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Monday, October 23, 2017

Chicago news conference: New Hampshire congressional candidate Andy Martin charges the “Obama Presidential Center” is a Chicago scam and a “fake presidential library”



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Announcement of Chicago news conference Monday, October 23

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October 23 Chicago news conference details:

Who:

New Hampshire corruption fighter and conservative columnist/blogger Andy Martin charges that the “Obama Presidential Center” is a scam designed to delay public access to Obama administration records

What:

Andy says that Chicago and Illinois taxpayers were bamboozled when the city agreed to transfer precious parkland for an “Obama theme park”

Where:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash Streets, Chicago (weather permitting; otherwise indoors)

When:

Monday, October 23, 2017; 5:00 P.M.

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Andy Martin says the National Archives are failing American taxpayers by failing to explain how Obama presidential archives will be displayed and made available

Andy says that Chicago, Illinois and American taxpayers have been bamboozled by yet another scam designed to conceal the inner workings of the Obama administration

Andy calls for Chicago to reopen the grant of precious parkland for what amounts to nothing more than an “Obama theme park” of no historical or presidential value; the parkland was obtained through trickery and artifice, Andy says

(Manchester, NH) (October 23, 2017) New Hampshire congressional candidate and corruption fighter Andy Martin, who is in Chicago to celebrate fifty years of working on behalf of public integrity, will hold a Chicago news conference today to charge that the “Obama Presidential Center” in Chicago is a scam designed to delay access to the original records of the Barack Obama administration.

“Chicago’s taxpayers have been fooled,” Andy charges. “Friends of the Parks have been fooled, and the National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) is being bamboozled and manipulated to continue the secrecy which characterized Obama’s eight years of opaque leadership in the White House. (please see links #1 and #2 below)

“I am launching today am effort to force the City of Chicago and State of Illinois to reconsider granting park land for what is essentially a tax-exempt ‘Obama theme park’ having virtually no historical or scholarly value.

“I will be asking NARA: when did you know that Obama’s ‘Presidential Center’ was not going to be a ‘library?’ Why did you waste millions of dollars shipping and storing documents in a location where they would not be used as intended? Given that you now know that there is no ‘there’ there, how are you preparing to make the actual hard documents and records available for scholarly and media research?

“I see no evidence NARA has announced the time and plans when Obama’s actual records are being curated for display. No evidence of a time and place where scholars can show up to see the original hard copies.

“Bottom line: precious parkland was turned over to Obama for what amounts to a personal, tax-exempt ‘Obama Theme Park.’ The public will have no control and very little input. But, in return for a great big, but typical, Obama nothing, roads will be closed, causing traffic chaos, all to glorify the narcissistic ‘emperor’ of Hyde Park.

“If the City and Park District had known there would be no actual library there (please see link #5 below), the balance might have tipped against destroying a lovely park area, (please see link # 4 below) merely to allow Obama to obstruct a monument to himself and not a genuine repository of American history. The fact that Obama is already promoting his typical type of small bore activity (please see link #3 below), ‘community organizing,’ shows what he has in mind for the facility.

“NARA is letting American taxpayers down. They are misusing the tax dollars of every state from New Hampshire as well as the other 49 states. There are no publicly announced plans for the actual ‘library’ where the actual documents will be displayed. Why? Why is NARA stalling? Taxpayers deserve answers. What did NARA know and when did NARA know that NARA would have to create and construct an actual Obama library 700 miles away, and that shipping records to Chicago was just another Obama boondoggle?

“Let me be clear that I am not against online access as an additional option. But every museum in the world considers online access a supplement for and not a substitute for availability of the original, archival material.

“This is just another Obama scam, a typical Chicago scam and a worthless misuse of taxpayer dollars and precious parkland that explains why the city and state are bankrupt. They allow themselves to be fooled, they willingly abuse the public trust and play games with valuable public property. Finding out where the original documents will be available at a presidential library should not be a game of three-card monte. All we know now is that they rubberized the actual role of the OBC and schemed to create an actual library 700 miles from Chicago.

“Obama wants to delay the release of his actual records and erect a ‘pyramid’ exalting himself on the south side. But, with the library gone, traffic is going to fall precipitously. When you factor in the reduced traffic because the library is 700 miles away, the balance tips decidedly against misappropriating park land for Obama’s glorification. Friends of the Parks please take notice. We deserve answers. I am going to start demanding them.”

Andy will resume his Obama investigation and ‘excavations” in Hawai’i in November.

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

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamacenter/ct-met-obama-archives-20171004-story.html

[2]

http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/10/obamas-500-million-presidential-library-will-skirt-federal-standards-to-save-money/


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https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/obama-teaches-organizing-101-in-surprise-foundation-appearance/

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[5]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/park-district-agrees-to-transfer-land-for-obama-presidential-library-bid/

New citations after emailing:

ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin is a legendary New Hampshire-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. With forty-nine years of background in radio and television and with five decades of intelligence, investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, military and intelligence matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com; also see www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for fifty years and is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com.

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).

He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” blogging at www.contrariancommentary.wordpress.com and www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester, New Hampshire over 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 is New Hampshire’s leading corruption fighter and Republican Party reformer.

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Sunday, October 22, 2017

Chicago news conference: New Hampshire corruption fighter Andy Martin reminisces on his fifty years of fighting political corruption, which began in Chicago in 1967



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Adjunct professor of law
Executive editor
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independent authors/investigators

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

You can call Andy:
National (866) 706-2639
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Announcement of Chicago news conference Sunday, October 22

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Attention: daybook/assignment and Political editors

October 22 Chicago news conference details:

Who:

Illinois, national and New Hampshire corruption fighter and conservative columnist/blogger Andy Martin celebrates fifty (50) years fighting government abuses in Chicago

What:

Andy Martin celebrates a fiftieth anniversary of corruption fighting in Chicago and Illinois

Where:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash Streets, Chicago (weather permitting; otherwise indoors)

When:

Sunday, October 22, 2017; 5:00 P.M.

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Andy Martin reminisces on half a century fighting corruption in Chicago and Illinois politics

Andy says that the momentum created by reformers and corruption fighters of the 1950’s and 1960’s is all gone

Andy continues his efforts on behalf of public integrity, primarily in New Hampshire but also nationally and in Chicago/Illinois

(CHICAGO) (October 22, 2017) Andy Martin came from New England to play football at Illinois. He has stayed for over half a century helping fight corruption and broadening his base into a national and international campaign for public integrity. Sunday he celebrates fifty (50) years of fighting Chicago and Illinois state corruption.

“When I came to Illinois on a short visit I did not envision the state and city of Chicago would gobble up so much of my early life. Until I returned to my New England roots almost a decade ago I was actively involved in fighting the endless run of bad guys in city and state politics. On relocating my home, I promised to keep a presence in the city and state to keep an eye out for egregious abuses, and we continue to do so,” Andy says.

“The landscape has changed radically. When I went to the Illinois General Assembly in 1965 as an intern to work on a senior thesis there was an identifiable group of legislators who actively were against Daley Machine asphyxiation of the state. These great American became my heroes and my eventually colleagues, and motivated me to work for the public good, not just for private advancement.

“Sadly, today the ranks of corruption fighters and reformers in the legislature has dwindled to the point of disappearance. The citizens of Illinois are poorer because of that fact.

“Later in the summer of 1965 I went to the U. S. Senate as an intern to work on an esoteric project: an analysis of the conference committee. From there in 1966 I joined the reelection campaign of Senator Paul Douglas. Douglas was the greatest inspiration to me, and his efforts on my behalf changed the direction of my life.

“Finally, by 1967 I was ready (intemperate enough?) to stand up and stand out on my own and challenge the Daley Machine. When I joined the team fighting to expose corruption on the Illinois Supreme Court (the Klingbiel/Solfisburg bank stock scandal) that signaled the end of my prospects as a lawyer in private practice. And yet I kept moving ahead, working for legal reform and exposing the bad guys year after year and decade after decade. I have not won every battle; indeed, every battle was a loser from the start and had to be converted, occasionally, into a winner, such is the hydraulic power of corruption in Chicago.

“What I find most interesting is that you make no friends even successfully fighting corruption. The good people hide, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral-style, afraid of becoming exposed or associated with active as opposed to token opposition to the power structure, and the bad people just keep on going. There were a few genuine reformers in the legislature: Paul Simon, Abner Mikva, Anthony Scariano, Leland Rayson, Dan Pierce, Bob Mann come to mind initially. Who are the reformers today? In 1967, the “lakefront liberals” had yet to be born (Hyde Park was an outlier enclave); today the term is a hollow phrase in so far as opposition to Rahm Emanuel is concerned.

“Ironically, the media, which enjoy promoting the exposure of corruption, because it adds viewers and sells papers, have been sadly ambivalent against the people who are actually in the trenches fighting the crooks in public office. Media operate from the perspective that bad public officials are entrenched, and anyone who stands up to them is what Mike Royko called a ‘googoo.’ Now that the media are in decline, we don’t even get the kind of corruption investigations we got in the 70’s and 80’s. ‘Media money’ is gone.

“Even though I have lived in New Hampshire since 2010, I still get requests for assistance from Illinois. We are working on a couple of projects at present. Later today I will be leading a tour of the Obama ‘presidential library’ site, and addressing that matter on Monday.

“In 2009, I predicted the relentless escalating violence that plagues Chicago. I was a prophet without honor, but my prediction was unfortunately 100% correct. Violence at a level that was inconceivable in 2009 is routine today, and no end is in sight. Rahm Emanuel thinks he can laminate a glossy surface on the corrupt underlayment of Chicago, and tax his way to a prosperous city. Never in history has such a policy succeeded. So, there is a lot of opportunity for reformers and corruption fighters to take my place and that of the others who came before. Welcome to the fray. There is always new work to be done.”

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

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New citations after emailing:

ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin is a legendary New Hampshire-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. With forty-nine years of background in radio and television and with five decades of intelligence, investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, military and intelligence matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com; also see www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for fifty years and is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com.

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).

He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” blogging at www.contrariancommentary.wordpress.com and www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester, New Hampshire over 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 is New Hampshire’s leading corruption fighter and Republican Party reformer.

UPDATES:

www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA
www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin

Andy’s opinion columns are posted at ContrarianCommentary.com, ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com and ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs and don’t hesitate to let us know if you find an error.]

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