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Thursday, October 10, 2013

New Hampshire media bias claim concerning “erased” candidate Andy Martin goes to court October 15th


Accusing the Manchester Union Leader of engaging in “Soviet-style ‘journalism’” by “erasing” his campaign for U. S. Senator, New Hampshire Republican Party leader and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will go to court on Tuesday, October 15th and file suit against various recalcitrant media that are publishing false information about the 2014 campaign. “The communists used to publish photographs and new reports ‘erasing’ people from pictures and stories when they did not want to confirm the existence of the erased people,” Andy says. “Today some New Hampshire media are following in the Soviet-style tradition by erasing my campaign. Love me or hate me, I am in the U. S. Senate race. New Hampshire cannot be a world class state when it is undermined by bush league journalism. If New Hampshire Republicans had a winning streak, maybe people could question my candidacy. But the current approach of New Hampshire Republicans has led to decades of losing elections and decades of party erosion. I have the experience to present a new approach, and to offer a hard-hitting challenge to Jeanne Shaheen. Local media that want to act as ‘Shills for Shaheen’ will be taken to court,” Andy says. “Why does my candidacy strike fear in the heart of John DiStaso and other biased media that are trying to ‘erase’ my campaign?”

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New Hampshire Republican leader and U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will file suit against New Hampshire’s “Soviet-style media”

Andy says liberal reporters will not be allowed to “erase” his candidacy for the U. S. Senate

(Manchester, NH) (October 10, 2013) Andy’s latest letter to the Portsmouth Herald follows:

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October 10, 2013

John Tabor,
President & Publisher
Seacoast Media Group
111 New Hampshire Avenue
Portsmouth, NH 03801
via fax: (603) 433-5760

DEFAMATION NOTICE: Request for retraction and correction

Dear Mr. Tabor:

On September 25th SeacostOnline.com (and presumably your print edition) published a story containing the false claim referring to my current primary opponent as “the first GOP candidate to announce his run for the U. S. Senate…”

That was a factually incorrect statement. I announced in May, I am a fully legally qualified candidate, and I have been campaigning actively. I hope to begin broadcast advertising later this month.

New Hampshire law contains provisions for “defamation by implication,” which covers incorrect factual claims tending to disparage the true facts. I think your false claim falls squarely within New Hampshire “defamation by implication” case law.

Tuesday, October 15th I will be filing suit against media that have made similar false claims. I am not sure if these errors are due to personal hostility against me, or incompetent media performance. The Union Leader will also be named; in the case of John DiStaso he is merely a mouthpiece for Jeanne Shaheen and he has deliberately and intentionally sought to undermine my candidacy. DiStaso can express his own malignant opinions; but he cannot publish false facts and seek to erase my candidacy from the election. The UL is being untrue to the Loeb tradition.

I can’t tell you how deleterious it is to the credibility of the print media, and media in general, when you try, Soviet-style (they used to erase people from pictures) to erase the existence of a candidate from the election. Whether you approve or disapprove of my candidacy, you can’t simply deny I exist and then deliberately or negligently publish false facts. You do a disservice to your readers when you seek to mislead them.

I have done the legal research. If you want to pay your attorneys to duplicate my research, please have at it.

I have a very distinguished record of public service, and I offer New Hampshire Republicans – who have been losing to Democrats for decades – a new and realistic option to recapture a U. S. Senate seat.

I obviously can’t predict what the court will do, but I have done my due diligence and feel we have a strong case for some relief.

I would respectfully request that you publish a prominent and visible retraction and correction and, if you wish, apology, for reporting false information to your readers. Failing same you will be named a defendant on October 15h.

Please feel free to call or otherwise contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely yours,

ANDY MARTIN

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ABOUT ANDY:

Andy is a legendary New Hampshire-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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Saturday, December 22, 2012

New Hampshire news conference today: Andy Martin may lead New Hampshire GOP

Andy Martin, America’s leading independent conservative writer and Internet Powerhouse, will hold a New Hampshire news conference today, December 22nd to announce he is considering becoming a candidate to lead the New Hampshire Republican Party at the party’s statewide meeting on January 26th. “The Republican Party in New Hampshire is broken,” Andy says. “The legitimate question is who can put the pieces together and start the rebuilding process. Even before January 26th the party has divided into two ‘camps’ or factions. I don’t see how the ‘establishment’ has any claim to leadership when it has lost 8 of 9 gubernatorial elections. The establishment candidate, Jennifer Horn, is totally unqualified and a complete flake. Horn is the Democrats’ dream. Likewise, I am a conservative, but I recognize extremists have become a chain around the Republican Party locally and nationally. The GOP has to serve the people, instead of expecting the people to serve us. We are servants, not masters. I begin my period of discernment with that perspective.”

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ATTENTION NATIONAL AND NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



Maverick Republican Andy Martin may run for Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party



Conservative blogger and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

says the GOP is broken locally in New Hampshire as well as nationally, and needs to “reboot” with leaders who are committed to pubic service, not political infighting



Andy is beginning a period of “discernment” and asking New Hampshire Republicans to consider and evaluate his proposals for party reform



Andy says the state GOP has already “divided” before the January 26th statewide meeting; Andy believes his experience and skills as a mediator can bring the warring camps together



Andy says Jennifer Horn is the Democratic party’s “dream candidate” for GOP leader



(MANCHESTER, NH) (December 22, 2012) New Hampshire Republican activist and Conservative blogger Andy Martin will hold a Manchester, New Hampshire news conference today, December 22nd to announce he has advised party staffers he may run to become the Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party.



“Superficially I maybe an improbable candidate,” Andy says. “But I am a lot more ‘probable’ than Jennifer Horn, who is the Democratic Party’s dream for Republican Party chairman. Horn is shrill, divisive and extreme on the issues. I don’t know Andrew Hemingway and I hope to learn more about him during the process. But Hemingway’s supporters have already moved to their ‘own side of the room,’ and are preparing to fight Horn. So the party is totally divided already.



“In the past, I have done well mediating disputes where opposing parties/factions would not speak to each other. I can certainly be oppositional but that is not the role I would play as state chairman.



“We need a healer and a uniter. We need someone committed to reforming the Republican Party.



“I have some ideas, and in the next few days I am going to put pen to paper and publish my ideas for Republicans across the state to consider. They can like or dislike what I have to say. But no one can challenge my experience. I went to work on Capitol Hill 47 years ago. Over the decades I have seen the ebb and flow of both parties.



“During 2011 I was Jack Kimball’s first opponent after Jack became chairman; eventually Kimball was dumped. Horn was Kimball’s acolyte. Then she turned around and stabbed Jack in the back. If Jack wants to bury the hatchet with me, I’m all ears and I will sit down just as soon as Jack is ready to break bread. I believe we can incorporate Tea Party views and values in the GOP. Jack’s supporters can play an important role in rebuilding the party.



“But I am unalterably opposed to Jennifer Horn. Horn represents the ‘death wish’ of the New Hampshire Republican leadership. This New Hampshire GOP ‘leadership’ has given the keys to the Governor’s office to the Democrats in 8 of the last 9 elections. These people are not ‘leaders;’ they are losers. Given their track record they have no right to look down on me or question my own qualifications.



“So, in a nutshell, what’s wrong with the New Hampshire GOP? Republicans have come to expect the people to follow our diktats, instead of us leading and building public opinion. The national platform has become increasingly extreme due to the work of Jennifer Horn and other extremists. While Horn’s handiwork has become more extreme, the State of New Hampshire has become more moderate. There is no way Jennifer Horn can lead Republicans to victory when she is out of step with current New Hampshire views and values.



“I know the right is always bellyaching ‘if only we had a more conservative candidate’ but in 2012 even Republican primary voters knew becoming more extreme was a suicide strategy.



“What we need is a unity strategy. Horn’s candidacy has polarized part of the party, and her sudden makeover as an ‘establishment’ candidate is doomed to failure.



“State Democratic Chairman Ray Buckley was being very generous to tell the Union Leader’s John DiStaso that New Hampshire is a purple’ state (link below). New Hampshire is blue, blue, blue. In 2012 the Democrats outspent the Republicans by almost 10-1. How can Republicans be serious contenders in New Hampshire when they are outspent 10-1?



“Ironically, in seeking to emulate George W. Bush’s guru Karl Rove, Democrats in New Hampshire and in the Obama campaign have ‘exceeded the master.’ Democratic Party technology today is far more powerful than that of the Republicans, which is why Mitt Romney lost.



“Mike Biundo recently had an excellent column in the Union Leader in which he compared the Republicans’ ‘ground game’ with the Democrats’ ‘ground game.’ There is no ‘comparison.’ Basically, the Republicans don’t have any game.



“Obama’s lasting legacy may be that he has left behind a technology platform and technology outreach that gives New Hampshire Democrats a massive head start for 2014.



“Obama has transformed state and national politics by imposing the Chicago style of perpetual campaigning on the national stage. Obama never stopped campaigning after 2008, and he is not going to stop campaigning until he is dragged out of the oval office in 2017. Republicans are deluding themselves if they think they have seen the last of the Obama campaign.



“Obama’s operatives had a lesbian rabbi in Concord try to smear me last year because Obama’s people were afraid I would gain traction in helping Republicans learn how to confront and campaign against Obama’s Chicago-style ‘machine.’ Kimball fell for the ruse, but I long ago forgave Jack. But unless New Hampshire Republicans learn to understand Chicago-style politics we can’t fight what the Democratic Party has become in New Hampshire and nationally: an all-encompassing, European socialist perpetual motion machine.



“My Greek-American ancestors came to Manchester 100 years ago. They realized the America Dream. The American Dream can still work and will work for those who are prepared to work and work hard. I grew up playing on Elm Street, around the corner from where I now live. Should I be selected as Chairman I will constantly endeavor to do honor to my ancestors’ legacy of love for this great nation and this great state.



“I am going to give the question of seeking the Chairmanship serious thought and discernment. My decision will come next week.



“In the meantime, people are welcome to write or call me. I try to personally answer the phone during the day. I would be accessible as chairman.



“If I do decide to become a candidate for party chairman I will be a candidate with new ideas. I will challenge Horn and Hemingway to a series of statewide debates before January 26th so we can see if they have new ideas, or whether they are peddling the same old strategies that have made the New Hampshire GOP a laughingstock in New Hampshire.”



December 22nd Manchester, NH news conference details:



Who:



New Hampshire Republican Party activist Andy Martin



What:



Andy Martin says he may run for Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party



Where:



Manchester, NH; One City Hall Plaza (entrance to City Hall), Manchester, NH 03101



When:



Saturday, December 22nd, 2012; 12:00 noon

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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 New Hampshire 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River. He has forty-four 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.



Andy has been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years. [www.AndyMartin.com] 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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