Andy Martin will file suit against “Solo Crime Family” to find out which U. S. Senate campaign is using the Solos to launder campaign cash
Martin says an unidentified U. S. Senate candidate is violating federal law by “money laundering” his campaign expenditures
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for all
the People of Illinois”
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 SUNDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO
Andy Martin will seek disclosure of “Solo Crime Family” source of political funds; money laundering and federal election law violations are apparent in “Solo” actions
“Candidate X” will also be the target of lawsuit to disclosure source of money laundering in seeking State Board of Elections petition records
(CHICAGO)(November 8, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Sunday, November 8th to announce that he is preparing to file a lawsuit Monday in DuPage County to force the disclosure of funding for the “Solo Crime Family.”
“Someone who claims to be named ‘Solo’ is laundering money for an undisclosed U. S. Senate candidate,” Martin says. “I had not planned to challenge anyone’s petitions myself, but the surreptitious action of someone, in financing a mystery-man ‘Solo’ to copy the petitions of six (6) senate candidates tells me we are looking at political dirty tricks.
“We have had to go to condition ‘red’ to protect against election fraud. Sunday afternoon I hired an election attorney to defend the electoral process from criminal activity.
“Attacks by someone directed at six campaigns, excepting Pat Hughes and Mark Kirk, raise obvious suspicions. I have been told who is behind this scam, but out of an abundance of caution I will sue the ‘Solos’ and use my best efforts to definitively ascertain which one of them is behind the criminal activity.
“Federal law is very different than Illinois law. Under Illinois law, virtually ‘anything goes.’ Under federal law, when a federal (e.g. U. S. Senate) candidate transfers money out of their campaign account to purchase State Board of Elections petition files, the expenditure for that service must be made directly and not through a nominee to conceal the candidate as the source of cash. Hiding the source of cash is money laundering.
“Federal disclosure requirements were mandated as a result of money laundering during the Watergate conspiracy.
“We now have a mini-Watergate on our hands. An unidentified campaign gave someone who claims to be ‘Andrew Solo’ a large sum of cash to copy petitions at the State Board of Elections. Who was the source of that cash? I contacted the Solos and they refuse to respond. I am entitled to assume from the Solos’ silence that there is criminal activity going on.
“The ‘Solo’ phone number I was furnished was (630) 963-4170 in case anyone wants to check for themselves.
“A candidate who will engage in criminal activity as part of the petition process, and recruit others to aid and abet in criminal activity by seeking to money launder expenditures through his associates, needs to be disclosed. Period.
“Sadly, it is obvious that Republicans are as prone to criminal activity in politics as the Democrats,” Martin said.
November 8th news conference details:
WHO:
U. S. Senate candidate and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin
WHERE:
Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago
WHEN:
Sunday, November 8, 2009 5:00 P.M.
WHAT:
Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin
will file suit Monday in Du Page County to force the disclosure of “Solo Family” links to political cash, says evidence points to money laundering by an unidentified U. S. Senate candidate
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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© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Andy Martin opens investigation into DuPage County “Solo-scam”
Glen K Solo and “Andrew” Solo in Westmont, Illinois are targets of Martin’s inquiries. “Solo” may have aided and abetted in the commission of federal election offenses, Martin says. “We are investigating,” Andy confirmed. “Mr. Solo is apparently using illegal campaign cash to conceal the source of his funds.”
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin asks if Patrick Hughes is up to dirty tricks; someone is
Martin asks “Who is Andrew Solo? He has no listing for any contacts at 3928 N. Park Street, Westmont, Illinois?”
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for all
the People of Illinois”
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 asks “Who is behind Andrew Solo and who is providing him with thousands of dollars in cash to copy petitions?”
“Andrew Solo” lists an address of 3928 N. Park Street, Westmont, Illinois, but he has no phone number and no other contacts at that address.
Martin may file a lawsuit determine if Andrew solo is an unlawful alias or subterfuge for Glen K Solo
(CHICAGO)(November 6, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin said today that he has begun an investigation into the operations of “Andrew Solo,” who uses an address at 3928 N. Park Street, Westmont, Illinois but who has no listed contacts at that address. “‘Andrew Solo’ may be an unlawful alias for Glen K Solo,” Martin said.
“Andrew Solo is obviously a straw man for someone,” Martin says. “He is spending thousands of dollars in cash to copy petitions. ‘Solo’ copied every candidate’s petitions except Patrick Hughes’ and Mark Kirk’s. A reasonable inference would be that Hughes or Kirk is behind ‘Solo.’
“If anyone knows anything about this mystery person, and wishes to assist our investigation, please let us know at our Chicago offices. We have located the name of the property owner, Glen K Solo, and have contacted him as part of our investigation.
“We will be working over the weekend to determine if Solo has broken any tax laws, or federal election laws by operating in cash, surreptitiously, on behalf of a federal candidate,” Martin said. “We may go to court in DuPage County to determine if Andrew Solo is an unlawful alias for Glen K Solo.
“Someone is trying to unlawfully influence the Republican primary election by surreptitiously spending thousands of dollars on copies of Republican candidate petitions. Mr. Solo is a front man, but not for long,” Martin said.
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ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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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COMING:
www.StopDeutscheBankForeclosureFraud.com
November 6, 2009
Glen K. Solo
3928 Park Street
Westmont, IL 60559
Dear Mr. Solo:
We have opened an investigation into whether “Andrew Solo,” which may be an unlawful alias for you or some other person, is violating federal election laws by seeking to conceal the source of cash used to purchase copies of nominating petitions from the State Board of Elections for five (5) different candidates.
We would like to hear from you upon delivery of this inquiry.
We are preparing to file a lawsuit to ascertain the identity of “Andrew Solo,” as well as the source of cash used by “Andrew” to purchase “Andrew’s” petitions.
Federal law mandates that campaign expenditures be made in the name of the candidate and only through the candidate’s campaign account, not through the subterfuge of cash transfers to third parties.
Since you have owned your home for 22 years you may be old enough to remember the Watergate conspiracy, where criminal charges were brought after efforts were made to use cash transactions to conceal the identities of persons who were trying to improperly influence a federal election.
It may be that you need to consult independent legal counsel.
Please feel free to call me once you receive this communication.
Sincerely yours,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
W/encl.
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© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin asks if Patrick Hughes is up to dirty tricks; someone is
Martin asks “Who is Andrew Solo? He has no listing for any contacts at 3928 N. Park Street, Westmont, Illinois?”
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for all
the People of Illinois”
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 asks “Who is behind Andrew Solo and who is providing him with thousands of dollars in cash to copy petitions?”
“Andrew Solo” lists an address of 3928 N. Park Street, Westmont, Illinois, but he has no phone number and no other contacts at that address.
Martin may file a lawsuit determine if Andrew solo is an unlawful alias or subterfuge for Glen K Solo
(CHICAGO)(November 6, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin said today that he has begun an investigation into the operations of “Andrew Solo,” who uses an address at 3928 N. Park Street, Westmont, Illinois but who has no listed contacts at that address. “‘Andrew Solo’ may be an unlawful alias for Glen K Solo,” Martin said.
“Andrew Solo is obviously a straw man for someone,” Martin says. “He is spending thousands of dollars in cash to copy petitions. ‘Solo’ copied every candidate’s petitions except Patrick Hughes’ and Mark Kirk’s. A reasonable inference would be that Hughes or Kirk is behind ‘Solo.’
“If anyone knows anything about this mystery person, and wishes to assist our investigation, please let us know at our Chicago offices. We have located the name of the property owner, Glen K Solo, and have contacted him as part of our investigation.
“We will be working over the weekend to determine if Solo has broken any tax laws, or federal election laws by operating in cash, surreptitiously, on behalf of a federal candidate,” Martin said. “We may go to court in DuPage County to determine if Andrew Solo is an unlawful alias for Glen K Solo.
“Someone is trying to unlawfully influence the Republican primary election by surreptitiously spending thousands of dollars on copies of Republican candidate petitions. Mr. Solo is a front man, but not for long,” Martin said.
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ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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.com
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www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
COMING:
www.StopDeutscheBankForeclosureFraud.com
November 6, 2009
Glen K. Solo
3928 Park Street
Westmont, IL 60559
Dear Mr. Solo:
We have opened an investigation into whether “Andrew Solo,” which may be an unlawful alias for you or some other person, is violating federal election laws by seeking to conceal the source of cash used to purchase copies of nominating petitions from the State Board of Elections for five (5) different candidates.
We would like to hear from you upon delivery of this inquiry.
We are preparing to file a lawsuit to ascertain the identity of “Andrew Solo,” as well as the source of cash used by “Andrew” to purchase “Andrew’s” petitions.
Federal law mandates that campaign expenditures be made in the name of the candidate and only through the candidate’s campaign account, not through the subterfuge of cash transfers to third parties.
Since you have owned your home for 22 years you may be old enough to remember the Watergate conspiracy, where criminal charges were brought after efforts were made to use cash transactions to conceal the identities of persons who were trying to improperly influence a federal election.
It may be that you need to consult independent legal counsel.
Please feel free to call me once you receive this communication.
Sincerely yours,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
W/encl.
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© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Andy Martin condemns NBC News “franchising” in Chicago
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin criticizes the hiring of outside “franchise” writers to provide content to NBC without any vetting, accountability or standards by NBC. Martin says NBC is becoming an increasingly left-wing news organization, perhaps shadowed by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and other agents of the hard left. Andy also says NBC’s own internal Chicago “political experts” Carol Marin and Mary Ann Ahern “eat what they are fed by Mark Kirk.”
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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:
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
Blogs:
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http://www.markkirk.us/
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
COMING:
www.StopDeutscheBankForeclosureFraud.com
November 5, 2009
Mr. Frank Whittaker
Vice President
WMAQ-TV
Chicago, IL 60611
via fax (312) 527-2470
Dear Mr. Whittaker:
What is happening to NBC News?
A couple of weeks ago, Carol Marin stole one of my stories and allocated it to my opponent. I guess that’s the definition of chutzpah. It sure ain’t the definition of “news.”
Then over the weekend Mary Ann Ahern said I didn't exist.
Guess what: I am the only candidate for United States Senator in the Republican party who has run statewide before (Mark Kirk hasn’t). I carried or nearly carried (close) 45 counties, and received almost a quarter of a million votes. Last year. Mary Ann Ahern is either corrupt or incompetent in ignoring my existence. Which is it?
The latest insult to the traditions of NBC News surfaced today. I was reading an entry on your web site “Mark Kirk Goes Rogue,”
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Mark-Kirk-Goes-Rogue-69273997.html
and I was stunned to find at the end of the story it was posted by someone called Steve Rhodes who runs some sort of web site, The Beachwood Reporter. http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/
“Beachwood” is receiving money from outside sources to fund its operations. So NBC is using on its own web site “news” generated by someone who is being funded by third parties and reportage is by Steve Rhodes, whose journalistic credentials are nowhere to be found.
Who vets Mr. Rhodes’ views, credentials or qualifications? You are the VP of “News.” Do you know what Rhodes' credentials are? Do you know all of his funding sources? You are receiving “content” from an outside franchise without any apparent oversight from NBC management in Chicago. At least when we point the finger at Marin and Ahern we have some idea who signs their paychecks. Who signs Rhodes’ paycheck?
What’s left of NBC news? The more you hollow out the organization and “franchise” news to liberal local web sites, the less people will turn to you. At least when they read my Internet newspaper and blogs, www.ContrarianCommentary.com, they know who is writing and what our point of view is.
I am not in the business of defending Mark Kirk, “the Kirkster” as we call him, but when Kirk is attacked by someone who is obviously a typical liberal (Rhodes) then I am concerned by the increasingly left-wing slant of NBC News. Moreover, no one knows Rhodes’ credentials to be a political commentator, and nowhere are they stated either on your web site or his.
What if you were carrying my comments from http://www.contrariancommentary.com/, without any disclosure or attribution as a conservative? Would that be fair? I don’t think so. But then real conservatives have ethics and integrity; liberals don’t.
Rhodes claims to know Kirk has “internal polls,” which no one has previously stated Kirk has, and Rhodes then trashes Kirk’s opponents by claiming they are not “credible.”
The only genuine ”news" story Kirk has generated recently, ignored by the Marin/Ahern combo, was that the Kirkster issued a bogus "poll" listing all of his primary opponents except me.
I wonder if he left my name out because I am the only Republican who has run statewide before? Or maybe I was in the "internal poll" but not in the publicly released "poll?" A case of news management? 100% Would your political bloodhounds Marin and Ahern be interested in Kirk’s lacuna? Not at all. They are a press release service for Kirk. These dogs not only don't hunt, they eat what they are fed by Kirk and nothing else.
I have a more credible statewide voting record than Kirk, because I have run statewide and he hasn’t. When are you going to report the facts instead of merely parroting Kirk’s propaganda?
More and more people trust the media less and less. The Rhodes/Beachwood example is Class A evidence why so-called “mainstream” media are dying. You hire liberals to attack Republicans, and demand that Kirk remain a liberal or face criticism from Rhodes & Co. Rhodes in turn has his own political agenda, which is not balanced by any conservative voices. WMAQ-TV has become a one-sided liberal megaphone for the left.
I was hired by NBC News in 1967 and seriously considered accepting the offer. But the NBC News of 1967 no longer exists. People like Bill Corley are no longer welcome at NBC. NBC wants bubbleheads that steal stories and manifest total ignorance of politics as “political” commentators.
What you have today at NBC news is a dying franchise being operated by outside contractors. It’s sad.
Sincerely yours,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
P. S. I personally wrote this letter, not some outside contractor.
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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:
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
Blogs:
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
http://www.andyforussenator.wordpress.com/
http://www.markkirk.us/
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
COMING:
www.StopDeutscheBankForeclosureFraud.com
November 5, 2009
Mr. Frank Whittaker
Vice President
WMAQ-TV
Chicago, IL 60611
via fax (312) 527-2470
Dear Mr. Whittaker:
What is happening to NBC News?
A couple of weeks ago, Carol Marin stole one of my stories and allocated it to my opponent. I guess that’s the definition of chutzpah. It sure ain’t the definition of “news.”
Then over the weekend Mary Ann Ahern said I didn't exist.
Guess what: I am the only candidate for United States Senator in the Republican party who has run statewide before (Mark Kirk hasn’t). I carried or nearly carried (close) 45 counties, and received almost a quarter of a million votes. Last year. Mary Ann Ahern is either corrupt or incompetent in ignoring my existence. Which is it?
The latest insult to the traditions of NBC News surfaced today. I was reading an entry on your web site “Mark Kirk Goes Rogue,”
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Mark-Kirk-Goes-Rogue-69273997.html
and I was stunned to find at the end of the story it was posted by someone called Steve Rhodes who runs some sort of web site, The Beachwood Reporter. http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/
“Beachwood” is receiving money from outside sources to fund its operations. So NBC is using on its own web site “news” generated by someone who is being funded by third parties and reportage is by Steve Rhodes, whose journalistic credentials are nowhere to be found.
Who vets Mr. Rhodes’ views, credentials or qualifications? You are the VP of “News.” Do you know what Rhodes' credentials are? Do you know all of his funding sources? You are receiving “content” from an outside franchise without any apparent oversight from NBC management in Chicago. At least when we point the finger at Marin and Ahern we have some idea who signs their paychecks. Who signs Rhodes’ paycheck?
What’s left of NBC news? The more you hollow out the organization and “franchise” news to liberal local web sites, the less people will turn to you. At least when they read my Internet newspaper and blogs, www.ContrarianCommentary.com, they know who is writing and what our point of view is.
I am not in the business of defending Mark Kirk, “the Kirkster” as we call him, but when Kirk is attacked by someone who is obviously a typical liberal (Rhodes) then I am concerned by the increasingly left-wing slant of NBC News. Moreover, no one knows Rhodes’ credentials to be a political commentator, and nowhere are they stated either on your web site or his.
What if you were carrying my comments from http://www.contrariancommentary.com/, without any disclosure or attribution as a conservative? Would that be fair? I don’t think so. But then real conservatives have ethics and integrity; liberals don’t.
Rhodes claims to know Kirk has “internal polls,” which no one has previously stated Kirk has, and Rhodes then trashes Kirk’s opponents by claiming they are not “credible.”
The only genuine ”news" story Kirk has generated recently, ignored by the Marin/Ahern combo, was that the Kirkster issued a bogus "poll" listing all of his primary opponents except me.
I wonder if he left my name out because I am the only Republican who has run statewide before? Or maybe I was in the "internal poll" but not in the publicly released "poll?" A case of news management? 100% Would your political bloodhounds Marin and Ahern be interested in Kirk’s lacuna? Not at all. They are a press release service for Kirk. These dogs not only don't hunt, they eat what they are fed by Kirk and nothing else.
I have a more credible statewide voting record than Kirk, because I have run statewide and he hasn’t. When are you going to report the facts instead of merely parroting Kirk’s propaganda?
More and more people trust the media less and less. The Rhodes/Beachwood example is Class A evidence why so-called “mainstream” media are dying. You hire liberals to attack Republicans, and demand that Kirk remain a liberal or face criticism from Rhodes & Co. Rhodes in turn has his own political agenda, which is not balanced by any conservative voices. WMAQ-TV has become a one-sided liberal megaphone for the left.
I was hired by NBC News in 1967 and seriously considered accepting the offer. But the NBC News of 1967 no longer exists. People like Bill Corley are no longer welcome at NBC. NBC wants bubbleheads that steal stories and manifest total ignorance of politics as “political” commentators.
What you have today at NBC news is a dying franchise being operated by outside contractors. It’s sad.
Sincerely yours,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
P. S. I personally wrote this letter, not some outside contractor.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Andy Martin discloses Barack Obama’s “family secrets”
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin, the mere mention of whose name sends President Obama into fist-clenching rage, comments on the new “novel” by Barack Obama’s putative “half-brother.” The “war” between the two men, Barack Obama and Andy Martin, may escalate if Martin is elected to Obama’s former U. S. Senate seat and ends up in Washington challenging the president Martin has done so much to expose over the past five years.
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin explains the myths about Barack Obama’s origins, and the enduring pain of Obama’s birth
ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com
“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Andy Martin says that for Barack Obama, the ignominy of his birth endures, the lack of identity shadows his every moment
Senate candidate Martin is Obama’s strongest and most persistent adversary on political matters; but Martin sympathizes with the man Andy calls “Barry O” as a human being
(CHICAGO)(November 5, 2009) Although I am currently a U. S. Senate candidate, and primarily focused of being nominated for the senate from Illinois, I can’t help commenting on the latest book by Barack Obama’s half brother:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2009/11/04/
AR2009110401214.html?hpid=moreheadlines
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/
world/asia/04brother.html?_
r=1&scp=1&sq=Obama%20+%20brother&st=cse
Although Obama has done everything he can to destroy me personally and politically, I consider that a compliment. For some mysterious reason, I am the only person outside his immediate family who seems to have stumbled on the deep, emotional truth about his origins. Barack Obama’s “family secrets.” Obama hopes that by abusing and harassing me, he can rid himself of his demons. But the demons endure. They always will.
Barack Obama’s half brother, born of Obama’s “father’s" second "wife" in the United States, has produced a “novel” of extreme cruelty and abuse by his father.
Unfortunately, Obama won’t admit the truth about his parentage. He continues to harbor an extreme sense of personal shame. I explored Obama’s inner conflicts in columns which became my first book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask.”
The more I write the truth about Obama, and pursue a lawsuit in Hawai’i seeking release of his original, typewritten 1961 birth certificate, the more angry and anguished Obama becomes.
But while I am Obama’s leading political opponent in the current election cycle, and he fears my presence sitting in his former U. S. Senate seat from Illinois more than any other candidate, I have never been a personal opponent of the man.
If you read an Internet interview concerning my views, you will probably agree I share Obama’s sense of frustration at his origins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwON6dKHks
Now that Obama is the president, it is Obama's inner demons that make him so reluctant to lead, so obsessed with “show” because his entire life has been a “show,” designed to deflect the truth about himself from himself, as well as from the public.
What are the facts about Barack Obama? What are his “family secrets?”
First, the man generally considered Barack Obama’s “father,”Barack Hussein Obama, Senior” is probably not Obama’s biological father. I want to label and underscore this paragraph as my opinion; I have not yet established the underlying DNA evidence to confirm my beliefs. I think Obama will some day admit to the world that, yes, Frank Marshall Davis was his biological father.
Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father” was not based on “dreams” about or from his “father” because Barack Obama was never a genuine father figure.
On the contrary, Barack Obama, Sr. was a lecher who moved from woman to woman, fathering children whose legal status remains questionable to this day. Obama, Sr. is supposed to have fathered eight children by four women.
Whether Frank Marshall Davis was the biological father, or not, “Frank” became Obama’s real father. Frank was the man to whom Obama has dedicated his life. Frank was a communist. Well, you get the picture.
Obama came to Chicago, where Frank was a close friend of journalist Vernon Jarrett and Louie Farrakhan, and other Black leaders. Frank’s “shining city on a hill" was Chicago, not Honolulu. It was to Chicago that Obama came to achieve fame and fortune, and it was Frank’s network of old friends who advanced Barack’s career.
In Hawaiian we would say that at a minimum Frank was “ohana.” “Ohana” is a concept that recognizes the impact and influence of “a village” on a person’s development. Ohana is extended family, including persons who are not necessarily blood relatives.
Even if you disagree with me that Frank Marshall Davis is the biological father (no one can disagree that Frank was Obama’s spiritual father), things get worse, not better, when we turn back to Barack, Sr.
The reality of Obama’s birth explains his enduring shame and frustration.
Obama was illegitimate or, as we say today, “nonmarital.” In 1961, the term was “illegitimate.” That was the word Barack eventually harbored inside himself. No doubt children at Punahou in Honolulu teased young Barack about his origins. Those painful memories endure.
Why was Obama illegitimate? Because his “father,” Barack Sr. was married to another women.
Barack, Sr. was married to Kezia Obama, with whom Obama had already fathered children before he left Kenya for Honolulu and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Obama’s publicity agents and supporters pretend that Barack, Sr.’s first marriage was a Kenyan “tribal” marriage and thus not entitled to respect and recognition in the United States. That is simply untrue as a matter of U. S. law.
Barack Obama, Sr. was married in Kenya at a time when British law prevailed. When Kenya became a free nation in 1963, the new government recognized the prior efficacy of British law. British law respected and acknowledged tribal marriages. So while Obama tries to minimize or ignore his “father’s” “tribal" marriage, under British law the Kenyan marriage of Barack, Sr. was entirely legal and controlled his matrimonial status in Hawai'i. He had never divorced Kezia.
When Barack, Sr. entered into, or may have purported to enter into, a “marriage” in Honolulu with Ann Dunham, he was a bigamist. Barack Obama was the product of a bigamous relationship.
Under Hawaiian law, there is no way “Obama” could have been born an “Obama” if his mother was never legally married to his father. That may be one of the secrets Obama is hiding on his original 1961 birth certificate. Only the document itself will speak the truth.
As a lawyer, if not a great one, Obama knows and understands these basic legal principles. American law recognizes and generally gives “full faith and credit” to British law and marriages in U. S. Courts. A married man in Britain or Kenya could not have come to the United States in 1960 and lawfully claimed he was “unmarried.”
In defense of Obama's mother, she was 18 years old and probably too unsophisticated to understand what was happening to her.
So the Obama marriage in Honolulu, whether papered over with bogus documents and licenses or not, was a bigamous relationship in which Obama’s mother Ann Dunham never legally became Mrs. Barack Obama.
Under Hawai’i law, Obama is illegitimate, because his parents were never legally married, see Tagupa v. Tagupa, 108 Hawai’i 459, 121 P.3rd 924, 926 (Hawai’i ICA 2005). The relationship was void.
Obama’s half-brother may be in the same limbo. His mother also tried to ignore the “tribal” marriage; Barack, Sr. remained loyal to Kezia until his death. We can’t say for sure whether the first marriage was ever legally dissolved.
When stripped of all of his evasions and prevarications, the truth about Barack Obama is painfully straightforward, and painful nonetheless. Obama has lived with these inner demons all of his life, and they are the key to unlocking his personality.
And so, you can pick your theory. Either, as I believe, Frank Marshall Davis is Barack Obama’s father. The fact that Frank’s “secret” was never disclosed to his son while Frank was alive is an immense burden on Barack’s soul. Or, Barack Obama’s father was a bigamist, his mother was never legally married and he was born illegitimate. Under either approach, Obama was born into pain, and has endured that pain his entire life.
Obama has desperately attempted to shield the truth from the public, although the reality is that most Americans wouldn’t care about Obama’s unfortunate origins. We are too big a nation to blame a baby for the acts of his parents. But, still, Obama will not allow the truth about him to escape. He cannot release the inner pain. Obama cannot accept his inner shame.
And in the meantime, Obama unleashes his operatives to smear and harass my campaign for the U. S. Senate. Will Obama succeed in defeating me? Republicans will decide.
That is also why in October, 2008, as I was walking down a Honolulu street working on an interview with his grandmother, I learned Obama was on his way to Hawai’I to join me. Coincidence? You be the judge.
I had unlocked the family secrets of Barack Obama in Honolulu . And he will never forgive me for knowing the truth and telling the truth about him.
Of course, that is why the dynamics of a “U. S. Senator Andy Martin” in Washington provides such explosive potential for a dramatic confrontation between truth and fantasy in Obamaland.
I will always be deeply sympathetic to Barack Obama’s plight as a human being. But I lead the efforts to defeat and destroy his political programs and anti-American agenda.
Unless I end up like Saint Thomas à Becket.
And now back to the 2010 Republican Party primary election for U. S. Senator from Illinois. Wish me well.
--------------------------------------------
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 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 frequently correct typographical errors and additions/subtractions on our blogs, where you can find the latest edition of this release.] © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin explains the myths about Barack Obama’s origins, and the enduring pain of Obama’s birth
ANDY MARTIN
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com
“Factually Correct, Not
Politically Correct”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Andy Martin says that for Barack Obama, the ignominy of his birth endures, the lack of identity shadows his every moment
Senate candidate Martin is Obama’s strongest and most persistent adversary on political matters; but Martin sympathizes with the man Andy calls “Barry O” as a human being
(CHICAGO)(November 5, 2009) Although I am currently a U. S. Senate candidate, and primarily focused of being nominated for the senate from Illinois, I can’t help commenting on the latest book by Barack Obama’s half brother:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2009/11/04/
AR2009110401214.html?hpid=moreheadlines
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/
world/asia/04brother.html?_
r=1&scp=1&sq=Obama%20+%20brother&st=cse
Although Obama has done everything he can to destroy me personally and politically, I consider that a compliment. For some mysterious reason, I am the only person outside his immediate family who seems to have stumbled on the deep, emotional truth about his origins. Barack Obama’s “family secrets.” Obama hopes that by abusing and harassing me, he can rid himself of his demons. But the demons endure. They always will.
Barack Obama’s half brother, born of Obama’s “father’s" second "wife" in the United States, has produced a “novel” of extreme cruelty and abuse by his father.
Unfortunately, Obama won’t admit the truth about his parentage. He continues to harbor an extreme sense of personal shame. I explored Obama’s inner conflicts in columns which became my first book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask.”
The more I write the truth about Obama, and pursue a lawsuit in Hawai’i seeking release of his original, typewritten 1961 birth certificate, the more angry and anguished Obama becomes.
But while I am Obama’s leading political opponent in the current election cycle, and he fears my presence sitting in his former U. S. Senate seat from Illinois more than any other candidate, I have never been a personal opponent of the man.
If you read an Internet interview concerning my views, you will probably agree I share Obama’s sense of frustration at his origins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwON6dKHks
Now that Obama is the president, it is Obama's inner demons that make him so reluctant to lead, so obsessed with “show” because his entire life has been a “show,” designed to deflect the truth about himself from himself, as well as from the public.
What are the facts about Barack Obama? What are his “family secrets?”
First, the man generally considered Barack Obama’s “father,”Barack Hussein Obama, Senior” is probably not Obama’s biological father. I want to label and underscore this paragraph as my opinion; I have not yet established the underlying DNA evidence to confirm my beliefs. I think Obama will some day admit to the world that, yes, Frank Marshall Davis was his biological father.
Obama’s book “Dreams From My Father” was not based on “dreams” about or from his “father” because Barack Obama was never a genuine father figure.
On the contrary, Barack Obama, Sr. was a lecher who moved from woman to woman, fathering children whose legal status remains questionable to this day. Obama, Sr. is supposed to have fathered eight children by four women.
Whether Frank Marshall Davis was the biological father, or not, “Frank” became Obama’s real father. Frank was the man to whom Obama has dedicated his life. Frank was a communist. Well, you get the picture.
Obama came to Chicago, where Frank was a close friend of journalist Vernon Jarrett and Louie Farrakhan, and other Black leaders. Frank’s “shining city on a hill" was Chicago, not Honolulu. It was to Chicago that Obama came to achieve fame and fortune, and it was Frank’s network of old friends who advanced Barack’s career.
In Hawaiian we would say that at a minimum Frank was “ohana.” “Ohana” is a concept that recognizes the impact and influence of “a village” on a person’s development. Ohana is extended family, including persons who are not necessarily blood relatives.
Even if you disagree with me that Frank Marshall Davis is the biological father (no one can disagree that Frank was Obama’s spiritual father), things get worse, not better, when we turn back to Barack, Sr.
The reality of Obama’s birth explains his enduring shame and frustration.
Obama was illegitimate or, as we say today, “nonmarital.” In 1961, the term was “illegitimate.” That was the word Barack eventually harbored inside himself. No doubt children at Punahou in Honolulu teased young Barack about his origins. Those painful memories endure.
Why was Obama illegitimate? Because his “father,” Barack Sr. was married to another women.
Barack, Sr. was married to Kezia Obama, with whom Obama had already fathered children before he left Kenya for Honolulu and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Obama’s publicity agents and supporters pretend that Barack, Sr.’s first marriage was a Kenyan “tribal” marriage and thus not entitled to respect and recognition in the United States. That is simply untrue as a matter of U. S. law.
Barack Obama, Sr. was married in Kenya at a time when British law prevailed. When Kenya became a free nation in 1963, the new government recognized the prior efficacy of British law. British law respected and acknowledged tribal marriages. So while Obama tries to minimize or ignore his “father’s” “tribal" marriage, under British law the Kenyan marriage of Barack, Sr. was entirely legal and controlled his matrimonial status in Hawai'i. He had never divorced Kezia.
When Barack, Sr. entered into, or may have purported to enter into, a “marriage” in Honolulu with Ann Dunham, he was a bigamist. Barack Obama was the product of a bigamous relationship.
Under Hawaiian law, there is no way “Obama” could have been born an “Obama” if his mother was never legally married to his father. That may be one of the secrets Obama is hiding on his original 1961 birth certificate. Only the document itself will speak the truth.
As a lawyer, if not a great one, Obama knows and understands these basic legal principles. American law recognizes and generally gives “full faith and credit” to British law and marriages in U. S. Courts. A married man in Britain or Kenya could not have come to the United States in 1960 and lawfully claimed he was “unmarried.”
In defense of Obama's mother, she was 18 years old and probably too unsophisticated to understand what was happening to her.
So the Obama marriage in Honolulu, whether papered over with bogus documents and licenses or not, was a bigamous relationship in which Obama’s mother Ann Dunham never legally became Mrs. Barack Obama.
Under Hawai’i law, Obama is illegitimate, because his parents were never legally married, see Tagupa v. Tagupa, 108 Hawai’i 459, 121 P.3rd 924, 926 (Hawai’i ICA 2005). The relationship was void.
Obama’s half-brother may be in the same limbo. His mother also tried to ignore the “tribal” marriage; Barack, Sr. remained loyal to Kezia until his death. We can’t say for sure whether the first marriage was ever legally dissolved.
When stripped of all of his evasions and prevarications, the truth about Barack Obama is painfully straightforward, and painful nonetheless. Obama has lived with these inner demons all of his life, and they are the key to unlocking his personality.
And so, you can pick your theory. Either, as I believe, Frank Marshall Davis is Barack Obama’s father. The fact that Frank’s “secret” was never disclosed to his son while Frank was alive is an immense burden on Barack’s soul. Or, Barack Obama’s father was a bigamist, his mother was never legally married and he was born illegitimate. Under either approach, Obama was born into pain, and has endured that pain his entire life.
Obama has desperately attempted to shield the truth from the public, although the reality is that most Americans wouldn’t care about Obama’s unfortunate origins. We are too big a nation to blame a baby for the acts of his parents. But, still, Obama will not allow the truth about him to escape. He cannot release the inner pain. Obama cannot accept his inner shame.
And in the meantime, Obama unleashes his operatives to smear and harass my campaign for the U. S. Senate. Will Obama succeed in defeating me? Republicans will decide.
That is also why in October, 2008, as I was walking down a Honolulu street working on an interview with his grandmother, I learned Obama was on his way to Hawai’I to join me. Coincidence? You be the judge.
I had unlocked the family secrets of Barack Obama in Honolulu . And he will never forgive me for knowing the truth and telling the truth about him.
Of course, that is why the dynamics of a “U. S. Senator Andy Martin” in Washington provides such explosive potential for a dramatic confrontation between truth and fantasy in Obamaland.
I will always be deeply sympathetic to Barack Obama’s plight as a human being. But I lead the efforts to defeat and destroy his political programs and anti-American agenda.
Unless I end up like Saint Thomas à Becket.
And now back to the 2010 Republican Party primary election for U. S. Senator from Illinois. Wish me well.
--------------------------------------------
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.
-----------------------------
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."
-----------------------------
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 frequently correct typographical errors and additions/subtractions on our blogs, where you can find the latest edition of this release.] © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin asks Illinois State Board of Elections for answers
"Corruption fighter Andy Martin” says the federal election process may have been corrupted or compromised by suspicious data entries in Springfield.
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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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November 4, 2009
Staff
State Board of Elections
1020 S. Spring Street
Springfield, IL 62704
via fax (217) 782-5959
Request for investigation and copies
of multiple Patrick J. Hughes filings
Request for copies and cost of copying
Dear Staff:
Before I get to the topic of this letter, I would like to begin by congratulating all of you for an excellent job on October 26th. The filing process went smoothly. You guys were organized and efficient and I was impressed with the way you processed all of us. Luckily, the weather cooperated. Good job.
I am writing, unfortunately, about the Patrick Hughes imbroglio. It appears to me upon a careful reading of the election statutes that Mr. Hughes is no longer a candidate. By his own admission, Hughes was playing a “waiting game” (see Illinois Review article).
I know your processes because I participated in them last month. You come in on the first floor, and a staff member checks the fillign for accuracy and completeness. I seem to remember the person who reviewed my paperwork even had a checklist. Then, after you pass preliminary review, you are sent to the second floor, where someone actually enters (types) data into a computer, and you get a printed receipt. You may have moved everything to the first floor after October 26th, but the actual filing process did not and could not change.
Here is what Hughes and some SBE people now claim:
1. “Someone” allegedly mailed a piece of paper, with no statement of candidacy, to the Board, and the Board created a candidacy for Hughes. How could the SBE create a candidacy without a notarized statement of candidacy? At 3:05 P.M. the 10:54 fillign was still active (see 11/2/09 #1 sheet enclosed)
REQUEST: I would like to order a copy copy of the entire Hughes fillign at 10:52 A.M. Price please.
2. Hughes admits he filed around 3:00 P.M. (see IllinoisReview.com, enclosed). Someone typed in a candidacy at 3:05 P.M., for the second time, and presumably generated a receipt to Mr. Johnson, at 3:05 P.M. What petitions and which statement of candidacy was used at 3:05 P. M?
REQUEST: I would like to order a compete copy of the entire Hughes filing at 3:05 P.M. Price please.
3. By the close of business on November 2nd, the 3:05 fillign had disappeared from your web site, see attached 11/2/09 #2. Why? Who removed it? While the web site is not an “official” document, someone has to physically type information in, and someone has to physically type information to remove a filing. The computer is not “Hal” from 2001. Who erased the 3:05 P.M. filing on November 2nd, leaving only the 4:23 filing? As of the close of business on November 2nd, there was no 3:05 P.M. filing, period. I assume the SBE computer also requires someone to log on before they enter data; that is a basic security precaution for all computer systems. Who logged on to remove the 3:05 filing?
REQUEST: I would like to know who erased the 3:05 filing.
4. At 4:23 P.M. on November 2nd Hughes filed again. Someone typed in this information. It did not get on the computer screen by accident. What paperwork was used to justify entering a filing at 4:23 P. M?
REQUEST: Who typed in the information at 4:23 P.M? I would also like to know what petitions were stamped and received to justify the data entry at 4:23 P.M. I would like to order a copy of the 4:23 filing. Price please.
My campaign headquarters “war room” was keeping hard copies of the filings as they were entered, so we have records of what some unknown person or persons were typing into your data base on all of those occasions. Those data changes did not happen by themselves. Hughes operative Johnston claims the General Counsel was involved. Why was a lawyer consulted on something as simple as filing a candidacy, and what advice did counsel give to staff?
5. Today, your database has erased the 4:23 filing, and reinstated the 3:05 filing, see attached 11/4/09 printout. How could you reinstate a filing that had been rendered nugatory by the 4:23 filing, and previously erased from your data base? Hughes was obviously trying to file last, and he filed something, or “someone” entered data in your computer system for him or on his behalf, to try and manipulate the process in order to make him last.
REQUEST: Who erased the 4:23 filing? What documents were used to justify (i) erasure of the 4:23 filing and (ii) reinstatement of the 3:05 filing?
CONCLUSION
I do not like the petition process because it is subject to abuse, and I feel names of all candidates should be rotated. But we have what we have.
I have no plans to challenge Mr. Hughes’ signatures, unless he filed less than 5,000 signatures, or filed blatantly forged “round table” documents. Candidates who file bona fide documents with the SBE in conformity with the law should be allowed to run.
The evidence reflects, however, that Mr. Hughes somehow corrupted the filing and data entry process to enter and then erase evidence of his multiple filings.
Mr. Hughes' manipulation of the SBE data base may amount to a criminal act. At 5:00 P. M. today, November 4th, after receiving your response to this letter, I am going to ask for federal and state grand jury investigations, alerting both federal and state officials, if I do not receive documents and detailed answers as to why SBE people were repeatedly entering false data in your computer.
I think what happened is that Hughes filed at 3:05 P.M. At that point, the petitions became SBE property. The statute is clear that documents may not be “withdrawn or added to,” see attached. When Hughes tied to refile, and “withdrew” the 3:05 documents the process was corrupted, and the documents were “withdrawn or added to” to add the false 4:23 time stamp to the package. That corrupted the 3:05 P.M. filing.
When the 4:23 fillign was withdrawn, that was the end of Mr. Hughes' candidacy. He could not go back and revive or reinstate the 3:05 P.M. entry after it had been erased from your system.
Alternatively, someone has tried to tamper with the data base since November 2nd to once again modify what is reflected in the system. This could be a separate criminal offense.
The SBE has a duty to investigate irregularities in the manner in which data is entered and how documents are manipulated to obtain 1st place. Mr. Hughes clearly appears to have compromised and corrupted the process. The computer did not enter and remove all of this conflicting information by mistake.
Please advise me when I can pick up the copies at your Chicago office, and what the charge will be.
I would appreciate a written response by 4:00 P.M. today so I can review your response before my news conference. You are welcome to append any documents which document the basis for your claims concerning data entry and removal from your computer system.
I also ask that access to the Hughes filing documents and computer records be frozen, and that erases be prohibited, until the U. S. Attorney (due to the fact we are dealing with a federal office) and Sangamon County State Attorney can investigate. Something doesn’t look right.
Respectfully submitted,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
W/encl.
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
COMING:
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November 4, 2009
Staff
State Board of Elections
1020 S. Spring Street
Springfield, IL 62704
via fax (217) 782-5959
Request for investigation and copies
of multiple Patrick J. Hughes filings
Request for copies and cost of copying
Dear Staff:
Before I get to the topic of this letter, I would like to begin by congratulating all of you for an excellent job on October 26th. The filing process went smoothly. You guys were organized and efficient and I was impressed with the way you processed all of us. Luckily, the weather cooperated. Good job.
I am writing, unfortunately, about the Patrick Hughes imbroglio. It appears to me upon a careful reading of the election statutes that Mr. Hughes is no longer a candidate. By his own admission, Hughes was playing a “waiting game” (see Illinois Review article).
I know your processes because I participated in them last month. You come in on the first floor, and a staff member checks the fillign for accuracy and completeness. I seem to remember the person who reviewed my paperwork even had a checklist. Then, after you pass preliminary review, you are sent to the second floor, where someone actually enters (types) data into a computer, and you get a printed receipt. You may have moved everything to the first floor after October 26th, but the actual filing process did not and could not change.
Here is what Hughes and some SBE people now claim:
1. “Someone” allegedly mailed a piece of paper, with no statement of candidacy, to the Board, and the Board created a candidacy for Hughes. How could the SBE create a candidacy without a notarized statement of candidacy? At 3:05 P.M. the 10:54 fillign was still active (see 11/2/09 #1 sheet enclosed)
REQUEST: I would like to order a copy copy of the entire Hughes fillign at 10:52 A.M. Price please.
2. Hughes admits he filed around 3:00 P.M. (see IllinoisReview.com, enclosed). Someone typed in a candidacy at 3:05 P.M., for the second time, and presumably generated a receipt to Mr. Johnson, at 3:05 P.M. What petitions and which statement of candidacy was used at 3:05 P. M?
REQUEST: I would like to order a compete copy of the entire Hughes filing at 3:05 P.M. Price please.
3. By the close of business on November 2nd, the 3:05 fillign had disappeared from your web site, see attached 11/2/09 #2. Why? Who removed it? While the web site is not an “official” document, someone has to physically type information in, and someone has to physically type information to remove a filing. The computer is not “Hal” from 2001. Who erased the 3:05 P.M. filing on November 2nd, leaving only the 4:23 filing? As of the close of business on November 2nd, there was no 3:05 P.M. filing, period. I assume the SBE computer also requires someone to log on before they enter data; that is a basic security precaution for all computer systems. Who logged on to remove the 3:05 filing?
REQUEST: I would like to know who erased the 3:05 filing.
4. At 4:23 P.M. on November 2nd Hughes filed again. Someone typed in this information. It did not get on the computer screen by accident. What paperwork was used to justify entering a filing at 4:23 P. M?
REQUEST: Who typed in the information at 4:23 P.M? I would also like to know what petitions were stamped and received to justify the data entry at 4:23 P.M. I would like to order a copy of the 4:23 filing. Price please.
My campaign headquarters “war room” was keeping hard copies of the filings as they were entered, so we have records of what some unknown person or persons were typing into your data base on all of those occasions. Those data changes did not happen by themselves. Hughes operative Johnston claims the General Counsel was involved. Why was a lawyer consulted on something as simple as filing a candidacy, and what advice did counsel give to staff?
5. Today, your database has erased the 4:23 filing, and reinstated the 3:05 filing, see attached 11/4/09 printout. How could you reinstate a filing that had been rendered nugatory by the 4:23 filing, and previously erased from your data base? Hughes was obviously trying to file last, and he filed something, or “someone” entered data in your computer system for him or on his behalf, to try and manipulate the process in order to make him last.
REQUEST: Who erased the 4:23 filing? What documents were used to justify (i) erasure of the 4:23 filing and (ii) reinstatement of the 3:05 filing?
CONCLUSION
I do not like the petition process because it is subject to abuse, and I feel names of all candidates should be rotated. But we have what we have.
I have no plans to challenge Mr. Hughes’ signatures, unless he filed less than 5,000 signatures, or filed blatantly forged “round table” documents. Candidates who file bona fide documents with the SBE in conformity with the law should be allowed to run.
The evidence reflects, however, that Mr. Hughes somehow corrupted the filing and data entry process to enter and then erase evidence of his multiple filings.
Mr. Hughes' manipulation of the SBE data base may amount to a criminal act. At 5:00 P. M. today, November 4th, after receiving your response to this letter, I am going to ask for federal and state grand jury investigations, alerting both federal and state officials, if I do not receive documents and detailed answers as to why SBE people were repeatedly entering false data in your computer.
I think what happened is that Hughes filed at 3:05 P.M. At that point, the petitions became SBE property. The statute is clear that documents may not be “withdrawn or added to,” see attached. When Hughes tied to refile, and “withdrew” the 3:05 documents the process was corrupted, and the documents were “withdrawn or added to” to add the false 4:23 time stamp to the package. That corrupted the 3:05 P.M. filing.
When the 4:23 fillign was withdrawn, that was the end of Mr. Hughes' candidacy. He could not go back and revive or reinstate the 3:05 P.M. entry after it had been erased from your system.
Alternatively, someone has tried to tamper with the data base since November 2nd to once again modify what is reflected in the system. This could be a separate criminal offense.
The SBE has a duty to investigate irregularities in the manner in which data is entered and how documents are manipulated to obtain 1st place. Mr. Hughes clearly appears to have compromised and corrupted the process. The computer did not enter and remove all of this conflicting information by mistake.
Please advise me when I can pick up the copies at your Chicago office, and what the charge will be.
I would appreciate a written response by 4:00 P.M. today so I can review your response before my news conference. You are welcome to append any documents which document the basis for your claims concerning data entry and removal from your computer system.
I also ask that access to the Hughes filing documents and computer records be frozen, and that erases be prohibited, until the U. S. Attorney (due to the fact we are dealing with a federal office) and Sangamon County State Attorney can investigate. Something doesn’t look right.
Respectfully submitted,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
W/encl.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin on WMAQ-TV’s “Portrait of the Candidate”
Andy Martin, who was once hired by NBC News in Chicago, pokes fun at WMAQ-TV’s sketch of his campaign. Martin also owned a TV station that became an NBC affiliate.
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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:
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November 4, 2009
Susan Ball
WMAQ-TV
Chicago, IL 60611
via fax (312) 527-5925
Dear Susan:
I was amused by your thumbnail sketches of the candidates for state office. And, yes, I am a “corruption fighter,” so you got the big picture right.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/
Andy-Martin-for-US-Senate-68582972.html
But I felt that your overall essay was skewed by the fact you consulted pro-Obama news media to write a story about me. Obama is not neutral or objective about me, and neither are his sycophants in the media.
Last weekend Channel 5’s Mary Ann Ahern actually pretended I didn’t exist. Recently Channel 5’s Carol Marin stole one of my story lines and attributed it to my principal opponent. What is it with you women?
So rather than complain, I thought I would help you become a better news writer, and offer you a short course in Andy Martin.
Together we can rewrite your biography about me to show your viewers a clearer picture of my accomplishments and character. When people find out the facts about Andy Martin, they want to support me.
I would have started your sketch of me with the observation that I have been involved in broadcasting for 41 years. (I could go even further back and tell you when I was hired by NBC News in Chicago, but that’s another story). I am the youngest person ever authorized to own a TV station (you can check FCC records for that one). And so I am probably the “dean” of media in Illinois by virtue of my longevity and experience. I started when “video” meant two-inch wide tape.
I was part of the first major sex discrimination case at the Federal Communications Commission, and worked to create advancement opportunities for women. Four decades ago. (Source: FCC Docket Number 19801).
You mentioned a TV commercial I produced about George Bush in 1999, ten (10) years ago. You left out the most interesting part of the commercial. My commercial predicted Bush would invade Iraq. My prediction was made in 1999. Now that’s solid news judgment. I knew Bush before Bush knew Bush. I don’t just toot my horn; I have a public record you can consult to confirm my claims.
You also missed the larger point. You were writing about a TV commercial I produced a decade ago. How many advertising people have produced TV spots that others are still writing about a decade later? Not many. One of my political enemies (I am not sure which one yet, Kirk or Obama) is currently broadcasting a TV spot I made 13 years ago. They just can’t get enough of Andy’s TV ads. That should tell you I understand the broadcast medium as few others have over the decades.
You claim that I have written “rumors” about Barry Obama’s Muslim religion. Ultimately, of course religion is a disposable diaper for Obama. When it suits his purposes he’s a Muslim, see e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
And when it suits his purposes he’s a “Christian.” Obama has been in the White House for ten months, and still hasn’t “found” a church in Washington. I doubt he ever will. Obama is an opportunist, not a Christian.
But Obama was a Muslim. He was raised Muslim from the age of 6-10. The fact that Obama was raised as a Muslim in Indonesia is not a "rumor," it is a fact. There is general nationwide agreement that I was the first writer to highlight that fact. The reality is, Obama can’t airbrush the truth away, at least not when I am pursuing the truth, and neither should you. You should have said, instead, that I focused attention on Obama’s secret life and his unknown family connections, and was the first to do so. I’ll plead guilty any day—to telling the truth about Barry Obama. How about you telling the truth about me?
In 2008 Obama and his henchmen paid me the ultimate compliment: they created a dirty tricks operation to undermine my efforts to tell the truth about Obama’s past. It’s not every day that a local boy is the target of a smear machine orchestrated by a presidential campaign but I am bigger and better known because I took Obama’s lies and threw them back in his face.
Obama confirmed what every Illinois Republican should know about me: I am the real McCoy, a tough, successful political infighter they can trust to seek the truth and bring it to public attention. I’ve been doing that all my life. Mine was the first name on Barack Obama’s “enemies list.”
Isn’t it ironic that Obama’s strongest and most successful critic is now a solid candidate (no, Mary Ann Ahern is not right, I do really exist) to succeed to his senate seat? Maybe that’s why David Axelrod is having fits. His smears seem to have no effect on me. Now there’s an interesting story line for you.
Your station is located in Chicago, which has at its core a struggling urban diaspora. Who has been working hard to recruit minorities and fight for civil rights in the Republican Party? You guessed it. Andy Martin.
I am unusual for another reason: I have been an urban educator who taught in an urban university. Few people (in either party) who run for national office have ever stood in a college classroom and actually taught in a minority community. For me it was not a political gimmick. I enjoyed the work. I’ll bet many of your viewers would admire my college teaching. How come you left it out?
Finally, you took my “I am a colorful person” quote slightly out of context. Of course people such as Obama dislike me when I expose the truth about their past. They prefer to hide the truth about themselves and the media often ignore the facts. I can be “colorful” in telling their stories. Just ask the people of Hawai’i, many of whom have “adopted” me because I was the first writer to research the truth about Obama’s Hawai’i years.
But, more deeply, politics usually attracts boring, careerist people. I am not a boring careerist. I have lived an unusual life and I bring my lifetime of experiences with me to the campaign, and hopefully into the Senate.
I spent part of 2003 living in Baghdad, researching and writing about the flawed, failed strategy there--long before the mainstream media realized they had been cheerleaders for a bunch of incompetent politicians in the Green Zone. I coined the phrase the "Emerald City" to describe the "greenies." How many candidates for the Senate have lived in Baghdad, and been on Paul Bremer’s enemies list for being the first to write about his incompetence? Not many.
I am proud of the enemies I have made throughout my life. These enemies all exist because I wrote unpleasant truths and took action to bring the truth to public attention. That’s the kind of person we need as a Senator.
Well, enough of Professor Martin’s first class in “Chicago media truth telling about Andy Martin.” I am sure you will agree that the truth about me, almost all of which was missing from your portrait, is a lot more interesting, and a lot more invaluable to every voter in Illinois, both Republican and even Democrat, than the one-dimensional picture you presented.
Now if I could only get Carol Marin to stop stealing my material, and Mary Ann Ahearn to wake up and smell Andy’s campaign (lavender is the scent), maybe Illinoisans could elect a “real” U. S. Senator who would work for them instead of the special interests, and really fight the crooked political structure in Washington.
After all, I have a documented lifetime record of fighting corruption, way back to 1968 when I exposed and opposed the crooked Illinois Secretary of State. No other candidate in either party has my established record of fighting corruption. No wonder they are envious of my background.
Who can match my record? The Kirkster? Be real. The Kirkster represents everything that is wrong and bad about politics. But you guys at Channel 5 love the little guy. I wonder why.
Finally, decades ago, the Chicago Tribune realized (and wrote) I was an “absolutely brilliant campaigner.” Actually, they were right. I like to rub their noses in that quote, because their current political writer, Rick Pearson, is a creepy fellow who gives me the willies. Pearson takes his orders from the corrupt “Combine.” The Combine doesn’t like corruption fighters, so Pearson doesn’t like me.
But because I have a legacy of “brilliant campaigning” to live up to, I intend to put on a campaign for the U. S. Senate that is going to shake up this state and shake up the state of corruption in Washington.
Or, as we broadcasters would say, “Stay tuned.”
Best wishes,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
COMING:
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November 4, 2009
Susan Ball
WMAQ-TV
Chicago, IL 60611
via fax (312) 527-5925
Dear Susan:
I was amused by your thumbnail sketches of the candidates for state office. And, yes, I am a “corruption fighter,” so you got the big picture right.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/
Andy-Martin-for-US-Senate-68582972.html
But I felt that your overall essay was skewed by the fact you consulted pro-Obama news media to write a story about me. Obama is not neutral or objective about me, and neither are his sycophants in the media.
Last weekend Channel 5’s Mary Ann Ahern actually pretended I didn’t exist. Recently Channel 5’s Carol Marin stole one of my story lines and attributed it to my principal opponent. What is it with you women?
So rather than complain, I thought I would help you become a better news writer, and offer you a short course in Andy Martin.
Together we can rewrite your biography about me to show your viewers a clearer picture of my accomplishments and character. When people find out the facts about Andy Martin, they want to support me.
I would have started your sketch of me with the observation that I have been involved in broadcasting for 41 years. (I could go even further back and tell you when I was hired by NBC News in Chicago, but that’s another story). I am the youngest person ever authorized to own a TV station (you can check FCC records for that one). And so I am probably the “dean” of media in Illinois by virtue of my longevity and experience. I started when “video” meant two-inch wide tape.
I was part of the first major sex discrimination case at the Federal Communications Commission, and worked to create advancement opportunities for women. Four decades ago. (Source: FCC Docket Number 19801).
You mentioned a TV commercial I produced about George Bush in 1999, ten (10) years ago. You left out the most interesting part of the commercial. My commercial predicted Bush would invade Iraq. My prediction was made in 1999. Now that’s solid news judgment. I knew Bush before Bush knew Bush. I don’t just toot my horn; I have a public record you can consult to confirm my claims.
You also missed the larger point. You were writing about a TV commercial I produced a decade ago. How many advertising people have produced TV spots that others are still writing about a decade later? Not many. One of my political enemies (I am not sure which one yet, Kirk or Obama) is currently broadcasting a TV spot I made 13 years ago. They just can’t get enough of Andy’s TV ads. That should tell you I understand the broadcast medium as few others have over the decades.
You claim that I have written “rumors” about Barry Obama’s Muslim religion. Ultimately, of course religion is a disposable diaper for Obama. When it suits his purposes he’s a Muslim, see e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tCAffMSWSzY#t=28
And when it suits his purposes he’s a “Christian.” Obama has been in the White House for ten months, and still hasn’t “found” a church in Washington. I doubt he ever will. Obama is an opportunist, not a Christian.
But Obama was a Muslim. He was raised Muslim from the age of 6-10. The fact that Obama was raised as a Muslim in Indonesia is not a "rumor," it is a fact. There is general nationwide agreement that I was the first writer to highlight that fact. The reality is, Obama can’t airbrush the truth away, at least not when I am pursuing the truth, and neither should you. You should have said, instead, that I focused attention on Obama’s secret life and his unknown family connections, and was the first to do so. I’ll plead guilty any day—to telling the truth about Barry Obama. How about you telling the truth about me?
In 2008 Obama and his henchmen paid me the ultimate compliment: they created a dirty tricks operation to undermine my efforts to tell the truth about Obama’s past. It’s not every day that a local boy is the target of a smear machine orchestrated by a presidential campaign but I am bigger and better known because I took Obama’s lies and threw them back in his face.
Obama confirmed what every Illinois Republican should know about me: I am the real McCoy, a tough, successful political infighter they can trust to seek the truth and bring it to public attention. I’ve been doing that all my life. Mine was the first name on Barack Obama’s “enemies list.”
Isn’t it ironic that Obama’s strongest and most successful critic is now a solid candidate (no, Mary Ann Ahern is not right, I do really exist) to succeed to his senate seat? Maybe that’s why David Axelrod is having fits. His smears seem to have no effect on me. Now there’s an interesting story line for you.
Your station is located in Chicago, which has at its core a struggling urban diaspora. Who has been working hard to recruit minorities and fight for civil rights in the Republican Party? You guessed it. Andy Martin.
I am unusual for another reason: I have been an urban educator who taught in an urban university. Few people (in either party) who run for national office have ever stood in a college classroom and actually taught in a minority community. For me it was not a political gimmick. I enjoyed the work. I’ll bet many of your viewers would admire my college teaching. How come you left it out?
Finally, you took my “I am a colorful person” quote slightly out of context. Of course people such as Obama dislike me when I expose the truth about their past. They prefer to hide the truth about themselves and the media often ignore the facts. I can be “colorful” in telling their stories. Just ask the people of Hawai’i, many of whom have “adopted” me because I was the first writer to research the truth about Obama’s Hawai’i years.
But, more deeply, politics usually attracts boring, careerist people. I am not a boring careerist. I have lived an unusual life and I bring my lifetime of experiences with me to the campaign, and hopefully into the Senate.
I spent part of 2003 living in Baghdad, researching and writing about the flawed, failed strategy there--long before the mainstream media realized they had been cheerleaders for a bunch of incompetent politicians in the Green Zone. I coined the phrase the "Emerald City" to describe the "greenies." How many candidates for the Senate have lived in Baghdad, and been on Paul Bremer’s enemies list for being the first to write about his incompetence? Not many.
I am proud of the enemies I have made throughout my life. These enemies all exist because I wrote unpleasant truths and took action to bring the truth to public attention. That’s the kind of person we need as a Senator.
Well, enough of Professor Martin’s first class in “Chicago media truth telling about Andy Martin.” I am sure you will agree that the truth about me, almost all of which was missing from your portrait, is a lot more interesting, and a lot more invaluable to every voter in Illinois, both Republican and even Democrat, than the one-dimensional picture you presented.
Now if I could only get Carol Marin to stop stealing my material, and Mary Ann Ahearn to wake up and smell Andy’s campaign (lavender is the scent), maybe Illinoisans could elect a “real” U. S. Senator who would work for them instead of the special interests, and really fight the crooked political structure in Washington.
After all, I have a documented lifetime record of fighting corruption, way back to 1968 when I exposed and opposed the crooked Illinois Secretary of State. No other candidate in either party has my established record of fighting corruption. No wonder they are envious of my background.
Who can match my record? The Kirkster? Be real. The Kirkster represents everything that is wrong and bad about politics. But you guys at Channel 5 love the little guy. I wonder why.
Finally, decades ago, the Chicago Tribune realized (and wrote) I was an “absolutely brilliant campaigner.” Actually, they were right. I like to rub their noses in that quote, because their current political writer, Rick Pearson, is a creepy fellow who gives me the willies. Pearson takes his orders from the corrupt “Combine.” The Combine doesn’t like corruption fighters, so Pearson doesn’t like me.
But because I have a legacy of “brilliant campaigning” to live up to, I intend to put on a campaign for the U. S. Senate that is going to shake up this state and shake up the state of corruption in Washington.
Or, as we broadcasters would say, “Stay tuned.”
Best wishes,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Andy Martin welcomes Patrick Hughes’ disillusioned supporters to Martin’s U. S. Senate campaign
Martin says Patrick Hughes should demand a refund from Hughes’ campaign “advisers” Jon Zahm, Paul Caprio and Charlie Johnston.
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
COMING:
www.StopDeutscheBankForeclosureFraud.com
October 28, 2009
AN OPEN LETTER TO “PAT HUGHES FOR U.S. SENATOR” SUPPORTERS:
JOIN US!
Dear Pat Hughes supporter:
You have probably witnessed the ongoing comedy of the Hughes campaign over the past several weeks. Almost every day brings new dirty tricks, new backstabbing and the like.
My campaign, on the other hand, has a simple approach: we tell the truth. Truth-telling is the only way to be a real Christian. And a real candidate for national office.
Five (5) Republican candidates filed for U. S. Senator earlier this week. Hughes was not one of them. He couldn’t gather enough signatures with three months to do so. If Hughes, with his purported “endorsements,” can’t gather signatures, what assurance do you have that he is competent to run the more complex phases of campaigning which are about to begin? Illinoisans are not going to entrust their voice in Washington to a candidate that can’t even collect a stack of petitions properly.
At the end of the day, Hughes has been a disappointment to anyone who expected better. He has been reading talking points prepared by his handlers, led by the malign Paul Caprio. One day Hughes says Caprio is with him, and the next day Hughes denies Caprio is with him. Hughes can’t keep a straight story.
Hughes has never done anything to support conservative causes. He didn’t even declare he was a “Republican” until 2008. That is not much of a record on which to base a campaign for national office.
Hughes is making a laughingstock of a very serious process: trying to defeat the outrageous candidacy of Mark Kirk to be a U. S. Senator.
U. S. Senators make life-and-death decisions. Their votes are not talking points. “Handlers” can’t grab them by the sleeve. The buck stops in the senate.
This election really comes down to two individuals, Mark Kirk and me, each with a radically different world view. Kirk wants to create more wars, and expand existing ones. I want to pull in our global ambitions and concentrate on unmet needs at home.
Pat Hughes is not a factor in this election, and never will be. He lacks any pretense of credentials.
If you are a disgruntled or unsatisfied supporter of Patrick Hughes I invite you to join my campaign. You will find a warm welcome and an intelligent campaign organization. You will not always agree with me. And I am not perfect, far from it.
But I have a lifetime of experience and wisdom to devote to keeping America strong while I work to rebuild our economy and keep our noses out of other nations’ wars. You can trust me to vote intelligently on protecting our military, and protecting our most precious resource and asset: American blood.
Feel free to call our offices. Many days I answer the phone personally. I will do my best to gain your trust so that together we can do our best to rebuild the Illinois Republican Party as a group of Americans who are there to serve, not dictate, a group of Illinoisans who will do their best to give, not take, and fellow citizens who will not shed the blood of our children and our neighbors’ children without a sound strategy and a principled basis to do so.
Politics can be an honorable calling if it is pursued in an honorable way. Don’t let your experience with Hughes’ catastrophe sour you on politics or campaigning. I will do my best to run both an honorable and hard-hitting campaign, and to take the truth to Republican primary voters.
Please join us. And welcome.
Andy Martin
AM:sp
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for all the People of Illinois”
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.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com
COMING:
www.StopDeutscheBankForeclosureFraud.com
October 28, 2009
AN OPEN LETTER TO “PAT HUGHES FOR U.S. SENATOR” SUPPORTERS:
JOIN US!
Dear Pat Hughes supporter:
You have probably witnessed the ongoing comedy of the Hughes campaign over the past several weeks. Almost every day brings new dirty tricks, new backstabbing and the like.
My campaign, on the other hand, has a simple approach: we tell the truth. Truth-telling is the only way to be a real Christian. And a real candidate for national office.
Five (5) Republican candidates filed for U. S. Senator earlier this week. Hughes was not one of them. He couldn’t gather enough signatures with three months to do so. If Hughes, with his purported “endorsements,” can’t gather signatures, what assurance do you have that he is competent to run the more complex phases of campaigning which are about to begin? Illinoisans are not going to entrust their voice in Washington to a candidate that can’t even collect a stack of petitions properly.
At the end of the day, Hughes has been a disappointment to anyone who expected better. He has been reading talking points prepared by his handlers, led by the malign Paul Caprio. One day Hughes says Caprio is with him, and the next day Hughes denies Caprio is with him. Hughes can’t keep a straight story.
Hughes has never done anything to support conservative causes. He didn’t even declare he was a “Republican” until 2008. That is not much of a record on which to base a campaign for national office.
Hughes is making a laughingstock of a very serious process: trying to defeat the outrageous candidacy of Mark Kirk to be a U. S. Senator.
U. S. Senators make life-and-death decisions. Their votes are not talking points. “Handlers” can’t grab them by the sleeve. The buck stops in the senate.
This election really comes down to two individuals, Mark Kirk and me, each with a radically different world view. Kirk wants to create more wars, and expand existing ones. I want to pull in our global ambitions and concentrate on unmet needs at home.
Pat Hughes is not a factor in this election, and never will be. He lacks any pretense of credentials.
If you are a disgruntled or unsatisfied supporter of Patrick Hughes I invite you to join my campaign. You will find a warm welcome and an intelligent campaign organization. You will not always agree with me. And I am not perfect, far from it.
But I have a lifetime of experience and wisdom to devote to keeping America strong while I work to rebuild our economy and keep our noses out of other nations’ wars. You can trust me to vote intelligently on protecting our military, and protecting our most precious resource and asset: American blood.
Feel free to call our offices. Many days I answer the phone personally. I will do my best to gain your trust so that together we can do our best to rebuild the Illinois Republican Party as a group of Americans who are there to serve, not dictate, a group of Illinoisans who will do their best to give, not take, and fellow citizens who will not shed the blood of our children and our neighbors’ children without a sound strategy and a principled basis to do so.
Politics can be an honorable calling if it is pursued in an honorable way. Don’t let your experience with Hughes’ catastrophe sour you on politics or campaigning. I will do my best to run both an honorable and hard-hitting campaign, and to take the truth to Republican primary voters.
Please join us. And welcome.
Andy Martin
AM:sp
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009
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