Illinois U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Mark Kirk repeatedly used racist remarks during his most recent two congressional campaigns. Martin says Kirk is unfit to be a statewide senate candidate. “Kirk on the statewide ticket locks the doors on 20% of the state’s homes,” Martin says. “Racism has no place in the Republican Party. Why was Kirk’s prior misconduct not condemned by party leaders? I am proud of my lifetime record of support for civil rights. Kirk should be ashamed of his disgraceful behavior. He owes every Illinoisan and every Republican voter a retraction and apology.”
Mark Kirk and Andy Martin will be the only statewide candidates marching in the Lake Forest Day Parade Wednesday
Kirk attended a Tuesday fundraiser in Chicago that was a desultory failure
As Kirk and Martin compete for Kirk’s fading “base,” the Republican senate primary becomes a two-man race
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS
ANNOUNCEMENT OF WEDNESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN LAKE FOREST
ANDY MARTIN SAYS MARK KIRK’S POLITICAL BASE IN TRADITIONAL CONSERVATIVE COMMUNITIES IS DESERTING HIM
MARTIN AND KIRK WILL OFFER COMPETING MESSAGES WHEN THEY FACE OFF IN THE LAKE FOREST DAY PARADE AUGUST 5TH
THE CHICAGO FUNDRAISER KIRK ATTENDED IN CHICAGO ON TUESDAY WAS A DESULTORY FAILURE
(LAKE FOREST, IL)(August 5, 2009) Republican U. S. Senate candidate and insurgent “Internet Powerhouse” Andy Martin will hold a Lake Forest news Conference Wednesday morning to demand that Mark Kirk retract, withdraw and apologize for his racist statements during Kirk’s 2006 and 2008 campaigns. Kirk referred to African-Americans as “thugs” and “goons.”
“By using racist attacks,” Martin says, “Kirk has locked the Republican Party out of 20% of the state’s homes and narrowed the potential electoral base for every Republican candidate.”
NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:
WHO:
Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin
WHAT:
Andy Martin demands that Mark Kirk disavow, retract and apologize for his racist statements during his 2006 and 2008 campaigns.
WHERE:
Main entrance, Lake Forest Metra rail station
WHEN: Wednesday, August 5, 2009; 8:40 A. M.
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639; CELL (917) 664-9329
(CHICAGO) The fund raiser featuring Mark Kirk on Tuesday August 4th was a desultory failure. Chicago Police provided six (6) officers and two patrol cards to protect Andy Martin from any retaliatory attacks because he was picketing the Peninsula Hotel where the $500 a person fundraiser was being held. The Peninsula Hotel security staff also deployed over a dozen security officers.
“It was like an armed camp out there,” Martin says. “But we got the message across. We are in this race to stay. Our spies inside the hotel said most of the attendees at the event were coming with free tickets, so it is likely the cocktail party will not be a moneymaker. Kirk is losing his fundraising touch. Tom Cross and Mark Kirk apparently gave away tickets to avoid an embarrassing appearance.
“We were there, with police protection, and we will continue to be there. Republican big-wigs may try to back Mark, but the average Republican voter despises Kirkie.
“And then there is State Senator Kirk (‘My real name is John Kerry’) Dillard, who attended the cocktail party. Dillard was listed as “for” Mark Kirk before Dillard said he was not supporting Mark Kirk. Which is it Dillard? Fish or foul? Are you for Mark Kirk, or neutral? You can’t be both. Dillard wants to be governor when he can’t even decide whether to make a public statement one way or the other disclosing if he is backing Mark Kirk or not?
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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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Mark Kirk becomes the laughingstock of Illinois Politics
Congressman Mark Kirk began his quest for the U. S. Senate by releasing a bogus list of campaign endorsers. What was he thinking? In Part One of the continuing saga of “Kirkie Boy,” U.S. Senate candidate [and Kirk opponent] Andy Martin strips the bark off professional, perennial phony Mark Kirk.
Mark Kirk becomes the laughingstock of Illinois Politics: Part One
Andy Martin says that Kirk’s latest exaggerations disqualify him as a candidate for the U. S. Senate
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN SAYS MARK KIRK SHOULD STEP DOWN AS A CANDIDATE FOR U. S. SENATOR
KIRK’S USE OF IMAGINARY “ENDORSEMENTS” EMBARRASSES THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY
PART ONE OF THE SAD AND CONTINUING SAGA OF “KIRKIE BOY”
WHY WON’T ILLINOISREVIEW.COM RELEASE KIRK’S BOGUS ENDORSEMENT LIST?
(CHICAGO)(July 23, 2009) Mark Kirk came out of the starting gate as a senate candidate by embarrassing the entire Illinois Republican party and by making a fool of himself.
Kirk released a bogus list of “endorsements.”
What could be more embarrassing to a candidate than releasing a list of “endorsers,” some of whom then deny making any endorsement?
Among the "embarrasses” was gubernatorial candidate Kirk Dillard, who promptly denied endorsing Mark Kirk for U. S. Senator.
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2000
Dillard, you will remember, had his own “endorsement malfunction” when he starred in TV commercials for Barack Obama. The last thing Dillard needed was to be fraudulently listed as a Kirk endorser. That would be a nice way for Dillard to gratuitously rile conservatives. Dillard promptly denied endorsing Kirkie Boy. [Who added Dillard’s name to the bogus list?]
Here the plot thickens.
The so-called “Crossroads of the Conservative Community” is running interference for Kirkie Boy,
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/
2009/07/confusion-over-kirk-endorsements.html
by claiming there is “confusion” about Kirk’s fraudulent activity. Where’s the "confusion?" Illinois Review admits that they contacted the endorsers and some of them denied endorsing Kirk. No confusion there. Kirkie Boy lied. Bad boy. (Full disclosure: Frank Eaton has a “hard on” for me; she removes my postings to IR and denies I exist; thattaboy Fran).
But in a classic cover-up that shows Republicans how some “conservatives” can be pathetic weenies, Illinois Review will not release the names of Kirk’s “non-endorsers.” How can anyone pretend to conservative journalistic objectivity and then refuse to release the names of people whose names have been used and abused by Kirk?
John Kass has a word for Kirk and the Illinois Review: the Republican Party’s latest chumbolones.
Kirk had months to plan his campaign announcement. Months. He botched the event. Nice planning, Mark. What was he thinking by releasing a fraudulent list of endorsers? Or is he going to claim the Illinois Republican Party is the fraudster? Who gave the IRP the bogus list of endorsers?
Kirk is a man who has been in office for almost a decade, and who has spent his whole adult life as a coat-holder for Washington fixers, in other words a classic “career politician.” He should have known better than to lie at his campaign announcement. It’s like lying to your wife. [I won’t go there, yet.]
Of course Chicago media are so incompetent most of them will be surprised to learn they were played for fools by Kirk. Many will learn it from this column. The links are up there boys and girls. Read them for yourselves.
Rick Pearson, the creepy reporter of the bankrupt Chicago Tribune, and Lynn Sweet, the Norma Desmond-like impresario of the equally bankrupt Sun-Times, failed to tell their readers about Kirk’s bogus endorsers. Maybe they were afraid Kirkie Boy would freeze them out. Sweet and Pearson are professional flacks, not reporters, as their latest cover-up confirms. And they wonder why no one reads their newspapers any more.
A closing note.
We had decided to “bank” the Kirk divorce story because the Kirk “marriage” is too rich a scandal, and too risqué a fraud on Illinois Republicans (or too deep a mine shaft?) for just one column. Somewhere out there, Jack Ryan is smiling.
But we have not been able to get back to writing about Kirk’s faux marriage because he keeps creating beautiful new material such as “Endorsementgate,” and “IllinoisReviewgate.”
Please rest assured we will be writing about the Kirk “marriage” in the near future. We have several columns banked already, with one to be added about the announcement appearance of Kirk’s own Eva Peron, Kimberly Vertoli. Come to think about it, Eva Peron had more integrity than Kimberly Vertoli. But then everything about Mark Kirk is phony, even his “wife.”
Tomorrow, “Mark Kirk Becomes the Laughingstock of Illinois Politics: Part Two” Stay tuned.
And Kirk wants to be a U.S. senator.
Kirkie Boy makes me look like a great statesman by comparison.
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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 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.] MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Mark Kirk becomes the laughingstock of Illinois Politics: Part One
Andy Martin says that Kirk’s latest exaggerations disqualify him as a candidate for the U. S. Senate
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN SAYS MARK KIRK SHOULD STEP DOWN AS A CANDIDATE FOR U. S. SENATOR
KIRK’S USE OF IMAGINARY “ENDORSEMENTS” EMBARRASSES THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY
PART ONE OF THE SAD AND CONTINUING SAGA OF “KIRKIE BOY”
WHY WON’T ILLINOISREVIEW.COM RELEASE KIRK’S BOGUS ENDORSEMENT LIST?
(CHICAGO)(July 23, 2009) Mark Kirk came out of the starting gate as a senate candidate by embarrassing the entire Illinois Republican party and by making a fool of himself.
Kirk released a bogus list of “endorsements.”
What could be more embarrassing to a candidate than releasing a list of “endorsers,” some of whom then deny making any endorsement?
Among the "embarrasses” was gubernatorial candidate Kirk Dillard, who promptly denied endorsing Mark Kirk for U. S. Senator.
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2000
Dillard, you will remember, had his own “endorsement malfunction” when he starred in TV commercials for Barack Obama. The last thing Dillard needed was to be fraudulently listed as a Kirk endorser. That would be a nice way for Dillard to gratuitously rile conservatives. Dillard promptly denied endorsing Kirkie Boy. [Who added Dillard’s name to the bogus list?]
Here the plot thickens.
The so-called “Crossroads of the Conservative Community” is running interference for Kirkie Boy,
http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/
2009/07/confusion-over-kirk-endorsements.html
by claiming there is “confusion” about Kirk’s fraudulent activity. Where’s the "confusion?" Illinois Review admits that they contacted the endorsers and some of them denied endorsing Kirk. No confusion there. Kirkie Boy lied. Bad boy. (Full disclosure: Frank Eaton has a “hard on” for me; she removes my postings to IR and denies I exist; thattaboy Fran).
But in a classic cover-up that shows Republicans how some “conservatives” can be pathetic weenies, Illinois Review will not release the names of Kirk’s “non-endorsers.” How can anyone pretend to conservative journalistic objectivity and then refuse to release the names of people whose names have been used and abused by Kirk?
John Kass has a word for Kirk and the Illinois Review: the Republican Party’s latest chumbolones.
Kirk had months to plan his campaign announcement. Months. He botched the event. Nice planning, Mark. What was he thinking by releasing a fraudulent list of endorsers? Or is he going to claim the Illinois Republican Party is the fraudster? Who gave the IRP the bogus list of endorsers?
Kirk is a man who has been in office for almost a decade, and who has spent his whole adult life as a coat-holder for Washington fixers, in other words a classic “career politician.” He should have known better than to lie at his campaign announcement. It’s like lying to your wife. [I won’t go there, yet.]
Of course Chicago media are so incompetent most of them will be surprised to learn they were played for fools by Kirk. Many will learn it from this column. The links are up there boys and girls. Read them for yourselves.
Rick Pearson, the creepy reporter of the bankrupt Chicago Tribune, and Lynn Sweet, the Norma Desmond-like impresario of the equally bankrupt Sun-Times, failed to tell their readers about Kirk’s bogus endorsers. Maybe they were afraid Kirkie Boy would freeze them out. Sweet and Pearson are professional flacks, not reporters, as their latest cover-up confirms. And they wonder why no one reads their newspapers any more.
A closing note.
We had decided to “bank” the Kirk divorce story because the Kirk “marriage” is too rich a scandal, and too risqué a fraud on Illinois Republicans (or too deep a mine shaft?) for just one column. Somewhere out there, Jack Ryan is smiling.
But we have not been able to get back to writing about Kirk’s faux marriage because he keeps creating beautiful new material such as “Endorsementgate,” and “IllinoisReviewgate.”
Please rest assured we will be writing about the Kirk “marriage” in the near future. We have several columns banked already, with one to be added about the announcement appearance of Kirk’s own Eva Peron, Kimberly Vertoli. Come to think about it, Eva Peron had more integrity than Kimberly Vertoli. But then everything about Mark Kirk is phony, even his “wife.”
Tomorrow, “Mark Kirk Becomes the Laughingstock of Illinois Politics: Part Two” Stay tuned.
And Kirk wants to be a U.S. senator.
Kirkie Boy makes me look like a great statesman by comparison.
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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 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.] MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Congressman Mark Kirk dishonors America’s combat veterans
In an explosive exposé, Internet powerhouse Andy Martin reveals Congressman Mark Kirk has falsely claimed to be a “combat veteran” in “two armies.” Martin exposes Kirk as a “Walter Mitty warrior,” who is the latest descendent of the legendary military fraud [Senator] “Tail Gunner Joe” McCarthy.
Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Mark Kirk dishonors America’s combat veterans by falsely claiming to have served “in combat”
Martin says that Kirk’s exaggerations disqualify him as a candidate for the U. S. Senate
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN CALLS MARK KIRK A “WALTER MITTY WARRIOR”
"MARK KIRK IS A MAN WHO DISHONORS AMERICA’S MILITARY PERSONNEL BY FALSELY CLAIMING TO BE A ‘COMBAT VETERAN’ AND USES THE LIVES OF MILITARY PERSONNEL AS A PHOTO OP FOR HIS OWN POLITICAL PARASITISM," MARTIN CHARGES
MARTIN SAYS THAT ANYONE WHO HAS SERVED IN A COMBAT UNIT IN THE MILITARY SHOULD DISOWN KIRK BECAUSE OF THE WAY KIRK EXAGGERATES AND MISREPRESENTS HIS MILITARY SERVICE
ANDY MARTIN CALLS MARK KIRK A MODERN VERSION OF THE POLITICAL FRAUD “TAIL GUNNER JOE”
ANDY SAYS “KIRKIE” IS A “COMBAT IMPOSTER” WHO OWES EVERY GENUINE COMBAT VETERAN AN APOLOGY
(CHICAGO)(July 21, 2009) Mark Kirk is a bigger liar than his real hero, Barack Obama. He is a bigger liar than “Slick Willie” Clinton. Neither Kirk nor Obama lied by falsely claiming to be a “combat veteran.”
Mark Kirk dishonors America’s combat veterans by falsely claiming to be one of them.
First, my own military background. I took the oath of enlistment in the U S Air Force Reserve as part of the commissioning program of the ROTC at the University of Illinois. I later received an Honorable Discharge and did not serve on active duty. My serial number was AF16821011. If anyone wants to see my military records, just ask, and I will sign a Freedom of Information waiver so you can ask to see them at the Department of Defense. Unlike Mark Kirk, I have nothing to hide.
I was in Viet-Nam in 1967, 1968 and 1971. Also in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. As well as Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Hong Kong and other places. In 2003 I spent a good part of the year in Iraq living in Baghdad.
But despite the fact that I have dodged bullets, mortar shells and worse, and that these memories are very vivid, I would never call myself a “combat veteran.” I was not on active duty with a combat MOS.
War is an experience beyond imagination, except, apparently in the fertile imagination of Mark Kirk who falsely claims to have served in “two armies.” Battle is gut-wrenching. Fear numbs the body almost to the point of death. Our men in Afghanistan today are going through experiences that are beyond belief. Mark Kirk dishonors all of them by falsely claiming to be their equal. If Kirk ever showed his face in a real war zone, and bragged about his bogus service in “two armies,” the men would spit on him.
Iraq was no different. Danger was everywhere for men and women in uniform. I lived in Baghdad during the relatively tranquil period in 2003; my intelligence analysis of the coming catastrophe proved prescient. My analysis of how to win, by supporting the surge, ran contrary to Kirk’s vote AGAINST the surge. Some “intelligence officer,” that Kirk. No wonder we were losing until real warriors took control in Iraq.
At the end of the day, I have known fear, in the company of brave men. Kirk has not. His “fighting” in “two armies” is a delusion and fabrication. He is unfit to be a candidate for the U. S. Senate.
Yesterday, in announcing he wanted to be a U. S. Senator, Mark Kirk dishonored every American serving in harm's way today. He dishonored genuine combat veterans who gave their lives, were wounded or felt the aftermath of stress from exposure to life-threatening conditions. Mark Kirk is a despicable political phony.
I was first alerted to Kirk’s imaginary military role by a column in the Rockford Register Star by Chuck Sweeny (well-spotted Chuck), and then saw the reference again in the daily compendium of Democratic Party operative Rich Miller.
http://www.rrstar.com/news/columnists/x737378837/Can-moderate-Republican-Mark-Kirk-win-Senate-race
http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2009/07/21/kirks-roll-out-couldnt-have-been-better/
I began to dig deeper into the demented mind and imaginary battle record of Field Marshal Mark Kirk, “combat veteran” of “two armies.”
Kirk stated at his announcement yesterday that “We’ve sent three armies to the Middle East and I’ve fought in two of them. As combat veterans, we get to ask…”
Mark Kirk was never “in combat.” He has never “fought” in any “army” and he is not a "combat veteran.”
On the contrary, Kirk has constantly used and abused his military service as a photo op for his own political career.
One of Kirk’s shameless exaggerations is that he is the first congressman to “deploy” to a combat zone since World war II, apparently since that great World War II “combat veteran,” President Lyndon Johnson, who was Kirk’s alleged predecessor in “warfare.” That apparently is the basis of the claim he is a “combat veteran."
Kirk serves in the Navy Reserves. Reservists are a vital component of our national defense. Kirk is not.
Last year Kirk asked the Pentagon to assign him to active duty for a few weeks as part of a publicity campaign for his political career. He was never in a line company or unit; he never had a combat MOS and he was never in harm’s way. He may have been in “Afghanistan” for a few days, but he was not in any more risk of “combat” there than he is in Kenilworth. Kirk was pampered by military handlers every minute that he was in his imaginary “combat zone.”
Congressmen are often invited to review operations in war zones. I saw them in Viet-Nam and I saw them in Iraq. By no means were these congressional excursions “combat experience.” Visiting a war zone briefly does not place them in “combat” or make them “combat veterans.” Maybe John McCain, who is a real combat hero, should have a talk with the man he supposedly endorsed and explain to Kirkie the difference between being in combat and merely being in a war zone.
Mark Kirk is the 2009 equivalent of that great political fraud (and also a Republican) [Senator]“Tail Gunner Joe” McCarthy.
The only place where Mark Kirk is rumored to be a “tail gunner” is in the salons of Washington, DC (more on that Kirk scandal, later).
If Mark Kirk wants to see real combat veterans, not paper maché imposters such as himself, he should visit our military cemeteries in Normandy.
A few weeks ago we learned that a “Colorado combat veteran” was also a political fraud. People condemned his imaginary military record. http://www.military.com/news/article/phony-combat-vet-is-freed.html He is a compatriot of Mark Kirk.
Lots of people serve in the military without being “in combat,” as Kirk falsely claims. Kirk has worn a uniform. But merely wearing a uniform in wartime does not make you a combat veteran. People peel potatoes; they sit in rooms studying intelligence (which appears to be Kirk’s desk-based assignment) and they engage in non-combatant roles in a combat zone.
The distinction between men who serve in battle, and are entitled to be called combat veterans, and military personnel who serve in a war zone but do not engage in combat or carry a combat MOS, is a very serious one for military veterans.
In Viet-Nam, we used to call the military personnel in Saigon “Saigon commandoes” because they claimed to be war heroes, but were actually eating out at fancy restaurants, living in apartments with bar girls and using mamasans to do their laundry. There were no ”Saigon Commandoes” at Khe Sanh or Con Tien.
Throughout history, combat veterans have been exalted because they placed their lives on the line for their nations. Warriors have been honored for risking their lives, not for seeking to promote themselves politically the way Mark Kirk has inflated his military experience. I have known brave warriors, many of them. I still remember the name of the first Fighting Illini who died in Viet-Nam: Bruce Capel. We remember these men to honor their service and sacrifice. Forever.
Mark Kirk is not one of these brave warriors. He is no “combat veteran.” He is a fraud, imposter and disgrace to the Republican Party. Kirk has shamed and demeaned the uniform he wears by using it to propagandize politically.
If there is anything real combat veterans despise, it is a political parasite such as Mark Kirk who inflates his military service.
Bob Hope probably had more combat experience than Mark Kirk.
Mark Kirk owes every genuine combat veteran an apology. He should stop lying abut his military record, the same way he lies about his “wife” and his personal life.
Mark Kirk is a total phony. But now we know why he is Barack Obama’s favorite Republican and votes with the Democrats. Kirk’s entire life is a lie. The mainstream media and “Beltway Republicans” are trying to shove Mark Kirk down the throats of Illinois Republicans. They will not succeed.
We are going to defeat the mainstream media right here in Illinois.
February 2, 2010 is when ordinary Main Street, mainstream Americans, begin the battle to regain control of our national government and to throw out political parasites and bogus “combat veterans” such as Mark Kirk. I will be a genuine “veteran” of that battle, and so will every honorable Illinoisan who joins me in retiring Mark Kirk on February 2, 2010, the pretend warrior and pretend senate candidate.
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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 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.] MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Mark Kirk dishonors America’s combat veterans by falsely claiming to have served “in combat”
Martin says that Kirk’s exaggerations disqualify him as a candidate for the U. S. Senate
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN CALLS MARK KIRK A “WALTER MITTY WARRIOR”
"MARK KIRK IS A MAN WHO DISHONORS AMERICA’S MILITARY PERSONNEL BY FALSELY CLAIMING TO BE A ‘COMBAT VETERAN’ AND USES THE LIVES OF MILITARY PERSONNEL AS A PHOTO OP FOR HIS OWN POLITICAL PARASITISM," MARTIN CHARGES
MARTIN SAYS THAT ANYONE WHO HAS SERVED IN A COMBAT UNIT IN THE MILITARY SHOULD DISOWN KIRK BECAUSE OF THE WAY KIRK EXAGGERATES AND MISREPRESENTS HIS MILITARY SERVICE
ANDY MARTIN CALLS MARK KIRK A MODERN VERSION OF THE POLITICAL FRAUD “TAIL GUNNER JOE”
ANDY SAYS “KIRKIE” IS A “COMBAT IMPOSTER” WHO OWES EVERY GENUINE COMBAT VETERAN AN APOLOGY
(CHICAGO)(July 21, 2009) Mark Kirk is a bigger liar than his real hero, Barack Obama. He is a bigger liar than “Slick Willie” Clinton. Neither Kirk nor Obama lied by falsely claiming to be a “combat veteran.”
Mark Kirk dishonors America’s combat veterans by falsely claiming to be one of them.
First, my own military background. I took the oath of enlistment in the U S Air Force Reserve as part of the commissioning program of the ROTC at the University of Illinois. I later received an Honorable Discharge and did not serve on active duty. My serial number was AF16821011. If anyone wants to see my military records, just ask, and I will sign a Freedom of Information waiver so you can ask to see them at the Department of Defense. Unlike Mark Kirk, I have nothing to hide.
I was in Viet-Nam in 1967, 1968 and 1971. Also in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. As well as Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Hong Kong and other places. In 2003 I spent a good part of the year in Iraq living in Baghdad.
But despite the fact that I have dodged bullets, mortar shells and worse, and that these memories are very vivid, I would never call myself a “combat veteran.” I was not on active duty with a combat MOS.
War is an experience beyond imagination, except, apparently in the fertile imagination of Mark Kirk who falsely claims to have served in “two armies.” Battle is gut-wrenching. Fear numbs the body almost to the point of death. Our men in Afghanistan today are going through experiences that are beyond belief. Mark Kirk dishonors all of them by falsely claiming to be their equal. If Kirk ever showed his face in a real war zone, and bragged about his bogus service in “two armies,” the men would spit on him.
Iraq was no different. Danger was everywhere for men and women in uniform. I lived in Baghdad during the relatively tranquil period in 2003; my intelligence analysis of the coming catastrophe proved prescient. My analysis of how to win, by supporting the surge, ran contrary to Kirk’s vote AGAINST the surge. Some “intelligence officer,” that Kirk. No wonder we were losing until real warriors took control in Iraq.
At the end of the day, I have known fear, in the company of brave men. Kirk has not. His “fighting” in “two armies” is a delusion and fabrication. He is unfit to be a candidate for the U. S. Senate.
Yesterday, in announcing he wanted to be a U. S. Senator, Mark Kirk dishonored every American serving in harm's way today. He dishonored genuine combat veterans who gave their lives, were wounded or felt the aftermath of stress from exposure to life-threatening conditions. Mark Kirk is a despicable political phony.
I was first alerted to Kirk’s imaginary military role by a column in the Rockford Register Star by Chuck Sweeny (well-spotted Chuck), and then saw the reference again in the daily compendium of Democratic Party operative Rich Miller.
http://www.rrstar.com/news/columnists/x737378837/Can-moderate-Republican-Mark-Kirk-win-Senate-race
http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2009/07/21/kirks-roll-out-couldnt-have-been-better/
I began to dig deeper into the demented mind and imaginary battle record of Field Marshal Mark Kirk, “combat veteran” of “two armies.”
Kirk stated at his announcement yesterday that “We’ve sent three armies to the Middle East and I’ve fought in two of them. As combat veterans, we get to ask…”
Mark Kirk was never “in combat.” He has never “fought” in any “army” and he is not a "combat veteran.”
On the contrary, Kirk has constantly used and abused his military service as a photo op for his own political career.
One of Kirk’s shameless exaggerations is that he is the first congressman to “deploy” to a combat zone since World war II, apparently since that great World War II “combat veteran,” President Lyndon Johnson, who was Kirk’s alleged predecessor in “warfare.” That apparently is the basis of the claim he is a “combat veteran."
Kirk serves in the Navy Reserves. Reservists are a vital component of our national defense. Kirk is not.
Last year Kirk asked the Pentagon to assign him to active duty for a few weeks as part of a publicity campaign for his political career. He was never in a line company or unit; he never had a combat MOS and he was never in harm’s way. He may have been in “Afghanistan” for a few days, but he was not in any more risk of “combat” there than he is in Kenilworth. Kirk was pampered by military handlers every minute that he was in his imaginary “combat zone.”
Congressmen are often invited to review operations in war zones. I saw them in Viet-Nam and I saw them in Iraq. By no means were these congressional excursions “combat experience.” Visiting a war zone briefly does not place them in “combat” or make them “combat veterans.” Maybe John McCain, who is a real combat hero, should have a talk with the man he supposedly endorsed and explain to Kirkie the difference between being in combat and merely being in a war zone.
Mark Kirk is the 2009 equivalent of that great political fraud (and also a Republican) [Senator]“Tail Gunner Joe” McCarthy.
The only place where Mark Kirk is rumored to be a “tail gunner” is in the salons of Washington, DC (more on that Kirk scandal, later).
If Mark Kirk wants to see real combat veterans, not paper maché imposters such as himself, he should visit our military cemeteries in Normandy.
A few weeks ago we learned that a “Colorado combat veteran” was also a political fraud. People condemned his imaginary military record. http://www.military.com/news/article/phony-combat-vet-is-freed.html He is a compatriot of Mark Kirk.
Lots of people serve in the military without being “in combat,” as Kirk falsely claims. Kirk has worn a uniform. But merely wearing a uniform in wartime does not make you a combat veteran. People peel potatoes; they sit in rooms studying intelligence (which appears to be Kirk’s desk-based assignment) and they engage in non-combatant roles in a combat zone.
The distinction between men who serve in battle, and are entitled to be called combat veterans, and military personnel who serve in a war zone but do not engage in combat or carry a combat MOS, is a very serious one for military veterans.
In Viet-Nam, we used to call the military personnel in Saigon “Saigon commandoes” because they claimed to be war heroes, but were actually eating out at fancy restaurants, living in apartments with bar girls and using mamasans to do their laundry. There were no ”Saigon Commandoes” at Khe Sanh or Con Tien.
Throughout history, combat veterans have been exalted because they placed their lives on the line for their nations. Warriors have been honored for risking their lives, not for seeking to promote themselves politically the way Mark Kirk has inflated his military experience. I have known brave warriors, many of them. I still remember the name of the first Fighting Illini who died in Viet-Nam: Bruce Capel. We remember these men to honor their service and sacrifice. Forever.
Mark Kirk is not one of these brave warriors. He is no “combat veteran.” He is a fraud, imposter and disgrace to the Republican Party. Kirk has shamed and demeaned the uniform he wears by using it to propagandize politically.
If there is anything real combat veterans despise, it is a political parasite such as Mark Kirk who inflates his military service.
Bob Hope probably had more combat experience than Mark Kirk.
Mark Kirk owes every genuine combat veteran an apology. He should stop lying abut his military record, the same way he lies about his “wife” and his personal life.
Mark Kirk is a total phony. But now we know why he is Barack Obama’s favorite Republican and votes with the Democrats. Kirk’s entire life is a lie. The mainstream media and “Beltway Republicans” are trying to shove Mark Kirk down the throats of Illinois Republicans. They will not succeed.
We are going to defeat the mainstream media right here in Illinois.
February 2, 2010 is when ordinary Main Street, mainstream Americans, begin the battle to regain control of our national government and to throw out political parasites and bogus “combat veterans” such as Mark Kirk. I will be a genuine “veteran” of that battle, and so will every honorable Illinoisan who joins me in retiring Mark Kirk on February 2, 2010, the pretend warrior and pretend senate candidate.
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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 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.] MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Monday, July 20, 2009
U.S. Senate primary in Illinois becomes a battleground
Conservative Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin vows to "bury" his opponent, "Obama Republican" Mark Kirk. Martin says liberal media censorship of his campaign is creating a conservative backlash.
Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin vows to "bury" Mark Kirk in Republican primary
Martin says "mainstream media" are censoring Martin's campaign, but he proved in 2008 he can go around the media directly to voters
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
[ANDY MARTIN REACTION STATEMENT ON THE SENATE ANNOUNCEMENT OF MARK KIRK]
"MARK KIRK IS AN EXTREMIST EVEN BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY STANDARDS," ANDY MARTIN CHARGED TODAY
MARTIN NOTED "I HAVE PROVEN I CAN GO AROUND THE SO-CALLED MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE PEOPLE; LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA CENSORSHIP AGAINST MY CAMPAIGN IS GOING TO BOOMERANG
(CHICAGO)(July 20, 2009) "Mark Kirk is an extremist who favors infanticide," his Republican opponent Andy Martin said today reacting to Kirk's announcement he was entering the 2010 U. S. Senate primary,
"Kirk is not outside just the mainstream of the Republican Party. 'Kirkie' is outside them mainstream of American society. Killing live babies is murder, not 'abortion.' Of course Kirk had a childless 'marriage' so he has never been a parent. If he had ever been a father and held a newborn in his hands, he could not vote to kill live babies. Kirk would be an extreme leftist even running even as a Democrat.
"My real opponents—-the crooks in Washington who call themselves Republican 'leaders' and milk ordinary Republicans for donations to sustain their lavish lifestyles in Washington—-know Mark Kirk is not a Republican, not even a conservative Democrat.
"Washington insiders are trying to use Daley Machine stooge Andy McKenna, the unelected leader of the Illinois Republican Party, to 'endorse' Kirk the same way they fixed another crooked endorsement two years ago. They want to 'protect' Kirk from a primary election.
"Mark Kirk is the enemy of every Illinoisan. He wants to throw more Illinois workers on the jobless lines. He wants to steal our economic future to support Barry Obama's socialist dreams. Kirkie's support for massive new 'Obama taxes' to punish generations of solid Illinois businesses is criminal. His support for corporate giveaways to reward his crooked campaign contributors should be criminal, but it isn’t. Yet.
"We are investigating whether the so-called 'National Republican Senatorial Committee' can be sued for mail fraud in Illinois for seeking to corrupt an Illinois election. Claiming it is supporting 'Republican' candidates, the NRSC collects money from Illinoisans, rakes off the 'Beltway tax,' and then sends the remaining money back to Illinois to endorse an extremist baby killer such as Kirk. What kind of 'Republican' organization is this? What kind of leaders are these?
"Is it any wonder Republicans keep losing elections, or that Main Street conservatives are disgusted with the Republican Party's Beltway insiders?
"Kirk says he is running against Rod Blagojevich and Roland Burris. These bogeymen are history. Kirk's vision of the future is what should frighten every Illinoisan: higher taxes, condoned immorality, political corruption, suppression of free speech and gun control.
"I welcome the opportunity to take the case of the 'People of Illinois vs. Mark Kirk' to the voters of Illinois. We are not going to let Andy McKenna's daddy steal the primary as a pre-season Christmas gift for the Daley machine.
"In the last two election cycles, the Democrats started to rebuild by trying to appear as though they were moderating their views. Today the 'swing' votes in Congress are held by 'Blue Dog Democrats.' Mark Kirk is a liberal extremist even by Blue Dog benchmarks. Kirk must be defeated. Kirk is an 'Obama Democrat,' not even a Blue Dog Democrat.
"If Mark Kirk wins the primary, the Illinois Republican Party is doomed. We must bury Kirkie's political philosophy on February 2, 2010. We must send Illinois Democrats a strong message: The Republican Party is going to come out fighting against the Chicago Crime Syndicate stooge who is the leading 'Democrat' to become a U. S. Senator. Republicans are back in business! America's business, not Andy McKenna's family business,"
"The liberal media in Chicago are trying to censor my campaign. I have news for them. I briefly became the focal point of the presidential race last year because I was able to create a new form of political communication that neutralized dying newspapers and vapid talking heads on television.
"We created a new channel that almost knocked off Barack Obama. I earned my title the 'Internet Powerhouse' the old fashioned way. By telling the truth about Obama. Obama attacked me because he recognized I was costing him millions of votes.
"Let Chicago's dying media lie about the candidates, and pretend my campaign doesn't exist; with every lie and distortion they lose another reader/viewer. Media censorship validates public suspicion about the truthfulness of newspapers and broadcast stations.
"We will take the truth directly to Illinois voters: Mark Kirk is an enemy of every Illinoisan," Andy Martin told supporters in reaction to Kirk's senate campaign announcement.
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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 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.] MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin vows to "bury" Mark Kirk in Republican primary
Martin says "mainstream media" are censoring Martin's campaign, but he proved in 2008 he can go around the media directly to voters
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
[ANDY MARTIN REACTION STATEMENT ON THE SENATE ANNOUNCEMENT OF MARK KIRK]
"MARK KIRK IS AN EXTREMIST EVEN BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY STANDARDS," ANDY MARTIN CHARGED TODAY
MARTIN NOTED "I HAVE PROVEN I CAN GO AROUND THE SO-CALLED MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND COMMUNICATE DIRECTLY WITH THE PEOPLE; LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA CENSORSHIP AGAINST MY CAMPAIGN IS GOING TO BOOMERANG
(CHICAGO)(July 20, 2009) "Mark Kirk is an extremist who favors infanticide," his Republican opponent Andy Martin said today reacting to Kirk's announcement he was entering the 2010 U. S. Senate primary,
"Kirk is not outside just the mainstream of the Republican Party. 'Kirkie' is outside them mainstream of American society. Killing live babies is murder, not 'abortion.' Of course Kirk had a childless 'marriage' so he has never been a parent. If he had ever been a father and held a newborn in his hands, he could not vote to kill live babies. Kirk would be an extreme leftist even running even as a Democrat.
"My real opponents—-the crooks in Washington who call themselves Republican 'leaders' and milk ordinary Republicans for donations to sustain their lavish lifestyles in Washington—-know Mark Kirk is not a Republican, not even a conservative Democrat.
"Washington insiders are trying to use Daley Machine stooge Andy McKenna, the unelected leader of the Illinois Republican Party, to 'endorse' Kirk the same way they fixed another crooked endorsement two years ago. They want to 'protect' Kirk from a primary election.
"Mark Kirk is the enemy of every Illinoisan. He wants to throw more Illinois workers on the jobless lines. He wants to steal our economic future to support Barry Obama's socialist dreams. Kirkie's support for massive new 'Obama taxes' to punish generations of solid Illinois businesses is criminal. His support for corporate giveaways to reward his crooked campaign contributors should be criminal, but it isn’t. Yet.
"We are investigating whether the so-called 'National Republican Senatorial Committee' can be sued for mail fraud in Illinois for seeking to corrupt an Illinois election. Claiming it is supporting 'Republican' candidates, the NRSC collects money from Illinoisans, rakes off the 'Beltway tax,' and then sends the remaining money back to Illinois to endorse an extremist baby killer such as Kirk. What kind of 'Republican' organization is this? What kind of leaders are these?
"Is it any wonder Republicans keep losing elections, or that Main Street conservatives are disgusted with the Republican Party's Beltway insiders?
"Kirk says he is running against Rod Blagojevich and Roland Burris. These bogeymen are history. Kirk's vision of the future is what should frighten every Illinoisan: higher taxes, condoned immorality, political corruption, suppression of free speech and gun control.
"I welcome the opportunity to take the case of the 'People of Illinois vs. Mark Kirk' to the voters of Illinois. We are not going to let Andy McKenna's daddy steal the primary as a pre-season Christmas gift for the Daley machine.
"In the last two election cycles, the Democrats started to rebuild by trying to appear as though they were moderating their views. Today the 'swing' votes in Congress are held by 'Blue Dog Democrats.' Mark Kirk is a liberal extremist even by Blue Dog benchmarks. Kirk must be defeated. Kirk is an 'Obama Democrat,' not even a Blue Dog Democrat.
"If Mark Kirk wins the primary, the Illinois Republican Party is doomed. We must bury Kirkie's political philosophy on February 2, 2010. We must send Illinois Democrats a strong message: The Republican Party is going to come out fighting against the Chicago Crime Syndicate stooge who is the leading 'Democrat' to become a U. S. Senator. Republicans are back in business! America's business, not Andy McKenna's family business,"
"The liberal media in Chicago are trying to censor my campaign. I have news for them. I briefly became the focal point of the presidential race last year because I was able to create a new form of political communication that neutralized dying newspapers and vapid talking heads on television.
"We created a new channel that almost knocked off Barack Obama. I earned my title the 'Internet Powerhouse' the old fashioned way. By telling the truth about Obama. Obama attacked me because he recognized I was costing him millions of votes.
"Let Chicago's dying media lie about the candidates, and pretend my campaign doesn't exist; with every lie and distortion they lose another reader/viewer. Media censorship validates public suspicion about the truthfulness of newspapers and broadcast stations.
"We will take the truth directly to Illinois voters: Mark Kirk is an enemy of every Illinoisan," Andy Martin told supporters in reaction to Kirk's senate campaign announcement.
------------------------------------------
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.] MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Mark Kirk fears demonstrators at his own U. S. Senate announcement
The hostility of ordinary Illinois Republicans to "Kirkie's" senate race is unprecedented, says U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
KIRKIE FEARS OPPONENTS MAY DISRUPT HIS U. S. SENATE ANNOUNCEMENT, PLANS "ARMED CAMP" AT PRIVATE RESIDENCE
SENATE CANDIDATE ANDY MARTIN SAYS KIRK'S CAMPAIGN IS MIRED IN SELF- DECEPTION, CONTRADICTION AND CORRUPTION
MARTIN SAYS KIRKIE WILL DEFEAT HIMSELF IN THE PRIMARY; ANDY AIMS TO HELP THE PROCESS ALONG
"RUMORS" ABOUT KIRK'S PERSONAL LIFE SWIRL AS HE ENTERS STATEWIDE RACE
MARTIN CHARGES KIRK WITH ABUSING AMERICAN LEGION, REMINDS MEDIA KIRK VOTED AGAINST SURGE
(CHICAGO)(July 20, 2009) In over forty years of political experience, I have never seen anything quite like the Mark Kirk U. S. Senate psychodrama. Weird. Liberal "Kirkie" running in a statewide Republican primary? Creepy. What is he thinking?
Kirk apparently fears that his opponents will disrupt the announcement of his candidacy at 522 Melrose Avenue in Kenilworth today. He picked a strange place to announce, a private residence. Maybe not so strange. He is apparently using a private residence in order to control opponents who may try to "crash" his announcement. Kirk may not be very brave, but demonstrating cowardice at your own announcement is hardly a way to build confidence in his candidacy.
The Kirk campaign is a sick joke orchestrated by Washington, DC "insiders" to mock Illinois Republican primary voters. This is just a short list of the absurd aspects of Kirk's candidacy:
1. Kirk refuses to address the rumors about his personal life. He has been given an ample opportunity to do so, pre-announcement. His candidacy is a "lie" to Republican voters. The masquerade can’t last forever. If Kirk won't tell voters the truth about himself, then his opponents will be compelled to reveal the facts for him. Repeat after me: "No more Jack Ryans."
2. Kirk has no record of standing up to Barack Obama. In fact, Kirk and Rahm Emanuel are publicly disclosed best buddies. Why would any Republican vote for a candidate that has never challenged Obama and is linked to Obama's chief-of-staff?
3. Kirk has no record of fighting the Daley Machine. Why would he? He has no record of fighting corruption, either. Maybe that's because he is one of the most corrupt member of congress. Kirk's vote is always for sale to the highest bidder. He is working to throw American workers out of jobs to satisfy the demands of his campaign contributors. Great work, Kirkie.
4. Kirk is apparently scheming to misuse the American Legion. He apparently plans to stop at an American Legion post as part of his campaign announcement. American Legion posts are often rented for political events; but when they are, they are hired for that purpose, not just appropriated. The AL is a tax-exempt, non-political organization. Kirk is misusing the AL.
Maybe Kirk should "out" himself at the American Legion and explain why he voted against the surge in Iraq. Kirk likes to masquerade in a Navy uniform, but he apparently is not much of either a Navy man or an "intelligence officer." He dissed the surge. It's time for "Please ask, do tell."
Maybe Kirk wants to out himself at the American Legion and confess he was part of a disinformation campaign acting as a stooge for Donald Rumsfeld? Just what Republicans need to offer up as opposition to the lying Obama: a Republican liar like Kirk. What is Kirk thinking? Kirk is anti-military and anti-veteran.
5. Kirk is unique in that he brings along his own opposition with him into the primary. Lynn Sweet, Kirk's liberal media "lover" at the Chicago Sun-Times, says Kirk has to "repair" his voting record. Kirk's voting record against the Second Amendment, to criminalize the Internet and to support "Cap-and-Traitor" cannot be "repaired." He either voted or proposed to destroy our freedoms. www.MarkKirk.us
Kirk is one of the most liberal extremists in the U. S. House, much more liberal than many "blue dog" Democrats. And Kirk wants Republican voters to nominate him? Kirk may be smoking some of the same cannabis he is trying to criminalize.
I have never seen at the pre-announcement stage a similar level of hostility—rage really—directed at any senate candidate by members of his own party. Kirk is unique in the opposition he has created outside the 10th District. Loyal Republicans across the state are salivating at the prospect of voting against him.
Kirk can only embarrass the Illinois Republican Party.
The best reason to oppose Kirk? He is supported by the same Washington insiders and Chicago "Republicans" who line up with the Daley Machine and have lost two national elections in a row.
Tomorrow: The Kirk Divorce: Part Two "Secrets of a Marriage"
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
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NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
KIRKIE FEARS OPPONENTS MAY DISRUPT HIS U. S. SENATE ANNOUNCEMENT, PLANS "ARMED CAMP" AT PRIVATE RESIDENCE
SENATE CANDIDATE ANDY MARTIN SAYS KIRK'S CAMPAIGN IS MIRED IN SELF- DECEPTION, CONTRADICTION AND CORRUPTION
MARTIN SAYS KIRKIE WILL DEFEAT HIMSELF IN THE PRIMARY; ANDY AIMS TO HELP THE PROCESS ALONG
"RUMORS" ABOUT KIRK'S PERSONAL LIFE SWIRL AS HE ENTERS STATEWIDE RACE
MARTIN CHARGES KIRK WITH ABUSING AMERICAN LEGION, REMINDS MEDIA KIRK VOTED AGAINST SURGE
(CHICAGO)(July 20, 2009) In over forty years of political experience, I have never seen anything quite like the Mark Kirk U. S. Senate psychodrama. Weird. Liberal "Kirkie" running in a statewide Republican primary? Creepy. What is he thinking?
Kirk apparently fears that his opponents will disrupt the announcement of his candidacy at 522 Melrose Avenue in Kenilworth today. He picked a strange place to announce, a private residence. Maybe not so strange. He is apparently using a private residence in order to control opponents who may try to "crash" his announcement. Kirk may not be very brave, but demonstrating cowardice at your own announcement is hardly a way to build confidence in his candidacy.
The Kirk campaign is a sick joke orchestrated by Washington, DC "insiders" to mock Illinois Republican primary voters. This is just a short list of the absurd aspects of Kirk's candidacy:
1. Kirk refuses to address the rumors about his personal life. He has been given an ample opportunity to do so, pre-announcement. His candidacy is a "lie" to Republican voters. The masquerade can’t last forever. If Kirk won't tell voters the truth about himself, then his opponents will be compelled to reveal the facts for him. Repeat after me: "No more Jack Ryans."
2. Kirk has no record of standing up to Barack Obama. In fact, Kirk and Rahm Emanuel are publicly disclosed best buddies. Why would any Republican vote for a candidate that has never challenged Obama and is linked to Obama's chief-of-staff?
3. Kirk has no record of fighting the Daley Machine. Why would he? He has no record of fighting corruption, either. Maybe that's because he is one of the most corrupt member of congress. Kirk's vote is always for sale to the highest bidder. He is working to throw American workers out of jobs to satisfy the demands of his campaign contributors. Great work, Kirkie.
4. Kirk is apparently scheming to misuse the American Legion. He apparently plans to stop at an American Legion post as part of his campaign announcement. American Legion posts are often rented for political events; but when they are, they are hired for that purpose, not just appropriated. The AL is a tax-exempt, non-political organization. Kirk is misusing the AL.
Maybe Kirk should "out" himself at the American Legion and explain why he voted against the surge in Iraq. Kirk likes to masquerade in a Navy uniform, but he apparently is not much of either a Navy man or an "intelligence officer." He dissed the surge. It's time for "Please ask, do tell."
Maybe Kirk wants to out himself at the American Legion and confess he was part of a disinformation campaign acting as a stooge for Donald Rumsfeld? Just what Republicans need to offer up as opposition to the lying Obama: a Republican liar like Kirk. What is Kirk thinking? Kirk is anti-military and anti-veteran.
5. Kirk is unique in that he brings along his own opposition with him into the primary. Lynn Sweet, Kirk's liberal media "lover" at the Chicago Sun-Times, says Kirk has to "repair" his voting record. Kirk's voting record against the Second Amendment, to criminalize the Internet and to support "Cap-and-Traitor" cannot be "repaired." He either voted or proposed to destroy our freedoms. www.MarkKirk.us
Kirk is one of the most liberal extremists in the U. S. House, much more liberal than many "blue dog" Democrats. And Kirk wants Republican voters to nominate him? Kirk may be smoking some of the same cannabis he is trying to criminalize.
I have never seen at the pre-announcement stage a similar level of hostility—rage really—directed at any senate candidate by members of his own party. Kirk is unique in the opposition he has created outside the 10th District. Loyal Republicans across the state are salivating at the prospect of voting against him.
Kirk can only embarrass the Illinois Republican Party.
The best reason to oppose Kirk? He is supported by the same Washington insiders and Chicago "Republicans" who line up with the Daley Machine and have lost two national elections in a row.
Tomorrow: The Kirk Divorce: Part Two "Secrets of a Marriage"
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Andy Martin on the Mark Kirk Divorce: Part One
Andy Martin seeks to interview Kirk's former wife
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN SEEKS TO INTERVIEW MARK KIRK'S FORMER WIFE
MARTIN SUGGESTS KIRK/VERTOLI MARRIAGE "MAY HAVE BEEN A SHAM"
DID ANYONE EVER SEE MARK KIRK AT 3292 MOUNT VERNON AVENUE IN ALEXANDRIA (VA), OR 275 WHISTLER ROAD IN HIGHLAND PARK (IL)?
(CHICAGO)(July 17, 2009) Every campaign today for a major office involves due diligence on the part of each campaign. Sometimes opponents are looking for dirt, and the terms "dirt diggers" and "mud merchants" describe such behavior. But everyone does due diligence to learn as much as possible about a campaign opponent. Our campaign performs these functions openly and above-board. We have nothing to hide.
The liberal media are enamored of Kirk because he is Barack Obama's favorite "Republican." That is why, apart from some catty remarks by blogger Tom Roeser, there has been no analysis of the Kirk divorce in the Chicago media.
Until recently Mark Kirk was not on my radar screen. He became a person of interest when he announced that he might run against me for the U. S. Senate.
In many decades of political experience, I have never experienced anything like the Kirk phenomenon. Almost every day disaffected and disgruntled Republicans and former Kirk supporters contact me, offering to help my campaign. (We have asked one of them for permission to release a redacted version of his cri de coeur.)
Thus, although the liberal mainstream media in Chicago try hard to pretend I don't exist, I am indeed the 800-pound gorilla in the February primary. (I would like to slim down to no more than 700 pounds.) I have run statewide before; Kirk has not. Most importantly, Kirk has an army of enemies that are ready to pounce on him; every day new information about Kirk comes in over the transom at our offices.
None of the real facts about the primary election are apparent from reading the Associated Press or the bankrupt dead tree newspapers in Chicago. Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times has said Kirk had a "repair" job to do with "conservatives." Chicago Tribune reporters have labeled Kirk a national "best bet." Don't bet on it.
The mainstream media have never forgiven me for almost defeating Barack Obama in 2008. My Internet campaign cost Obama millions of votes. If McCain had been a more solid candidate, he would have slipped into office. We did our part; he didn’t do his. That is why the local media pretend I don’t exist. But I do.
Over the next few days, we will be providing analysis of the Kirk/Vertoli divorce. We are also sending investigators to Virginia to question neighbors, etc. Later we will also be sending investigators to 275 Whistler Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois. Anyone who has ever seen Kirk living anywhere and doing the things people do who live in a property—taking out the garbage, mowing the grass, etc.—is invited to contact our offices.
We began our investigation of Kirk's divorce and surrounding circumstances after numerous tips, some anonymous, some identified. We forced the Clerk of the Court in Alexandria, Virginia where Kirk apparently lives to release the Kirk divorce file after the Clerk initially claimed the papers were sealed.
We have now contacted Kimberly Vertoli's divorce lawyer:
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for 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
July 16, 2009
Carolyn M. Grimes, Esq.
Lieblich & Grimes
3135 Mount Vernon Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22305
via fax (703) 683-0237
Re: Vertoli v. Kirk, No. CL09002422
Dear Mr. Grimes:
I would like to interview your client, Kimberly Vertoli, about her former husband.
In particular, I am concerned that the Vertoli/Kirk marriage may have been a sham.
As someone who has taught family law, and consulted in family law litigation, I found the entire divorce file very peculiar and perplexing.
I have not found any evidence that Mr. Kirk actually lived at 3292 Mount Vernon Avenue, or anywhere else in the Commonwealth. We are going to be sending investigators to the neighborhood to see if anyone actually saw Kirk there, or anywhere else in the company of Ms. Vertoli.
Because you represent Ms. Vertoli I did not want to initiate any contact with your client without prior notice to you and your prior approval.
Unlike some campaigns that resort to surreptitious "dirt diggers" and other legerdemain, I am seeking perfectly legitimate background facts about my primary opponent and I am proceeding in an open and above-board manner to obtain that information. Due diligence on the opposition is an essential element of any campaign for office.
I could interview Ms. Vertoli in your offices if you prefer, or at any other agreeable location either in Alexandria or the District. Because my mother lived in Alexandria for over twenty years I am generally familiar with the area.
Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.
Sincerely yours,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
NEXT: Andy Martin on the Mark Kirk Divorce: Part Two
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.MarkKirk.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN SEEKS TO INTERVIEW MARK KIRK'S FORMER WIFE
MARTIN SUGGESTS KIRK/VERTOLI MARRIAGE "MAY HAVE BEEN A SHAM"
DID ANYONE EVER SEE MARK KIRK AT 3292 MOUNT VERNON AVENUE IN ALEXANDRIA (VA), OR 275 WHISTLER ROAD IN HIGHLAND PARK (IL)?
(CHICAGO)(July 17, 2009) Every campaign today for a major office involves due diligence on the part of each campaign. Sometimes opponents are looking for dirt, and the terms "dirt diggers" and "mud merchants" describe such behavior. But everyone does due diligence to learn as much as possible about a campaign opponent. Our campaign performs these functions openly and above-board. We have nothing to hide.
The liberal media are enamored of Kirk because he is Barack Obama's favorite "Republican." That is why, apart from some catty remarks by blogger Tom Roeser, there has been no analysis of the Kirk divorce in the Chicago media.
Until recently Mark Kirk was not on my radar screen. He became a person of interest when he announced that he might run against me for the U. S. Senate.
In many decades of political experience, I have never experienced anything like the Kirk phenomenon. Almost every day disaffected and disgruntled Republicans and former Kirk supporters contact me, offering to help my campaign. (We have asked one of them for permission to release a redacted version of his cri de coeur.)
Thus, although the liberal mainstream media in Chicago try hard to pretend I don't exist, I am indeed the 800-pound gorilla in the February primary. (I would like to slim down to no more than 700 pounds.) I have run statewide before; Kirk has not. Most importantly, Kirk has an army of enemies that are ready to pounce on him; every day new information about Kirk comes in over the transom at our offices.
None of the real facts about the primary election are apparent from reading the Associated Press or the bankrupt dead tree newspapers in Chicago. Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times has said Kirk had a "repair" job to do with "conservatives." Chicago Tribune reporters have labeled Kirk a national "best bet." Don't bet on it.
The mainstream media have never forgiven me for almost defeating Barack Obama in 2008. My Internet campaign cost Obama millions of votes. If McCain had been a more solid candidate, he would have slipped into office. We did our part; he didn’t do his. That is why the local media pretend I don’t exist. But I do.
Over the next few days, we will be providing analysis of the Kirk/Vertoli divorce. We are also sending investigators to Virginia to question neighbors, etc. Later we will also be sending investigators to 275 Whistler Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois. Anyone who has ever seen Kirk living anywhere and doing the things people do who live in a property—taking out the garbage, mowing the grass, etc.—is invited to contact our offices.
We began our investigation of Kirk's divorce and surrounding circumstances after numerous tips, some anonymous, some identified. We forced the Clerk of the Court in Alexandria, Virginia where Kirk apparently lives to release the Kirk divorce file after the Clerk initially claimed the papers were sealed.
We have now contacted Kimberly Vertoli's divorce lawyer:
ANDY MARTIN
Republican for U. S. Senator/2010
“He Works for 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
July 16, 2009
Carolyn M. Grimes, Esq.
Lieblich & Grimes
3135 Mount Vernon Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22305
via fax (703) 683-0237
Re: Vertoli v. Kirk, No. CL09002422
Dear Mr. Grimes:
I would like to interview your client, Kimberly Vertoli, about her former husband.
In particular, I am concerned that the Vertoli/Kirk marriage may have been a sham.
As someone who has taught family law, and consulted in family law litigation, I found the entire divorce file very peculiar and perplexing.
I have not found any evidence that Mr. Kirk actually lived at 3292 Mount Vernon Avenue, or anywhere else in the Commonwealth. We are going to be sending investigators to the neighborhood to see if anyone actually saw Kirk there, or anywhere else in the company of Ms. Vertoli.
Because you represent Ms. Vertoli I did not want to initiate any contact with your client without prior notice to you and your prior approval.
Unlike some campaigns that resort to surreptitious "dirt diggers" and other legerdemain, I am seeking perfectly legitimate background facts about my primary opponent and I am proceeding in an open and above-board manner to obtain that information. Due diligence on the opposition is an essential element of any campaign for office.
I could interview Ms. Vertoli in your offices if you prefer, or at any other agreeable location either in Alexandria or the District. Because my mother lived in Alexandria for over twenty years I am generally familiar with the area.
Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.
Sincerely yours,
ANDY MARTIN
AM:sp
NEXT: Andy Martin on the Mark Kirk Divorce: Part Two
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
"Rumor" pressure grows on Representative Mark Kirk
Why is Mark Kirk not making a final decision on whether he is, or is not, a candidate for U. S. senator? Perhaps the rumors swirling around Kirk explain his indecision.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MARK KIRK COMES UNDER INCREASING PRESSURE TO "COME CLEAN" IF HE PLANS TO RUN FOR STATEWIDE OFFICE
(CHICAGO)(July 15, 2009) People love to make fun of lawyers. But I have never heard any one ask for the "second best" lawyer when they are faced with a serious legal problem. Likewise, a "lawyerly approach" to a problem may sometimes be frustrating. I am trained as a lawyer, though I don't practice. And sometimes my approach to a situation can be drawn out and frustrating. But even my opponents will admit I am a formidable adversary. Just ask Barack Obama what he thinks about me (unprintable).
People constantly ask me why I won’t address the "substance" of the rumors about Representative Mark Kirk. They want the red meat. But I am not a butcher.
Kirk has not yet announced for statewide office. But with all due respect to Mark, in light of the Illinois Republican Party's tragic experience with Jack Ryan in 2004 I don't think that a statewide candidate can afford to allow rumors to go unanswered.
My approach to Kirk's rumors has been a "lawyerlike" one: concentrate on their existence, but avoid their substance. Kirk should have the "first bite of the apple" if he wants to clear up the questions swirling around him.
My U. S. Senate campaign, moreover, operates independently of any other organization, group or entity. We read what's out there, and we sometimes bring materials to broader public attention (see link below). But we do so independently of any source we cite or quote.
Many people have been flabbergasted at Mark Kirk's continuing indecision about whether to become a U.S. senate candidate. Does he enjoy being seen as a "Hamlet?" Some days he's "in," and some days he's "out."
Most people that want to run for statewide office start planning and laying the foundations of their campaigns far in advance. They don't wait until petitioning is about to begin to launch a statewide effort. So what explains Kirk's bizarre behavior?
Mr. Kirk claims to be an "intelligence officer." Maybe he is. On paper. But he is definitely a spy of the hothouse variety. I don't think he has ever been in harm's way. I have a little background with intelligence as well. And I have been shot at (pictures at http://www.firstrespondersonline.us/default.htm and www.AndyMartin.com). (We will have more to say about Kirk's "intelligence" background in the days ahead.)
Five years ago I wrote a critical column about Barack Obama. I had no idea those comments would mushroom into a growing and seemingly endless inquiry into Obama's identity. One of the things you do in that kind of an investigation is that you literally "try to live inside someone's skin." You try to think the way they think, and eavesdrop on their reasoning process.
Until recently, I had not given much thought to Mark Kirk. But since he appeared on my radar screen as a potential primary opponent we have been giving him a lot of attention. See www.MarkKirk.us. We think we have a fair idea of how the Democrats are going to deconstruct Kirk if he becomes the nominee. And we have a plan to defeat Kirk in the Republican primary.
Kirk is nowhere near as strong as the powerhouse portrayed by his liberal media in Washington or his flaccid media in Chicago. Kirk is a classic beltway operator. He is as far removed from ordinary Republicans as Main Street is from Manchuria. That is his Achilles Heel. And he knows it.
Maybe by asking questions I have started something. Other people are also asking their own questions.
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1986
One Illinois Republican congressman apparently likes to pose in a bathing suit or similar attire. Not very congressional. Given the poisoned legacy that Denny Hastert and Mark Foley left behind, that's not a very "politick" way to appear.
We will have more to say about Mr. Kirk later this week. And if he becomes a candidate we will have a lot more to say.
Those lawyers! One they start, they won’t stop. Hey, that's politics.
------------------------------------------
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:
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NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MARK KIRK COMES UNDER INCREASING PRESSURE TO "COME CLEAN" IF HE PLANS TO RUN FOR STATEWIDE OFFICE
(CHICAGO)(July 15, 2009) People love to make fun of lawyers. But I have never heard any one ask for the "second best" lawyer when they are faced with a serious legal problem. Likewise, a "lawyerly approach" to a problem may sometimes be frustrating. I am trained as a lawyer, though I don't practice. And sometimes my approach to a situation can be drawn out and frustrating. But even my opponents will admit I am a formidable adversary. Just ask Barack Obama what he thinks about me (unprintable).
People constantly ask me why I won’t address the "substance" of the rumors about Representative Mark Kirk. They want the red meat. But I am not a butcher.
Kirk has not yet announced for statewide office. But with all due respect to Mark, in light of the Illinois Republican Party's tragic experience with Jack Ryan in 2004 I don't think that a statewide candidate can afford to allow rumors to go unanswered.
My approach to Kirk's rumors has been a "lawyerlike" one: concentrate on their existence, but avoid their substance. Kirk should have the "first bite of the apple" if he wants to clear up the questions swirling around him.
My U. S. Senate campaign, moreover, operates independently of any other organization, group or entity. We read what's out there, and we sometimes bring materials to broader public attention (see link below). But we do so independently of any source we cite or quote.
Many people have been flabbergasted at Mark Kirk's continuing indecision about whether to become a U.S. senate candidate. Does he enjoy being seen as a "Hamlet?" Some days he's "in," and some days he's "out."
Most people that want to run for statewide office start planning and laying the foundations of their campaigns far in advance. They don't wait until petitioning is about to begin to launch a statewide effort. So what explains Kirk's bizarre behavior?
Mr. Kirk claims to be an "intelligence officer." Maybe he is. On paper. But he is definitely a spy of the hothouse variety. I don't think he has ever been in harm's way. I have a little background with intelligence as well. And I have been shot at (pictures at http://www.firstrespondersonline.us/default.htm and www.AndyMartin.com). (We will have more to say about Kirk's "intelligence" background in the days ahead.)
Five years ago I wrote a critical column about Barack Obama. I had no idea those comments would mushroom into a growing and seemingly endless inquiry into Obama's identity. One of the things you do in that kind of an investigation is that you literally "try to live inside someone's skin." You try to think the way they think, and eavesdrop on their reasoning process.
Until recently, I had not given much thought to Mark Kirk. But since he appeared on my radar screen as a potential primary opponent we have been giving him a lot of attention. See www.MarkKirk.us. We think we have a fair idea of how the Democrats are going to deconstruct Kirk if he becomes the nominee. And we have a plan to defeat Kirk in the Republican primary.
Kirk is nowhere near as strong as the powerhouse portrayed by his liberal media in Washington or his flaccid media in Chicago. Kirk is a classic beltway operator. He is as far removed from ordinary Republicans as Main Street is from Manchuria. That is his Achilles Heel. And he knows it.
Maybe by asking questions I have started something. Other people are also asking their own questions.
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=1986
One Illinois Republican congressman apparently likes to pose in a bathing suit or similar attire. Not very congressional. Given the poisoned legacy that Denny Hastert and Mark Foley left behind, that's not a very "politick" way to appear.
We will have more to say about Mr. Kirk later this week. And if he becomes a candidate we will have a lot more to say.
Those lawyers! One they start, they won’t stop. Hey, that's politics.
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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.
------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Illinois' Corrupt "Combine" De facto "Endorses" Mark Kirk for Senator
Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Kirk's de facto endorsement by Illinois' "combined" corruption machine ensures that Kirk will be defeated in the Republican primary.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ILLINOIS' "CROWN OF CORRUPTION" PASSED TO CONGRESSMAN MARK KIRK MONDAY, CONFERRED BY "COMBINE" STOOGE ANDY MCKENNA
INTERNET POWERHOUSE ANDY MARTIN'S U. S. SENATE CAMPAIGN CONTINUES TO BLOCK AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY KIRK
MARTIN SAYS RUMORS ABOUT KIRK MANDATE THAT KIRK "COME CLEAN" BEFORE HE ANNOUNCES FOR STATEWIDE OFFICE, OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES
(CHICAGO)(July 14, 2009) People keep wondering why Mark Kirk is not announcing for statewide office. Take a look at our blogs and you might find the answer:
www.MarkKirk.us
www.andyforussenator.blogspot.com
www.andyforussenator.wordpress.com
Today Kirk received the coveted award of "Combine Candidate" for the U. S. Senate. The "Combine" is a bipartisan college of corruption that "combines" both parties in Illinois, and ensures that "honest graft" flows into the pockets of everyone connected to and subservient to the Combine's agenda, Democrat or Republican. The "Combine" is the original "green" party in Illinois: cold cash, long green for Combine insiders.
Representative Mark Kirk has been a master of "honest graft" in the U. S. House. He raises "blind" contributions without telling the donors what office he is seeking. The donors don’t care. They want congressional influence and access, not political insight into his congressional district back home. Kirk is available for sale to powerful lobbies, and he is a better-than-average salesman.
That is why I have watched the current fandango over whether Kirk will run against me in the Republican primary for the U. S. Senate with endless amusement. The McKenna/Kirk kabuki of the past few days has been hilarious. The identity of the "Combine Candidate" who will make the race has changed from day to day.
Last week Combine stooge Andy McKenna said he was a candidate for the U. S. Senator. I welcomed him into the race. No sooner had I welcomed McKenna as a candidate, he was out.
Monday (July 13th) Kirk received McKenna's endorsement for the senate. The Combine's "Crown of Corruption" was conferred on Kirk. McKenna's seal of approval is the gold standard for Combine support. McKenna's father, although nominally a "Republican," is a billionaire businessman whose financial interests are intertwined with the Daley Machine.
On and on it goes.
According to the "mainstream disinformation media" Associated Press, Kirk will announce his intentions "soon." Kirk, of course, said he would announce in April. That was three months ago.
Kirk has raised over $1 million in "dirty dollars" from special interests in Washington to fund his senatorial extravaganza. We intend to see that he spends every penny he raises, in the Republican primary. The Combine will have to open its coffers and shell out big time to support Kirk's crooked campaign.
In the meantime, loyal, Main Street Republicans can't wait for the opportunity to vote against Mark Kirk. No surprise there: Kirk wants to confiscate their guns, impose criminal sanctions on the Internet, and tax them into oblivion with Cap-and-Trade. And Kirk calls himself a Republican?
Mark Kirk, we do know ye. And that's no rumor.
Republicans will have a statewide primary in which they have an opportunity to take back their party from the Combine and all of the Daley Machine stooges who currently control the Illinois Republican Party's nominal operations.
My suggestion to Kirk: address the rumors about your personal life before you announce for statewide office. Once you're in, you're "in."
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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.
------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
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© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ILLINOIS' "CROWN OF CORRUPTION" PASSED TO CONGRESSMAN MARK KIRK MONDAY, CONFERRED BY "COMBINE" STOOGE ANDY MCKENNA
INTERNET POWERHOUSE ANDY MARTIN'S U. S. SENATE CAMPAIGN CONTINUES TO BLOCK AN ANNOUNCEMENT BY KIRK
MARTIN SAYS RUMORS ABOUT KIRK MANDATE THAT KIRK "COME CLEAN" BEFORE HE ANNOUNCES FOR STATEWIDE OFFICE, OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES
(CHICAGO)(July 14, 2009) People keep wondering why Mark Kirk is not announcing for statewide office. Take a look at our blogs and you might find the answer:
www.MarkKirk.us
www.andyforussenator.blogspot.com
www.andyforussenator.wordpress.com
Today Kirk received the coveted award of "Combine Candidate" for the U. S. Senate. The "Combine" is a bipartisan college of corruption that "combines" both parties in Illinois, and ensures that "honest graft" flows into the pockets of everyone connected to and subservient to the Combine's agenda, Democrat or Republican. The "Combine" is the original "green" party in Illinois: cold cash, long green for Combine insiders.
Representative Mark Kirk has been a master of "honest graft" in the U. S. House. He raises "blind" contributions without telling the donors what office he is seeking. The donors don’t care. They want congressional influence and access, not political insight into his congressional district back home. Kirk is available for sale to powerful lobbies, and he is a better-than-average salesman.
That is why I have watched the current fandango over whether Kirk will run against me in the Republican primary for the U. S. Senate with endless amusement. The McKenna/Kirk kabuki of the past few days has been hilarious. The identity of the "Combine Candidate" who will make the race has changed from day to day.
Last week Combine stooge Andy McKenna said he was a candidate for the U. S. Senator. I welcomed him into the race. No sooner had I welcomed McKenna as a candidate, he was out.
Monday (July 13th) Kirk received McKenna's endorsement for the senate. The Combine's "Crown of Corruption" was conferred on Kirk. McKenna's seal of approval is the gold standard for Combine support. McKenna's father, although nominally a "Republican," is a billionaire businessman whose financial interests are intertwined with the Daley Machine.
On and on it goes.
According to the "mainstream disinformation media" Associated Press, Kirk will announce his intentions "soon." Kirk, of course, said he would announce in April. That was three months ago.
Kirk has raised over $1 million in "dirty dollars" from special interests in Washington to fund his senatorial extravaganza. We intend to see that he spends every penny he raises, in the Republican primary. The Combine will have to open its coffers and shell out big time to support Kirk's crooked campaign.
In the meantime, loyal, Main Street Republicans can't wait for the opportunity to vote against Mark Kirk. No surprise there: Kirk wants to confiscate their guns, impose criminal sanctions on the Internet, and tax them into oblivion with Cap-and-Trade. And Kirk calls himself a Republican?
Mark Kirk, we do know ye. And that's no rumor.
Republicans will have a statewide primary in which they have an opportunity to take back their party from the Combine and all of the Daley Machine stooges who currently control the Illinois Republican Party's nominal operations.
My suggestion to Kirk: address the rumors about your personal life before you announce for statewide office. Once you're in, you're "in."
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
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© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Illinois Representative Mark Kirk's divorce files face analysis
Former family law professor and current U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin promises insights into the Virginia divorce filings of an Illinois congressman
Mark Kirk divorce analysis coming July 16th
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Andy Martin, a former family law professor, will provide his reaction to the Virginia divorce records of Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk
(CHICAGO)(July 13, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Monday that he will provide a blockbuster analysis of the Mark Kirk divorce on Thursday, July 16th. While the Kirk divorce records that were obtained from a Virginia court do not directly address the rumors swirling around Kirk, they offer an insight into Kirk's unusual marriage.
"The circumstances of Mark Kirk's divorce are not, strictly speaking, relevant to his performance in congress," Martin said. "But because of the rumors that Representative Kirk generates, his overall approach to Illinois Republicans as a potential statewide candidate must be one of total candor given the Republican Party's tragic experience with Jack Ryan's 2004 'sexless' sex scandal."
"I have scrupulously adhered to a limited discussion of the simple existence of the Kirk rumors, and not an exegesis of their substance. I think that approach strikes an appropriate balance at this stage, given that Kirk has not yet announced for higher office.
"The rumors about Kirk are, of course, widely known within the 10th congressional district itself. They are not yet known statewide. Because he has never run a statewide race, Kirk remains unknown to most voters despite the avalanche of recent pro-Kirk propaganda in the elitist liberal media in Washington and Chicago."
Martin has previously taught family law as an adjunct professor of law in the City University of New York system.
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Mark Kirk divorce analysis coming July 16th
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Andy Martin, a former family law professor, will provide his reaction to the Virginia divorce records of Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk
(CHICAGO)(July 13, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Monday that he will provide a blockbuster analysis of the Mark Kirk divorce on Thursday, July 16th. While the Kirk divorce records that were obtained from a Virginia court do not directly address the rumors swirling around Kirk, they offer an insight into Kirk's unusual marriage.
"The circumstances of Mark Kirk's divorce are not, strictly speaking, relevant to his performance in congress," Martin said. "But because of the rumors that Representative Kirk generates, his overall approach to Illinois Republicans as a potential statewide candidate must be one of total candor given the Republican Party's tragic experience with Jack Ryan's 2004 'sexless' sex scandal."
"I have scrupulously adhered to a limited discussion of the simple existence of the Kirk rumors, and not an exegesis of their substance. I think that approach strikes an appropriate balance at this stage, given that Kirk has not yet announced for higher office.
"The rumors about Kirk are, of course, widely known within the 10th congressional district itself. They are not yet known statewide. Because he has never run a statewide race, Kirk remains unknown to most voters despite the avalanche of recent pro-Kirk propaganda in the elitist liberal media in Washington and Chicago."
Martin has previously taught family law as an adjunct professor of law in the City University of New York system.
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Who's on first? Illinois' Mark Kirk, Andy McKenna do an Abbott & Costello routine
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin is enjoying the spectacle
Andy Martin calls Kirk/McKenna comedy an "Alphonse & Gaston" routine; or is it Abbott and Costello?
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN SAYS THE MARK KIRK/ANDY MCKENNA "LOVERS QUARREL" IS MAKING A JOKE OUT OF THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
MARTIN SAYS HE LOOKS LIKE AN OASIS OF STABILITY COMPARED TO KIRK AND MCKENNA
(CHICAGO)(July 11, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced late Friday that he was as amazed as anyone by the "Alphonse and Gaston" routine of Congressman Mark Kirk and Andy McKenna,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_and_Gaston].
"Early Friday, Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza published a report saying that Kirk was not going to run for U. S. Senator," Martin said.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/
senate/kirk-opts-out-of-senate-race.html?hpid=topnews
"We issued a statement in response to the Post story, saying that with Kirk ouT I was the presumptive frontrunner. No sooner had the Post reported Kirk was out, Kirk popped up and said he was still in.
"McKenna, who is not yet in, apparently won’t get out. Who's on first? Kirk and McKenna are dong a classic Abbott and Costello reprise.
"This is entertaining. Two drama queens doing a dance of the seven candidacies, an 'in-out' soap opera that leaves everyone wondering what comes next.
"My campaign looks like an oasis of sobriety and stability by comparison with Kirk/McKenna's Alphonse and Gaston routine, 'You first, no you first,' about which one of them gets to run for the Senate," Martin said. "I am a candidate unconditionally. Unlike Congressman Kirk I was not waiting for Lisa Madigan to make up her mind, or Kirk or McKenna to make up theirs. I'm in.
"I have a printer who is preparing petitions. We hit the streets with nominating petitions on August 4th.
"Nevertheless, it is hard not to conclude that the comedy riff of Kirk and McKenna [or is it "McKenna & Kirk?"] is damaging the Republican brand in Illinois. How can Republicans criticize 'Senator' Al Franken when we have Kirk & McKenna?
"I don’t know what Mark Kirk's problem is, except that he is obviously nonplussed by the deliberate way we are investigating the rumors about his personal life. Maybe Kirk is struggling with just how to deal with the devastating rumors, rumors that could explode in the middle of the primary election campaign and do a 'Jack Ryan' on Illinois Republicans.
"Amazingly, Kirk & McKenna have a longstanding relationship. Now they are 'fighting?' Is this real? Or is it World Wrestling Federation?
"I'm wrestling with this comedy," Martin said. "If anyone has the answer or explanation, please let me know. Meantime, my campaign is rolling on."
Martin already has an anti-Kirk web site, www.MarkKirk.us.
--------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
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Andy Martin calls Kirk/McKenna comedy an "Alphonse & Gaston" routine; or is it Abbott and Costello?
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN SAYS THE MARK KIRK/ANDY MCKENNA "LOVERS QUARREL" IS MAKING A JOKE OUT OF THE ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
MARTIN SAYS HE LOOKS LIKE AN OASIS OF STABILITY COMPARED TO KIRK AND MCKENNA
(CHICAGO)(July 11, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced late Friday that he was as amazed as anyone by the "Alphonse and Gaston" routine of Congressman Mark Kirk and Andy McKenna,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_and_Gaston].
"Early Friday, Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza published a report saying that Kirk was not going to run for U. S. Senator," Martin said.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/
senate/kirk-opts-out-of-senate-race.html?hpid=topnews
"We issued a statement in response to the Post story, saying that with Kirk ouT I was the presumptive frontrunner. No sooner had the Post reported Kirk was out, Kirk popped up and said he was still in.
"McKenna, who is not yet in, apparently won’t get out. Who's on first? Kirk and McKenna are dong a classic Abbott and Costello reprise.
"This is entertaining. Two drama queens doing a dance of the seven candidacies, an 'in-out' soap opera that leaves everyone wondering what comes next.
"My campaign looks like an oasis of sobriety and stability by comparison with Kirk/McKenna's Alphonse and Gaston routine, 'You first, no you first,' about which one of them gets to run for the Senate," Martin said. "I am a candidate unconditionally. Unlike Congressman Kirk I was not waiting for Lisa Madigan to make up her mind, or Kirk or McKenna to make up theirs. I'm in.
"I have a printer who is preparing petitions. We hit the streets with nominating petitions on August 4th.
"Nevertheless, it is hard not to conclude that the comedy riff of Kirk and McKenna [or is it "McKenna & Kirk?"] is damaging the Republican brand in Illinois. How can Republicans criticize 'Senator' Al Franken when we have Kirk & McKenna?
"I don’t know what Mark Kirk's problem is, except that he is obviously nonplussed by the deliberate way we are investigating the rumors about his personal life. Maybe Kirk is struggling with just how to deal with the devastating rumors, rumors that could explode in the middle of the primary election campaign and do a 'Jack Ryan' on Illinois Republicans.
"Amazingly, Kirk & McKenna have a longstanding relationship. Now they are 'fighting?' Is this real? Or is it World Wrestling Federation?
"I'm wrestling with this comedy," Martin said. "If anyone has the answer or explanation, please let me know. Meantime, my campaign is rolling on."
Martin already has an anti-Kirk web site, www.MarkKirk.us.
--------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
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Andy Martin claims frontrunner status in Republican primary to regain Obama's U. S. Senate seat
Obama critic/author Andy Martin leads for U. S. Senate nomination
Did Martin's attacks sink Mark Kirk's U. S. Senate campaign?
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN SAYS HIS RECORD OF EXPOSING AND CONFRONTING BARACK OBAMA MAKE MARTIN THE FRONTRUNNER AS REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR OBAMA'S FORMER SENATE SEAT
MARTIN SAYS HIS REPUBLICAN OPPONENTS FAIL TO OFFER A RECORD OF ACTION AND ACCOMPLISHMENT
(CHICAGO)(July 10, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Friday that he was the "frontrunner" in the campaign to become the Republican nominee for President Barack Obama's former U. S. Senate seat. Martin said his concentrated campaign to force Congressman Mark Kirk out of the race, succeeded.
"Despite the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza's pumping for one of my primary opponents, I am delighted to claim 'frontrunner' status in the 2010 U. S. Senate Republican primary," Martin said in a statement from vacation. Martin is en route to Southampton, Long Island.
"My campaign is ready to go. We are ready to roll on August 4th; petitioning begins in just 25 days.
"I respect that Andy McKenna will be a formidable adversary in the primary. The question is whether my grass roots campaign can overcome McKenna's financial edge. My campaign has a big challenge, no doubt about it.
"Today I am extending this offer to Mr. McKenna: if he does not seek to rig or manipulate the primary in his role as soon-to-be former state chairman, he will have my support if he wins the nomination. If we see the same 'Combine' shenanigans we saw in 2008, I will oppose McKenna after the primary. The choice is McKenna's.
"I believe Mr. McKenna should step down as IRP Chairman as soon as he starts circulating nominating petitions.
"All I ask is a level playing field in the 2010 primary. Let the voters, not the bosses, decide. If McKenna has confidence in his qualifications, he will not use Democrat Machine hatchet men against me the way he did in 2003.
"I will take my experience and qualifications to the Illinois Republican Party's primary voters. Because of my status as Barack Obama's original critic and longest-standing opponent, the primary will become a focus of national attention.
"Earlier this week, McKenna went to the Washington power brokers to seek their support. Kirk made the same effort. I am only asking the people of Illinois for their backing. There will be no machers or power brokers in my campaign. Mr. McKenna and I will offer contrasting approaches, and contrasting styles. Voters are going to have a real choice," Martin said.
"The question is, which Republican can be the most effective in campaigning against Barack Obama's inevitable smear machine, and, if elected, which Republican can stop Obama's socialist schemes in their tracks?
"The race will not be an easy one for either myself or Mr. McKenna. That is why we should work our best to have an honest and open primary, so that the voters' verdict commands the support of every candidate, and so that we can move forward as a unified party after primary day.
"I also extend my best wishes to Congressman Kirk. In my opinion, he made the right decision for himself. In due course will be taking down our anti-Kirk web site, www.MarkKirk.us. It is functus officio."
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Did Martin's attacks sink Mark Kirk's U. S. Senate campaign?
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ANDY MARTIN SAYS HIS RECORD OF EXPOSING AND CONFRONTING BARACK OBAMA MAKE MARTIN THE FRONTRUNNER AS REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR OBAMA'S FORMER SENATE SEAT
MARTIN SAYS HIS REPUBLICAN OPPONENTS FAIL TO OFFER A RECORD OF ACTION AND ACCOMPLISHMENT
(CHICAGO)(July 10, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Friday that he was the "frontrunner" in the campaign to become the Republican nominee for President Barack Obama's former U. S. Senate seat. Martin said his concentrated campaign to force Congressman Mark Kirk out of the race, succeeded.
"Despite the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza's pumping for one of my primary opponents, I am delighted to claim 'frontrunner' status in the 2010 U. S. Senate Republican primary," Martin said in a statement from vacation. Martin is en route to Southampton, Long Island.
"My campaign is ready to go. We are ready to roll on August 4th; petitioning begins in just 25 days.
"I respect that Andy McKenna will be a formidable adversary in the primary. The question is whether my grass roots campaign can overcome McKenna's financial edge. My campaign has a big challenge, no doubt about it.
"Today I am extending this offer to Mr. McKenna: if he does not seek to rig or manipulate the primary in his role as soon-to-be former state chairman, he will have my support if he wins the nomination. If we see the same 'Combine' shenanigans we saw in 2008, I will oppose McKenna after the primary. The choice is McKenna's.
"I believe Mr. McKenna should step down as IRP Chairman as soon as he starts circulating nominating petitions.
"All I ask is a level playing field in the 2010 primary. Let the voters, not the bosses, decide. If McKenna has confidence in his qualifications, he will not use Democrat Machine hatchet men against me the way he did in 2003.
"I will take my experience and qualifications to the Illinois Republican Party's primary voters. Because of my status as Barack Obama's original critic and longest-standing opponent, the primary will become a focus of national attention.
"Earlier this week, McKenna went to the Washington power brokers to seek their support. Kirk made the same effort. I am only asking the people of Illinois for their backing. There will be no machers or power brokers in my campaign. Mr. McKenna and I will offer contrasting approaches, and contrasting styles. Voters are going to have a real choice," Martin said.
"The question is, which Republican can be the most effective in campaigning against Barack Obama's inevitable smear machine, and, if elected, which Republican can stop Obama's socialist schemes in their tracks?
"The race will not be an easy one for either myself or Mr. McKenna. That is why we should work our best to have an honest and open primary, so that the voters' verdict commands the support of every candidate, and so that we can move forward as a unified party after primary day.
"I also extend my best wishes to Congressman Kirk. In my opinion, he made the right decision for himself. In due course will be taking down our anti-Kirk web site, www.MarkKirk.us. It is functus officio."
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Is Congressman Mark Kirk the next GOP sex scandal?
Senate candidate Andy Martin says Washington "insiders" are trying to force Illinois Republicans to accept rumor-plagued Representative Mark Kirk as their senate candidate. Martin says the scheme will backfire. Kirk is the next GOP-sex-scandal-waiting-to-happen.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
IS MARK KIRK THE NEXT GOP SEX SCANDAL?
ANDY MARTIN SAYS THERE ARE TWO REPUBLICAN PARTIES, THE "BELTWAY DREAMLAND" AND THE "REAL WORLD OUT THERE"
(CHICAGO)(July 9, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Thursday that he was still waiting for a response from Congressman Mark Kirk as to when Kirk would address the rumors about Kirk's personal life.
"Mark Kirk is talking tough," Martin said, "raising money and 'contacting leaders' about being a candidate for the U. S. Senate.
"But if someone wants to see a textbook example of what is sick about Washington, Mark Kirk is the poster boy. He has raised a ton of campaign cash without even telling people what he is running for. He is collecting 'blind' contributions. If that's not buying and selling influence, what is?
"Kirk is such a scardy-cat that he was too afraid to even announce for office until he saw what Mike Madigan's daughter was doing. If Kirk was afraid of Lisa Madigan, how is he going to stand up to the Russians? Prancing around in a Navy uniform cannot erase the cowardice Kirk has demonstrated in the face of a real adversary, Ms. Madigan.
"Most critically for Illinois Republicans, Kirk has not addressed rumors about his convoluted and confused personal life.
"Mark Kirk appears intent on becoming the next GOP sex scandal.
"Although Republicans often complain they are held to a 'double standard' by the media when it comes to sexual and marital peccadilloes, that is not the case," Martin stated. "For once, the 'broken clock' media are right. "For better or worse, Democrats make no pretenses about the sexual morality of their party. Therefore, Democrats are immune from embarrassment because there is nothing to be embarrassed about.
"Republicans, on the other hand, engage in breast-beating about 'family values' and 'morality.' Morality and concerns for the family should be an important part of our national agenda.
"But when 'morality' becomes a form of hypocrisy, we receive what we deserve when the sexual immorality of Republican leaders becomes page one news.
"Illinois' Dennis Hastert created a massive sex scandal in the House of Representatives, of which the disgraced Representative Mark Foley was only the tip of the iceberg. How and why did 'Denny' allow the sexual shenanigans to blossom on his watch? We never got a satisfactory explanation. Hastert pulled a 'Sarah Palin' and resigned before the end of his elected term of office.
"Just this year we have had a 'sexy senator,' in Senator Ensign of Nevada, and the 'lov gov' in Governor Sanford of South Carolina. On and on it goes: infidelity in the 'party of the faithful.' And they wonder why Americans are rejecting the Republican 'brand.'
"The Illinois Republican Party has never recovered from the 'sexless' sex scandal in 2004 when senate candidate Jack Ryan was hounded out of the campaign, and Republican leaders then inexplicably voted to elect Barack Obama by virtual acclamation. Illinois should be drummed out of the Union for what we did to the United States. We gave Americans Barry Obama.
"And now there is 'Marky Mark' Kirk, the recently-divorced representative that hungers to be a senator but won't hunker down and tell the truth about the rumors enveloping him.
"People in Illinois know I am not inventing these rumors. They are all across the northeastern part of the state where Kirk is well known. But no one will step forward, yet, to pop Kirk's balloon.
"Instead we see an asinine press release from 'Rob Jesmer' of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, that claims Jesmer 'recruited' Kirk to be a senate candidate. Why is some anonymous weenie in Washington claiming credit for 'recruiting' Kirk to run in Illinois? Don't the people of Illinois, and Illinois Republicans, have something to say about who represents them?
"Jesmer, of course, ignores the rumors about Kirk's private life. Here we see the essence of the 'two Republican parties.' There are the 'Beltway Dreamlanders,' who live in their own Hastert-inspired dreamland about the reality of 'their' Republican Party; and we have the 'Real World Out There' where Mark Kirk does not choose to live but where real people and real families live.
"We are soon going to present a detailed analysis of Kirk's divorce. Based on what happened to Jack Ryan in 2004, a divorce file can contain lethal material.
"But what is embarrassingly clear already is that Mr. & Mrs. Kirk considered themselves legal domiciliaries of Virginia, where they filed for divorce, and not Illinois, which Kirk claims to represent. Kirk does not even pretend to be an Illinoisan. 'Cap'n' cap-and-trade flies in occasionally to Illinois to grace us with his presence. So why are the Republican weenies in Washington recruiting him to represent a state he has abandoned? Maybe Kirk represents them.
"Mark Kirk has to come clean with Illinois Republicans," Martin stated.
"If Kirk does not make a clean breast of and respond to the rumors," Martin suggested, "He may find himself in a dirty primary. The Chicago Tribune has the same lawyers standing by to destroy Mark Kirk with lawsuits and sexual innuendos that the Trib used to dismember Jack Ryan."
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
IS MARK KIRK THE NEXT GOP SEX SCANDAL?
ANDY MARTIN SAYS THERE ARE TWO REPUBLICAN PARTIES, THE "BELTWAY DREAMLAND" AND THE "REAL WORLD OUT THERE"
(CHICAGO)(July 9, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Thursday that he was still waiting for a response from Congressman Mark Kirk as to when Kirk would address the rumors about Kirk's personal life.
"Mark Kirk is talking tough," Martin said, "raising money and 'contacting leaders' about being a candidate for the U. S. Senate.
"But if someone wants to see a textbook example of what is sick about Washington, Mark Kirk is the poster boy. He has raised a ton of campaign cash without even telling people what he is running for. He is collecting 'blind' contributions. If that's not buying and selling influence, what is?
"Kirk is such a scardy-cat that he was too afraid to even announce for office until he saw what Mike Madigan's daughter was doing. If Kirk was afraid of Lisa Madigan, how is he going to stand up to the Russians? Prancing around in a Navy uniform cannot erase the cowardice Kirk has demonstrated in the face of a real adversary, Ms. Madigan.
"Most critically for Illinois Republicans, Kirk has not addressed rumors about his convoluted and confused personal life.
"Mark Kirk appears intent on becoming the next GOP sex scandal.
"Although Republicans often complain they are held to a 'double standard' by the media when it comes to sexual and marital peccadilloes, that is not the case," Martin stated. "For once, the 'broken clock' media are right. "For better or worse, Democrats make no pretenses about the sexual morality of their party. Therefore, Democrats are immune from embarrassment because there is nothing to be embarrassed about.
"Republicans, on the other hand, engage in breast-beating about 'family values' and 'morality.' Morality and concerns for the family should be an important part of our national agenda.
"But when 'morality' becomes a form of hypocrisy, we receive what we deserve when the sexual immorality of Republican leaders becomes page one news.
"Illinois' Dennis Hastert created a massive sex scandal in the House of Representatives, of which the disgraced Representative Mark Foley was only the tip of the iceberg. How and why did 'Denny' allow the sexual shenanigans to blossom on his watch? We never got a satisfactory explanation. Hastert pulled a 'Sarah Palin' and resigned before the end of his elected term of office.
"Just this year we have had a 'sexy senator,' in Senator Ensign of Nevada, and the 'lov gov' in Governor Sanford of South Carolina. On and on it goes: infidelity in the 'party of the faithful.' And they wonder why Americans are rejecting the Republican 'brand.'
"The Illinois Republican Party has never recovered from the 'sexless' sex scandal in 2004 when senate candidate Jack Ryan was hounded out of the campaign, and Republican leaders then inexplicably voted to elect Barack Obama by virtual acclamation. Illinois should be drummed out of the Union for what we did to the United States. We gave Americans Barry Obama.
"And now there is 'Marky Mark' Kirk, the recently-divorced representative that hungers to be a senator but won't hunker down and tell the truth about the rumors enveloping him.
"People in Illinois know I am not inventing these rumors. They are all across the northeastern part of the state where Kirk is well known. But no one will step forward, yet, to pop Kirk's balloon.
"Instead we see an asinine press release from 'Rob Jesmer' of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, that claims Jesmer 'recruited' Kirk to be a senate candidate. Why is some anonymous weenie in Washington claiming credit for 'recruiting' Kirk to run in Illinois? Don't the people of Illinois, and Illinois Republicans, have something to say about who represents them?
"Jesmer, of course, ignores the rumors about Kirk's private life. Here we see the essence of the 'two Republican parties.' There are the 'Beltway Dreamlanders,' who live in their own Hastert-inspired dreamland about the reality of 'their' Republican Party; and we have the 'Real World Out There' where Mark Kirk does not choose to live but where real people and real families live.
"We are soon going to present a detailed analysis of Kirk's divorce. Based on what happened to Jack Ryan in 2004, a divorce file can contain lethal material.
"But what is embarrassingly clear already is that Mr. & Mrs. Kirk considered themselves legal domiciliaries of Virginia, where they filed for divorce, and not Illinois, which Kirk claims to represent. Kirk does not even pretend to be an Illinoisan. 'Cap'n' cap-and-trade flies in occasionally to Illinois to grace us with his presence. So why are the Republican weenies in Washington recruiting him to represent a state he has abandoned? Maybe Kirk represents them.
"Mark Kirk has to come clean with Illinois Republicans," Martin stated.
"If Kirk does not make a clean breast of and respond to the rumors," Martin suggested, "He may find himself in a dirty primary. The Chicago Tribune has the same lawyers standing by to destroy Mark Kirk with lawsuits and sexual innuendos that the Trib used to dismember Jack Ryan."
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Andy Martin launches anti-Kirk web site www.MarkKirk.us
Martin says Congressman Mark Kirk has become an acolyte of the Obama administration. Martin says efforts by "Chicago media elitists" and corrupt "Combine Republicans" to nominate Kirk for U. S. Senator are a farce. A new web site, www.MarkKirk.us collects evidence of Kirk's anti-Republican record.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
ATTENTION: DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEWS CONFERENCE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MARK KIRK FACES NEW ATTACKS FROM ANDY MARTIN
WWW.MARKKIRK.US COLLECTS ANTI-KIRK ISSUES IN ONE PLACE
ANDY MARTIN SAYS LIBERAL MEDIA AND "COMBINE REPUBLICANS" ARE TRYING TO PROMOTE ULTRA-LIBERAL AS REPUBLIC CANDIDATE
(CHICAGO)(June 29, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Monday, June 29th to launch an anti-Mark Kirk web site.
"I find it extraordinary," says Martin, "That despite the fact that Congressman Mark Kirk is a foot soldier in the Obama 'revolution,' 'Combine Republicans' in Illinois and the liberal Chicago news media want to shove Mark Kirk down our throats as a U. S. Senate candidate.
"I usually find conservative attacks on 'RINO's' and similar epithets offensive. No one should be required to tow the party orthodoxy reflexively. But Kirk may be the exception to the rule. He seems to have a permanent finger-in-the-eye of Republican voters and loyalists.
"The fact Chicago's news media are promoting Kirk as a candidate for the Senate shows how out of touch these arrogant media elitists are.
"Kirk is a guy than can stand up to Barack Obama's socialist schemes? He's already part of the Obamanation.
"We are launching a new web site to remind Republicans that Kirk cannot seriously be considered a candidate for U. S. senator. Kirk may represent an ultra-liberal sliver of Illinois. The 10th District is not Illinois," Martin will state. "www.MarkKirk.us will tell the truth about Kirk. We await his response."
Kirk promised a decision on whether he would run for statewide office in April.
June 10th news conference details:
WHO:
Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin
WHERE:
Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago
WHEN:
Monday, June 29, 2009 4:00 P.M.
WHAT:
Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin launches www.MarkKirk.us to attack potential primary opponent Mark Kirk
MEDIA
CONTACT:
(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)
WEBSITE:
http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-MAIL:
AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
ATTENTION: DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEWS CONFERENCE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MARK KIRK FACES NEW ATTACKS FROM ANDY MARTIN
WWW.MARKKIRK.US COLLECTS ANTI-KIRK ISSUES IN ONE PLACE
ANDY MARTIN SAYS LIBERAL MEDIA AND "COMBINE REPUBLICANS" ARE TRYING TO PROMOTE ULTRA-LIBERAL AS REPUBLIC CANDIDATE
(CHICAGO)(June 29, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Monday, June 29th to launch an anti-Mark Kirk web site.
"I find it extraordinary," says Martin, "That despite the fact that Congressman Mark Kirk is a foot soldier in the Obama 'revolution,' 'Combine Republicans' in Illinois and the liberal Chicago news media want to shove Mark Kirk down our throats as a U. S. Senate candidate.
"I usually find conservative attacks on 'RINO's' and similar epithets offensive. No one should be required to tow the party orthodoxy reflexively. But Kirk may be the exception to the rule. He seems to have a permanent finger-in-the-eye of Republican voters and loyalists.
"The fact Chicago's news media are promoting Kirk as a candidate for the Senate shows how out of touch these arrogant media elitists are.
"Kirk is a guy than can stand up to Barack Obama's socialist schemes? He's already part of the Obamanation.
"We are launching a new web site to remind Republicans that Kirk cannot seriously be considered a candidate for U. S. senator. Kirk may represent an ultra-liberal sliver of Illinois. The 10th District is not Illinois," Martin will state. "www.MarkKirk.us will tell the truth about Kirk. We await his response."
Kirk promised a decision on whether he would run for statewide office in April.
June 10th news conference details:
WHO:
Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin
WHERE:
Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago
WHEN:
Monday, June 29, 2009 4:00 P.M.
WHAT:
Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin launches www.MarkKirk.us to attack potential primary opponent Mark Kirk
MEDIA
CONTACT:
(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329 (not always turned on)
WEBSITE:
http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com
E-MAIL:
AndyforUSSenator@aol.com
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Mark Kirk sex scandal: new threat against Andy Martin
One of Congressman Mark Kirk’s supporters is threatening to attack Andy Martin for telling the truth about Mark Kirk. Kirk says his divorce files are “unsealed.” The court says the files are sealed. “Why is Kirk lying?” Martin asks.
New threats in Congressman Mark Kirk sex scandal
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
IS MARK KIRK “SUPERMAN?”
KIRK SUPPORTER ISSUES NEW THREAT AGAINST ANDY MARTIN
SENATOR JOHN ENSIGN IS U.S. SENATE’S THIRD REPUBLICAN PARTY SEX SCANDAL; WE DON’T NEED A FOURTH
(CHICAGO)(June 17, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Wednesday that one of Congressman Mark Kirk’s strong supporters has issued a new threat against Martin.
“When I originally began looking into Mark Kirk’s peculiar behavior as a candidate, I had no idea what to expect,” Andy Martin said. “Lawyers call this ‘due diligence.’ We check the files, review the records, make sure we did not miss anything.
“Then last week I got the first threat from one of Kirk’s supporters.
“Over the weekend, the same ‘supporter’ sent me another threat, and said Kirk was a ‘Superman:’
We the Republican Party in Northeast Illinois have a quiet army of people that will come out and work against you for trying to get cheap media at the cost of our party's unity.
That is not a threat, that is a reality. You are approaching this in the absolute worst possible manner to get the votes you need for furthering your ambitions.
Your little PR release this morning that cites me (I assume) stating that you give out my name for anyone who asks for it ...is great. Do you honestly think that you are going to track with voters using this antics?
I have Kirk on my facebook as you point out, as well as McKenna because I am a Republican (as opposed to you) and they are the elected leaders of my State Party and my District. Whether Kirk runs or not I do not care, he has done a brilliant job for us in the 10th and for America. You are pissing on Superman's cape.
“I take this man’s remarks as a threat, not a threat to harm me physically but a threat to damage me politically for asking Mark Kirk to tell the truth to the People of Illinois.
“Kirk’s supporter’s new claim that Marky Mark is ‘Superman’ is bizarre.
“His suggestion that we have to support the Illinois Republican Party’s corrupt state leadership is bizarre. We are losing elections because Andy McKenna is a Daley stooge. (McKenna supports Kirk.)
“The claim that Kirk has done a ‘brilliant job’ by undermining the Second Amendment and other conservative causes is bizarre.
“Today, of course, I learned from the Clerk of the Court that Mark Kirk’s ‘unsealed’ divorce files remain ‘sealed.’ Once a potential candidate starts to release lies, you have to suspect they have something to hide. It looks as though Kirk is trying to pull a ‘Jack Ryan’ and run for office while hiding personal records from media and public review. We all know how Ryan’s campaign ended up.
“Wednesday I will be contacting the Clerk’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, where Kirk’s divorce was filed, to seek the necessary paperwork for a lawsuit to open the divorce records. I am going to do a ‘Chicago Tribune’ on Kirk. (The Chicago Tribune filed a successful lawsuit to open’s Ryan’s sealed divorce file.
“Reading the sad story of Senator John Ensign’s sex sandal Tuesday night was a reminder that the party of ‘family values’ has had three U. S. Senate sex scandals in the past several years. (Craig, Vitter, Ensign). We don’t need Mark Kirk’s campaign to add a fourth.
“Kirk seems to be suffering from the same form of ‘Potomac Fever’ as Senator ensign. These people go to Washington and forget their home states. They become arrogant and imperious towards ordinary citizens. And they live a lie. Ensign was lying. Kirk lied when he said his divorce files were ‘unsealed,’ when the Clerk says they are sealed. Kirk’s lie is about as big a bald-faced lie as I have ever seen from any potential candidate.
“The fact that Kirk is using his followers to threaten me is a sign of extreme weakness on Kirk’s part.
“What’s your opinion?
“I apply the same standards to investigating Republicans that I apply to Barack Obama: a search for the truth and the facts. Nothing more. And nothing less. Obviously, Mark Kirk is afraid of my high standards, integrity and independence. Why?
“I hope Kirk runs against me for the senate so we can have a debate on the issues and a debate on the future of the Republican Party. How can we talk one way in public and act another way in private?
“I intend to run a vigorous primary campaign for the U. S. Senate. And I will not let Kirk fool primary voters the same way Jack Ryan fooled Republicans in 2004.
“Open the files, Mark. Stop lying about your ‘unsealed’ records when the court says they are still sealed. Your lies are going to embarrass even your most loyal supporters,” Martin noted.
“Why did you tell the media your files were ‘unsealed’ when that was a lie? Explain please.”
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
New threats in Congressman Mark Kirk sex scandal
NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
Republican for U. S. Senator
“He works for
the People of Illinois”
Suite 4406
30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
(312) 440-4124
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
IS MARK KIRK “SUPERMAN?”
KIRK SUPPORTER ISSUES NEW THREAT AGAINST ANDY MARTIN
SENATOR JOHN ENSIGN IS U.S. SENATE’S THIRD REPUBLICAN PARTY SEX SCANDAL; WE DON’T NEED A FOURTH
(CHICAGO)(June 17, 2009) Internet Powerhouse and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced Wednesday that one of Congressman Mark Kirk’s strong supporters has issued a new threat against Martin.
“When I originally began looking into Mark Kirk’s peculiar behavior as a candidate, I had no idea what to expect,” Andy Martin said. “Lawyers call this ‘due diligence.’ We check the files, review the records, make sure we did not miss anything.
“Then last week I got the first threat from one of Kirk’s supporters.
“Over the weekend, the same ‘supporter’ sent me another threat, and said Kirk was a ‘Superman:’
We the Republican Party in Northeast Illinois have a quiet army of people that will come out and work against you for trying to get cheap media at the cost of our party's unity.
That is not a threat, that is a reality. You are approaching this in the absolute worst possible manner to get the votes you need for furthering your ambitions.
Your little PR release this morning that cites me (I assume) stating that you give out my name for anyone who asks for it ...is great. Do you honestly think that you are going to track with voters using this antics?
I have Kirk on my facebook as you point out, as well as McKenna because I am a Republican (as opposed to you) and they are the elected leaders of my State Party and my District. Whether Kirk runs or not I do not care, he has done a brilliant job for us in the 10th and for America. You are pissing on Superman's cape.
“I take this man’s remarks as a threat, not a threat to harm me physically but a threat to damage me politically for asking Mark Kirk to tell the truth to the People of Illinois.
“Kirk’s supporter’s new claim that Marky Mark is ‘Superman’ is bizarre.
“His suggestion that we have to support the Illinois Republican Party’s corrupt state leadership is bizarre. We are losing elections because Andy McKenna is a Daley stooge. (McKenna supports Kirk.)
“The claim that Kirk has done a ‘brilliant job’ by undermining the Second Amendment and other conservative causes is bizarre.
“Today, of course, I learned from the Clerk of the Court that Mark Kirk’s ‘unsealed’ divorce files remain ‘sealed.’ Once a potential candidate starts to release lies, you have to suspect they have something to hide. It looks as though Kirk is trying to pull a ‘Jack Ryan’ and run for office while hiding personal records from media and public review. We all know how Ryan’s campaign ended up.
“Wednesday I will be contacting the Clerk’s office in Alexandria, Virginia, where Kirk’s divorce was filed, to seek the necessary paperwork for a lawsuit to open the divorce records. I am going to do a ‘Chicago Tribune’ on Kirk. (The Chicago Tribune filed a successful lawsuit to open’s Ryan’s sealed divorce file.
“Reading the sad story of Senator John Ensign’s sex sandal Tuesday night was a reminder that the party of ‘family values’ has had three U. S. Senate sex scandals in the past several years. (Craig, Vitter, Ensign). We don’t need Mark Kirk’s campaign to add a fourth.
“Kirk seems to be suffering from the same form of ‘Potomac Fever’ as Senator ensign. These people go to Washington and forget their home states. They become arrogant and imperious towards ordinary citizens. And they live a lie. Ensign was lying. Kirk lied when he said his divorce files were ‘unsealed,’ when the Clerk says they are sealed. Kirk’s lie is about as big a bald-faced lie as I have ever seen from any potential candidate.
“The fact that Kirk is using his followers to threaten me is a sign of extreme weakness on Kirk’s part.
“What’s your opinion?
“I apply the same standards to investigating Republicans that I apply to Barack Obama: a search for the truth and the facts. Nothing more. And nothing less. Obviously, Mark Kirk is afraid of my high standards, integrity and independence. Why?
“I hope Kirk runs against me for the senate so we can have a debate on the issues and a debate on the future of the Republican Party. How can we talk one way in public and act another way in private?
“I intend to run a vigorous primary campaign for the U. S. Senate. And I will not let Kirk fool primary voters the same way Jack Ryan fooled Republicans in 2004.
“Open the files, Mark. Stop lying about your ‘unsealed’ records when the court says they are still sealed. Your lies are going to embarrass even your most loyal supporters,” Martin noted.
“Why did you tell the media your files were ‘unsealed’ when that was a lie? Explain please.”
------------------------------------------
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/AndyMartinUSA
www.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.]
MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329 (cell not always on)
E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2009.
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