New Hampshire legislators attack Andy Martin with the “Andy Martin Act”
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(Manchester, NH)(March 23, 2023)
Dear Granite Stater:
I am in the midst of planning for my
return to Ukraine (more news on my Ukraine work coming a day or two). I was in Ukraine
in 2022. But I have had to take time out to address the hijinks of three
corrupt state legislators in Concord, NH.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives
is the third largest legislative body in the world, with 400 members. In this
letter I will focus on three morons who are Republicans. Their names have not
been changed to protect the guilty; Joe Sweeney, Joe Alexander and Ross Berry.
They have proposed what they call the “Andy Martin Act,” to make it more difficult
for candidates to run for federal office (no changes are proposed for the state
house fees).
New Hampshire likes to project a “First
in the Nation” (FITN) image as a bucolic garden of small towns and steeples,
wholesome natives, local charm and “granite” integrity. But the truth is very
different. The state is a cesspool of small-time corruption, corrupt petty politics
and media that are so dishonest they would shock even Donald Trump.
In this letter I would like to review my own
family history in NH, explain what the three morons have proposed as the Andy
Martin Act, and give you a refresher course on the political experience I brought
with me when I moved back to the Granite State years ago. I’ll also explain why
I believe NH has among the most corrupt media and educational institutions in
the United States.
1. I go back a long way in New
Hampshire
My family arrived in NH 107 years ago. My
mom was born in Manchester, graduated from Central High School and UNH. She
taught in Farmington before joining the war effort in WW II. My grandmother was
a founder of a Greek church that ninety years later is a thriving parish (https://www.assumptionnh.org/).
My roots in the state are deep.
2. The three moron state representatives
Joe Sweeney, Joe Alexander and Ross Berry
would not be public officials in any other state. Because New Hampshire does not
have a professional legislature (the pay is $100 a year) a few incompetents get
elected. There are also many sincere and competent state representatives.
The Democrats are part of the same make-believe
political NH environment. But they are far better organized and financed than
the Republicans. The Republicans are so incompetent that in 2022 they lost
working control of the state house even though they have a slim majority. Republican
voters are forced to endure the antics of Sweeney, Alexander and Berry, who are
an embarrassment to the state legislature.
The three have not apologized to me for
their stupid behavior.
3. What is the Andy Martin Act?
You have probably heard of corruption in Chicago
and the State of Illinois. Sweeney, Alexander and Berry would like to make New Hampshire
congressional elections even more corrupt than those in Illinois.
Today, a candidate can run for office in
NH by paying a filing fee of $100. To be sure, the low filing fee attracts many
low caliber candidates. In the last U. S. Senate primary, we had one guy that
constantly talked about his parents’ gas station, and another who wanted to abolish
the state of New Hampshire. There were several serious candidates, myself included.
Because I was the only GOP senate candidate with actual national experience, the
powers-that-be erased my candidacy and pretended I didn’t exist.
A pathetic excuse for a reporter, Kevin
Landrigan of the Manchester Union Loser, falsely accused me of being a candidate
who “issues an occasional press release rant yet never really campaigns in the
traditional sense.” (Please see attached excerpt of the article, as well
as links below.)
New Hampshire Republicans have seen me
campaign from the northernmost tip of NH to the southern tier. But both WMUR and
the Union Loser have blacklisted me and refuse to cover my campaigns, even
though they cover many unqualified candidates seriously.
Mr. Landrigan, who ridiculed my
campaigning (attached), has never mentioned me in any campaign article. I am
blacklisted by the owners of the Union Loser. So first they censor my campaigning;
and then they complain I don’t exist. WMUR posts voluminous information on
utterly unqualified candidates. I am never mentioned. Another blacklist. WMUR
is owned by New York liberals. The Union Loser is owned by, well, “losers.”
They don’t control me, so they pretend I don’t exist.
Even media in Chicago are not as corrupt
as New Hampshire’s small-town backstabbers.
4. What are the provisions of the Andy
Martin Act and how do they compare with Illinois?
Sweeney, Alexander and Berry want to
raise the filing fee for the U. S. Senate from $100 to $10,000. The fee for congress
would go up from $100 to $5,000. If instead of paying the fee you wanted to petition
your way on the ballot, a senate candidate would have to submit 25,000
signatures. For congress, 12,500 signatures would be required.
So, what does in Illinois require to get
on the ballot? Let’s do the math. New Hampshire has 1.4 million people, and Illinois
has 12.5 million, roughly nine times as many citizens. Illinois requires 5,000 signatures
to be on the primary ballot. If you multiply Illinois’ population ratio by the
fact that Sweeney, Alexander and Berry want you to file five times as many
signatures as Illinois, under their proposal it would be 45 times
more difficult to get on the ballot in New Hampshire than it is in Illinois! Now
that’s Chicago-style corruption!
Illinois also has something that Sweeney,
Alexander and Berry would import to Concord: highly-paid “election lawyers.” Once
you file in Illinois, “election lawyers” come out of the woodwork to challenge
your petitions. Did “L. Jones” sign the same way it is on his or her voter card?
Did Smith sign as “S. Auburn Ave,” instead of South Auburn Avenue. And so on. Election
lawyers create endless objections. Challenges to petitions often continue close
to election day. The potential for huge legal fees, and endless corruption, is
obvious.
There may be the odd lawyer in NH that has
handled an election case, but there are no “election lawyers.” Once you pay your
fee, that’s usually the end of the matter. But under Sweeney, Alexander and
Ross’ proposal, the Secretary of State’s office and the Ballot Law Commission would
would be flooded with challenges to candidate petitions. Chicago ho!
Now you get some idea of how arrogant, corrupt
and incompetent Sweeney, Alexander and Berry really are. Berry was quoted in
the Union Loser as a prophet, claiming voters should “wait for them to realize
you were right.” These legislators are not prophets. They are clowns who would
never succeed in any other state.
5. What Sweeney, Alexander and Berry
do not know about petition and filing fee procedures
Their proposals would benefit me and my
campaigns. The joke’s on them! When I file as a serious candidate in NH, my
campaigns are drowned out, as are the campaigns of all serious GOP candidates,
by the bogus campaigns of totally unqualified candidates.
UNH and St Anselm use the
bogus/unqualified candidates to defeat Republicans. They create bogus “polls,” using
the names of straw candidates while excluding my name from their sampling. They
then use their bogus poll results to hold phony “debates” featuring clown
candidates. The result: qualified candidates are drowned out and the state’s corrupt
media create a circus that makes Republicans look ridiculous and Democrats look
attractive by comparison.
6. So why don’t the Union Loser and
WMUR like me?
Why don’t the media like me? Because I
have actual national experience and media experience. And over the last decade,
I have been the state’s only political corruption fighter. I make the Union
Loser and WMUR look bad, like the small-bore operations that they really are.
Here are some examples:
In 2011 I launched a campaign to oppose Northern
Pass. I was the first statewide activist to do so, and started running TV ads
against Northern Pass. WMUR and the Union Loser were nowhere to be seen. Northern
Pass opponents eventually grew into a major statewide cause that defeated the
proposal for high voltage lines across New Hampshire. I was the firstest with
the mostest. PSNH, now Eversource, took me seriously. The media did not.
In 2011 I also fought to save The Balsams
hotel and 600 North Country jobs. The Balsams hotel had been left in trust for North
Country residents. But law firms in Manchester and Boston undermined the Tillotson
Trust and destroyed the hotel. I lost that battle and, unfortunately, as a
result approximately 600 North Country workers lost their jobs.
In 2011-2013 I warned that Jennifer Horn
was really a Democrat, masquerading as a conservative. No one listened. Horn
went on to attack local officials such as Bill O’Brien and Frank Guinta, the last
Republican elected to congress. Horn did everything she could to destroy the
state GOP.
Horn was also a crook. She ran for congress
and pocketed the tax withholding and payroll deduction taxes from her campaign employees.
The IRS put a lien on her house and Horn lost her home. Horn may have been the
most crooked state chair in the entire nation during that period. She went on to
grift hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Lincoln Project. Today Horn is
a Democrat favorite.
In 2014 I exposed that Scott Brown had
inflated his military service. The Pentagon agreed with me and canceled his grand
retirement ceremony. Brown was defeated.
In 2016 I exposed that Republican candidate
Jim Lawrence was running as a “small businessman” but his business had been shut
down by the federal government. He also hadn’t paid his taxes.
In 2018 Andy Sanborn ran for congress. There
were transcripts of interviews with victims of Sanborn’s sexual harassment, but
WMUR and the Union Loser had failed to obtain the records. I succeeded where
WMUR and the Union Loser had failed, and negotiated a release of the Sanborn sex
transcripts. He was defeated.
In 2020, I said that U. S. Senate candidate
Corky Messner was running the worst campaign I had ever seen. Messner got fewer
votes than any recent senate candidate.
In 2022, despite my fondness for Don
Bolduc, I wrote that Don could not be an effective candidate. Democrats agreed,
and spent millions to nominate Bolduc, who promptly became a national laughingstock
when he flip-flopped on the 2020 election (from “stolen” to “not stolen”). In 2023
liberals are still playing tapes of Bolduc’s gaffes. Don is a decent man and a
true patriot who was nevertheless not well enough to handle the stress of a national
campaign. I still believe he is a great guy.
In all of the foregoing elections, I was
the only investigator who dug out the defects of the unqualified candidates, usually
a job performed by newspapers and TV stations. I continually embarrassed the Union
Loser and WMUR, who do not employ actual journalists. Around the world and
across the United States, I have been managing political investigations for decades.
I really do have national experience. Which is why the Democrats are afraid of me
and use their control of New Hampshire’s corrupt media to erase my campaigns. Neither
the Union Loser nor WMUR ever mentioned my name in 2020 or 2022. They merely pretended
I did not exist, deceived their viewers and readers, and conducted bogus “debates”
with clown candidates preprogrammed to elect Democrats and defeat Republicans. Now
Sweeney, Alexander and Berry are at it, again. You get the picture?
7. My own electoral qualifications
When people ask me why I run, I run
because New Hampshire is the Peyton Place of American politics, a small state with
crooked politics and corrupt media where voters are shortchanged. In 2022 the
Democrats even spent money to nominate their own REPUBLICAN candidates for the U.
S. Senate and House. Democratic Party dollars were used to nominate sure-loser
Republicans. Once again, the Democrats’ dirty tricks succeeded, always aided by
the Union Loser and WMUR.
I have not been able to penetrate the Iron
Curtain of political and media corruption in New Hampshire. But when given a fair
chance to be a candidate I have usually run well. In 2000, I almost won the Republican
U. S. Senate nomination in Florida, yes Florida. My primary opponent was
Charlie Crist. Christ was very strong in the Tampa Bay TV market because of his
history as “Chain Gang Charlie.” But I still almost won the entire state! I carried
Miami-Dade County, where I fought corruption and cartels, by over 60% of the
vote. Statewide, outside Tampa Bay, the primary was close to a draw, in a state
with sixteen million residents. Voters responded positively to my candidacy.
In 2008 I almost won the Republican U. S.
Senate nomination in Illinois. In both cases, my vote totals are public records.
You can check the numbers. (You can even see old youtubes of me debating in
Illinois.)
So, in states with fair and honest elections,
I have always run solid campaigns. I don’t deserve the false accusations by the
pathetic excuse for a reporter Kevin Landrigan of the Union Loser that I do not
run active campaigns. If I wasn’t someone they fear, why would the Boobboisie
try to pass a law to hamper my campaigns? The Andy Martin Act is not a proposal
to encourage democracy, it is a scheme to subvert democracy in New Hampshire.
My work in Ukraine in 2022 was
universally respected (see columns at web sites above). I am still at the top
of my game.
So why have I run so poorly in New
Hampshire? After all, it’s the same me. But New Hampshire’s politics are more
corrupt than Florida’s or Illinois’. New Hampshire makes Chicago look like a beacon
of democracy. Because NH is a small state, no one pays attention. NH no longer has
an honest “newspaper.” There is a monopoly of one TV station. The Union Loser,
which pretends to be “conservative,” is really pro-Democrat. The New York
liberals at WMUR also rig the state’s elections for Democrats. The election results
speak for themselves.
In a state that is closely divided by party
registration, Republicans have not won a congressional election in a decade.
How could Republicans lose every federal election in a closely-divided state? Because
of media and political corruption.
Returning to the three morons, Sweeney,
Alexander and Berry, I say “bring it on” with the Andy Martin Act. I would
benefit. I have succeeded under both systems, petitions (Illinois), and filing
fees (Florida).
In Illinois, I filed petitions to get om
the ballot. In Florida I paid a filing fee. The morons’ proposal to adopt a filing
fee would wash out the delusional candidates and provide a less obstructed primary
opportunity for me to run. In other words, not only is the proposal by Sweeney,
Alexander and Berry an insult to Granite Staters, in practicality and reality the
Andy Martin Act would benefit - no surprise – Andy Martin!
I think you will agree with me that Sweeney,
Alexander and Berry are part of the reason why Republican control of NH is ebbing
and the party’s future prospects are grim. With “leaders” like Sweeney, Alexander
and Berry, Republicans in the Granite State don’t stand a chance. But as for their
proposing the Andy Martin Act, they would significantly benefit me politically.
Thanks suckers.
At least now you know the truth about New
Hampshire politics, not the propaganda featured when the state is desperately trying
to save the FITN.
Finally, I’m still fighting against political
and media corruption in New Hampshire, and for public integrity. I will continue
to do so. You can’t trust Sweeney, Alexander and Berry. But you can trust me.
Just compare my record with theirs.
Respectfully,
Andy Martin
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LINKS TO THIS STORY: (cut and paste
the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/state-house-dome-hampstead-inside-045900965.html
https://granitegrok.com/blog/2023/01/gop-elitists-joe-sweeney-joe-alexander-and-ross-berry-havent-figured-out-to-not-help-the-democrats-dig-a-hole?
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