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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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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Internet Powerhouse and Conservative blogger Andy Martin says “Three cheers for the Illinois Center Right Coalition”

Internet Powerhouse and Conservative blogger Andy Martin says the June 30 convention of the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) in Elgin offers some hope for reform of the Illinois Republican Party. The ICRC has called for the removal of state Republican Chairman Pat Brady. Andy noted that Republicans nationally consider the Illinois Republican Party a disgrace.

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Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin salutes the Illinois Center Right Coalition (“ICRC”) on its June 30th convention



Andy says the ICRC is the only Illinois conservative organization that has called for the removal of the Illinois Republican Party’s corrupt and incompetent leadership



Andy compares today’s Illinois Republican Party structure to a prison “chain gang” which is run by corrupt lawyers in Chicago and a former prison guard who intimidates downstate Republicans



Andy notes that Illinois Republican leaders were recently caught in a criminal money-laundering scheme orchestrated by wealthy Chicago businessman Ken Griffin and his wife Anne



(CHICAGO)(June 30, 2012) Internet Powerhouse and Conservative blogger Andy Martin says the Illinois Center Right Coalition (“ICRC”) is the only organized political committee that has called for removal of Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady and his cabal. “Truly, the ICRC has lit a candle in the deepest darkness,” Andy says.



“Today the Illinois Republican Party does not even have an office. It is a ‘shadow’ political organization that exists solely on paper by virtue of state law and runs with only a phone number, fax machine and post office box.



“The Illinois Republican Party is a thugocracy run like a prison chain gang by former prison guard Randy Pollard, who is the downstate ‘enforcer’ for the Chicago-based ‘Combine’ of corrupt Republican and Democratic Party business interests. Pat Brady is their front man.



“Not every Republican official is corrupt. Many are just timid. They are afraid to speak up and challenge the disgraceful performance of Illinois Republicans. In 2010 they couldn't even stop a governor that promised to raise taxes if he was reelected (Pat Quinn). The state legislative leadership is corrupt, incompetent and just plain pathetic.



“Illinois Democrats have scorn and contempt for Republicans.



“At a recent Republican ‘state convention,’ delegates were ‘elected’ in secret, in violation of state law. The ‘highlight’ of the ‘convention’ was childish name-calling by Brady. No real voting was allowed by the delegates and party reform efforts were stifled and stymied.



“While the ICRC is far from a powerful operation, the fact that any conservatives has the guts and grit to stand up and expose the obvious, that the Republican Party is corrupt from Pat Brady on down to Randy Pollard and his downstate punks, stands as a testament to the painful truth and reality. Most self-proclaimed ‘conservatives’ just wait quietly for any crumbs that fall from the high tables of corruption in Chicago.



“I hope the ICRC will not bend in the face of financial pressure from senile former-conservative-and-today-Mark-Kirk-love-bug Jack Roeser and others. Roeser threw the ICRC convention on the street after the ICRC advocated for Brady’s removal. Roeser, Brady, Pollard and Pollard’s downstate castratos make a joke of the term ‘conservative.’



“Recently the Illinois Republican leadership was caught in a criminal money laundering scheme orchestrated by Chicago businessman and political wannabe Ken Griffin and his wife Anne. I hope the ICRC passes a resolution today condemning Griffin for further corrupting the party with criminal cash. What were the Griffins thinking?



“Onward ICRC. Reforming Illinois politics is not easy, but it is a never-ending necessity. Stay true to the course of trying to ‘repeal and reform’ the Illinois Republican Party. Now where have I heard that phrase before?



“Finally, we should remember the ultimate ignominy for Illinois Republican leaders: they are the jokers who gave the nation Barack Obama for president. Without Illinois Republican Party corruption and connivance Obama would never have become a national ‘leader,’” Andy observes. “Go ICRC.”



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Andy Martin comments on the 2012 Illinois Republican Party State Convention (June 8-9)

Illinois corruption-fighter and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin talks about corruption inside the Illinois Republican Party and describes Andy’s efforts to fight for a democratic and representative state central committee elected by Republican primary voters.

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June 7, 2012

Dear Republican:

Tomorrow (Friday) the Illinois Republican Party (“IRP”) will begin a two-day “state convention.” The convention may be illegal.

The list of delegates is secret. Who are we hiding the names and addresses of delegates from? Why the secrecy? (Secrecy is a regular feature of IRP state conventions.) Sadly, corrupt Republican Party insiders are hiding the names and addresses of delegates from us, ordinary Main Street Republicans. These crooked insiders don’t want us to know who the delegates are so we can ask the delegates to let our voices be heard. It’s as simple and sad as that. Party insiders are trying to muzzle Republican voices.

More importantly, state law is blatantly being violated. Illinois state law requires delegates to be chosen at a county convention. (You can read the state law in my lawsuit attached to this email.) Almost all of the current delegates were not chosen at a county convention. Their appointment was illegal. (Note to potential criminal defendants: if you try to doctor your county records to falsify when and how your delegates were chosen for the 2012 state convention, falsification of your party’s local records could land you a taxpayer-paid vacation next to Governors George Ryan or Rod Blagojevich.)

I have filed a lawsuit to invalidate both the secret list of delegates and to reverse the unlawful delegate selection procedure. I am asking the court to order a new state convention with delegates lawfully and properly selected in accordance with the clear requirements of state law.

Lawsuits are often complex and confusing to read. But my lawsuit is simple and straightforward. I have attached a copy of my lawsuit to this email. Take a look.

Is there a pattern here? The facts indicate there is. The insiders have tried to choose a congressional candidate—in secret. The insiders have chosen “delegates”—in secret. They are conducting a convention with delegates chosen in violation of state law.

Do the insiders think we are stupid?  Actually, they do. They think they can get away with corruption and manipulation because they have been getting away with corruption and manipulation.

Are you willing to stand up and fight for direct election of a state central committee that would be accountable to local Republican voters in each congressional district? I am fighting to achieve representative leadership with state central committee members chosen in a primary election instead of being chosen by party insiders behind closed doors.

Are you willing to join the fight to protect your vote and your right to choose who speaks for you? If not, why not? Why would you want to devalue your own vote by letting someone else cast a “vote” for you?

I’m doing my share to fight to make the Republican Party the majority party in this state. The insiders are fighting to keep their perquisites and privileges and insider deals. They don’t care about a Republican “minority” or “majority” as long as they collect their own personal goodies. Under the current corrupt leadership Illinois has gone from a Red State to a Blue State. The IRP used to have its own offices in Chicago and Springfield. Today the IRP does not have an independent office anywhere. The IRP is led and run out of a post office box in Chicago (check http://www.weareillinois.org/contact/ to confirm that fact).

Again I ask, where do you stand? I ask you to Stand Up for Illinois. I ask you to Stand Up for direct election of state central committee members. I ask you to Stand Up for democracy.  If you don’t, the insiders will take your right to vote away from you. In some measure, they already have.

Best wishes,

ANDY

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ANDY MARTIN: I’m overjoyed by the large protests that greeted Glenn Beck in Illinois

Illinois political reformer Andy Martin launched protests against Glenn Beck’s coming to Illinois as part of an event sponsored by corrupt Illinois Republicans. Martin protested in front of the News Corporation headquarters building in midtown Manhattan where Fox News is located. Saturday night hundreds of demonstrators greeted Beck when he appeared to promote the Illinois Republican Party. Martin is overjoyed by the turnout, which he views as a mandate to continue fighting Illinois’ rigged election laws. Martin is opposing Mark Kirk for the U. S. Senate.

Corruption fighter Andy Martin is overjoyed by the protests which greeted Pat Brady and Glenn Beck Saturday night

Martin says Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart and other "outsiders" have no idea they are endorsing corruption when they do business with Illinois Republicans such as Pat Brady

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Andy Martin is "overjoyed and overwhelmed" by the large opposition to the corrupt Illinois Republican Party's charade at Right Nation 2010 Saturday night

Martin triggered protests by his warning to Glenn Beck to "stay away" and avoid links to Pat Brady and the other crooks that control Mark Kirk's Illinois Republican Party

Martin says Illinois Republicans and conservatives are frustrated and angry at the fraudulent election choice they have been given in the "Closeted Mr. Kirk"

(CHICAGO)(September 19, 2010, 2010) Illinois Reform Party U. S. senate candidate Andy Martin, who is fighting to stay on the ballot and is planning to run as a write-in candidate against Mark Kirk, will hold a Sunday news conference to express his jubilation at the vociferous opposition which greeted Glenn Beck Saturday night. Beck's appearance was delayed because of the protests. Martin is normally a Republican, and he is supporting the Republican Party slate with the exception of the "closeted" Mark Kirk.

"When I started the ball rolling to organize a protest against Illinois Republican crooks trying to raise money by using Glenn Beck, I had no idea hundreds of people would respond," Martin will state. "Many of the protesters were liberals, but that's all right. As an Episcopalian myself I was delighted to see an Episcopal priest on the front lines. Liberals and conservatives are angry and fed up with our rigged Illinois election system.

"2010 Candidates were required to file for office a year ago. The world has changed greatly in the last year, but Illinois voters are still locked in with and stuck with candidates who were determined a year ago. This is not democracy. Both Democrats and Republicans need to raise their voices in protest.

"We need an electoral process in Illinois where voters get to vote in warm weather, not in the dead of winter. We need to have candidates who are chosen closer to the general election, not candidates who are required to file for office a year in advance of the general election.

"Chicago media lied during the primary election and ignored overwhelming evidence of military fraud by Mark Kirk. Voters were fooled and rigged again.

"We need to launch a bipartisan crusade. I am not afraid to sit down and talk with liberals any more than I am afraid to sit down with my conservative brethren. If we are going to solve the problems of this nation, we need to come together. For example, we need to rebuild our manufacturing capacity; German manufacturing has shown the way to prosperity and economic stability in this regard. Manufacturing creates good jobs at good wages. Instead of trying to divide a shrinking pie, we need to rebuild an expanding economy where everyone has a fair opportunity to share in the fruits of our financial success.

"I may be a conservative, but I am a conservative who cares about the poor, and not just about the affluent. There but for the Grace of God go I. You can't be a real Christian without manifesting love for those in need.

"Pat Brady is paying lawyers to keep me off the ballot. Why? He knows Republicans want to vote for me, not the slimy pipsqueak Mark Kirk. Kirk lied about his teaching career, he lied about his role in the cabal that sabotaged the Republican agenda, he lied about his military service, he lies about everything. The man's entire life is a lie. He is a disgrace to every and any Republican who votes for him.

"There were many honest conservatives who turned out Saturday night at Right Nation 2010, and I respect and admire them. But they are being used and abused by Illinois' political shysters such as Pat Brady and Mark Kirk.

"Andrew Breitbart was way off base when he taunted the sidewalk protesters. Breitbart had no idea he was being used as a stooge by Illinois Republicans to legitimize their corrupt 'Combine' operations.

"I stand with the people of Illinois, and Friday I stood before the 'Tower of Power' in Manhattan at News Corporation headquarters and warned Glenn Beck he would be met with protests if he came to Illinois to act as a cover for corruption. He's better than that. And he was met with opposition. Saturday night, the People of Illinois stood with me," Martin will state.

Martin has a Monday morning hearing in Circuit Court seeking to reverse the decision of the Machine-dominatedState Elections Board. Martin has filed to run as a write-in if he is kept off the ballot. He joins U. S. Senator Lisa Murkowski in that regard.

September 19th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and Illinois anti-corruption crusader Andy Martin

WHERE:

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

WHEN: Sunday, September 19th 3:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin is overjoyed and overwhelmed by the protests at Right Nation 2010

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-----------------------------ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a "boisterous Internet activist," is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, "Obama: The Man Behind The Mask" and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the "Internet Powerhouse," www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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ANDY MARTIN: Gay media, organizations blackmail Mark Kirk

Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin says an interview of gay activist Mike Rogers which recently came to light indicates that Rogers does not consider “rumors” about Mark Kirk’s homosexuality to be “rumors.” Rogers says Kirk is gay. Martin says gay media and gay organizations were blackmailing Kirk: “As long as Kirk quietly pursued gay issues, he was immune from being ‘outed.’ Once Kirk voted against ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ gays exposed Kirk as a hypocrite and fraud. Kirk is subject to future blackmail.” Martin asks why Republican Chairman Pat Brady, who attacked Martin for telling the truth about Kirk, is still chairman. Pat Brady and mark Kirk are leading Illinois Republican candidates down the road to defeat. “October is going to be a very ‘long month’ for Mark Kirk,” Martin says. “Blackmail ain’t beanbag.”

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin draws attention to new evidence gay media and organizations were/are blackmailing Mark Kirk

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Gay expert Mike Rogers is quoted as saying “rumors” about Mark Kirk’s homosexuality are not rumors at all; they are an established fact

Andy Martin says an August 12th blog posting draws attention to an earlier blog interview on Mark Kirk’s homosexuality that may have been missed by many media

Andy offers Mark Kirk a new opening

(CHICAGO)(August 13, 2010) Gay news media and blogs continue to discuss Mark Kirk’s homosexuality:

http://adamfoxie.blogspot.com/2010/08/
but-mike-rogers-never-meant-to-make-rep.html

“AdamFoxie drew my attention to an earlier, overlooked interview that was even more explosive about Mark Kirk,” Andy Martin says:

http://www.edgeonthenet.com/index.php?ch=
news&sc=&sc3=&id=106870&pg=1

“Edgeonthenet.com featured an interview with Mike Rogers which has some of the most devastating accusations against Kirk. Mike Rogers is quoted as saying:

‘I thought everyone in Illinois politics already knew Kirk was gay,’ Rogers told EDGE. ‘It’s not a rumor and it’s not new. I’ve met the man. He is gay. I didn’t think this would even be a story and wasn’t seeking out coverage.’

“The author of the Rogers interview goes on to attack me for being a ‘right-wing extremist’ but that is typical left-wing nonsense. I am a mainstream Republican. No one says I am a ‘RINO’ like Mark Kirk. The only extremist in the senate race is Mark Kirk; he is extremely closeted and extremely contemptuous of Republican Party voters and Republican values.

“I told the truth about Mark Kirk in my advertising. Now the gays admit it. But the gays were suspiciously silent about Kirk until he stabbed them in the back and voted against the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’

“In effect, gays were blackmailing Kirk. As long as he voted the way gays wanted, they kept the ‘silence’ about his homosexuality. The minute Kirk betrayed them, they betrayed him.

“Kirk recently issued a ‘statement’ through his ex-wife Kimberly Vertolli, reversing himself once again and now saying he will now vote to repeal DADT. The blackmail continues.

“If Kirk was effectively being blackmailed before, as gays now belatedly admit, why won't he be blackmailed in the future? There is a lot more dirt on Kirk that we have not yet released. Kirk is a virtual ‘blackmail magnet.’ That is why I previously called on Mark Kirk to withdraw as a candidate. He is a complete fraud and disaster for every Illinois Republican candidate.

“Republican Chairman Pat Brady attacked me and said I was ‘not a Republican’ because I told the truth about Mark Kirk. Why is Pat Brady still Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party? He engineered a cover-up to protect Kirk; that cover-up has now backfired and endangered every Illinois Republican candidate.

“I believe in the right to privacy. I do not believe in demonizing homosexuality. Mark Kirk’s private life should be his own, as long as he remains a private citizen. But when Kirk tries to defraud Republican voters, and when Kirk is being blackmailed by gay media and organizations, then I think real Republicans and every loyal Illinoisan has a right to know the truth,” Martin says. “Blackmail ain’t beanbag,”

“If Mark Kirk comes out of the closet, I will support his right to run as an openly gay Republican. As long as he is a liar, he forfeits his legitimacy as a human being and as a potential political leader.”

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COMING SATURDAY: Andy analyzes and contextualizes Mark Kirk’s homosexuality, “The Tragic Case of Kimberly Vertolli-Kirk”

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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ANDY MARTIN sues to block Mark Kirk “dirty tricks” at Illinois State Fair

Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin has filed suit in Sangamon County Circuit Court to prevent military imposter Mark Kirk and his “dirty tricksters” from harassing Martin when Martin protests at the Illinois State Fair on Republican Day, August 19th. Martin refiled a lawsuit that he originally filed in 2009, in which a circuit judge ruled Martin had a right to protest at the gate to the Director’s Lawn of the State Fair, where Republicans were meeting. Martin is seeking an emergency court hearing. This is Part One of a two-part release. Part Two will be Martin’s request for an injunction. Martin, who has been an adjunct professor of law, is known as one of America’s most skilled and aggressive civil rights and constitutional law litigators.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

IN CHANCERY
CASE NO. 2009 CH 658

ANDY MARTIN,

Plaintiff,

vs.

MICHAEL STEELE,
REINCE PRIEBUS,
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
COMMITTEE,
PAT BRADY,
CURT CONRAD,
JOE WEISS,
BRIEN SHEAHAN,
JOHN FOGARTY, JR.
ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN
PARTY
THOMAS E. JENNINGS,
ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE,
MARGARET L. VAN DIJK,
ILLINOIS STATE POLICE,
MARK KIRK,

Defendants.

VERIFIED FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR
DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND MONEY DAMAGES

COUNT ONE

[42 U. S.C. § 1983 CLAIM]

1. Jurisdiction and venue
a. This Court has federal civil rights jurisdiction of the federal § 1983 claims (Counts One-Three) pursuant to established law, see e.g. Van Meter v. Darien Park District, 207 Ill.2d 359, 799 N.E.2d 273, 289 (Ill. 2003); Blount v. Stroud, 232 Ill.2d 302, 904 N.E.2d 1, 17 (Ill. 2009); Board of Education v. Board of Education, 231 Ill.2d 184, 897 N.E.2d 756, 766 (Ill. 2008). This Court has general common law jurisdiction of the remaining aspects of the controversy (Count Four).
b. Substantially all of the operative activity of the defendants concerning the facts of this lawsuit was and is centered in Sangamon County.
2. The parties
a. Plaintiff Andy Martin (“Plaintiff”) is an Illinois Reform Party candidate for United States Senator. He is a world-respected Internet publisher and columnist, see e.g. www.ContrarianCommentary.com. Martin is Illinois’ most durable and independent corruption fighter (see www.AndyMartin.com) and has helped send corrupt politicians and judges to jail.
b. Defendant Michael Steele is the Chairman of the Republican National Committee (“RNC”) and the de facto senior decision-making authority on the RNC’s Voter Vault (“VV”).
c. Reince Priebus is the General Counsel to the RNC and a senior legal authority to Steele.
d. Defendant Republican National Committee is the national organization comprised of representatives from each of the fifty states, including Illinois, which owns the VV and ultimately controls access.
e. Defendant Pat Brady is the Chairman of the Illinois Republican Party (“IRP”). Brady has made himself Plaintiff’s antagonist by seeking to use and abuse his control over the IRP and its funds to harass Plaintiff and to promote the activity of military imposter Mark Kirk. Brady, Kirk and the IRP use stooges such as Brien Sheahan, John Fogarty, Jr., Kimberly Vertoli and others to manipulate and control pliable members of the IRP.
f. Defendants Curt Conrad and Joe Weiss are employees of the IRP.
g. Defendant Illinois Republican Party is an organization created pursuant to the Illinois Election Code and comprised of indirectly elected “committeemen” from each of Illinois’ congressional districts. The election procedure for the IRP committeemen is created pursuant to state law.
h. Defendant Thomas E. Jennings is the Director of the Illinois State Fair (“ISF”), which is operated by defendant Illinois Department of Agriculture, an Illinois state government agency. Defendant Margaret L. van Dijk is the General Counsel for the Department of Agriculture. (If Plaintiff on information and belief has the name of the Agriculture attorney wrong, he will substitute the right name after discovery.) Van Dijk is sued in her personal/individual capacity for her constitutional torts; the Department is sued in its official capacity.
i. Defendant Mark Kirk is a campaign opponent of Plaintiff and is engaged in an active civil, and possibly criminal, conspiracy with defendants Steele, Priebus, Brady, Conrad, Weiss, Kimberly Vertoli and others to conceal Kirk’s military fraud and other fraudulent activity.
j. The Illinois State Police (“ISP”) is a police agency of the State and was involved in a fracas with the Plaintiff at the ISF in 2009. This is an official capacity claim against the ISP seeking prospective injunctive relief to ensure the ISP does not again become involved in the defendants’ machinations against Plaintiff.
k. Defendants Brien Sheahan and John Fogarty, Jr. are “election lawyers” and are paid by the IRP as hereinbelow stated.
3. Factual allegations
a. The State Fair “Republican Day” Controversy
A. The ISF promotes a “Republican Day” at the ISF. In 2010 Republican Day is August 19th.
B. Plaintiff is now an anti-corruption Illinois Reform Party candidate for the U. S. Senate; nevertheless, Plaintiff and his supporters wish to picket and demonstrate against the IRP’s activity on August 19th at the ISF at the entrance to the Director’s Lawn, as he did with court approval in 2009.
C. John Fogarty, Jr. and Brien Sheahan are “election lawyers,” a species of Illinois resident that engages in fraudulent political activity in violation of federal election laws. Sheahan is also General Counsel to the IRP and receives a regular pay check for that activity. Sheahan was involved in a “adulterous sex scandal” and was recently rejected for nomination as a Republican candidate. Fogarty and Sheahan have worked tirelessly to frustrate and undermine Plaintiff’s 2009-2010 and current 2010 campaigns. Both are defendants in a related lawsuit.
D. The ISF states that it recognizes the need to exercise constitutional freedoms, but then adopts rules and procedures that render constitutional freedoms meaningless.
E. Plaintiff seeks to demonstrate at the entrance to the Director’s Lawn on August 19, 2010, not in some remote location of the fairgrounds.
F. If past practices are any guide, the ISF seeks to quarantine Plaintiff and his supporters in an area which is remote from the Director’s Lawn, thereby rendering his protest meaningless.
G. The ISF restricts “Broadcasting Devices,” but imposes no standards on the allowance of audio amplification for the IRP itself or TV camera and radio recording devices. Thus, there is a double standard for the IRP and protesters. Plaintiff has two megaphones that he wishes to use. He has no idea if they meet criteria, or if written criteria exist at all, for the approval of devices. In effect, while claiming to recognize “protest,” the ISF renders protest virtually impossible through vague or nonexistent standards and coerced “demonstration” in remote areas having no connection to the targets of the actual protests.
H. In August, 2009 Plaintiff sought a preliminary injunction in this lawsuit; Judge Graves was unavailable to hear the matter so a hearing was convened before Chief Judge Patrick Kelley in chambers.
I. Present in chambers were Chief Judge Kelley, Plaintiff, an Assistant Attorney General (not Terrence Corrigan) and, Plaintiff believes (though he is not absolutely certain), attorney van Dijk.
J. Judge Kelley could not have been more professional, judicial, cordial and accommodating. The judge brokered a settlement agreement which called for Plaintiff to be able to demonstrate at the gate of the Director’s Lawn. In exchange for being at the gate, Plaintiff surrendered a request to use a loudspeaker. Judge Kelly’s intervention converted an adversarial situation into a proverbial “win-win” resolution where all counsel present appeared to leave the courthouse satisfied. Unfortunately, the good feelings generated by Judge Kelley did not survive the defendants’ behavior the next day.
K. As agreed by the parties before Judge Kelly, Plaintiff took up his position at the gate to the Director’s Lawn. Lacking a megaphone (surrendered as part of the agreement) and using only Plaintiff’s natural voice Plaintiff exhorted Republicans to reject Mark Kirk and support Plaintiff as the true Republican (in 2010 that would become the true anti-corruption Illinois Reform Party candidate).
L. Plaintiff was attacked at his gate position by Brien Sheahan, John Fogarty, Jr. and van Dijk (plaintiff is not sure where van Dijk physically appears in the process but she was certainly at the gate to the Director’s Lawn).
M. Fogarty, van Dijk and Sheahan called the ISP, who had not been present in court, and falsely alleged that Plaintiff was violating the law and that there was no agreement for Plaintiff's presence at the gate to the Director’s Lawn. Plaintiff was surrounded by a falange of ISP officers and taken into de facto custody. Being surrounded he could not leave. He was left with the firm impression he was under arrest.
N. Eventually the ISP allowed Plaintiff to call this Court and a second court hearing was arranged before Chief Judge Kelley, who reaffirmed his understanding of the agreement of the previous day that Plaintiff could demonstrate at the gate to the Director’s Lawn.
O. In the meantime, Plaintiff had been harassed, terrorized, disrupted and forced to abandon his protest location due to the need to return to this Court.
P. All of the harassment and abuse directed at Plaintiff was in flagrant violation of the agreement reached on the previous day by all of the offending parties or their counsel. In over forty years of litigation, Plaintiff has never experienced a situation where officers of a court made representations to a judge and then ignored those representations and lied to police officers about those representations on the very next day.
b. The Voter Vault Controversy
A. The RNC has created the Voter Vault (“VV”) as a powerful election tool.
B. On or about July 30, 2009 Plaintiff’s representative sought access to the VV.
C. On August 5, 2009 Plaintiff sent defendant Conrad a formal request for VV access.
D. Defendant Weiss sent Plaintiff a form to complete and Plaintiff completed the form and submitted it to the indicated fax number.
E. Plaintiff heard nothing from the defendants, and on August 11, 2009 defendant Conrad said he would "not be pressured into providing VV access.” VV access, of course, is time-sensitive. Conrad wanted to delay Plaintiff’s access indefinitely.
F. On August 11, 2009, in light of Conrad’s intransigence, Plaintiff wrote to defendants Steele and Priebus seeking access. These defendants never responded and were acting in concert and conspiracy with Andrew McKenna, Patrick Brady, and others who were and are subservient to McKenna and Brady.
G. Defendant Kirk was given access to the VV, thereby conferring a very valuable, exclusive “contribution” to Kirk’s campaign in violation of federal election laws. McKenna sought to make full VV access available to Kirk, but not to Plaintiff, to assist Kirk because of the hostility of Republican Party voters to Kirk’s extreme liberalism and support for gun control, infanticide and higher taxes through the Obama administration’s “cap and trade” statute.
H. Throughout the 2010 primary election process the defendants obstructed Plaintiff’s meaningful access to the VV and used the VV as a device to rig the primary in Kirk’s favor.
4. Legal claim
a. The actions of the defendants in seeking to have Plaintiff arrested at the ISF and in making false allegations of criminal activity against Plaintiff to the ISP were unlawful and unconstitutional.
b. The Court has broad equitable powers to fashion equitable remedies involving prospective injunctive relief against the state defendants protecting the right of Plaintiff and his supporters to protest at the gate to the Director’s Lawn on August 19, 2010.
c. The actions of the IRP, Sheahan, Fogarty and van Dijk violated Plaintiff’s constitutional rights and were intended to disrupt his First Amendment activity after said defendants or their counsel had agreed to Plaintiff’s protest activity and location in the hearing before Chief Judge Kelley. The defendants’ activity was part of the lifestyle and political modus operandi of Mark Kirk who uses stooges such as Kimberly Vertoli, Pat Brady and others to abuse and harass opponents and to convey false impressions to the media, public and, in the case of the ISF, to law enforcement officials. Sheahan and Fogarty were acting as Kirk's de facto agents at the ISF.
5. Demand for judgment
a. Plaintiff seeks money damages against the private (i.e. Illinois, non-state defendants except van Dijk) as the Court or a jury may impose for the 2009 fracas but for no less than $10 million.
b. Plaintiff seeks any and all declaratory and prospective injunctive relief to which he may be entitled against all defendants as to August 19, 2010.
COUNT TWO
[CIVIL RIGHTS CONSPIRACY]
1-3. Plaintiff repeats and realleges ¶¶ 1-3 of Count One and further pleads:
4. Legal claim
a. The Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee, also known as the IRP, is created and regulated under Illinois State law but is still a private organization.
b. In 2009, the IRP, Fogarty, Sheahan and van Dijk disregarded their agreement by counsel before Judge Kelley and used the ISP to harass and threaten plaintiff with arrest.
c. Plaintiff is entitled to money damages against the private Illinois-based defendants as well as van Dijk.
COUNT THREE
[FIRST AMENDMENT, U.S. CONSTITUTION]
1-3. Plaintiff repeats and realleges ¶¶ 1-3 of Count One and further pleads:
4. Legal claim
a. The ISF’s restrictions on sound devices violate the First Amendment. Likewise the ISF’s restrictions on locations where protesters may gather, which would normally be in the same vicinity as their opponents but which the ISF seeks to relegate to remote areas, render the First Amendment rights of the plaintiff on Illinois state property meaningless.
b. Plaintiff and his supporters seek to demonstrate in the vicinity of the Director’s Lawn using megaphones and asks the Court to strike down the ISF’s restrictions on peaceful protests as overly broad and vague.
5. Demand for Judgment
Plaintiff seeks declaratory and injunctive relief striking down the ISF’s restrictions on the location of speech, and the manner in which speech may be communicated (through “devices”). In the alternative, Plaintiff asks that Judge Kelley’s informal ruling of August 2009 be extended to August 2010 and that Plaintiff and his supporters be allowed to demonstrate at the gate to the Director’s Lawn on August 19, 2010.
COUNT FOUR
[PRIMA FACIE TORT]
1-3. Plaintiff repeats and realleges ¶¶ 1-3 of Count One and further pleads:
4. Legal claim
a. Illinois courts have adopted the concept of prima facie tort, see Pendleton v. Time, Inc., 339 Ill.App. 188, 89 N.E.2d 435 (Ill.App. 1st Dist. 1949) as originally recognized in Advance Music v. American Tobacco, 183 Misc. 855, 51 N.Y.S. 692, aff’d 296 N.Y. 79, 70 N.E.2d 401 (N.Y.).
b. The Republican Party defendants’ ongoing activity is a classic case of prima face tort, because their VV activity would otherwise be legal and is characterized by a desire to retaliate against, and gratuitously injure and destroy plaintiff because of his honesty, integrity and reform political activity. At least since Watergate scandal, “dirty tricks” have been viewed as an unacceptable part of political activity.
c. The Republican Party-related defendants (not state employees or state actors) violated Plaintiff’s right and access to the VV in an attempt to destroy his candidacy against the military imposter Mark Kirk.
d. Plaintiff seeks money damages against the Republican Party-related defendants.
5. Demand for Judgment
a. Plaintiff seeks the same relief as sought in Count One.
DATED: August 11, 2010

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN
NATIONAL LITIGATION CENTER
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-2639
Toll-free fax (866) 707-2639
E-mail: AndyMart20@aol.com (text only)

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VERIFICATION

Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to Section 1-109 of the Code of Civil procedure, the undersigned certifies that the statements set forth in this instrument are true and correct, except as to matters therein stated to be on information and belief and as to such matters the undersigned certified as aforesaid that he verily believes the same to be true.



ANDY MARTIN

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify I have served this Amended Complaint by email as follows:

tcorrigan@atg.state.il.us,
fogartyjr@gmail.com,
bsheahan@sheahanlaw.com,
info@kirkforsenate.com,
heffernanandy@yahoo.com,
info@ilgop.org,

on August 11, 2010

ANDY MARTIN

ANDY MARTIN: “Svengali” sex scandal may doom Mark Kirk campaign

Mark Kirk’s former wife’s latest confessions may force Kirk to resign as a senate candidate. Illinois corruption fighter and Republican maverick Andy Martin says the latest disclosures of Mark Kirk’s tortured private life may force Kirk to quit. Martin says the claim by Kirk’s former wife that Kirk is controlled by a “Svengali” woman who destroyed his marriage is only a small sluice of the cascade of new information coming into the public domain in the days ahead. Kimberly Vertoli’s admission she was Kirk’s political partner, and that she is a pro-Obama hard-leftist, may doom Kirk as a candidate.

Martin says Kirk has a far worse sex scandal on his hands than Jack Ryan, who was forced off the Republican ticket in 2004 (for the same U. S. Senate seat). Martin continues to investigate and publicize and analyze the truth about Kirk. Martin’s presentation to Republican primary voters in February said Mark Kirk is unfit for public office and is a disgrace to every Illinois Republican. That’s still true. Kirk is a joke; his sexual shenanigans belong on Maury Povich, not in the U. S. Senate.

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is going to go “McCrackers” over the newly-disclosed “McCracken Svengali” in his life

Martin says Kirk’s former wife is exposed as a liar and a phony; she’s the same as everyone else in Kirk’s inner circle

Where is Kirk’s other gay “Svengali,” John McGovern, when we need him? Buying a ticket on a slow boat to China?

ContrarianCommentary.com
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Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin says Mark Kirk’s wife has finally blown the whistle on Kirk’s secret life, and in the process exposed herself as a complete liar and fraud

Martin says Kirk needs to make a “clean breast” of his lies and mysteries concerning the women and men in his life

Martin says there’s more to come about Kirk’s homosexuality

The Kirk soap opera of lies, distortions, evasions and Clintonisms continues

Andy promises more to come on “Kinky Kirk”

(CHICAGO)(August 5, 2010) Just when you thought that Mark Kirk’s circus of lies could not get any more amusing and disgusting, the “McCracken” angle surfaces:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/August-2010/Kimberly-Vertolli-on-Mark-Kirk-and-Dodie-McCracken/

Let me start with a confession: Just over a year ago, in July 2009, I tried to tell Mark Kirk why he should not run for senator. I wrote a series of columns pointing out where we would be going. Even then we already had investigators fanning out and finding gaps in his military career. Although we made no disclosures at the time, we were serving Freedom of Information requests on federal agencies. We had all kinds of leads about Kirk’s personal life, and knew that the truth would eventually ooze to the surface. But in keeping with my “just the facts, ma’am” standard of accuracy, we kept digging for concrete evidence.

Later, in December, 2009 and January 2010 we devastated Kirk with facts and evidence. We loaded evidence from the Navy on our anti-Kirk web site, disclosing Kirk had never served in Afghanistan (hard evidence, go to www.markkirk.us). Ironically, some morons in the media said we were doing Kirk a favor by disclosing the truth about his secret life. Some favor. We ran ads drawing attention to “rumors” about Kirk’s homosexuality that were there to be heard on the Internet (hard evidence). We went back and researched the Mark Kirk-Dennis Hastert-Mark Foley connection (hard evidence). And, most devastatingly, we disclosed that Mark Kirk was a military fraud and imposer (hard evidence).

In keeping with the corrupt journalism at the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, I was attacked for telling the truth about Kirk. Pat Brady, who until recently was protecting a predatory homosexual fiend in the Chicago Young Republicans, Jeremy Rose, attacked me for exposing Kirk (and no doubt for helping expose Rose). Rose in turn was linked to--no surprise here--Mark Kirk.

But dumb Illinois Republican voters were not in a mood to hear the truth before the primary. They told me “thanks but no thanks,” and insisted on nominating Kirk for the senate. Now they are paying the price. You can accuse me of sour grapes if you want, but I am not motivated by sour grapes. I am motivated by a passion for the facts and the truth.

Unless and until ordinary Republicans rise up and reject the slimy candidates promoted by crooks such as Pat Brady, the Bradys of politics will keep supporting garbage like Kirk for high office.

I also investigated Kirk’s “divorce” and his “marriage” to Kimberly Vertoli. Kirk’s unsuccessful marriage was not in itself an issue; all of us have problems with former spouses and girlfriends (or boyfriends). That’s life. But I do have over forty years of investigative experience, as well as family law knowledge (taught the course). I came to believe that the Kirk marriage was a sham. Knowingly or unknowingly, Kimberly Vertoli had been a “beard” for Kirk’s private life.

It is also true that former intimates and spouses can continue to be on friendly terms. I was surprised, however, when Vertoli appeared at Kirk’s senate announcement a year ago. She was too effusive, and too defensive, to be real. We continued investigating.

Wednesday Vertoli dropped the “McCracken” bomb on Kirk. Ironically I had just had a similar experience with a former female friend. In denying one transgression she had confessed to a separate offense. Reluctantly, I was compelled to address that miscreance. Kimberly Vertoli was caught in the same web of her own lies Wednesday.

Vertoli said she would have still been married to Kirk if it was no for the “Svengali” Debbie McCracken. Why didn’t Vertoli tell us the truth in August, 2009? Vertoli accused McCracken of destroying her marriage and was quoted as saying: “KV: I think that if Dodie McCracken had not continued to be in our lives, we probably would still be married.”

That’s a pretty strong accusation. There was no hint of “another woman” in August, 2009. What Vertoli perhaps did not realize is that in making a clean breast of her views this week, she was essentially repudiating everything she said in August, 2009 and branding her comments at Kirk’s announcement ceremony as nothing but a pack of lies.

Vertoli also disclosed “we decided together to run” (for Congress), thereby adding more weight to her claimed role in his early electoral career. Vertoli said that Kirk’s homosexuality was not “accurately explained” as homosexuality (more on that Friday, see below); that’s a Clintonesque denial.

Vertoli exposed herself this week as an extreme leftist who intends to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, is a militant supporter of gay rights and may even be a lesbian herself.

All of this brouhaha is happening in August, when there is traditionally little (dare I use the term) “hard” news, which naturally places “soft” news at a premium. Kirk was already unable to campaign, except in small downstate burgs, without being asked about his imaginary teaching career and imaginary military career. Now he has McCracken to explain as well; he also has to explain why his wife who supported him in 2009 no longer is planning to back him in 2010 (she says it’s because of Kirk’s lack of support for homosexuals).

Kirk should have listened to me. I had a better understanding of why he should not run than he did.

Please fasten your seat belts; the Kirkster’s sexual charades have a lot more to come in the way of truth-telling and fact-revealing. Remember that others claimed they had evidence of Kirk’s homosexuality, and that the Giannoulias camp all along had a “homosexual” campaign ready to run against Kirk in the summer of 2010 (those predictions were made others, and not by me, in December, 2009!)

Hint, hint: Andy plans to be at Republican Day of the State Fair to make Republicans listen to what they refused to acknowledge last year.

Ironically, Pat Brady and Mark Kirk could have avoided all of this tsouris. I warned Brady that if he ran a dirty campaign against me in support of Kirk, Brady and Kirk would pay. They ran a crooked primary, and they are paying for it. If they had run an honest election, I would have supported the winner.

Amazingly, you don’t hear any calls for Kirk to resign. Yet. That’s because he is part of the corrupt “Combine.” When Jack Ryan asked to have sex with his wife (his wife!!!), Judy Topinka had Ryan flushed away in days. In the Illinois Republican party, sex with your own wife is a no-no; homosexual activity is acceptable. And they wonder why they lose elections.

Illinois Republicans and Chicago’s corrupt media did not want to believe the truth about Kirk when it was revealed before the primary. Now they are being forced to listen to the truth and
the facts, and to watch Kirk’s career careen into oblivion.

COMING FRIDAY: Andy’s Chicago news conference on “Kinky Kirk”

COMING SATURDAY: Andy analyzes and contextualizes Mark Kirk’s homosexuality

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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ANDY MARTIN says some Kirk critics fail to deliver promised “documentation”

Illinois Corruption fighter and Maverick Republican Andy Martin questions why documentation that was promised by a blog involved in a fight with the Illinois Republican Party has failed to materialize. Martin questions whether HillBuzz.org will make good on its promise to deliver “documentation” linking Mark Kirk to a sex scandal. Martin says that HillBuzz.org’s promise to produce documentation, and then failing to do so, is wrong. Martin says that Pat Brady, Mark Kirk and Lee Roupas have won a round against HillBuzz.org

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin questions why promised “documentation” linking Mark Kirk to the Republican Party’s sex scandal has filed to appear.

Martin says that some Republican critics promised to release documents to confirm their allegations against Kirk, but they have remained silent; “Whassup?”

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Andy Martin says that HillBuzz.org has failed to deliver on its promised release of “documentation” to confirm their allegations of Mark Kirk’s involvement in a Republican Party sex scandal.

(CHICAGO)(August 4, 2010) Last week a blog that was formerly very closely associated with corrupt Illinois Republican Party leader Pat Brady stated that they had “documentation” linking Mark Kirk to the Illinois Republican Party sex scandal. Read their own words for yourself and see if you agree with me.

Here is what they wrote:

Also this weekend we were provided with documentation on further collusion up the GOP ladder of command that proves members of Mark Kirk’s Senate campaign were complicit in this coverup, in pay grades higher than Roupas. It’s damaging stuff, which we don’t want to hand over to the Media, because the last thing we want to see is Senator Giannoulias. We’re giving Pat Brady until the end of this week to end this scandal by forcing needed resignations in the Cook County GOP. If that doesn’t happen, then we’re going to have to come forward with what we know…and it goes all the way up to Kirk himself.

http://hillbuzz.org/2010/07/26/monday-open-
thread-july-26th-2010/

As of today, HillBuzz.org has failed to deliver on their promise to release documentation if Lee Roupas was not removed as Cook County Republican Chair by last Friday. Roupas is still Chairman and no documents have been released. Since the original link above, the controversy has escalated with claims that Pat Brady has made anti-gay statements, triggering demands for Brady’s dismissal. But still no “documentation.”

Pat Brady is heading for a Republican National Committee meeting in Kansas City later this week. Brady’s defense in KC will be that “nothing happened” and that if anything happened, “it’s been dealt with.” Brady denies making anti-gay slurs.

As my readers know, my integrity is my currency. I publicized the claim by HillBuzz.org that they had “documentation.” That documentation has yet to surface. With me, I follow the truth, and only the truth. I don’t like to point out that Kirk’s critics have failed to deliver on their promise to release documentation, but that’s the fact. What gives?

I would rather be honest and point out a default by Kirk’s critics than let my readers believe I would endorse the tactic of making promises to release information and then failing to do so.

My own independent investigation into the Republican Party’s sex scandal is not linked to HillBuzz.org, and I will be releasing more information today after the Lake Forest Day Parade at a scheduled news conference.

As for HillBuzz.org, it would seem that they have reached a “put up or shut up” point in their attacks. If they do not actually have the Kirk “documentation,” they never should have lied and said they did. If they do have the Kirk documents, then the HillBuzz.org deadline for action has passed, and still no documents.

If you have information about any of this, by all means call my offices and ask to speak to an investigator. In the meantime, I am merely pointing out that someone broke a promise to produce “documentation” if certain conditions were not met, and the conditions have not been met. That’s a no-no in my book.

As of today, Pat Brady and Mark Kirk (and Lee Roupas) have won a round against HillBuzz.org. And that’s a fact.

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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Andy Martin sex probe helps break Chicago Republican Party scandal

Forty-eight hours after Illinois corruption-fighter Andy Martin launched a formal investigation into sexual harassment and abuses at the Chicago Young Republicans, Cook County Republican homosexual huckster Jeremy Rose resigned. Martin says the HillBuzz.org blog is also playing a major role in ferreting out mendacity and corruption within the Illinois Republican Party.

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin brings down the curtain on Republican sex fiend Jeremy Rose

Forty-eight hours after Martin opens an investigation and his private eyes fan out, Rose resigns and open warfare breaks out within Republican ranks
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Andy Martin says that HillBuzz.org’s “Freaky Friday” is approaching. Will Lee Roupas go, or will HillBuzz make good on earlier threats to release evidence linking Mark Kirk to a Chicago sex ring that is covering up Roupas’ corruption?

Republican Party sex predator Jeremy Rose resigns; who’s next to go?

(CHICAGO)(July 29, 2010) “On Sunday, I announced that we were launching a corruption investigation,” Andy Martin said Wednesday. “On Monday our investigators started fanning out. Tuesday sex fiend Jeremy Rose resigned.

“I start by congratulating the outstanding work of the http://www.hillbuzz.org/ blog that has been pushing this matter to the fore; in fact, it was HB’s accusations that eventually convinced me to devote the resources to a formal investigation. Within hours of beginning our field work, major media started joining the search.

“After all, we disclosed Mark Kirk’s rumored homosexuality in a statewide radio advertising campaign that began on December 28, 2009.

“We disclosed Mark Kirk’s links to the notorious congressional pedophile Mark Foley, in January, 2010.

“In January, 2010 we also launched a statewide radio ad that disclosed Mark Kirk was a military imposter. We laid it out in black and white. www.MarkKirk.us

“That’s a pretty impressive record of truth-telling in just the past seven months.

“We also told Pat Brady that if he ran a rigged, ‘dirty’ primary, we would take down Mark Kirk. Brady ran a crooked primary election, and he is paying the price for his dirty politics. HillBuzz.org and I disagree on Brady. Brady is just as crooked and sleazy as they come. Brady is a cancer that is eating away at the integrity of every Illinois Republican voter.

“I don’t care what a person’s sexual orientation is,” Martin continues. “Everyone should be welcome in both major political parties. But we cannot lie to the public and lie to each other. The potential for blackmail by mendacious Democrats is simply too great. I am not against Mark Kirk because he is gay. I am against Kirk because he is being blackmailed because of his private life, and jeopardizing the Republican Party’s chance of victory. I am against Mark Kirk because he is a liar and imposter.

“It is obvious that the Republican Party is more conservative than the Democrats. But we are also burdened with a surplus of hypocrisy as well, as the ongoing Rose-Roupas scandal confirms.

“I am certainly a party animal. But when you party with people at a political party celebration or events you owe everyone the highest standards of behavior and decorum. Jeremy Rose was incapable of controlling his behavior in public. Why was he on Lee Roupas’ payroll? Who was Rose blackmailing?

“I am often criticized because my political standards are too high, and too ethical, and I don’t play the same back-stabbing games as others. But that’s why I have an unblemished record of 45 years of pubic involvement without a sex scandal or any similar form of political embarrassment. You always know where I stand. Maybe now the Republicans who have criticized me for being too honest and too up front can see where their lies and cover-ups are taking them.

“Bottom line: When Andy Martin speaks, people take action. Media pay attention. Good riddance to Jeremy Rose, and now on to Lee Roupas and all the others who are linked to the continuing cover-up. If Kirk is involved, as HillBuzz.org alleges they have the evidence, he has to go as well.

“Our own independent investigation continues.”

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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Mark Kirk linked to explosive Illinois Republican Party sex scandal


Illinois corruption-fighter Andy Martin draws attention to remarks published on an independent blog after Martin held a news conference Sunday, July 25th and initially exposed Mark Kirk’s links to a homosexual/heterosexual sex scandal involving the Illinois Republican Party. Monday the independent blog confirmed Martin’s allegations Sunday.

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin draws attention to claims of pro-Pat Brady, anti-Lee Roupas activists

Martin says that the latest allegations involving the Illinois Republican Party’s sex scandal, involving homosexual and heterosexual sex, arre that Mark Kirk is involved in the scandal in a leadership role

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Andy Martin says that the latest allegations by persons with knowledge of the Illinois Republican Party’s sex scandal confirm Martin’s disclosures at his Sunday news conference

Jeremy Rose is the Republican Party’s homosexual predator who also preys on lonely heterosexual women

(CHICAGO)(July 27, 2010) This past Sunday I issued a news release, and conducted a news conference in which we linked Mark Kirk and his “Praetorian Guard” to the explosive Illinois Republican Party sex scandal.

I am no friend of Mr. Kirk’s, and some of my readers may have felt I was exaggerating because of my antipathy to The Kirkster. Not the case. I don’t mind inserting a little vitriol in politics, but I always try to start and end with the truth. That is why my credibility as a corruption fighter has endured for almost half a century. I tell the truth. There are no “Mark Kirk episodes” in my 45 years of public activism, where I was caught “misremembering” or just plain lying about myself. In the words of the old TV series Dragnet, with me it’s “Just the facts, ma’am.”

So here are the facts:

1. I do not know who is behind the www.HillBuzz.org web site. I know some of the individuals who have been publicly linked to the site by other writers, but so far as I am aware I have never spoken with anyone at HillBuzz or had any link of any kind with them. (That is why HillBuzz’s disclosure last December of Mark Kirk’s homosexuality was so stunning; I had already recorded the radio ad that would expose the rumors about Kirk starting on December 28th, but I was as stunned by the HillBuzz’s independent confirmation of Kirk’s homosexuality on December 18th. Nevertheless, there was no link between me and HillBuzz and, so far as I can determine, no leak of the contents of my commercial. They said what they said about Kirk independently of my campaign.)

2. Gay men often like chat up heterosexual women. Nothing surprising there. It’s normal. Jeremy Rose, who is at the center of the sex scandal, has been playing “straight” to appeal to women who know he is gay. While not everyone who attends Chicago Young Republican events is gay, gay men are firmly in control of the activities that are being conducted under the auspices of State Chairman Pat Brady.
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3. After my news conference on Sunday, HillBuzz posted the following on Monday:
Also this weekend we were provided with documentation on further collusion up the GOP ladder of command that proves members of Mark Kirk’s Senate campaign were complicit in this coverup, in pay grades higher than Roupas. It’s damaging stuff, which we don’t want to hand over to the Media, because the last thing we want to see is Senator Giannoulias. We’re giving Pat Brady until the end of this week to end this scandal by forcing needed resignations in the Cook County GOP. If that doesn’t happen, then we’re going to have to come forward with what we know…and it goes all the way up to Kirk himself.
http://hillbuzz.org/2010/07/26/monday-open-thread-july-26th-2010/

There you have it. Someone is independently confirming my allegations about the Kirkster and his “campaign.”

In closing, there are none so blind as those who will not see; none so deaf as those who will not listen.

My investigation of the Republican Party’s sex scandal and the cover-up continues. Just the facts.

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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