy Martin launching a new media attack on his opponent Mark Kirk Wednesday, January 6th, national media had obtained a copy of the ad and were broadcasting Martin’s attacks to a national audience.

“I don’t know how the Huffington Post got the ad. But within a few hours, they had what we had just put up on a statewide basis,” Martin says. “Someone leaked. It was an impressive job of filching. Very clearly, national media coverage is beginning to drive the agenda in the Republican primary for U. S. Senator. National media from the New York Times to the Huffington Post want a Mark Kirk-Andy Martin smackdown. And they are going to get one.

“Liberals were comfortable thinking pro-Obama Mark Kirk would breeze to an easy win for the Republican senate nomination, and Democrats would then finish off Kirk over the summer with typical left-wing dirty politics, see:
http://hillbuzz.org/2009/12/18/what-
chicago-democrats-are-planning-to-do-
to-out-republicans-mark-kirk-and-aaron-schock/

“By hitting Kirk first, my campaign has upended the liberal script and revitalized the Republican primary.

“What is even more upsetting to the liberal media elite is that traditional ‘movement conservatives’ are marooned on the sidelines as I build a Glenn Beck-style citizens' rebellion against the arrogant and corrupt Illinois Republican Party. In order to win the senate nomination I have had to declare war on a party which has been under day-to-day supervision of homosexuals since the Topinka years, and under the effective manipulation of Kirk adviser and Dennis Hastert homosexual majordomo John McGovern.

“My ‘movement’ is made up of disaffected Republicans that have abandoned the Republican Party as it increasingly came under the manipulation of the corrupt bipartisan ‘Combine’ in Illinois. Republicans are in rebellion, and I am their field general.

“My ‘Bunker Busters’ have entered the national conversation as liberals await a new explosion in the Kirk camp. The Huffington Post predicts the next Bunker Buster will land on Kirk next week, just before the Channel 7 WLS-TV debate.

“The Illinois Republican senate primary has been narrowed to a two-man race:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=
news/politics&id=7204762

“Making matters even more upsetting for the liberal media elite, they are now realizing that while Kirk would be an easy ‘mark’ to defeat, I will not be so easy to bring down if I win the nomination. I am still struggling to win the primary. But if I win the nomination, I will be positioned to lead a revitalized conservative movement to victory in Illinois next November. Where would Kirk draw votes if he won? From liberals? (See Bunker Buster #4 for the answer.)

“There is no doubt my commercials have jarred listeners. They can be unsettling. They are certainly challenging. But they are intended to alert voters to the chance for a major upset in American politics. I learned my ‘Ted Bates’ lessons well at the University of Illinois College of Business. We are using a classic Ted Bates approach to bringing down Kirk.

“What’s more, our approach is working. My forty years experience in radio and television give me an edge in managing a media strategy that is designed to accomplish the impossible, and very possibly will succeed in toppling the overwhelming favorite with my insurgent campaign.

“Unlike several of my nominal opponents, who each claimed to have received a ‘vision’ to run without any experience to do, my team began crafting a detailed marketing strategy to defeat Kirk over a year ago. And we have stayed on target, on budget and on time. Our current plan is to win the election on the last weekend.

“I suspect national media are already reserving their hotel rooms for the primary. The finale is going to be a doozy.

“Kirksters are beginning to panic. Kirk is now doubling his advertising budget. But he still hasn’t found a way to defend against or defeat my Bunker Busters. He can spend millions but obtain little benefit as long as Bunker Busters continue to drop on him.

“Republican primary voters do not want Mark Kirk as their candidate. They were looking for reasons to vote against him. Now they have reasons. They want a proven fighter to take on the Democrats. I may have a few rough edges, and I may have made a few inopportune remarks in over forty years of public life, but I am a tried and tested fighter for conservative causes.

“Forty-two years ago an FBI report called me ‘one of the leading spokesmen for conservatives at the University of Illinois and an outspoken opponent of the “New Left.”’ The FBI knew I was a conservative fighter forty-two years ago. What candidate in either party has that record of solid commitment to serving the people of Illinois and fighting as their champion in Washington? Mark Kirkster? {A copy of the 1968 FBI report is available through a FOIA waiver on request.]

The growing question in Illinois media and political circles: where is Kirk? He has not been heard from in over ten (10) days. That’s strange behavior for a U.S. Senate candidate on the eve of an election. But then Mark Kirk is a strange guy. I assume he’s going to show at Channel 7 for the debate next week; but don’t ask me to bet on a Kirk appearance. He may become a no-show. The odds are moving against it,” Martin says.

“Kirk voted against the surge in Iraq. Now he is trying to work a surge of his own to stave off my Republican supporters who will swamp his candidacy on February 2nd. This time the surge is against Kirk.

“I’ll make Kirk this offer: when his slimy supporters, local media sycophants and flacks in the Obama administration stop smearing me with lies, I’ll stop telling the truth about Kirk. Then maybe we can start debating the issues of concern to Illinois voters, such as why Barack Obama and the Democrats are bankrupting Main Street America while Goldman Sachs & Co. hands out $30 billion in employee bonuses to money-grubbing Wall Street speculators.

“You got a problem with that?” Martin says as he returns to the drawing board and assembly line for his next anti-Kirk Bunker Buster (#3). ”I do. Ordinary Americans do. The Beltway ‘elite’ in both parties do not. Goldman Sachs owns Congress. But they don’t own me.”
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA
www.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

Campaign ad calls Congressman Mark Kirk a “de facto pedophile”

2010-01-06T06:37:00.001-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin calls his opponent a man who is unfit for public office. Martin says Kirk was part of a conspiracy in the U. S. House of representatives that allowed pedophile Congressman Mark Foley to prey on children employed by the House as pages. Martin says Republicans covered up the scandal. Kirk is the only member of the cabal to seek higher office. Speaker Dennis Hastert resigned in disgrace as a result of “Foleygate.” “Republican leaders in Illinois should be ashamed of themselves for promoting a de facto pedophile for U. S. Senator,” Martin charges.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is a “de facto pedophile”

Martin says that Kirk conspired with former U. S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert to conceal Mark Foley’s abuse of children inside the U. S. House of Representatives

Martin says Kirk might as well have been a member of “NAMBLA”

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF WEDNESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin launches “Bunker Buster #2” on Mark Kirk as part of Martin’s “D-Days” in Illinois politics: “Disclose the facts, Disseminate the truth and Defeat—Mark Kirk”

Martin says Kirk’s cover-up of Mark Foley’s pedophilia could have made Kirk liable as a criminal accessory; neither Kirk nor Foley were prosecuted due to, among other factors, the statute of limitations and reluctance of the victims to press charges

Martin is blanketing the state with broadcast ads accusing Kirk of being a “de facto pedophile”

Martin is already producing a third round of devastating ads exposing Kirk’s other fraudulent (non-sexual) activity

In an explosive essay which accompanies the new ad, Martin exposes how social conservatives in the Republican Party saw their agenda defeated by a homosexual “clique” in Speaker Dennis Hastert’s office

(CHICAGO)(January 6, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Wednesday, January 6th to release his new statewide campaign “Bunker Buster” advertising. Martin accuses Representative Mark Kirk of being a “de facto pedophile.” The new can be heard Wednesday, January 6th on WBBM-AM at 9:43 A.M. and 3:29 P.M. (other stations have varying times).

“For decades families have sent their children to work on the floors of the U. S House and U. S. senate as junior ‘pages.’ It’s a great honor for a family to send a son (and today a daughter) to serve as a page. Members of Congress are legally responsible for the pages and supervise all of their activity to protect the children from harm,” Martin says.

“The biggest sex scandal in American history was not one between consenting adults, however inapprprpriate such liaisons might be. The worst sex scandal was the one involving pedophile Congressman Mark Foley and how he was allowed by Republican leaders to prey on children on the floor of the U. S. House of Representatives while Speaker Dennis Hastert, Congressmen Mark Kirk and John Shimkus and others did nothing to protect the children under their supervision and protection.

“My new ad opens the door to a sex scandal that was covered up by Hastert, Kirk and other Republican leaders,” Martin says. “The truth has never come out. Now it will.

“Mark Kirk is not a member of NAMBLA. But he might as well have been. NAMBLA [North-American Man-Boy Love Association] encourages sexual relations between adult men and under-age boys. That is what Speaker Hastert and his close confidante Mark Kirk allowed to go on, not for days, not for weeks, not for months but for years. Mark Foley was never punished by the Republican Party for engaging in child abuse.

“Foley’s sexual harassment and exploitation of children could have been stopped if Mark Kirk had stood up to Hastert and stood up to the ‘clique’ in Hastert’s office that tolerated the NAMBLA-style behavior of House members and Foley in particular. But Kirk did nothing.

“My first ad was controversial because of the fact that people are entitled to differing opinions on what role, if any, possible homosexuality should play in evaluating a candidate for the United States Senate.

‘But there is no ‘second side’ to Mark Kirk’s toleration for pedophilia as practiced by Mark Foley. No one except sexual extremists such as NAMBLA and, apparently, Kirk, Hastert and John Shimkus, would act as though they believe that adult men should be allowed to prey on boys, all while under the supervision and protection of the U. S. Congress.

“Kirk was the dog that didn’t bark. Of course, while Kirk pretends to be head of a ‘suburban’ caucus in the house, Kirk’s actions in Foleygate speak louder than his words. Any suburban parent knows that protecting your child from sexual exploitation is one of the paramount roles of a parent. Kirk failed to discharge the duty imposed on all 435 members of the house to act in the best interests of the children in their care.

“I repeat, while my original ad addressed a controversial topic on which there are differing opinions, there are no differing opinions on whether Congress, charged with protecting children, was free to allow a congressman to prey on those children.

“Mark Foley was not some creepy guy in a trailer park. Foley’s ‘trailer park’ was the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Kirk let Foley get away with it.

“Of necessity my ad is only 60-seconds long. In longer article of social criticism, I will provide further details about the ‘clique’ operating out of Speaker Dennis Hastert’s office that destroyed the agenda of social conservatives. This truth must be known. The truth must come out. Mark Kirk’s de facto pedophilia must be made known to Illinois conservatives before they cast their ballots in less than four weeks.

“Hastert resigned from the U. S. House rather than face further investigation and possible criminal prosecution. The Foley-Kirk-Shimkus scandal was covered up. No longer. Today we begin the process of telling American families that Kirk could not be trusted to protect their children, and he cannot be trusted to serve as a U. S. Senator. No family, no parent would ever again trust Mark Kirk to protect their children. He should be disqualified from holding public office.

“By his abdication of adult responsibility in the Foley ‘page’ scandal Mark Kirk has demonstrated he’s unfit to hold public office. I intend to see he never holds office again,” Martin will state. “Because Kirk was the only one of these nefarious individuals to seek higher office, we are finally in a position to hold him accountable for his role in the Foley scandal.”

The new ad is expected to have an explosive impact on the primary campaign, now with less than four weeks to election day. Martin says, “Truly this ad is a ‘Bunker Buster’ We are exploding the bunker of lies that Kirk, Hastert Foley and others created to hide their criminal behavior from public scrutiny,” Martin promises.

Martin is preparing “Bunker Buster” ad #3, which will go into production shortly. Later this week he will hold a contest to solicit guesses on what the topic will be. Once again, Martin’s Bunker Buster is expected to explode another aspect of Kirks résumé and history, and leave the congressman’s reputation in shreds.

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January 6th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 3:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is a “de facto pedophile” who allowed children working for the U. S. House to be abuse by Mark Foley

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010
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SOURCE MATERIALS ON KIRK HOMOSEXUALITY ALLEGATIONS:

www.ChampionNews.net:

[GO TO SEGMENT TWO]:
http://www.championnews.net/
article.php?sid=2165

www.Hillbuzz.org:

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/12/18/what-chicago-
democrats-are-planning-to-do-to-out-
republicans-mark-kirk-and-aaron-schock/

www.IllinoisReview.com:

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/
illinoisreview/2009/12/rumor-source-is-
lifelong-democrat-and-burris-fundraiser.html

Kevin DuJan background:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/
p-j-gladnick/2008/11/04/lifelong-
democrat-who-supports-mccain-finally-found

CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE: Obama response to terror threat is inadequate

2010-01-04T23:11:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin charges that President Barack Obama’s response to the growing terror threat is “less than 1/3 of a solution. Obama continues to be a 98-pound weakling on national security.”

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Obama’s airline security enhancements are grossly insufficient

Martin says that Obama is unwilling to fight the war on terror

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF TUESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says that the Obama’s administration’s latest airport security procedures are less than 1/3 of a solution; where’s the rest?

Martin calls for a ban on Somali immigration to the United States

Martin renews his charge that “President Barack Obama is a 98-pound weakling on national security”

Martin has scheduled “D-Day #2” for January 6, 2010 for a new anti-Mark Kirk “bunker buster” advertisement

(CHICAGO)(January 5, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Tuesday, January 5th to challenge President Barack Obama’s latest security procedures as woefully inadequate.

“Obama’s ‘security’ effort is less than 1/3 of what is the minimum required,” Martin charges.

“First, we need enhanced airline security, targeted at terrorist nations. That has apparently been partially implemented. Where is the commitment to full-body scanners?

Second, we need to counterattack the terrorists in their training bases, and hunt down their leaders overseas. Where is this phase of the action? Ten years ago the U. S. S. Cole was blown up in Yemen. A decade later, we are going backwards. Yemen is deteriorating. How’s that for progress? Both Republicans and Democrats have failed to stabilize Yemen.

“Finally, we need to target domestic jihadis and other potential domestic terrorists. I don’t want to see any Fort Dix or Fort Hood-style attacks.

“In particular, I would ban any Somali immigration to this country. We have created our own domestic enemies by settling Somalis across the United States. These people have spawned at least one terror network, in Minnesota, which sent trainees to Somalia, and possibly other sleeper cells. Why are we importing Somalis to undermine our national security?

“Unless we enhance all aspects of national security and counterterrorism with efforts to detect and disrupt and destroy both the domestic and overseas threats, merely screening passengers at airports will be less than 1/3 of the solution,” Martin charges.

“Is Obama fighting a war, or playing pattycake with terrorists? It is hard to tell. Unless and until Obama commits himself to war-fighting and tackles the domestic terror training associations, he is not doing enough to protect Americans. Obama continues to be a 98-pound weakling on national security.”

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D-DAY #2 : D-Day #2 is set for January 6, 2010 2:00 P.M.

Andy Martin has scheduled “D-Day #2” to drop his second “bunker buster” on Mark Kirk
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January 5th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 2:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says that Barack Obama’s response to the enhanced threat of airborne terrorism is insufficient

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin exposes media lies and corruption in Chicago

2010-01-03T01:06:00.000-08:00

When is Mark Kirk going to withdraw as a U. S. Senate candidate? Kirk’s opponent Andy Martin strips the bark off the sordid sexual history of Kirk, former Speaker Dennis Hastert and the Illinois Republican Party. The homosexual scandal in Republican Party politics is just in its early stages. A major national scandal is about to explode.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin exposes the media lies behind reports involving Patrick Brady

Martin says that local media used a crooked local political leader who supports gay bars and Mark Kirk to attack Martin’s campaign, without telling viewers/listeners/readers the truth

Martin says “If Pat Brady is Mark Kirk’s leading ‘beard,’ the Kirkster will be withdrawing as a candidate”

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin exposes the sordid truth about Republican “leader” Pat Brady

Pat Brady is a Mark Kirk stooge, and a supporter of holding Republican (John McCain) events in gay bars

Why is Pat Brady is attacking Andy Martin, the only conservative candidate for U. S. Senator in Illinois?

Why did the media lie and present a distorted picture of Brady’s role as a Kirk surrogate?

Well, now you know “the rest of the story”

Andy predicts a major national political scandal is about to explode

Andy promises to fight corruption in Washington in both political parties.

(NEW YORK)(January 3, 2010) Last week, Illinois media and some national media reported that Patrick Brady has “disendorsed” my candidacy for U. S. Senator. Brady had absolutely no authority to take the action he released to the media. But Brady’s total lack of power to smear my campaign is only the proverbial “tip of the iceberg.” A major national scandal is about to explode.

Brady’s fraudulent behavior and the way Chicago media responded is a classic example of local media distortion, corruption and incompetence.

Not one of the media reporting Brady’s bogus action reported to viewers/listeners/readers that Brady was one of Mark Kirk’s earliest supporters. Check the facts for yourself:

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2177

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2174

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2053

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2048

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2048

Didn’t viewers/listeners/readers have a right to full and fair context? Would the fact that Brady was supporting my opponent have colored their view of the media’s distortions? Once again, you have actual proof positive that local media lie, and local media such as NBC's Carol Marin try to demonize conservatives.

The advertisement which prompted Mr. Brady to come forward and oppose my campaign concerned Mark Kirk's homosexual issues.

During the 2008 campaign Mr. Brady, as “John McCain leader for Illinois,” sponsored a “bar event” in “Boystown,” the homosexual neighborhood in Chicago. Would viewers/listeners/readers have liked to know Brady had a history of sponsoring homosexual activity in the Republican Party? You be the judge:

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1134

The one time Mr. Brady ran for office, he attacked his opponent and started a fist fight:

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1876

Mr. Brady has been one of the leading front men of the corrupt bipartisan “Combine” of corruption that controls both Illinois political parties:

http://www.pantagraph.com/news/article_
d6327f06-07c3-5572-a6ac-f84d3c276a1a.html

Mr. Brady has a history of attacking conservative Republicans who fight corruption; Brady asks them to leave the Party:

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/
clout_st/2009/04/illinois-gop-leader-
critical-of-lauzen.html

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1849

Yes, politics is contentious. But why do Chicago media lie and favor one side in a fight between an extreme liberal (Kirk) and a genuine conservative (Andy Martin)?

Well, now you know the rest of the story.

Not many real Republicans would support a candidate backed by a crooked, violent psychopath like Pat Brady. This is Mark Kirk’s leading supporter? And “beard?” Mark Kirk is not long for the 2010 campaign. When will he withdraw?

The choice on February 2nd is clear: vote no to Kirk, vote no to Brady and vote no to continuing corruption of the Illinois Republican Party by former Speaker Dennis Hastert’s homosexual operatives.

If you want to fight political and moral corruption in Washington,- please vote for me. I am your only hope to get the truth and the only Republican who can stand up to Barack Obama.

MONDAY: Who is John McGovern and what is his connection to Mark Kirk and the “homosexual GOP culture…in Illinois.”

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA
www.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE: U.S. Senate candidate says Barack Obama is a “98-pound weakling” on national security

2010-01-02T10:04:00.000-08:00

The U.S. Senate candidate the New York Times calls a “conservative bomb thrower,” Andy Martin attacks Barack Obama’s response to terrorist crisis in Yemen. Martin says Obama’s radio address Saturday offered a travelogue, not a solution or a plan to attack terror camps. Martin proposes an “Israeli-style” approach to fighting terrorism. Martin will review the Jimmy Carter-era term and apply it to Obama: “Mush from the Wimp”

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Barack Obama is a “98-pound weakling” on national security

Martin demands that Obama “stop coddling Muslims” and impose additional screening procedures on both foreign and domestic Muslims and other potential terrorists

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SATURDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK

IS OBAMA A “NINETY-EIGHT POUND WEAKLING” ON NATIONAL SECURITY?

Andy Martin says that Barack Obama is endangering national security by “coddling Muslims”

Martin calls for a crackdown on Islamic nations and says as a Senator he will legislate the temporary imposition of Islamic profiling on both foreign and domestic individuals

Martin says Congress must follow the “Israeli example” in focusing security efforts on security threats, not “Illinois grannies”

Is Obama’s mysterious “student” trip to Pakistan a factor in his pro-Islamic attitudes?

Martin revives the Jimmy carter-era term “Mush from the Wimp” and calls Obama a “wimp in the war against terror”

(NEW YORK)(January 2, 2010) The Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” that the New York Times calls a “conservative bomb thrower” will hold a dramatic New York news conference today, Saturday, January 2nd to attack President Barack Obama and call the president a “98-pound weakling” on national security.

Martin accuses Obama of endangering the lives of every American. “The greatest threat to American national security is sitting in the White House, in the Oval Office,” Martin charges.

“Al-Qaeda is a threat. Yemen is a threat. There are threats in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Somalia represents a problem,” Martin says.

“But the greatest threat of all to our nation is Barack Obama himself. His coddling of Muslims and his degrading of our national security capabilities endangers every American. Obama is trying to blunt the reality that his relentless political correctness and international groveling is encouraging new terrorist threats.

“Today (Saturday) Obama gave us a radio travelogue on the terror network routes from Yemen to New York and Detroit. What a surprise! The CIA knows where the bad guys are. Obama lacks the will to take them out. What is he waiting for? We are not ‘partners’ with the Yemeni government as Obama claims. There is no Yemeni government as we understand the term. Terrorists operate openly and with impunity. Obama has been sending Guantanamo inmates to Yemen to reinforce the terrorist training camps. Is this insane?

“Jimmy Carter allowed these terror networks to come into being. Then we said there was ‘Mush from the wimp.’ Americans are receiving more mush from a new 2010 wimp.

“Barack Obama is a ‘wimp on national security.’ Obama’s plan to ‘strengthen our partnership with the Yemeni government’ is a joke,” says Middle East security expert Andy Martin. Martin proposes an Israeli-style crackdown on terrorist attempts to commit mass murder.

“When is Obama going to face the inevitable and tell people he has decided not to close Guantanamo?” Martin demands. “When his he going to ask every Muslim government to stamp out terrorism? How can we be safe when Imams and mosques from Cairo to Karachi are spewing forth hate with government approval? Obama’s plan to ‘strengthen our partnership with the Yemeni government’ is ‘mere words.’ When is Obama going to face the truth? Martin says Obama is a 98-pound weakling on national security.

“Barry Obama’s Muslim heritage, which he likes to brag about when it suits his purposes, is preventing him from declaring the war on terror. Instead he has chumbolone Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano telling us everything is fine.

“Obama became president without ever being vetted by any national security agency. Obama’s mysterious journey to Pakistan as a ‘student’ becomes more intriguing every day. Who paid? How did he get there? Whom did he meet with? Obama won’t say. Yet he brags his mother was on welfare. Did he use food stamps to pay for his ticket? Obama’s silence breeds suspicion. There is no way Obama’s opaque personal history would qualify him for any U.S. Government security clearance.

“Obama is mentally incapable of cracking down on Muslims. His mother raised him as a Muslim until the age of 10. He boasted of his Muslim roots in his Cairo speech. His law school education was apparently financed by some of the same Saudi extremists who were paymasters for Al-Qaeda and 9/11.

“I do not trust Barack Obama. Not for one inch, not for one minute.

“We must adopt the Israeli approach to national security and direct our efforts at pre-profiled terrorists and extremists. Illinois ‘grannies’ are not the threat. Islamic anarchists are.

“As Illinois’ U. S. Senator I will immediately become Barack Obama’s most formidable opponent, and the most influential advocate of enhanced national security. I have forty years of international experience to recognize a growing risk when I see one. That’s why I believe Obama is the greatest threat to our national security. His actions encourage Islamic anarchists.

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January 2nd news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, in front of Bolivar statute, Central Park, Central Park South and Sixth Avenue, New York

WHEN:

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 4:30 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Barack Obama is a “98-pound weakling” on national security

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He has over forty years of experience in Asia and the Middle East, and is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

Illinois U. S. Senate primary: Andy Martin is the “Kirk Killer”

2010-01-02T01:12:00.000-08:00

Jim Warren of the New York Times may have unwittingly written Mark Kirk’s political obituary. Andy Martin explains why. Liberal media begin to face the prospect of Andy Martin on the attack in Illinois.

ANDY MARTIN: THE “KIRK KILLER”

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
Web site: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

Please donate:

www.AndyforUSSenator.com

Blogs:

www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

www.MarkKirk.us

January 2, 2010

Ninety-six hours that continues to change American politics

Dear Illinois Republican:

What a difference a few days make.

Last Monday we launched our “Bunker Buster” attacks on Mark Kirk with Bunker Buster #1. Overnight my media campaign has become a national fixation.

Our slimy state Chairman, Pat Brady, who has publicly endorsed Mark Kirk, quickly denounced me despite the fact that the role of Chairman carries with it absolutely no authority to attack primary candidates. Pat Brady was acting as another one of Mark Kirk's "beards." A week after the advertising began, Kirk has not been heard from other than a limp two-line response from a staff member. Kirk is hiding behind Brady’s smears.

Pat Brady is a disgrace as Republican chairman. The Chairman should not be taking sides in primaries. The bylaws and rules of the Party do not give him any authority to do so.

I urge you to reject Brady, a mediocre lawyer and “Combine” stooge who was chosen in a secret deal ten minutes after Andy McKenna suspiciously resigned, in yet another “fix” that has reduced the Illinois Republican Party to laughingstock status. Don’t listen to Brady & Co; they are just mouthpieces for Kirk.

Instead, listen to what the liberals are saying about my campaign, and listen especially to the growing panic in the liberal media.

Jim Warren, who was dumped by the Chicago Tribune in one of their many internal coups, thought he would write a “cute” column insulting me and trying to defend Kirk. Instead, Warren’s column in the New York Times may turn out to be the first epitaph of Kirk’s political career.

You will notice that Warren, like Brady before him, tries to revive 25 year-old and 35 year-old smears on me. Don't they have any newer lies to use against me? In both of the smear episodes, I exposed massive corruption in federal and state court systems, and the judges retaliated by trying to demonize me with lies, distortions and much worse.

But the “core” or Warren’s arrogance was his liberal dismissal of a bold, creative advertising strategy that was created by my media operations command. I have over forty (40) years of radio and TV experience. I have produced creative and controversial attack advertising for decades.

The initial liberal reaction to “Operation D-Day,” which I correctly predicted in advance would level Kirk's political operations, was to smugly suggest that I was doomed. Quite the opposite is happening.

Here is the aftermath of “D-Day.”

People who initially assumed I had made a major blunder, now are coming around to the view I may have executed one of the most brilliant strategies in recent political history. Inside my campaign, we call it the “Inchon" landing on Kirk's back doorstep. Kirk is in hiding. No one in the media has heard from him. Even people on "active duty" get to make phone calls. Where is he? No one seems to know. Kirk has not announced his whereabouts, because he is hiding from his own friends in the liberal media. They have questions; he does not want to provide answers to the HillBuzz accusations about his lifestyle in Washington:

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/12/18/what-
chicago-democrats-are-planning-to-do-
to-out-republicans-mark-kirk-and-aaron-schock/

It is slowly dawning on liberals, who initially suggested that Kirk would not be hurt by my attacks, that Kirk is mortally wounded politically. His career is over. Kaput. Here is one writer who has had a change of heart:

http://gapersblock.com/mechanics/
2010/01/01/second-thoughts-on-
martin-kirk-and-gay-rights

Why was I right and the liberals wrong?

First, liberals dominate the media. They wallow in their own lies and self-delusions. How many liberals even know a Republican conservative?

Second, liberals do not vote in Republican primaries. Conservatives do. Conservatives do not want Kirk.
Conservatives have been increasingly aggravated and disillusioned because our “conservative” party in Illinois was under the daily working control of homosexual “advisers” hired by Judy Topinka, Andy McKenna and Mark Kirk. That is why hundreds of thousands of Republicans have abandoned the Illinois Republican Party in disgust.

Third, I want to stress that I have nothing against homosexuals. They are entitled to the same rights as any American. I will defend those rights. In fact the gay candidate for U. S. Senator in the Democratic primary (Jacob Meister) greeted me warmly the other day when he realized I was not attacking homosexuality but rather exposing political hypocrisy on the part of Mark Kirk.

Nevertheless, the Republican Party is a conservative party and we as a party we take a more conservative approach to issues such as same sex marriage, ENDA and other gay-issues. Kirk has been a leader in Congress in advocating the gay agenda. His pro-gay advocacy is a legitimate issue in a primary to select to a conservative candidate.

Hundreds of thousands of Republicans who previously stopped voting Republican now have an incentive to come back into our primary to support my conservative campaign. If I don't win the primary, no one will have the guts to stand up and run a conservative campaign in Illinois. So vote. Kirk’s other “opponents” are not serious candidates for national office.

Fourth, what is the practical effect of my advertising campaign and my candidacy? Judy Topinka, Andy McKenna and Mark Kirk have lost control of the primary. The media can't protect them because I have taken the moral issues directly to the voters. Topinka, McKenna and Kirk could never survive having the curtain pulled back from their shenanigans. Now that I have taken my case directly to conservative Republican voters, Topinka, McKenna and Kirk are finished.

That is why I am predicting Jim Warren’s defense of Kirk was really the first of many political epitaphs for the Kirkster.

Fifth, with me as your U. S. Senate candidate, the rearmament of the Republican Party has begun. Illinois is guaranteed to become the most important national battleground in the 2010 election. In the wake of my advertising campaign the national media are already focusing attention on the Illinois senate primary.

Sixth, if you can’t fight, you can’t win. It is obvious that in a public career that now spans parts of six decades in Illinois politics, I have made some mistakes. No one is perfect. But let’s talk "Raw Politics" and "Hardball." Whoever wins the Republican primary, even Kirk, is going to be attacked by the liberal media. Any Republican candidate will be targeted.

The only thing you can say with certainty is that if the candidate does not know how to go around the liberal media, as I do, and if the candidate does not know how fight back, as I will, that candidate is doomed. I have the experience and the will to fight back. No one doubts my ability to wage war on the Democrats starting on February 3rd.

Republicans are tired of being pushed around by the liberal media. I will not be pushed around. Republicans want a fighter; I am a fighter. End of “debate.”

Illinois conservatives want to defeat Kirk. I am the only candidate who has shown the ability to accomplish that task. It won’t be pretty but we will get the job done on February 2nd. On February 3rd, a united conservative Republican Party will be ready to start attacking the Democrats instead of each other. Topinka, McKenna and Brady will be out. Conservatives will be in.

No wonder the liberals (see link above) are having second thoughts. My campaign has declared war on liberal media hypocrisy. A historic turning point has been reached in Illinois politics.

Will you join me in making history and taking back this great land from the Mark Kirks and Barack Obamas of the Washington Beltway elite? This is genuinely a historic opportunity. Don’t hesitate. And don’t miss it.

The bottom line: my campaign and only my campaign is the “Kirk Killer.” Please support me and please make a generous donation online at www.AndyforUSSenator.com to keep my ads on the air. With your financial support we will have anti-Kirk, anti-Topinka, anti-McKenna advertising on over 200 radio stations.

Let’s take back the Republican Party from these two-faced Republican liberals.

Happy New Year, God bless you all,

Andy

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New York Times creates Andy Martin/Mark Kirk “smackdown” for U. S. Senate nomination in Illinois

2010-01-01T16:28:00.001-08:00

Andy Martin provides his “spin” on a major New Year’s Day development in the Illinois U. S. Senate campaign.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says the New York Times has declared the “first primary” for Illinois U. S. Senator is over

Martin says that the Times has now recognized what the Chicago Tribune acknowledged decades ago: Martin’s formidable campaign skills give him an edge in what is going to be a bloody and bitter January campaign leading up to the February 2nd “second” primary

Martin says “The Kirkster is Kaput”

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Andy Martin says that he firmly supports the right of any candidate to run for senator against Mark Kirk, but the media have now coalesced around Martin’s candidacy as Mark Kirk’s most serious threat

Martin will produce his second “Bunker Buster” ad on January 5th. It will be even more devastating to Kirk than the first one, thanks in part to the New York Times article

Martin calls on Kirk to withdraw before his political reputation is completely destroyed

Martin declares “amnesty” for conservative leaders who join his campaign

Does Mark Kirk have a “homosexual Praetorian Guard?” Republican leader Ray True now admits he effectively made the claim

(NEW YORK)(January 1, 2010) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin issued the following statement Friday morning in response to an article which appeared in the New York Times essentially naming Martin as Mark Kirk’s only significant opponent for the U. S. Senate nomination.

Martin is in New York for the holiday and will return to Chicago on January 4th.

STATEMENT OF ANDY MARTIN

The New York Times has published a vicious attack on my candidacy and my successful forty-year career as a corruption fighter in Illinois. The “news” report is riddled with lies, snide epithets, distortions and other malicious opinions.

However, between the lines of the Times article the truth emerges. There are several “truths” which the Times has now clarified and conceded. Here are my opinions in response to the Times story:

1. While other names are on the ballot, the nomination for the U. S. Senate seat has come down to a race between me and Mark Kirk. The other candidates have been rendered superfluous by the Times story. None of them are advertising on the radio and TV. Only Kirk and I are. My radio advertising has elicited 92 articles and has gone viral on the Internet and around the world.

Voters want to see a Martin-Kirk smackdown. Both Kirk and I are experienced politicians who represent conflicting viewpoints within the Republican Party. I’m ready to debate the Kirkster. Is he ready to debate me?

2. Although the Times did not realize what it was doing, the vicious attack on me actually provided more documentation for the claims in my second “Bunker Buster” ad which is going to be produced on January 5th. Media may be permitted to witness the actual production of the ad if they request to cover the event. Please submit requests in writing [reports of the production will be embargoed for 24 hours, until the ad appears on the radio].

3. Although I have the highest respect for James Warren’s earlier journalism, before he left the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Warren lacks any respect for my investigative writing. Sad. He shamelessly distorts what I previously wrote about Barack Obama. People can buy my book (see below) and read what I said. My 2007 psychological profile of Obama is especially relevant today. I delivered a lot more insightful analysis and predictive accuracy than the dominant liberal media establishment. They lied about Obama, I told the truth. Jim Warren is still jealous of my integrity. He denigrates and depreciated me despite the fact I am both a respected author and journalist.

I am also known as the “Internet Powerhouse.” Mr. Warren is a has-been who is now writing for a “non-profit cooperative” that is supported by [tax-exempt] taxpayer dollars.

4. Mr. Warren did make one very valuable contribution to the controversy over my advertising. Ray True initially denied to local media that he had said what I quoted him as saying. Mr. True has now confirmed in the New York Times that I quoted him accurately, and that he did indeed make the remarks I quoted in my advertisement. My advertisement was 100% accurate, which is why it created such a liberal media firestorm. Mr. True is now a confessed liar.

5. Mr. Warren’s report also confirms that the “first primary” is over. There was a de facto “primary” between Mr. Kirk’s challengers as to who would emerge as the principal opponent to the Kirkster. There is no longer any dispute that I am the Kirkster's nemesis. It’s Kirk or me. When we drop our second Bunker Buster on Kirk next week, there will not be any debate, anywhere that Kirk and I are going to fight a bloody, bitter primary in January, and that on February 2nd I am going to stick the fork in the Kirkster and send him into political retirement.

6. Mr. Warren repeats a “big lie” that the Illinois Supreme Court created decades ago to discredit me after I helped remove two crooked justices from the court. As a result of Warren’s reporting, which I read with a glass of champagne in my hand, I was prompted to sue the Illinois Supreme Court next week to (i) open any and all records they assembled on me and (ii) to demand that they correct their decades-old lies smearing of my good character. Thank you Jim Warren for the inspiration to do so. I have nothing to fear from the truth. Once the truth emerges, what lies will the liberals use to smear me?

Only in Illinois does the Supreme Court smear an honest man and reward criminals. What a state. The facts are the facts. I fought corruption on the Supreme Court; they retaliated by punishing me. When the then-crooked Illinois Supreme Court attacked me it was one of the proudest moments of my life. It still is.

7. On October 5, 2008, I appeared in a cable TV program on Sunday night, perhaps the most obscure time slot in cable programming. Over a year later, the liberal media are still fulminating over my appearance on Sean Hannity and promoting the claim that I was “central” to Hannity’s program. I have claimed that my interview on Hannity became the defining media moment of the presidential campaign. Once again, the Times effectively confirms my claims. This is at least the third article which the Times has written about my appearance on Sean Hannity’s one show. I invite readers to view the video for themselves and see if I accurately predicted how Obama would govern:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
j8zj_Fj3QpY&annotation_id=annotation
_259119&feature=iv

8. While I have my rough edges, no one can deny that I am a tough and experienced fighter in the political arena. With the senate primary on February 2nd now effectively reduced to a two-man race, I hereby challenge the Kirkster to two-man debates on the substantive issues. Is Kirk afraid to debate me? We will see.

9. Clearly, the dominant liberal media are terrified that I am going to defeat Mark Kirk and go on to sit in Barack Obama’s senate seat. Liberal fears are the best evidence for Republican voters to consider that I am their real Republican candidate for United States Senator.

10. There is only final error in Mr. Warren’s report. He calls me a “lightweight.” My new year’s resolutions are to eat less and exercise more.

Overall, Mr. Warren’s piece establishes me as the media master the Chicago Tribune earlier declared me to be. Forty-eight hours after `we dropped a Bunker Buster bomb on Mark Kirk we demolished his political career. My attack was one of the most devastating political ads in American broadcasting history.

Let me be clear. Bunker Buster #2 is already set for production. Bunker Busters #3 and #4 are being prepared to follow up. We are going to be “bunker busting” Kirk until he withdraws or is defeated. Kirk is Kaput.

I call on Mark Kirk to withdraw before we have to completely obliterate his career. He is already permanently damaged by his failure to respond to the evidence against him. Since both Mr. Kirk and I are lawyers, I would advise Mr. Kirk that the “adverse inference rule” applies when probative evidence is offered against a party, and the party fails to respond. Now that Col. Ray True has recanted his earlier denial, True’s claim that Kirk is surrounded by a homosexual “Praetorian Guard” is once again on the table for discussion. Kirk has issued no response. Doesn’t he own a cell phone? Even Army PFC’s get to call home. Kirk is clearly hiding and remaining in seclusion. Why? Kirk is afraid of the truth, and especially afraid of the attack dogs in the gay media.

I will be back in my office Monday, January 5th. I invite all conservative Republican leaders, even those that have been critical of me in the past, to meet with me and to join forces so we can march together as a coalition to victory on February 2nd. We will bury Mark Kirk’s political career once and for all. All are welcome to join my crusade to return the Republican Party to facts, truth and conservative values. Previously opposing conservatives now have an “amnesty” period to join my campaign and work together.

Martin can be reached in New York through Monday morning when he flies home to Chicago.

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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

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Andy Martin’s New Year’s Eve message to every Illinoisan

2010-01-01T16:25:00.000-08:00

For a New Year’s Eve note, Andy Martin quotes from his favorite passage in the Torah.

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December 31, 2009

Ninety-six hours that continues to change American politics

Dear friends and supporters,

I am in New York for a New Year’s Eve special network party.

On the plane from Chicago I looked back at an extraordinary period in my life and the life of our nation. Ten years ago I was at an unbelievable millennium party in a skyscraper. We looked out on the world and celebrated with great optimism. If you had told me then what was ahead, including living in Baghdad in 2003, I would have gasped, and then laughed in disbelief.

But then came 9/11, Baghdad, the disastrous 2008 presidential election and many more events in my life that continue to shape how I view the world and how I would serve you as a U. S. Senator.

As a Christian who has studied Judeo-Christian theology extensively, I have learned one lesson: man proposes and God disposes. We never know what lies ahead. Only God knows. But the fact that God holds ultimate wisdom and knowledge does not excuse us from the duty to prepare for the future.

At the beginning of 2009, a small committee met to shape my campaign for the 2010 U. S. Senate primary election. We assumed Mark Kirk would eventually be drawn into the process and we planned for his arrival as a candidate. There was a detailed plan, literally a “blueprint.”

Friday, New Year’s Day, we will provide an exclusive “behind the scenes” analysis of how we planned months ago to defeat Mark Kirk, and how down-to-the-day we are following a predetermined timetable. As extraordinary as it sounds, we knew day-by-day how the campaign would unfold.

Obviously, there were surprises for some of us (myself included). We have profited from unexpected bonuses, and we continue to prepare for unexpected challenges.

When our beloved President Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the hard left elitist media used to ridicule and attack him for being less than a perfect person. Guess what? I am less than perfect too.

Over 200 years ago, less-than-perfect men and women created this great nation as a beacon of individual freedom and perpetual liberty.

Reagan had a love for America and a vision for our future greatness that gave him the energy to lead us to green pastures. I share President Reagan’s vision and his passion, and his energy for bringing America back to greatness.

These are sad days for America. No, Barack Obama is not an “alien” usurper in the White House as some suggest. Tens of millions of innocent dupes voted for him. Now they are paying the price for their perfidiousness. Obama is dismantling our national heritage. Last year, I predicted Obama’s socialist revolution on Sean Hannity’s America:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
j8zj_Fj3QpY&annotation_id=annotation
_259119&feature=iv

Fighting Obama as your United States Senator will not be easy. But my life’s experiences, including the extreme challenges of the past decade, have prepared me to identify anti-American leaders such as Obama, and to stand up to such enemies of our great republic.

As we celebrate New year’s Day, ask yourself: what kind of Senator do you want? Do you want someone with a depth of experience, who can be an affective opponent of Obama’s anti-American agenda, as I am? Or do you want a senator such as Mark Kirk who generally supports Obama’s malignant agenda to disarm and demean America with gun control, hate crimes laws and restrictions on free speech?

What I have done through 2009, and what I will do on February 2nd, 2010, is offer every Republican voter a sound, solid choice: they can vote for me and vote for optimism, and the energy to attack the Democrats. Or they can vote to merely play defense against the Democratic Party’s depredations, as many Republicans think is sufficient, and support Mark Kirk.

Kirk wants to continue along Obama’s journey into the American abyss (cap and trade, abortion, etc.), just a little more slowly than Obama. I want to lead us back to the promised land of economic opportunity and personal freedom.

Do you want to move forward confidently, with a faith in America’s glorious past and future, or do you want to adopt Mark Kirk’s defeatist view and surrender to Obama’s values and monster plan to lay low the people of this nation? Following Obama’s “Chicago Way” will leave us disgraced, impoverished and diminished in the eyes of the world.

I am fighting to give you a choice. The choice is yours.

Yes, I am a fighter. And yes the words “Hardball” and “Raw Politics” can be applied to my efforts to save our state and save our nation from Obama and Kirk and others who would bow down to emperors and potentates. I bow only to the Constitution of the United States. I genuflect only to the American people. No one else.

If you want me to fight for you, I will fight. God has afforded me the privilege of being prepared to do so. Together we can proceed to rescue America and together we can redeem Ronald Reagan’s prophecy that our “best days lie ahead of us.” That is the American dream that every true American shares.

Barack Obama and Mark Kirk do not share President Reagan’s confident and optimistic view of the future. I do.

God bless you and your family and loved ones, and God bless the memory of President Ronald Reagan.

I close this message with one of my favorite pieces of scripture from the Old Testament. The Prophet Micah says that God calls on us to “act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.”

Please join me on the journey.

I need your vote on February 2, 2010.

Happy New Year,

Andy

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Veteran broadcasters Carol Marin and Andy Martin in a verbal slugfest at NBC in Chicago—ask for the tape!

2009-12-31T11:05:00.000-08:00

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin delivers a verbal beatdown to Carol Marin, an arrogant pompous media liberal and Mark Kirk supporter of NBC News. Martin demands that NBC air the tape unedited.

Carol Marin, Andy Martin verbal brawl at NBC Chicago leaves Carol Marin “punch drunk” with Andy Martin’s attacks on Marin’s lies and distortions

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“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
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U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin and Carol Marin of NBC Chicago take off the gloves.

Marin slings lies at Andy, he flings back the truth and exposes the liberal lioness as a lying lioness

Contact NBC and demand they put the full 45-minute interview on the net!!!

(CHICAGO)(December 31, 2009) Pompous, arrogant media liberal Carol Marin thought she was going to promote Mark Kirk’s senate campaign by manhandling Andy Martin in a 5-minute interview New Year’s Eve at NBC Chicago. Martin turned the tables on Marin and launched a verbal attack on Marin at the NBC 5 studio. Martin put Marin through a buzz saw and administered the strongest chastisement of Marin’s media career, exposing Marin as a liar and fraud who used bogus questions and misleading facts to attack Martin.

The five-minute interview turned into a 45-minute verbal slugfest between the two veteran broadcasters. Martin has over forty (40) years of radio and TV experience and Marin is a relative newcomer with 30 years behind her.

“Marin started out by lying about my military record,” Martin says. “I have an Honorable Discharge and I am very proud of that fact. I took the oath of enlistment at the age of 18. Marin was trying to suggest that the dirty tricks of the Illinois Supreme Court in trying to retaliate against me for helping to remove two corrupt judges from that court somehow undermined my military record.

“I offered Marin a copy of my Honorable Discharge but she wasn’t interested in the truth. She wants to wallow in her liberal Democrat lies.

“Both in public records, which unlike Mark Kirk I have fully opened to the public, and in private classified service to my country, my record of service is unparalleled. I will not let a liberal hatchet lady like Marin slander me or any other veteran.

“Of course, yesterday Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times, Marin’s colleague, ‘endorsed’ Mark Kirk as the ‘new Dick Durbin.’ What an ‘endorsement’ for a Republican candidate. Kirk should repudiate Steinberg’s ‘endorsement,’ but he won’t. Kirk is a liberal Democrat, not a conservative Republican. He relies on his media toadies such as Marin to protect him from viewers and voters.

“Marin for her part is an arrogant, pompous phony who is totally in Mark Kirk's back pocket, along with the rest of Chicago’s liberal media elite. They are a bunch of lying, self-important losers, most of whose companies are losing money or in bankruptcy. That's what the public thinks of them. They are tuning out Marin's lies. People have stopped buying local newspapers.

“Marin falsely accused me of claiming Barack Obama was not an American citizen. She owes me an on-the-air apology for her lack of professionalism. I have never made that claim about Obama. On the contrary, I sued to obtain Obama's birth certificate in Honolulu. Marin was trying to suggest I am a 'birther,' an invented media slur, which I am not. I have legitimate questions about Obama, but suggesting he was not born in Hawai'i is not one of them.

“Marin behaved disgracefully in trying to defraud her viewers about my record. I have debunked claims Obama was born outside the United States. That's why Obama hates me so much. I am scrupulously honest when writing about his secret life, and I have never stooped to his level to tell lies about him.

“Marin was ‘loaded with lies’ and I was ‘loaded for bear’ with the truth. I demolished her obnoxious TV presence.

“I challenge NBC to play the entire interview unedited, as well as Comcast and the Sun-Times. Play it all Carol, give your viewers the truth for a change,” Martin challenges. "We may sue to force release of the entire tape.

“I will not let liberal media in Chicago attack and malign honest American who fights corruption; I have a distinguished record of accomplishments and public service that neither Carol Marin nor Mark Kirk can approach (www.AndyMartin.com). Efforts to protect Kirk by attacking me are backfiring and boomeranging on the media.

“Marin was literally punch drunk at the end. She kept throwing low blows, and I kept deflecting them back in her face with the truth. She knew she had been exposed as a fraud. I am sure she will try to fix the tape and edit it out of context, but we will be in touch with NBC lawyers on Monday to assert our common law copyright to the material.

“Carol Marin got a preview of how I intend to fight back against liberal media bias as Illinois’ new U. S. Senator in Washington. Liars like Marin have had a free ride from Republicans for far too long. Today I served notice on that media phony she can’t lie about me,” Martin says.

“If Illinois Republicans want a fighter to represent them, today’s battle with liberal lioness Marin left no doubt I am the only fighter running for U. S. Senator. Ironically, I had warned NBC when we scheduled the interview that I was coming in ready to battle, and I made good on my promise. Play it all, Carol.”
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He has over forty years of experience in Asia and the Middle East, and is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
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Did Senator Jim DeMint encourage Tea Party corruption in Illinois?

2009-12-31T00:32:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says sleazy politicians have gained control over Illinois Tea Party organizations

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Senator Jim DeMint has encouraged corruption of the “Tea Party” movement in Illinois

Martin says that sleazy Illinois politicians such as Patrick Hughes have bribed and cajoled Tea Party “leaders”

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“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THURSDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says that Patrick Hughes may be engaged in “wholesale violations of federal election laws”

Martin says the Tea Party movement in Illinois has been thoroughly corrupted by self-interest and insider deal-making

“The ‘citizens’ movement’ died in less than a year,” Martin says.

Martin is welcoming supporters of other senate candidates to join his surging campaign, but “no pay-to-play is involved; either they join us on a moral basis, or we don’t want them. We do not engage in Hughes-style cash-and-carry corruption of the process”

Martin has scheduled “D-Day #2” for January 6, 2010 for a new anti-Mark Kirk “bunker buster”

(CHICAGO)(December 31, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Thursday, December 31st to accuse another senate candidate of corrupting and undermining the “Tea Party” movement in Illinois.

“It didn’t take long for Illinois politicians to corrupt so-called ‘Tea Party’ leaders,” Martin charges. “Patrick Hughes and others have merely moved their ‘pay-to-play’ gimmicks into the unsophisticated arena of ‘Tea Party” committees. It appears to me that there are wholesale violations of federal election laws being committed by Hughes and his coconspirators. Of course, in Illinois politics breaking the law is routine.

“A Mark Kirk supporter has offered a devastating indictment of Hughes and his supporters as ‘idiotic’ and ‘crazy:’
http://www.frumforum.com/hijacking-the-tea-party

That’s not the half of it.

“The Will County/Joliet/Homer Tea Party movement is spending thousands of dollars to oppose federal candidates without adequate compliance with federal election law. Hughes was caught red-handed in election law violations in November. He is a habitual offender.

“Hughes’ supporters are falsely claiming they are conducting a 'Stop Mark Kirk Rally.’ Is fraud any more acceptable when it is conducted by self-styled amateurs? No one seriously suggests that Hughes can even stop at a stop sign, let alone stop Kirk. The entire event he is promoting is a complete scam. We are considering whether to deploy pickets to warn people of Hughes' machinations. This is the same Hughes who falsely claimed Mike Ditka was serving on his 'Finance Committee,' and who said he had hundreds of thousands of dollars of ‘commitments’ that soon disappeared.

“Now the sponsors of the ‘country club’ event are trying to rope Fox News into covering this illegal assembly.

“The back story is interesting. When I attended a forum of this group in December, other candidates told me Hughes had ‘bought the support of these people,’ and that the questions being asked in the supposedly impartial forum were nothing more than sham questions previously orchestrated by Hughes. That turned out to be the case. In other words, the Tea Party promoters were conducting a completely fraudulent and fixed-in-advance event. That is no way to develop and encourage public integrity.

“The Tea Party movement was supposed to encourage independent citizen participation, and not fall under the domination or control of particular candidates. In Illinois, the opposite has happened. Hughes has claimed ‘endorsements’ from mysterious ‘Tea Party’ groups whose existence is impossible to verify. They apparently meet in secret.

“Hughes is not the only offender. A Kane County group mysteriously appeared out of nowhere. I attended a Tea Party event in Kane County, and a handful of people were there. Now they mysteriously claim ‘300 precinct committeemen,’ which is a suspiciously large number, are active. Again, this Tea Party operation met in secret and without any public notice. An attempt to Google the group produced nothing.

“On and on it goes. The following are obvious.

“First, the Tea Parties are apparently used to collect names and e-mail addresses, and this information is then bartered by small control groups for their own political benefit. Second, in my opinion, a group that is spending thousands of dollars to oppose Kirk has to file detailed reports with the federal government.

“Third the national Tea Party movement has been accused of collecting money that is then largely directed to fund raising operators. In other words, the movement has become identical to many similar suspicious charities that have been shut down by state authorities for acting as virtual conduits of professional fund raising operators.

“I obviously can’t speak to what I happening in other states. But in Illinois the Tea Party movement has fallen under the control of small groups of insiders that are vulnerable to special influence pressures and self-interested decision-making.

“One of the things I am very fastidious about in my campaign is transparency. We do nothing anonymously. Everything has my name on it or it does not go out the door. We do not do deals in secret or in private. We do not engage in pay-to-play. My campaign is a genuine grass roots citizens' movement with volunteer supporters across the state. We don’t pay for endorsements. Obviously, my standards are much higher than Hughes or the sleazy ‘consultants’ who have guided his campaign into the ditch.

"The good news is that even though Hughes has corrupted Tea Parties and corrupted the campaign process, his campaign has died on the vine. The Republican senate primary has become a two-man race between me and Mark Kirk. Hughes’ dirty tricks and hundreds of thousands of dollars of personal spending produced nothing but embarrassment, corruption and ineffective results.

“Senator Jim DeMint has encouraged this coarsening and corruption of Tea Parties in Illinois by encouraging Hughes to buy and bribe his way to political support. DeMint has not helped conservatives in Illinois. The DeMint model is a failure in our state. Not only is Hughes not ‘going anywhere,’ his campaign activity is going backwards.

“We are offering a second ‘welcome period’ to Hughes supporters to join the most dynamic conservative making in the entire United States: Andy Martin for U. S. Senator,” Martin says.

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D-DAY #2 : D-Day #2 is set for January 6, 2010

Andy Martin has scheduled “D-Day #2” to drop his second “bunker buster” on Mark Kirk
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December 31st news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says the “Tea Party” movement in Illinois has become riddled with corruption

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says he best embodies the personal qualities of President Ronald Reagan

2009-12-31T00:28:00.000-08:00

Who is the real Ronald Reagan Republican?

ANDY MARTIN: The only candidate for workers and working families in either political party.

MARTIN answers the pro-ACORN labor bosses at SEIU

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
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December 31, 2009

Seventy-two hours that continues to change American politics

Dear Illinois Republican:

Almost every Republican candidate likes to wrap himself or herself in the mantle of our beloved President Ronald Reagan. But while many aspire, few can achieve what Reagan did. He created a virtual third party, the “Reagan Democrats.”

“Reagan Democrats” terrorized the labor bosses in this country, because working people voted for a man who stood for economic opportunity and an optimistic vision of America’s future.

This week the ACORN-related labor bosses started attacking me with their usual drum roll of media-inspired lies and distortions. Why are they afraid of me?

Here is my answer to their distortions:

I am not any of the unseemly things your writer accuses me of, and the voters know both the extreme left and corrupt corporate right are lying about me.

I am a pro-labor, pro-working families Republican who blends social conservatism with social activism on behalf of people who have been raped and abandoned by the Wall Street majordomos in BOTH major parties (your Obama received more Wall Street money than McCain). The labor bosses might not support me, but your members do and will increasingly join my progressive team to return Illinois to glory.

I am the only candidate in either party with a rational plan to rebuild the economy of this state and create good jobs. I am the “good guy” in the race.

Please note that while candidate Meister has attacked me, I have never attacked him. I respect his honesty even if he does not respect mine.

Andy Martin
Republican for U. S. Senator

They may post my response at:

http://progressillinois.com/2009/12/30/us-senate-round-up#comment-14068

or the bosses may not. They are growing afraid of me.

Why?

Because I am Republican who appeals to working people and working families. Ordinary workers have been raped by the greedy Wall Street operators in both political parties. Goldman Greed (Sachs) & Co. owns both political parties in Washington, including Mark Kirk. But they do not own me.

Why are the bosses really afraid? I am the genuine article as a Reagan discipline. I don’t fake it. I am it. I can tell a joke, laugh at myself, and laugh at some of my stuff-shirted fellow Republicans that insist on having “peoples” rallies at country clubs.

The labor bosses want Mark Kirk to win because they know how to run against him. Their disgraceful plan to destroy Kirk after the primary has already been published on the Internet.

But the Democrats do not know how to defend against my style: I tell the truth, and ordinary people just love that. No one had to “teach” Reagan how to be Reagan. He just was. Naturally. Likewise, no one has to teach me to love workers and struggling families. That’s just me.

Even left-wing Sun-Times-Columnist Neil Steinberg, who today “endorsed” Mark Kirk by calling him the “new Dick Durbin” (what an “endorsement” for a Republican!) admitted Kirk is a stuffed shirt and lacks appeal to common people.

So do Republicans really want to win? Are they prepared to back someone who, rough edges and all, is a candidate that will have cross-party appeal next November? Are they prepared to nominate me? Or do they prefer to lose with the genteel and effete Mark Kirk? The choice is yours. Thanks to me, you have a real choice.

In closing, please note that while the homosexual Democrat in the race attacked me and held a news conference to denounce my advertising, I did not return the fire. I respect Mr. Jacob Meister's personal honesty. I differ with him politically, not personally. I expressed my respect for his honesty as an individual (see above). It's a pity Mark Kirk isn’t as real and as honest and Jacob Meister. Then Kirk might have a fighting chance.

As long as Kirk remains “in the closet,” as Meister suggests Kirk is, Kirk is not a viable or rational candidate for statewide office. The sooner he admits that fact to himself and his supporters, the sooner Kirk can gracefully withdraw and support my campaign.

I am the only Republican candidate who can bring our Reagan Democrats back home, because I can make them feel at home. Really home. As humans, we instinctively know when we’re welcome somewhere and when we’re not. I welcome ordinary people, workers and struggling families. I grew up in one.

Watch for an even bigger “Bunker Buster” ad next January 6th. Kirk is toast. It is time for him to go and allow us to build a Republican coalition that can have a real chance of taking back Illinois next November. You can’t fool the people. Why is Kirk trying?

My campaign is winning. Please join my team and we will roll to victory over Kirk and the labor bosses on February 2nd.

Republicans, Democrats, independents, let’s come together to nominate a corruption fighter who will break the stranglehold of Goldman Greed & Co. and Wall Street over Main Street Illinois.

I am ready to fight for you. As left-wing Obama “water” boy Chris Matthews says,” “Let’s play Hardball.” That’s the “raw politics” of it (Anderson Cooper).

Let’s win this one for the Gipper.

Happy New Year, God bless you all,

Andy

AM:sp

P.S. We need cash, lots of it, to keep the ads on the air. We need even more cash to platform the “Bunker Buster” ad across the state on 200 radio stations. Please donate at our web site www.AndyforUSSenator.com. Today. Don’t miss this chance to score the conservative upset win of the new decade. If we win on February second, conservatives across America will win.

P.P.S. Watch for our blockbuster announcement on New Year’s Day.

Media declare “Kirk Kaput:” Andy Martin the surprise frontrunner for U S Senator in Illinois Republican primary

2009-12-30T10:35:00.000-08:00

In forty-eight hours, the mainstream media have removed Mark Kirk from his perch as the “done deal” Republican nominee for U. S. Senator. Andy Martin launched one of the most devastating media attacks in American political history. Martin promises a new “Bunker Buster” anti-Kirk ad for January 6th.

“Our society is saturated with hypocrisy,” Martin says. “Liberals have a program they love called ‘Hardball,’ and Anderson Cooper calls a segment ‘Raw Politics,’ but when they actually see raw politics and hardball in action, their composure collapses. My campaign is poised to score the upset of the decade on February 2nd. Conservatives want to win. We are going to deliver a real conservative victory on February 2nd.”

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
Web site: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

Please donate:

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www.MarkKirk.us

December 30, 2009

Forty-eight hours that changed American politics

Mainstream media collapse in disarray as conservative Republicans rally to Andy Martin

Dear Illinois Republican:

Several weeks ago I began announcing “D-Day” for December 28th. I said we would launch game-changing attacks. I am a man of my word.

On Sunday (December 27) my campaign issued a statement claiming we were going to turn Illinois politics upside down. We were wrong. We are turning American politics upside down!

Simply by telling voters the truth about my opponent.

I am just a straightforward hard-charging Fighting Illini. Everything I learned in life I learned in Memorial Stadium. As a freshman, Coach Ray Eliot regaled me with the upset Fighting Illini victory that was led by the cry “Send Ameche at me.” I have this to say to the liberal media: Send Kirk at me. We’ll beat him.

The media began with their typical malicious attacks on me. Lies, distortions. Not one positive word about someone who has been a successful corruption fighter. Just bald-faced efforts to smear me (see www.AndyMartin.com for my bio.) Just ask Sarah Palin what these people are like.

The “hate parade” was led by Nell Steinberg, a Sun-Times "columnist" who accused all downstaters of being ignoramuses. You should know, in the same spirit of full disclosure that media apply to me, that Mr. Steinberg was criminally charged with beating his wife and being a drunk, and entered rehab. I think Steinberg needs to stay in rehab. To protect his wife. My victory on February 2nd will keep Steinberg in rehab.

Gay media across the country have declared Mark Kirk a homosexual. In fact, one gay publication (San Diego) is suggesting Kirk’s campaign is collapsing the same way Tiger Woods did.

Carol Marin of NBC-TV is afraid “the wrong people will be voting.” That means YOU. In other words, not “her people.” Liberals.

Now conservative publications are rallying to my campaign and comparing my honesty with Mark Kirk’s lifetime of duplicity, deceit and deception (D-Day?). See http://rffm.typepad.com/. Even political opponents who are supporting other candidates are collapsing their opposition and admitting my radio advertising about Kirk is 100% true. One of the people mentioned in the ad, Ray True, calls me the “ultra” conservative in the race. Now he tells us.

The media thought their lies would finish me off. Once again, they were wrong. I see a tsunami of conservative support flowing in our direction. The momentum has shifted to my campaign. Victory is in sight.

If conservatives stick together and join my campaign, we will defeat Kirk and claim the nomination as ours. It has to be a team effort. On February 2nd we can celebrate a national victory for conservatives. Take that Barry Obama.

The media are running scared. They were caught lying to you about Kirk. What else are they lying about? Me, for example. For months the media lied to you and tried to get you to believe you had no choice in the primary. Now, thanks to my ads, you know the truth. We exploded Kirks balloon in 48 Hours. 48 Hours that changed American politics.

Tell voters the truth, and the mainstream media panic. Now you know why the Chicago Tribune once called me an “absolutely brilliant campaigner” and a “master” campaigner.

And, by the way watch for an even bigger “Bunker Buster” ad next January 6th. Kirk is toast.

We’re winning. Please join my team and we will roll to victory over Kirk and Brady on February 2nd.

Happy New Year,

Andy Martin

AM:sp

P.S. We need cash, lots of it, to keep the ads on the air. We need even more cash to platform the “Bunker Buster” ad across the state on 200 radio stations. Please donate at our web site www.AndyforUSSenator.com. Now. Don’t miss this chance to score the conservative upset win of the new decade. If we win on February second, conservatives across America will win.

U. S. Senate candidate charges that Barack Obama is the greatest threat to national security

2009-12-29T23:49:00.000-08:00

Obama author and expert Andy Martin questions the influence Obama’s upbringing as a Muslim has on his willingness to “crack down” on Islamic nations that are allowing Muslim anarchists to fester. Martin calls for new profiling of Muslims, both foreign and domestic. The “Psychological Profile” in Martin’s book “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” predicted in 2007 that Obama was emotionally unstable in a crisis. Martin is a candidate for Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Barack Obama is the greatest threat to U. S. national security

Martin demands that Obama “stop coddling Muslims” and impose additional screening procedures on both foreign and domestic Muslims and other potential terrorists

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MONDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says that Barack Obama is endangering national security by “coddling Muslims”

Martin calls for a crackdown on Islamic nations and says as a Senator he will legislate the temporary imposition of Islamic profiling on both foreign and domestic individuals

Martin says Congress must follow the “Israeli example” in focusing security efforts on security threats, not “Illinois grannies”

Is Obama’s mysterious “student” trip to Pakistan a factor in his pro-Islamic attitudes?

Martin says this is a “very painful day for me, but an unavoidable one”

Martin will issue a “National Security Letter” to Obama at the news conference

Martin has scheduled “D-Day #2” for January 6, 2010 for a new anti-Kirk “bunker buster”

(CHICAGO)(December 30, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a dramatic Chicago news conference Wednesday, December 30th to attack President Barack Obama for endangering the lives of every American. “The greatest threat to American national security is sitting in the White House, in the Oval Office,” Martin will charge.

“Al-Qaeda is a threat. Yemen is a threat. There are threats in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Somalia represents a problem.

“But the greatest threat of all to our nation is Barack Obama himself. His coddling of Muslims and his degrading of our national security capabilities endangers every American. Obama is trying to blunt the reality that his relentless political correctness and international groveling is encouraging new terrorist threats.

“Obama became president without ever being vetted by any national security agency. Obama’s mysterious journey to Pakistan as a ‘student’ becomes more intriguing every day. Who paid? How did he get there? Whom did he meet with? Obama won’t say. Yet he brags his mother was on welfare. Did he use food stamps to pay for his ticket? Obama’s silence breeds suspicion. There is no way Obama’s opaque personal history would qualify him for any U.S. Government security clearance.

“Obama is mentally incapable of cracking down on Muslims. His mother raised him as a Muslim until the age of 10. He boasted of his Muslim roots in his Cairo speech. His law school education was apparently financed by some of the same Saudi extremists who were paymasters for Al-Qaeda and 9/11.

“I do not trust Barack Obama. Not for one inch, not for one minute.

“We must adopt the Israeli approach to national security and direct our efforts at pre-profiled terrorists and extremists. Illinois ‘grannies’ are not the threat. Islamic anarchists are.

“As Illinois’ U. S. Senator I will immediately become Barack Obama’s most formidable opponent, and the most influential advocate of enhanced national security. I have forty years of international experience to recognize a growing risk when I see one. That’s why I believe Obama is the greatest threat to our national security. His actions encourage Islamic anarchists.

“In closing, let me say this is a painful day for me. I am a strong supporter of civil liberties. I am deeply troubled that many innocent people may be inconvenienced or embarrassed by the necessity to enhance national security screening. I have the utmost respect for Islam and every Muslim, and many of my Muslim friends will be disappointed by my advocacy of the need for profiling. But my efforts on behalf of Middle East peace continue. Our national security is enhanced when we stand for peace and justice everywhere in the world.

“Without national security, however, there is no ‘state’ to protect civil liberties. We cannot allow Islamic anarchists to threaten global peace and security. I believe my oath to defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic means just that, however unfortunate the consequences for innocent persons who are affected. I pray the need for the emergency measures will be a brief one.”
[continues]
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D-DAY #2 : D-Day #2 is set for January 6, 2010

Andy Martin has scheduled “D-Day #2” to drop his second “bunker buster” on Mark Kirk
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December 30th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 3:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says the greatest threat to national security is sitting in the White House

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He has over forty years of experience in Asia and the Middle East, and is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009

Conservative Republicans defend Andy Martin against media attacks

2009-12-29T23:43:00.000-08:00

Local media suggest that the corrupt Illinois “Combine” rigged Republican leader Pat Brady’s smear attack on Andy Martin in advance. Do internal polls show Andy Martin winning on February 2nd? Is that what Brady and Mark Kirk are really afraid of?

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
Web site: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-mail: mailto:AndyforIllinois@aol.com

Please donate:

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http://www.markkirk.us/

December 30, 2009

Republicans launch counterattack on Chicago
media’s efforts to smear Andy Martin

Dear Illinois Republican:

You may have heard Pat Brady’s attack on me. Mr. Brady had no authority to use the Illinois Republican Party apparatus to smear primary election candidates. Brady is a formally announced supporter of Mark Kirk. Brady’s organization took $50,000 in cash “hush money” from Kirk.

Both the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune published lurid attacks on me and my advertising yesterday. Most of the content of the articles was outright lies or distortions. But here’s the clincher. Neither reporter made any effort to speak with me.

Likewise, other media published false claims about me. I wonder what they are afraid of? Why do the media lie?

They lie because they do not know any conservative Republicans. They live in a liberal cocoon where anyone who threatens their orthodoxy is smeared with lies and distortions.

But real Republican conservatives are behind me and my campaign to defeat Mark Kirk. That’s what counts on February 2nd.

Republican Chairman Pat Brady is nothing but a stooge of the corrupt “Combine” that controls both political parties in this state. Polling probably shows that I am beating Kirk in the primary. That’s why he attacked me. The Combine is terrified I am winning the primary. Brady’s attack on me confirms I am the most powerful Republican for U. S. Senator. The Combine feared Senator Peter Fitzgerald and destroyed his career. I won’t let the Combine do the same to me.

One writer suggests that Brady’s attack was prepared in advance; Brady was just looking for an excuse to smear my candidacy, all as Kirk’s announced supporter:

http://blogs.vocalo.org/jkaufmann/2009/12/
sun-times-bears-headline-take-that-nominated-
for-worst-headline-of-the-decade/10831

I don’t know who writes Cao’s blog, but has anyone from the media studied that analysis of my ad? Not likely. If you want to read what real Republicans think, read on:

http://caosblog.com/archives/15610#comment-3016045

Here is my posting/response to Cao’s blog:

My radio ad on Mark Kirk is absolutely factually correct. I realize the ad may offend some people, but then Mark Kirk in the U. S. Senate for six years would be even more offensive.

I respect the right of anyone to disagree with me, but I believe that honest campaigns sometimes have to be tough campaigns, when you are running, as I am, against a political fraud such as Mark Kirk. The liberal gay-dominated media in Chicago are promoting Kirk and trying to nominate him by default. They ignore the other candidates. I will not lie down and surrender to liberal media fraud. I am fighting to become a senator, and I will fight for the people of Illinois and the American people as your U. S. Senator in Washington.

The claim by some that my honesty somehow endangers Republicans is complete nonsense. Republican dishonesty is our biggest enemy. We can’t lie to ourselves about Kirk during the primary, and then blame others when the Democrats blow up his campaign next summer. Pat Brady’s hypocrisy is the real enemy of every Republican.

We drop the next “bunker buster” on Mark Kirk on January 6th. Be listening.

Andy Martin
The Real Republican for U. S. Senator

We’re winning. Please join my team and we will roll to victory over Kirk and Brady on February 2nd.

Happy New Year,

Andy Martin

AM:sp

2009-12-28T03:03:00.000-08:00

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin is launching an unprecedented series of broadcast attacks on Mark Kirk beginning Monday, December 28th. Martin says that Kirk must answer Republican leaders’ questions concerning Kirk’s alleged homosexuality and homosexual relationship in Washington, DC. “There has never been another campaign like this,” Martin says. “We are going to turn the State of Illinois upside down on February 2nd, win the primary, stun both political establishments, go on to win election to the U. S. Senate and lead a counter-revolution to Barack Obama’s overthrow of our national institutions.”

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk must address allegations that Kirk is a homosexual

Martin says “the issue is not homosexuality, the question is hypocrisy; people are entitled to their privacy, they are not entitled to live public lives in the closet”

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The Name You Can Trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MONDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin launches “D-Day” in Illinois politics: “Disclose the facts, Disseminate the truth and Defeat—Mark Kirk”

Martin says Illinois Republican voters deserve the facts and the truth from Kirk about Kirk’s alleged homosexual activity

Martin is blanketing the state with broadcast ads repeating allegations against Kirk made by another senate candidate’s supporters

Martin is already producing a second round of ads exposing Kirk’s other sexual peccadilloes

Andy says both parties struggle with closeted gay public officials.

(CHICAGO)(December 28, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Monday, December 28th to announce that he has begun a statewide campaign of advertising suggesting that Mark Kirk must address media rumors of his homosexuality.

“The Chairman of Illinois Democrats for John McCain has accused Mark Kirk of being a homosexual, and living with another homosexual man in Washington, DC. Kevin DuJan, who was recognized by National GOP Chairman Michael Steele in April, 2009 as a 2008 John McCain leader, has published a widely circulated article claiming that Democrats are planning to expose Kirk’s homosexuality to retain the U. S. Senate seat in November, 2010.

“These accusations demand a full explanation from Kirk himself. Kirk’s attempts to brush off his critics with a statement claiming they ‘demean’ him will not wash with Republican primary voters. It seems that everywhere Kirk goes, ‘rumors’ follow in his wake. That’s very unusual.

“Interestingly, all of the persons behind the current Kirk attacks appear to be motivated by support for another GOP candidate in the senate primary, not my campaign.

“Earlier, Lake County Republican leader Ray True accused Kirk of being a homosexual, and said he ‘knows Kirk pretty well.’ Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Roeser said there is a ‘solid rumor that Kirk is a homosexual.’ Both men support another GOP candidate, not my campaign.

“Let me be clear. Homosexuality is not the issue. Every person is entitled to privacy, and everyone is entitled to equal protection of the laws. But when someone such as Kirk steps into the public arena, and wants to be elected to one of the top 100 public offices in a nation, he owes Illinois voters a campaign in the open, not a ‘campaign in the closet.’ Who does he share a house with in Washington?

“Republicans have had a persistent homosexual problem over the years, most recently with Congressman Mark Kirk and Senator Larry Craig. But both parties struggle with closeted gay man as public officials, such as Wisconsin U. S. Senator Herb Kohl and Florida Governor Charlie Crist. We need to deal honestly with human behavior.

“In my six decade career of political reform and corruption fighting in Illinois, I have been dedicated to finding the facts and searching for the truth. It is now an objective fact that some Republican leaders are making accusations against Kirk. He has to answer them. He cannot be a credible candidate for the United States Senate while accusations of homosexuality, sham marriages and live-in ‘boy friends’ are swirling around him.

“Finally, while the Kirk—is-a-homosexual story line has been all across the Republican Party leadership, and on the Internet, Republican primary voters are being kept in the dark. That’s wrong. That’s hypocritical. Kirk is swamping the state with bogus ads touting his conservative credentials while concealing his convoluted personal lifestyle from the public. Illinois State Republican Chairman Pat Brady knows the truth: how can Brady be a leader and support a liar?

“All my broadcast advertising does is take the truth to the voters. Republican Party leaders are lying. Votes have a right to the facts and the truth.

“Ironically, the current attacks on Kirk do not come from my campaign; I have nothing to do with them. All of the attacks on Kirk originate with supporters of one of the other Republican senate candidates. That GOP ‘candidate’ has to accept or reject the actions of his campaign contributors who accuse Kirk of homosexuality.

“I should point out that while my current ad is based on the public accusations by others, we are preparing to air our own investigative exposé of Kirk’s involvement in additional sex scandals. The second batch of ads is now going into production.

“If we receive enough new campaign contributions we will move into TV as well. Money is the only constraint on our anti-Kirk advertising at this point.

“The Chicago Tribune editorial board once called me an ‘absolutely brilliant campaigner’ whose ‘public-relations skills are masterly.’ That’s why the Tribune locked me out of their ‘forum’ this month with Kirk. They were afraid I would embarrass Kirk, the Tribune’s rigged ‘Combine’ candidate. The Tribune does not deserve to survive as a newspaper; they have forfeited all of their journalistic integrity.

“I am the only candidate with over forty years of radio and TV experience. I am fighting a ‘David and Goliath’ battle against Kirk. But if Kirk wins, Obama wins; if Kirk wins, America loses. I must not fail.

“I can say without fear of contradiction that January, 2010 is going to be a ‘month to remember’ in Illinois politics. The political decade is going to start with a bang. We are taking the truth to Illinois voters; it may be uncomfortable for some.

“But if a candidate hasn’t got the guts to stand up and tell voters the facts and the truth about his primary opponent, how is he going to stand up to Barack Obama and stop the socialist revolution?” Martin says. “I am ‘the name you can trust’ for U. S. Senator because I tell voters the truth. All of the references for the claims in my advertising follow these remarks (see below).

“I expect to win the Republican primary, and go on to sweep away the Democratic candidate. One year from now, I will be Illinois’ own senator, and America’s senator, as I lead the battle to stop Barrack Obama and his anti-American agenda from destroying this great nation.”

SOURCE MATERIALS ON KIRK HOMOSEXUALITY ALLEGATIONS:

www.ChampionNews.net:

[GO TO SEGMENT TWO]:

http://www.championnews.net/
article.php?sid=2165

www.Hillbuzz.org:

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/12/18/what-chicago-
democrats-are-planning-to-do-to-out-
republicans-mark-kirk-and-aaron-schock/

www.IllinoisReview.com:

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/
illinoisreview/2009/12/rumor-source-is-
lifelong-democrat-and-burris-fundraiser.html

Kevin DuJan background:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/
p-j-gladnick/2008/11/04/lifelong-
democrat-who-supports-mccain-finally-found

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December 28th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN:

Monday, December 28, 2009 3:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk must address homosexual accusations, Washington “roommate” allegations circulating in the media

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.

Senator Jim DeMint faces new embarrassments in Illinois U. S. Senate primary

2009-12-23T21:57:00.000-08:00

As the Illinois U. S. Senate primary moves into high gear on December 28th, Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin prepares to expose embarrassing links between U. S. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina and a financially troubled real estate developer DeMint has been supporting as Martin’s “conservative” opponent. DeMint has not endorsed Martin’s opponent, however. Martin, Illinois’ leading national conservative activist, is in New York for media interviews and release of his new movie on Barack Obama’s “Hawai’i years.” Andy was recently interviewed extensively by NBC News for an upcoming special.

U. S. Senator Jim DeMint faces new scandals over links to bogus Illinois developer

Andy Martin launches “D-Day” on December 28th

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN/2010
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

U. S. Senator Jim DeMint faces new scandals concerning his relationship with “his” Illinois U. S. Senate candidate

Senator Jim DeMint set to receive a “lump of coal” from Andy Martin

(CHICAGO)(December 24, 2009) Illinois corruption fighter and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Thursday that Senator Jim DeMint faces new scandals concerning his involvement with bogus Illinois real estate “developer” Patrick Hughes.

“Senator DeMint has been promoting a political fraud for several months. DeMint’s sponsorship of Patrick Hughes is about to boomerang and bite the South Caroline senator,” Andy Martin predicts.

“Senator DeMint’s ‘Senate Conservatives Fund’ will find that Illinois is a sinkhole. Over the weekend we will be releasing embarrassing new details about ‘chumbolone’ candidate Hughes’ sleazy campaign tactics. Monday, as part of ‘D-Day,’ we will also drop a bomb on Hughes, and the debris will fall on DeMint.

“Hughes has been a sleazy candidate from the day he announced on August 20th and made false promises of financial commitments that soon evaporated.

“Mr. Hughes has run one of the dirtiest campaigns in recent history. DeMint has tried to pretend he was not involved. But Hughes has constantly been playing the ‘DeMint Card,’ claiming his ‘meeting’ with DeMint was significant. My guess is that Hughes got to DeMint through Tom Coburn. Senator Coburn is a dupe of Illinois conservative huckster Paul Caprio. Hughes has collected more sleazy ‘advisers’ in his campaign than any other campaign this year. If a candidate surrounds himself with sleazy advisers, what does that say about the candidate?

“Monday is payback time for DeMint. We will deliver the lump of coal on Thursday night, and Monday it goes ‘poof.’ Just the way Patrick Hughes is about to go ‘poof.’” Martin predicts.

“D-Day” operations are complete for a dramatic statewide launch of Martin’s broadcast advertising campaign on December 28th.

(c) Copyright 2009 by Andy Martin

Wikipedia/Wikimedia “fraud” lawsuit set for Illinois court hearing January 8th

2009-12-23T11:49:00.000-08:00

U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Barack Obama is using a web of tax-exempt organizations, sometimes secretly and surreptitiously, to implement his socialist agenda in “Obama’s ‘Amerika.’” Martin says Wikimedia/Wikipedia is an arm of the “Obama Smear Machine” and is used both to protect Obama and slime Obama’s “enemies” and “opponents.” Martin says Obama’s socialist elves now have to work overtime: the American People have become Obama’s opposition.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin’s lawsuit against Wikipedia/Wikimedia Foundation set for hearing

Martin says the Wikipedia/Wikimedia operation is a tax-exempt protosocialist scam that seeks to harass Republicans, conservatives and Obama opponents

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

An Illinois judge will hear a request for a preliminary injunction against Wikimedia/Wikipedia

Andy Martin says the Wikimedia Foundation is nothing more than a tax-exempt division of Barack Obama’s political operations

Martin’s lawsuit charges that Wikimedia falsely invokes the Communications Decency Act to defraud federal and state judges as to the true nature of Wikipedia’s operations

Martin is seeking an injunction against Wikimedia/Wikipedia

(CHICAGO)(December 23, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin announced today that a Sangamon County, Illinois court will conduct a hearing on January 8, 2010 on his Motion for a Preliminary Injunction against the Wikimedia Foundation.

“After speaking with the Wikimedia’s lawyers I am absolutely convinced that this is a tax evasion scam being orchestrated by socialists to support Barack Obama and oppose Obama’s ‘enemies,’” Martin states. “Well, they will have to work overtime, as the American people have now become Barry Obama’s ‘enemies.’ Obama is trying to destroy America, and he is using his socialist cronies in the Wikimedia operation to assist in his carnage.

“Counsel advised me that Wikimedia/Wikipedia had no interest in truth, and would continue to ‘lock’ total lies about me on its supposedly neutral and politically impartial site.

“We will also be filing a complaint with the IRS against this Obama-related tax scam. Imagine, they are using tax-exempt assets to pay high-priced lawyers to defend their efforts to sabotage Obama’s opponents and ‘enemies,’ all while Obama raises taxes on the middle class. That’s what passes for ‘change’ in Obama’s ‘Amerika.’ Tens of millions voted for this socialist joker last year; now they are paying the price, and also paying for Obama’s tax-exempt legal goon squads.

“Wake up, America, before it’s too late,” Martin says.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

IN CHANCERY
CASE NO. 2009 CH 1147

ANDY MARTIN,

Plaintiff,

vs.

WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION,
et al.,

Defendants.

NOTICE OF HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on January 8, 2010, at 3:00 P.M., I will appear before the Honorable Patrick J. Londrigan, sitting at the Sangamon County Complex, 200 S. Ninth Street, Springfield, Illinois 62701, and present the accompanying motion:
1. Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and for other relief.
Dated: December 23, 2009
Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN
NATIONAL LITIGATION CENTER
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-2639
Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639
E-mail: AndyMart20@aol.com (text only)

Additional courtesy copy requested to:

ANDY MARTIN
REGIONAL LITIGATION SUPPORT
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
SERVICE OF NOTICES IS RESPECTFULLY
REQUESTED BY FAX OR E-MAIL

Additional e-mail address available
upon request

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify I have served defendant Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. by fax to (415) 882-0495 on December 23, 2009 (copy of Notice only, Motion to follow).

ANDY MARTIN

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ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
Toll-free fax (866) 707-ANDY
Web site: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

Please donate:

www.AndyforUSSenator.com

Blogs:

www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

www.MarkKirk.us

December 23, 2009

Bryan Stroh, Esq.
Katten
Via fax (312) 577-4485

with copy to:

Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., et al.
149 new Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
via fax (415) 882-0495

Re: Lawsuit against Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. et al.

Dear counsel and defendants:

This will confirm my conversation with Mr. Stroh earlier today in which he advised me he had sent me a letter (he agreed to fax it, but I have not yet seen the letter).

Mr. Stroh advised me there was some doubt whether the lawsuit was on file and with this letter I am enclosing a copy of the stamped new case summary.

Mr. Stroh said that he was not yet authorized to accept notices on behalf of the defendants and stated I should serve the defendants directly with all notices until he actually files an appearance. I will respect his request.

This letter confirms in writing that agreement.

I also advised Mr. Stroh that I was seeking a hearing from the court on an emergency preliminary injunction, and Mr. Stroh would not advise me of any dates that were convenient for him.

As soon as I get a hearing date and time from the Court I will advise the defendants (but per his request not Mr. Stroh).

I will be serving all of the defendants at the Wikimedia location since that is obviously their place of business in relation to this lawsuit.

Please also be advised that in the next day or two I will be filing a complaint with the IRS concerning the political abuses by Wikimedia of its tax-exempt status to foster political attacks on “enemies” and “friends” of Barack Obama and other leftist causes and persons. That is not a proper use of a tax-exempt foundation that claims to be neutral and detached in its operations.

Obviously, by its own admissions, Wikimedia is neither neutral nor detached in its reportage and is being used as a political attack weapon by Obama’s supporters on the hard left at Wikimedia Foundation.

Mr. Stroh also advised me that the bogus entry on me would continue to be “locked” and that Wikimedia would neither remove nor allow to be corrected the lies and distortions being disseminated to influence a campaign for federal office and to undermine my efforts to find the facts and seek the truth about who Barack Obama really is.

I advised Mr. Stroh that Wikimedia might also have to register with the Federal Election Commission as a political committee due to its publication of pro and anti-Obama materials under strict control of a secret political presidium, all of which is directed at influencing a federal campaign in Illinois.

If any of the foregoing is in error, please advise me in writing.

Please call if you have any questions. I want to ensure you are afforded every procedural courtesy.

With best wishes,

ANDY MARTIN

AM:sp

W/encl. New Case Initiation Sheet

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Readers of Obama: The Man Behind The Mask, say the book is still the only gold standard and practical handbook on Barack Obama's unfitness for the presidency. Buy it. Book orders: Amazon.com or http://OrangeStatePress.com. Immediate shipment from Amazon.com or signed copies (delayed for signing) from the publisher are available.
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URGENT APPEAL: The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama raises money to oppose President Barack Obama's radical agenda and also to support www.BoycottHawaii.com.www.CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com Please give generously. Our ability to fight and defeat Barack Obama's political agenda is directly dependent on the generosity of every American."The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama has no bundlers, no fat cats and no illegal contributions. Obama is opposed to almost everything America stands for," says Executive Director Andy Martin. "But while Obama has raised a billion dollar slush fund, his opponents lack sufficient resources. Americans can either contribute now, or pay later. If we do not succeed, Obama will."
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He has over forty years of experience in Asia and the Middle East, and is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.

Andy Martin’s Obama movie opens in New York on Christmas Eve

2009-12-21T23:09:00.000-08:00

Obama author and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin opens “Obama: The Hawai’i Years” in New York Christmas Eve

Martin says that through a coincidence of conflicting travel plans, his Obama movie will open while Obama is in Hawai’i

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THURSDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK

Obama author and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says his new film offers fresh insights into the character of Barack Obama

Martin produced his short film entirely on location in Hawai’i earlier this year

Martin prepares to return to Illinois, for D-Day on December 28th, when he launches his broadcast advertising campaign

(NEW YORK)(December 22, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Thursday, December 24th to release his new film, “Obama: The Hawai’i Years.”

“I’m not sure if Mr. Obama considers my Christmas Eve release the equivalent of playing Santa Claus but, once again, Mr. Obama’s schedules and mine have aligned in a coincidental way.

“Last year after I headed for Honolulu to interview his grandmother, he suddenly appeared in Honolulu, also to visit his long-neglected grandmother. Coincidence?

“The Governor’s office in Hawai’i was pelted with faxes and e-mails from people who thought Obama was responding to my presence (I had no role in initiating any of those e-mails or faxes).

“My new short film, produced on location in Hawai’i, was supposed to have been released months ago. Due to my senate campaign and other delays the film is only being released now, on Christmas Eve before I return to Chicago. And the movie is being released just as Obama himself returns to Hawai’i.

“Once again, my ‘world view’ and Obama’s actions coincide. I point to Honolulu as the true spiritual home of Barack Obama. Chicago has always been a mere convenience. I doubt that Obama will ever live in Chicago again.

“As though on cue, Mr. Obama is ‘heading home for the holidays,’ to Honolulu, not Chi-town. Once again through ‘mere coincidence’ or unerring accuracy I have cast light on the ‘inner Obama.’

“‘Obama: The Hawai’i Years’ is not an attack on Obama. I always keep the personal and the political clinically separate. Rather, my directorial instincts sought to probe his adult character as an extension of his early life and formative years in Hawai’i.

“Honolulu is not Chicago or New York. Obama is not a New Yorker or a Chicagoan. Rather he has succeeded precisely because he managed to ‘port’ or ‘morph’ his transplanted Hawai’ian character into transient episodes in New York and Chicago. He slipped through the presidential election campaign intact.

“In any event, ‘Obama: the Hawai’i Years’ represents my artistic take on Barack Obama’s inner character and origins in Hawai’i. Whether you love him, as some do, or dislike him as many increasingly do, he managed to catapult himself into the White House.

“I immensely enjoyed producing the film. I am indebted to my many new Hawai’ian friends for their guidance and assistance. They have become my ‘ohana.’ And in my own small way I have become a ‘Kama'aina.’ I am sure I will be back to produce more detailed and elaborate versions of this film.

“My understanding of and analysis of Obama has always been uncannily accurate:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=
j8zj_Fj3QpY&annotation_id
=annotation_259119&feature=iv

and I think that people who watch my new film will agree that, once again, I have captured the essence of Mr. Obama in my movie.

“Because it is Christmas, and despite Mr. Obama’s suicidal efforts to ‘reform’ health care, I wish him and his family a Merry Christmas,” Martin says.

“D-Day in Illinois politics, is only hours away as we unleash our advertising attacks in the U. S. Senate primary. I have enjoyed a brief respite in New York, writing and doing research for my next Obama book, and next week I return to the cesspools of Illinois politics from whence Mr. Obama arose.

“The ‘war against corruption’ continues. There are no ‘early withdrawals’ or ‘term limits’ in the never-ending battle to rid Illinois politics and both political parties of cronyism and corruption.

“With all due respect, Illinois needs me in the U.S. Senate. I am the only candidate who has shown he can stand up to Barack Obama. I am the only candidate who can put Illinois and the U. S. on the path to greatness again, after Mr. Obama undermines the foundations of our nation.”

December 24th news conference details:

WHO:

U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Millenium Hilton, 55 Church Street, New York, NY 10007 (Please ask for Mr. Martin’s suite)

WHEN:

Thursday, December 24, 2009 2:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin opens his new movie, “Obama: The Hawai’i years”

MEDIA CONTACT:

(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

WEBSITE:

http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL:

AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
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Readers of Obama: The Man Behind The Mask, say the book is still the only gold standard and practical handbook on Barack Obama's unfitness for the presidency. Buy it. Book orders: Amazon.com or http://OrangeStatePress.com. Immediate shipment from Amazon.com or signed copies (delayed for signing) from the publisher are available.
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URGENT APPEAL: The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama raises money to oppose President Barack Obama's radical agenda and also to support www.BoycottHawaii.com.www.CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com Please give generously. Our ability to fight and defeat Barack Obama's political agenda is directly dependent on the generosity of every American."The Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama has no bundlers, no fat cats and no illegal contributions. Obama is opposed to almost everything America stands for," says Executive Director Andy Martin. "But while Obama has raised a billion dollar slush fund, his opponents lack sufficient resources. Americans can either contribute now, or pay later. If we do not succeed, Obama will."
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Andy Martin is a legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of broadcasting background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He is currently promoting his best-selling book, Obama: The Man Behind The Mask and producing the new Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of experience. He has over forty years of experience in Asia and the Middle East, and is regarded overseas as America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analyst. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York.
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.

Obama conference in New York City opens with pledge by U.S. Senate candidate at the World Trade Center

2009-12-17T23:46:00.000-08:00

United States Senate candidate Andy Martin (R-Ill) will open a New York City conference on Barack Obama Friday evening with a dramatic vow to block Barack Obama from suspending the search for Osama bin Laden in 2011. Martin’s conference is being held on the 52nd floor of the Millenium Hilton facing the World Trade Center site. Martin plans to link Obama’s mysterious trip to Pakistan as a college student to Obama’s latest policy changes on Afghanistan/Pakistan.

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin returns to network television with a searing interview by NBC News

Martin will open a New York City conference on Barack Obama with a prayer and a pledge to block any “artificial time limits” on pursuing Osama bin Laden.

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
“The name you can trust”
Republican for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com

www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin is interviewed for over 1-1/2 hours by NBC News

Andy says as “America’s Senator” he will never forget the victims of 9/11, never forget the families of 9/11 and never abandon the search to find and kill Osama bin Laden

Martin plans to open the National Conference with a dramatic prayer overlooking the World Trade Center, and a pledge to bar Obama from abandoning the search for bin Laden in 2011

(NEW YORK)(December 18, 2009) Illinois U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin returned to network television Thursday with a searching interview by NBC News. “I could not believe they asked questions for over 1-1/2 hours,” Martin said. “I don’t know how much they will use in their broadcast. But they were very prepared. There was a dark room with bright lights. It was ‘Mike Wallace noir.’ They kept asking questions for over 1-1/2 hours with no break.

“We answered all of them.

“Only a few days ago a New York Times magazine writer suggested my forty-year career as a broadcaster and reformer/crusader against political corruption was over. I guess the Times was wrong, again. There are not many people on the national media stage with the experience and guts to stand up to and challenge Barack Obama. I am one of them.

“Friday we open a two-day conference in New York City on the ‘Mysterious Mr. Obama.’ We will be conducting the historic National Conference at the World Trade Center from a suite on the 52nd floor of the Millenium Hilton overlooking Ground Zero.

“And we will begin the conference with a dramatic reaffirmation of my commitment to the victims of 9/11, their families and my pledge to the American people.

“As a U. S. Senator I will obviously and diligently attend to my duties to serve the daily needs of Illinois citizens. But as ‘America’s Senator,’ I will never ever allow Barack Obama to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan/Pakistan until we capture Osama bin Laden and his associates.

“There is no substitute for victory.

“Barack Obama’s defeatist strategy is to set arbitrary time limits on our participation in the search for bin Laden. Obama’s approach is an outrageous manipulation and capitulation to terrorism abroad and liberalism here at home. As United States Senator I will fight to keep the CIA and U. S. Army in Afghanistan and Pakistan until we capture bin Laden and destroy her terror network. I will not allow Obama to impose arbitrary limits on pursuit of bin Laden in Afghanistan/Pakistan.

“Interestingly, our conference was scheduled before Obama’s ‘capitulation’ speech at West Point, in which he promised to start withdrawing the U. S. military from Afghanistan before the start of the 2012 Democratic Party primary election season in the summer of 2011.

“Obama traveled to Pakistan as a young student. He says his family was poor. He does not appear to have had jobs while in college. Where did the money come from for Obama to travel around the world to Pakistan as a college student? Who paid? Obama refuses to answer.

“Obama refuses to release his original, typewritten 1961 birth certificate; he has only issued a laser-printed sheet from a Hawai’i state database. He refuses to release his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records and his Harvard Law School records.

“The documents we are seeking are the original source material of American history. Whether you love or hate Obama, he is now an important figure in American history. Documents related to him and his early life are part of our national archives, especially when, for example, his mysterious trip to Pakistan as a college student could shed light on his latest policy revisions concerning Pakistan and Afghanistan. What is Obama trying to cover up in his past? What happened in Pakistan when he went there as a student, who paid for him to go there, and why was he there at a time of internal upheaval in that nation?

“We will explore those questions and many others at our National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, beginning December 18th at the New York Millenium Hilton (World Trade Center)

“In 2008, I drew blood from Obama when I exposed his radical plan to undermine America. Everything I predicted then Obama is doing now:

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“Our National Conference will explore the ‘Secret Life of Barry (Barack) Obama, who traveled to Pakistan as a college student while claiming to be impoverished,” Martin states. “Now he wants to withdraw American forces from searching for Osama bin Laden in that country. Is there a link?”

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Second National Conference on Barack Obama's Missing Birth Certificate and College Records
December 18-19, 2009
New York City

Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama
www.committeeofonemilliontodefeatbarackobama.com

www.nationalconferenceonobama.blogspot.com

December 18, 2009

LOCATION:

New York Millenium Hilton
(please ask for Andy Martin suite)
55 Church Street, New York, NY 10007

DATES:

Friday-Saturday, December 18-19, 2009

TIMES:

Friday, December 18, 2009 7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.

Saturday, December 19, 2009 10:00 A.M. – 12 noon
(Obama movie prevue)

REGISTRATION:

Pre-registration has ended. Registration Friday or Saturday is $50 cash, which covers attendance at one or both days. You must have a Photo ID to attend so we may make a copy and run a quick background check for possible pro-Obama disruption.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Media are welcome with bona fide credentials.

Please contact Andy Martin, cell (917) 664-9329 (phone doesn’t work during the conference or subway travel) or via the hotel at (212) 693-2001 (ask for Andy Martin suite on the 52nd floor)

Second National Conference on Barack Obama's Missing Birth Certificate and College Records
December 18-19, New York City

Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama
www.committeeofonemilliontodefeatbarackobama.com

www.nationalconferenceonobama.blogspot.com

Chicago mail:
Andy Martin, J. D.
Professor of Law (Adj.)
Executive Director
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Tel. (866) 706-2639
Fax (866) 707-2639

December 17, 2009

Dear Friends:

Welcome to the Second National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate and College Records. Our meeting begins tomorrow in New York City! I am delighted to provide you with this second progress report.

1. Network interviews before the Conference

We have scheduled network interviews to begin Thursday afternoon. More on the network and actual interviews after they are conducted. As with taping of the conference itself, we offer no guarantees or predictions when the interviews will actually be shown.

2. TV network coverage of the Conference

It now appears that one of the major TV networks (see above) will also tape some of the conference proceedings. We have no idea if and when any tape may be broadcast. Just let us know if you don’t want to appear on tape and we will arrange your seating so you don’t appear in the recordings.

3. Videotaping/Internet posting cancellation

Unfortunately, our plan to videotape the conference and post the proceedings on the network is stalled. We did not receive enough financial support to hire a professional videographer to tape the conference, so we have cancelled our reservation for a videographer. If late-in-the-day financial support still arrives, we will see if someone is available to tape. We can’t do more than the budget allows.

4. Conference location

We managed to find an affordable first class hotel in lower Manhattan. You can expect a “wow” location for the conference. We hope to notify conference registrants and media Thursday evening after we have set up.

5. Obama: The Hawai’i Years

I had hoped we could finish editing our Hawai’i movie by early December but we are swamped with work and preparations for the conference. We will definitely show a rough cut of the movie on a laptop at the Conference and finish the film up for New Year’s.

6. Late registration/more information about the conference

Information on how to register, etc. is posted on our Conference blog:
www.nationalconferenceonobama.blogspot.com

Please remember to bring a photo ID. Security is tight in New York and at the hotel. We also have security procedures in effect.

7. My thanks to everyone (letters of thanks to follow)

I want to thank everyone who has contributed both personal effort and financial support. We expect to have a spectacularly successful conference.

May I take this opportunity to once again wish everyone a Merry Christmas or, if you are not a Christian, a very happy holiday season. Joy to all.

Faithfully,

ANDY MARTIN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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