WASHINGTON, DC NEWS CONFERENCE/White House demonstration today by Andy Martin; Sweet “16” parent

Independent New Hampshire GOP leader Andy Martin, Barack Obama’s original critic and one of America’s leading conservative authors/investigators, will hold a news conference and stage a demonstration today, Friday March 29th at 2:00 P.M. in front of the White House (details below). Andy will reprise President Reagan’s Berlin demand, “ Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall,” by saying “Mr. Obama, tear down this wall and reopen the White House to the American people, not just campaign contributors and lobbyists.”




Andy will also remember his small role in the creation of Florida Gulf Coast University, the surprise Sweet 16 entry

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



Obama critic Andy Martin will hold a news conference today and demonstrate at the White House demanding that “President Obama, tear down this wall”



Andy is one of the “proud parents” of surprise Sweet Sixteen entry Florida Gulf Coast University; Andy campaigned to create the university



(WASHINGTON, DC) (March 27, 2013) Independent New Hampshire Republican leader and corruption-fighter Andy Martin will hold a news conference and demonstration at the White House today, Friday, to demand that “Mr. Obama, tear down this wall and reopen the White House to the American People.”



Andy is the proud “parent,” many times removed, of Florida Gulf Coast University. The maverick Republican supported a platform/promise in 1990 to create the university and afterwards used his friendship with Governor Lawton Chiles to lobby for the governor’s approval to build the university.



“I am not taking credit where credit is not due, but I did campaign to build Florida Gulf Coast University,” Andy says. “After the election, Lawton Chiles asked me what I thought, and I said Floridians needed a new four-year school. ‘Build it.’ Something good can and does come of politics.



“Of course, Floridians are also indebted to the legislators who actually authorized the governor’s recommendation. But I take pride in my infinitesimally small role in bringing FGCU to life. Go Florida Gulf Coast University!!! That’s my team in the Sweet Sixteen.”



Andy’s updated schedule follows:



White House at Pennsylvania Avenue and 16th Street - 2:00 P.M. News conference/demonstration March 29:



“Tear down this Wall”



Friday afternoon, after attending Good Friday services, Andy will walk over to the White House fence and to reprise President Reagan’s "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” moment by demanding that “Mr. Obama, tear down this wall” and reopen the White House to tours. “The closure of the White House while the Obama family spends millions of taxpayer dollars on endless vacations and self-indulgence is a disgrace,” Andy charges.



Capital Hilton - 8:00 P.M. [time change] Symposium March 29:

Will the Republican Party recover from the Iraq War?



Based on his Middle East expertise, Andy was an early opponent of the plan to invade Iraq. He lived in Baghdad for part of 2003. He is working on a novel about his year there. And he opens the floor for reaction and discussion of remarks by recent columnists (please see Group Link #1 below) that President Bush’s invasion of Iraq did incalculable damage to the Republican Party. Andy predicted that damage in 2006 and warned Republicans – but the Party had to be defeated before leaders would realize they were out of step with the American people.



Capital Hilton - 10:00 A.M. [time change] News conference/symposium March 30

Is Obama trying to destroy the CIA by removing drones?



Andy accuses President Obama of trying to undermine and weaken the CIA by removing an in-house drone program from the CIA. Andy suggests that the Obama plan will endanger national security by depriving the CIA of modern technology (please see Group link #2 below). “The CIA is not a law enforcement agency,” Andy says. “The CIA is not a military force. It is a clandestine service that must have available and accessible all of the technology of modern intelligence, including armed and unarmed drones. That has been the lesson going back to the OSS. President Obama’s plan should be rejected by Congress.”



Andy’s familiarity with the CIA is based on over forty years of experience in Asia, Southwest Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. He was in Iran and Afghanistan during the hostage crisis in 1979-80, and has regularly returned to Southwest Asia since then. He lived in Iraq in 2003. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during 1979-80, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future. Andy first went to Asia in 1967 and has lived in or been in Israel, Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.



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March 29 WASHINGTON, DC WHITE HOUSE NEWS CONFERENCE:



WHO:



Independent New Hampshire Republican leader, Obama critic and American corruption-fighter Andy Martin



WHAT:



Andy Martin will hold a news conference and demonstration with a sign demanding that “Mr. Obama, tear down this wall, and reopen the White House to the American people”



WHERE:



The White House, at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixteenth Street (Andy is carrying a sign)



WHEN:



Friday, March 29, 2013 2:00 P.M.



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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):



Group Link #1

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127

887323419104578374782011033990.html



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/

sunday/douthat-the-obama-era-brought-to-you-

by-the-iraq-war.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss



Group Link #2



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/us/influential-

ex-aide-to-obama-voices-concern-on-drone-strikes.

html?pagewanted=all



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/20/white-

house-to-move-drone-operations-out-cia-centralize-at-pentagon/



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/19/

exclusive-no-more-drones-for-cia.html



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“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”



ABOUT ANDY:



Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com



Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org



He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).



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Washington, DC news conferences: Andy Martin opposes Penny Pritzker as U. S. Secretary of Commerce; demands President Obama “tear down this wall” barring White House tours

Andy Martin, Barack Obama’s original critic and America’s leading independent conservative author/investigator, will hold a series of news conferences, events and symposia in Washington, DC March 28-30: (1) announcing a “fighting camp” to oppose Penny Pritzker as Secretary of Commerce; (2) reprising President Ronald Reagan’s dramatic Berlin speech with an updated 2013 demand: “Mr. Obama, tear down this wall! [around the White House, closing the Peoples’ House to tours];” (3) discussing the impact of the Iraq War on the Republican Party; (4) questioning whether it is time to impose bipartisan limits on President Obama misuse of federal funds for “family” vacations and (5) demanding that President Obama stop his plan to deprive the CIA of independent drone capability




Andy, a Middle East expert and early opponent of the Iraq invasion, will begin a “national security weekend” by conducting a symposium Friday evening on the calamity of the Iraq War and holding a news conference Saturday to demand that Obama allow the CIA to continue to drone operations. “When Congress stands down, for a vacation,” Andy says, “We stand up to continue the battle against the evil emperor who has locked shut the doors of the White House and violated Jesus’ mandate to ‘suffer the little children to come unto Me.’”

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ATTENTION NATIONAL AND WASHINGTON, DC DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



Obama critic Andy Martin will fill the gap left by congress-in-recess by conducting three days of news conferences and events challenging President Obama March 28-30 in Washington, DC



Initially Andy will announce a “fighting camp” to battle the nomination of Penny Pritzker to be Secretary of commerce



Andy will follow with a symposium on the Imperial Presidency and ways to rein it in



The dramatic high point of Andy’s operations will be a confrontation at the White House gates when Andy reprises President Reagan in Berlin and demands “Mr. Obama, tear down this wall (and reopen the White House to the American people)”



A "national security weekend" will open Friday evening with a discussion of the impact the Iraq war has had on the Republican Party.



Saturday morning Andy will demand that President Obama not endanger national security by removing CIA drones from the agency’s control



(WASHINGTON, DC) (March 27, 2013) New Hampshire Republican leader and corruption-fighter Andy Martin will hold a series of news conferences and events in the nation’s capital March 28-30 to continue attacks on President Obama while congress is away on recess.



Andy’s schedule follows:



Capital Hilton - 5:00 P.M. News conference March 28:

(for all Capital Hilton events please ask for Andy’s suite)

Penny Pritzker



Andy announced recently in Chicago he would lead opposition to the nomination/confirmation of Penny Pritzker as U. S. Secretary of Commerce. Thursday he announces he’s hunkering down for a battle against Pritzker by setting up a “fighting camp” to oppose Pritzker’s nomination.



Capital Hilton - 7:30 P.M. Symposium March 28:

The Imperial Presidency



When Democrats are in power, Republicans complain about excess presidential spending and excess vacationing by the president. When Republicans are in power, Democrats do the same. Andy will discuss whether the time has come for Congress to adopt a White House budget and to specify what are and are not allowable expenses for the president. (For example, Andy personally favors limiting Michele Obama’s spending; no one elected her.)



White House entrance - 1:30 P.M. News event March 29:

“Tear down this Wall”



Friday afternoon, after attending Good Friday services, Andy will walk over to the White House fence and reprise President Reagan’s "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” moment by demanding that “Mr. Obama, tear down this wall” and reopen the White House to tours. “The closure of the White House while the Obama family spends millions of taxpayer dollars on endless vacations and self-indulgence is a disgrace,” Andy charges.





Capital Hilton - 7:30 P.M. Symposium March 29:

Will the Republican Party recover from the Iraq War?



Based on his Middle East expertise, Andy was an early opponent of the plan to invade Iraq. He lived in Baghdad for part of 2003. He is working on a novel about his year there. And he opens the floor for reaction and discussion of remarks by recent columnists (please see Group Link #1 below) that President Bush’s invasion of Iraq did incalculable damage to the Republican Party. Andy predicted that damage in 2006 and warned Republicans – but the Party had to be defeated before leaders would realize they were out of step with the American people.



Capital Hilton - 11:00 A.M. News conference/symposium March 30

Is Obama trying to destroy the CIA by removing drones?



Andy accuses President Obama of trying to undermine and weaken the CIA by removing an in-house drone program from the CIA. Andy suggests that the Obama plan will endanger national security by depriving the CIA of modern technology (please see Group link #2 below). “The CIA is not a law enforcement agency,” Andy says. “The CIA is not a military force. It is a clandestine service that must have available and accessible all of the technology of modern intelligence, including armed and unarmed drones. That has been the lesson going back to the OSS. President Obama’s plan should be rejected by Congress.”



Andy’s familiarity with the CIA is based on over forty years of experience in Asia, Southwest Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. He was in Iran and Afghanistan during the hostage crisis in 1979-80, and has regularly returned to Southwest Asia since then. He lived in Iraq in 2003. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during 1979-80, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future. Andy first went to Asia in 1967 and has lived in or been in Israel, Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.



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March 28 - 30, WASHINGTON, DC NATIONAL NEWS CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, EVENTS:



WHO:



New Hampshire Republican leader, Obama critic and American corruption-fighter Andy Martin



WHAT:



Andy Martin will hold a series of Washington events “fighting” Penny Pritzker as Secretary of Commerce; demanding that President Obama “tear down this wall;” and attacking Obama for proposing to deprive the CIA of drones and endanger national security



WHERE:



Various Washington, DC locations including the Capital Hilton (please ask for Andy’s suite) and the White House



WHEN:



Thursday - Saturday, March 28-30, 2013



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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):



Group Link #1

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127

887323419104578374782011033990.html



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/

sunday/douthat-the-obama-era-brought-to-you-

by-the-iraq-war.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss



Group Link #2



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/us/influential-

ex-aide-to-obama-voices-concern-on-drone-strikes.

html?pagewanted=all



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/20/white-

house-to-move-drone-operations-out-cia-centralize-at-pentagon/



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/19/

exclusive-no-more-drones-for-cia.html



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WHAT OTHERS SAY:



“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”



“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”



ABOUT ANDY:



Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com



Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org



He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).



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Andy Martin: President Barack Obama is an unwelcome guest in the Middle East

Andy Martin, Barack Obama’s original critic and one of America’s leading foreign policy and intelligence analysts, says President Obama may be an “unwelcome guest” in the Middle East this week. Obama has alienated Israelis and Palestinians. Even our closest ally in the region, Jordan, is impatient with Obama’s endless prevarications.

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Obama critic Andy Martin calls President Obama “President/Emperor Ozymandias”



Andy sides with Israeli intelligence chiefs on how to deal with Iran



Andy surveys the Middle East and says Obama is an “unwelcome guest”



Andy speaks highly of Jordan’s King Abdullah, who is an American ally-in-fact and not just in rhetoric



(MANCHESTER, NH) (March 20, 2013) Republican foreign policy expert (see bio below) and corruption-fighter/conservative blogger Andy Martin says Barack Obama’s trip to Israel, Palestine and Jordan may end up reflecting that Obama is an “uninvited guest:”



Four years ago Barack Obama made sweeping statements about the future of the Middle East, Arab nations and the Muslim world. Today he begins his “first trip” to Israel, and moves on to Palestine and Jordan. I suspect that President Obama may end up being an “uninvited guest.” I have good friends and have spent a fair amount of time in Israel, Jordan and Palestine.



[In separate remarks later today I will present my views on the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. But today we deal with Obama’s trip to Israel, and his ongoing stops in Palestine and Jordan.]



Unlike 2009, on his current trip Obama is not making predictions or promises. He claims to be “listening.” Listening tours usually precede a campaign or candidacy, or perhaps even adoption of a policy. Obama is admitting that in the fifth year of his presidency he has no policy in the Middle East. I am indebted to Amir Taheri for the timeline of Obama’s visit (please see link #1 below).



There is a sharp cleavage in Israel – which Americans rarely see in our own media – concerning policy towards Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu favors attacks on Iran. He shows all of the bravado of George W. Bush before 2003, when Bush was laying the foundations for the invasion of Iraq.



The Israeli intelligence community on the other hand has come out strongly against an attack on Iran (please see group link #2). Unsurprisingly, I stand with the intelligence chiefs. They have the better of the argument.



I am not a fan of PM Netanyahu but I respect his intelligence. Netanyahu knows that when Obama says he has “Israel’s back,” Obama’s promises are worthless. The American people are sick of foreign adventures and have no desire to trigger what could become a mini-World War III. It is very unlikely that the United States will ever launch an attack on Iran. Netanyahu knows this.



Adding to the instability there is no personal chemistry between Obama and Netanyahu. In fact, I cannot think of any foreign leader who has personal chemistry with Obama. Obama is cool and remote both to our allies and our enemies.



Columnist Amir Taheri suggests the scheduling of Obama’s trip “is a downgrading of the US relationship with Israel (link #1).”



If Obama is giving the cold shoulder to Israel, will he be welcomed in Palestine? Taheri suggests Obama may also be excoriated during his visit to Palestine. Obama has managed to anger both the Israelis and the Palestinians.



In the past Obama has made extravagant promises to Palestinians. But he has delivered nothing; in fact, he has delivered less than nothing. Palestinians find themselves fighting the US at every United Nations General Assembly. The New York Post predicts Obama may be jeered in Palestine (see group link #3). Rather amazingly, Obama has managed to alienate both Israelis and Palestinians. Could matters get worse for the visiting president?



They could.



Our closest friend in the region, King Abdullah of Jordan, admits that the days of his unbridled monarchy are ending. Abdullah’s “kingdom” is the last vestige of the Hashemite kingdoms that were established by the British after World War I in the 1920’s. (Iraq was another.) In a pessimistic interview Abdullah basically says “a pox on all your houses (see Link #4).”



In the past Abdullah has put his nation squarely behind the United States. The CIA operates its largest station in the region, perhaps even in the world outside the US, in Amman. The US Government has created a sprawling diplomatic and intelligence plantation in Amman – the command and control center of our Middle East operations. So, yes King Abdullah is a true friend and a real ally of the United States. He is a former special forces officer.



But Abdullah also realizes that in the long run the United States cannot save Jordan from the march of history. Abdullah predicts that in the future Jordan will become a constitutional monarchy, a nation state totally unlike Saudi Arabia today, where an absolute monarch reigns and where that absolutism shows few signs of flexibility and respect for the future sweep of history.



Before the 2008 election I used to get cautionary messages from my agents in the Middle East: “don’t criticize Obama, he’s one of us,” they would say. I told them they were mistaken. I knew better. Obama never confuses religion with policies. But after the 2008 election in 2009 Obama began to present himself as an Islamic savior.



In reality, there was a brief moment when Obama could have taken dramatic and drastic action. A substantial American force was still in Iraq and he was a new president. He could have insisted on a continuing US presence in Iraq, and cut the Gordian Knot of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But instead of taking action Obama only made sweeping speeches, and then did nothing, not unlike his way of dealing with his domestic “base.” Obama makes aspirational but vacuous speeches, and then fails to deliver results (as this is being written the Senate has torpedoed Obama’s signature gun control goal, an “assault weapons” ban).



Obama lives like an emperor in the White House. Truly he is a “king” in the same vestigial manner that King Abdullah views his own declining prospects. But Obama may not even achieve the legitimacy of Jordanian King Abdullah. Although the American president is obsessed with his “greatness” and “legacy,” Obama may turn out to have been a king of a different nature: Shelley’s King Ozymandias.



That’s why Obama is likely to be an unwelcome guest in the Middle East this week. The American people may have made a mistake in reelecting Obama; but our lives don’t depend on the outcome of his foreign policy. In a region where our foreign policy really matters, The Middle East, sadly for the United States Obama is just an unwelcome guest today.



[Andy has over forty years of experience in Asia, Southwest Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. He was in Iran and Afghanistan during the hostage crisis in 1979-80, and has regularly returned to Southwest Asia since then. He lived in Iraq in 2003. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during 1979-80, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future. Andy first went to Asia in 1967 and has lived in or been in Israel, Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.]



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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):



Link #1



http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/

real_message_of_mideast_trip_N9aa7WY76nyCNA83kRHmGM



Group Link #2



http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/09/03/

120903fa_fact_remnick



http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/movies/

the-gatekeepers-documentary-by-israeli-director-

dror-moreh.html



http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/

2012/11/the-gatekeepers-directed-by-dror-moreh.html



http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/03/17/

entertainment/arts/doc514397f9d6052192547561.

txt?viewmode=fullstory



http://m.npr.org/news/Arts+%26+Life/

172706218?start=10



Group Link #3



http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/

palestinians_slam_bam_kwv15DOLJX5c60mIUkNDWM



http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/

middle_east/in-west-bank-faint-hopes-

for-obamas-visit/2013/03/19/7275fbc0-

90c3-11e2-9abd-e4c5c9dc5e90_story.html?hpid=z3



Link #4



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/world/

middleeast/king-abdullah-of-jordan-has-

criticism-for-all-concerned.html



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WHAT OTHERS SAY:



“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”



“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”



ABOUT ANDY:



Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com



Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org



He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).



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[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]

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Chicago news conference: Andy Martin will lead opposition to Penny Pritzker as U. S. Secretary of Commerce

Andy Martin, Barack Obama’s original critic and America’s leading independent conservative writer and Internet Powerhouse, will hold a Chicago news conference today, March 14th to announce he will lead the opposition to President Obama’s nomination of Penny Pritzker to be U. S. Secretary of Commerce. Andy has opposed the Pritzker family for almost forty (40) years; he fought Jay Pritzker over control of the South Shore National Bank. Andy’s efforts helped block a bailout of the bank by the Obama administration. Andy now resides in New Hampshire where his nationwide anti-corruption efforts are headquartered.

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ATTENTION NATIONAL AND ILLINOIS DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



Obama critic Andy Martin will lead opposition to the nomination of Penny Pritzker for U. S. Secretary of Commerce



The conservative blogger and Internet Powerhouse says that putting Pritzker in the cabinet is like putting a swindler near a pile of cash; Pritzker previously had a hand in “busting” a Chicago-area bank



Andy led opposition to Jay Pritzker’s efforts to gain control of the South Shoe National Bank in the 1970’s; decades later Andy helped block a bailout of the Obamacentric bank



Andy says the FBI and congress must open closed court files involving Penny’s attempted swindle of her cousin Liesel Pritzker



Andy is already on the scene in Chicago investigating Pritzker’s nomination



Is Andy pointing to Pritzker family tales of “greed and jealousy?”



(CHICAGO, IL) (March 14, 2013) Republican corruption-fighter and Conservative blogger Andy Martin will hold a Chicago, Illinois news conference today, March 14th, to announce he will lead the opposition to the nomination of Penny Pritzker as U. S. Secretary of Commerce (please see group link #1 below).



Andy has been battling the Pritzkers since the 1970’s when he opposed Jay Pritzker’s efforts to take over the South Shore National Bank. SSNB later became liked to Obama scandals.

Another Pritzker-owned bank later went bust.



Andy’s attempts to block Pritzker’s nomination will focus on Pritzker’s attempts to swindle her cousin, Liesel Pritzker. “Penny was trying to swindle her cousin out of millions,” Andy says. “Come to think of it maybe Pritzker would fit perfectly in Obama’s ‘dream team’ of phonies, swindlers and incompetents. I will ask that Congress require Pritzker to open all of the closed court files concerning Penny’s involvement in the Liesel Pritzker scam. This is not only a business and corporate scandal; Penny’s behavior is going to fill the gossip pages with stories of Pritzker family greed and jealousy.



“Penny Pritzker is up to her ears, maybe higher, in family swindles, from the Liesel Pritzker family robbery to bank swindles and trying to buy influence with Barack Obama. I will lead the opposition to this disgusting example of corruption in Barack Obama’s political ‘family.’”



Andy is already is Chicago conducting further investigation concerning Pritzker. Andy previously conducted extensive investigation in Hawai’i concerning the Obama-Pritzker linkage.

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March 14, 2013 CHICAGO NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:



WHO:



Obama critic and American corruption-fighter and Internet Powerhouse/Conservative blogger Andy Martin



WHAT:



Andy Martin will try to block nomination of penny Pritzker to be U. S. Secretary of Commerce



WHERE:



Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,

Chicago (weather permitting; otherwise indoors)



WHEN:



Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7:00 P.M.

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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):



Group Link #1



http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/

breaking/chi-penny-pritzker-resigns-from-

the-school-board-20130314,0,5688451.story



http://www.suntimes.com/18852747-761/

penny-pritzker-resigns-from-chicago-

board-of-education.html



http://www.suntimes.com/18635237-761/

sneed-penny-pritzker-moves-closer-to-

obama-cabinet-slot.html



http://online.wsj.com/article/

SB10001424127887324906004578290361060042872.

html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLE_Video_Top



Link #2



http://contrariancommentary.blogspot.com/

2010/05/chicago-scandal-andy-martin-links.html



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Former Illinois Republican leader Andy Martin backs ouster of corrupt Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady

For parts of six (6) decades (1960’s – 2010’s) Andy Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois, New Hampshire and nationally. Today Andy explains why Illinois Republican Chairman Pat Brady must be removed in order for the Illinois Republican Party to survive.

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March 9, 2013



Dear Illinois Republican:



From the time I was a law student at the University of Illinois right down to today I have been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois. If you go to www.AndyMartin.com you can see how I led the fight to purge the Democratic Party of crime syndicate influence and helped send mob Democrats to federal prison.



But as an Illinois Republican I found myself in a party that was becoming increasingly corrupt. Party “insiders” were using a series of state statutes, originally orchestrated by former Governor Jim Thompson, to centralize party power in his hands, to prevent internal party democracy from flourishing. I decided I needed a change and starting in 2010 began a gradual move back to the state of my forbearers, New Hampshire.



I deeply love the state of Illinois, and will be eternally grateful for all that the state has given me and done for my family. But there comes a point when you have to say “enough.” When Party leaders such as Pat Brady and Mark Kirk are systematically destroying the party to retain their own personal fiefdoms, it’s is time to go. So I left, joining others who had left before me. (Our National/Illinois corruption-fighting office remains open, however, so you should feel free to report Illinois corruption to me on a continuing basis.)



New Hampshire is not perfect and – no surprise – I am fighting corruption in New Hampshire. But New Hampshire does not have the oppressive state-created legal structure for the state party that prevents party democracy. In New Hampshire, state committee leaders are openly elected. The process is not rigged in advance. In Illinois, state law creates an indirect, boss-dominated structure for the state party [see § 10 ILCS 5/7-9. County central committee; county and State conventions].



What finally motivated me to move to New Hampshire was that New Hampshire had neither a state sales tax nor a state income tax. Think about it. And, there was one more thing. When the state party closed its offices (under allegedly “great” fund-raiser Pat Brady) and moved the party’s headquarters “office” into Mark Kirk’s office, it was clear that the state party had ceased to exist as an independent organization.



I am delighted that some Illinois state committee members are finally trying to oust Chairman Pat Brady. Pat Brady has done more to damage the Illinois Party than any other individual.



I have a bias against Pat Brady, and I will discuss the source of my bias in Part B of this letter. First, I want to give you an impartial response to some of the nonsense claims Brady is floating.



A. WHY PAT BRADY SHOULD BE REMOVED AS STATE CHAIRMAN



1. Brady claims “Mike Madigan” is behind the effort to oust Brady as chairman. (Please see link #1 below). I don’t think Brady is on Madigan’s payroll - but Brady should be. Brady is Madigan’s greatest ally and asset. Madigan doesn’t need a few Republican votes to pass gay marriage. That’s a sideshow. But Brady’s ongoing efforts to sabotage the Republican Party and to make the party an adjunct to Mark’s Kirk’s compromised operations is what really helps the Democrats. So, no, Madigan is not behind the effort to oust Brady. Republicans are.



2. Pat Brady has bamboozled LaSalle County Republicans and other gullible organizations in the party into believing that Brady has voiced his “personal” or “private” opinions on gay marriage (please see Link #2 below).



First, the Republican Party state committee is not a private organization. The committee structure is created by and mandated by state law (see the state law citation above). The party’s central committee is a “quasi-private” organization performing a private function by virtue of a grant through state law.



Second, there is a large body of law on conflicts between “private” and “personal“ opinions and how to resolve the conflicts between personal views and organizational duties. Most often the “private vs. public” issue arises with public employees. Courts have ruled that when public employees voice general or unrelated opinions, they have a right to do so. When public employees criticize their public employers or try to involve themselves in public disputes related to their duties, they lose that freedom.



So Pat Brady is free to have a “personal view” on his favorite breakfast cereal, or his “personal view” of Republican politics in California, or whatever. But when Brady voices views and takes stands contrary to his own Republican organization, he does not have a right to play word games. He has no right to “private” views when he is performing his quasi-public state duty. The Illinois Republican State Central Committee is created by state law to manage the party’s affairs and to set policy (state law mandates a state convention, for example, and regulates how delegates should be selected).



In fact, the state law under which today’s meeting has been scheduled, § 10 ILCS 5/7-9 (h), is a provision of state law, not “party law and not Robert’s Rules of Order.”



Because parties adopt platforms to set party policy, the state committee would be fully within its rights to remove Brady for attacking the party’s state policy as adopted by the state convention.



B. THE BASIS OF MY BIAS AGAINST PAT BRADY



1. Pat Brady has pulled the “expressing my personal opinion” scam before. In 2012 Brady tried to endorse candidates in the primaries, claiming that he was expressing his “personal opinion.” But the reason Brady has been so bold with his dirty tactics is because he got away with it in 2010.



2. In 2009 I filed for the Republican primary nomination for U. S. Senator in 2010. Mark Kirk had already purchased the nomination for $50,000 in cash to Brady & Co. Kirk had begun his castration of the Republican Party leadership.



3. I did some “opposition research” on Kirk. Jack Roeser, who now masquerades in 2013 as a supporter of Bruce Rauner, in 2009 was obsessed with opposing Mark Kirk. Roeser had a radio program. He placed a tape on the Internet from the radio program in which Roeser accused Kirk of being a homosexual. I never accused Kirk of being homosexual, though many others have. I just pointed to Roeser’s tape which could be heard on the Internet (it has since been removed but I still have a copy).



I also researched Kirk’s claims that he was some sort of military hero and macho man. Unlike some candidates who talk trash, I always document claims and link to facts or evidence (look at the seven [7] links below). I put up a web site on Kirk’s bogus reputation (please see link #3) and I specifically pointed to a military letter showing there was no record of Kirk’s official service in Afghanistan (please see link #4).



During December, 2009 and January, 2010 I presented the facts about Kirk to the public. Pat Brady immediately attacked me for exposing the truth about Kirk. Kirk won the nomination. But, as I had predicted, Kirk’s lies would come back to haunt him and the Illinois Republican Party.



In June 2010 a homosexual activist formally “outed” Kirk (please see Link #5). The Washington Post exposed Kirk as a liar who had awarded himself imaginary decorations and “reported” on imaginary battles to Chicago media (please see link #6). Kirk was and remains a total fraud. In 2010, a landslide year for Republicans, Kirk was barely elected against a mob banker who helped finance Crime Syndicate hoodlums.



The bottom line: Brady had used his position as state chairman to suppress the truth about Kirk, and had willingly and knowingly misled Republican voters into supporting a fraudulent and flawed candidate, Kirk. Brady claimed he was only expressing his “personal” views when he attacked my campaign. In 2010 other members of the state committee did nothing to protect the primary process and remained mute.



C. BRADY’S LAST GASP EFFORTS TO DESTROY REPUBLICANS



The “usual suspects” from Jim Edgar to Judy Topinka are opposing Brady’s ouster. No surprise there. And Jim Thompson, who originally denied Republicans a vote for their state committee leaders, is also backing Brady. Rumors about Thompson abound.



After the 2010 election Brady packed up the Republican Party’s offices and moved them into Mark Kirk’s operation. The Illinois Republican Party ceased to function as an independent political organization.



Now (March, 2013) Brady has issued an anonymous “legal memo” to a Democratic-leaning newsletter (Capitol Fax) claiming he can’t be removed (please see link #7). An organization has the inherent power to remove a faithless leader for cause. There is abundant cause to remove Brady.



Every day that Pat Brady is in control of the Republican Party Republicans suffer. Can Illinois Republicans win in 2014? If Brady survives an ouster, fuggedaboutit.



Is the “get rid of Brady” movement really about gay marriage? Probably not. For years people have been watching Brady screw up the party and hand the ball to Democrats, and said/done nothing. Finally, it got to be too much. “Gay marriage” became the pretext to remove Brady. Removing Brady for opposing the party’s platform is certainly “cause” to oust Brady. But in my opinion the movement to oust Brady has been gathering steam for years. People don’t want the Republican Party to be in the back pocket of Mark Kirk. Kirk’s career is over (watch for my reports next week).



It is time to put an end to “stooge” chairmen in the Illinois Republican Party. It is time for Pat Brady to go. Three cheers for the state committee members that are meeting today (Saturday) to remove Brady. And while they are at it, they should take steps to adopt an elected state central committee, not an indirectly-appointed one (a movement I have strongly supported).



In closing



Because I have joined the list of those who have given up on the management of Illinois, I am expressing these views as helpful observations to those who remain behind.



You will still receive my “national” columns as well as any Illinois-related writing. Next week, for example, I will be visiting Illinois to take the “phantom senator,” Mark Kirk to task. But if you would like to receive our New Hampshire commentaries you have to ask to be added separately to our New Hampshire list (look at page one to see how to do that).



Best wishes,



Andy

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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):



Link #1



http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/18725143-418/

state-gop-chair-may-be-ousted-for-defying-conservatives-

and-supporting-gay-marriage.html



Link #2



http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/

2013/03/la-salle-county-gop-comes-out-in-support-

of-pat-brady-as-ilgop-chair.html



Link #3



http://www.markkirk.us/



Link #4



http://www.markkirk.us/images/kirk_letter.pdf



Link #5



http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=

news&sc=&sc3=&id=106870&pg=1



Link #6 (multiple)



http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/kirk-

fibs-about-military-service-go-back-years.php?ref=fpb



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/29/AR2010052903510.html



http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/06/kirk_campaign_mum_on_another_a.html



Link #7



http://capitolfax.com/2013/03/07/can-brady-

actually-be-ousted-this-weekend/



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ABOUT ANDY:



Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com



Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org



He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).



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