Andy Martin: Contrarian Commentary

: Name: Andy Martin; Location: Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

New Hampshire news conference: Andy Martin announces a statewide vote fraud hotline, GOP legal defense team ready

Romney’s Rangers, the Independent Mitt Romney Political Action Team led by New Hampshire corruption-fighter Andy Martin, will hold an Election Day news conference Tuesday November 6th to announce a statewide toll-free vote fraud hotline and the formation of a GOP legal defense team if election irregularities appear in Granite State voting results. Andy has been fighting in Strafford County and the New Hampshire Supreme Court to uphold a new law passed by the New Hampshire legislature that seeks to prevent temporary residents in New Hampshire from voting in New Hampshire elections. Andy will be voting at 11:00 A.M. in Manchester’s Third Ward (1528 Elm Street).

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF MANCHESTER, NH NEWS CONFERENCE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6TH

ATTENTION NATIONAL AND NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Romney’s Rangers, led by Republican Party corruption fighter Andy Martin, will hold a Manchester news conference today to announce a statewide toll-free vote fraud hotline and a potential legal defense strategy if any vote fraud arises

Andy has been fighting in Superior Court and the New Hampshire Supreme Court to uphold a new New Hampshire law that seeks to prevent out-of-state individuals from voting in local elections without first becoming legal New Hampshire residents

Andy says New Hampshire’s “same day registration” makes the state extremely vulnerable to vote fraud

Andy votes in Manchester’s Third Ward at 11:00 A.M.

(MANCHESTER, NH) (November 6, 2012) Republican Party corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a Manchester news conference Tuesday, November 6th at the Third Ward polling location (outside, on the public sidewalk, not inside the voting area) to announce a statewide toll-free vote fraud hotline and to announce he is prepared to go to court to challenge any presidential election voting irregularities.

Andy, New Hampshire’s leading corruption-fighter, has been a litigator in the ongoing battle to defend a new state law which seeks to prevent individuals from voting in New Hampshire without first establishing full New Hampshire residence.

“Unlike some other areas of the country, New Hampshire does not have a tradition of fraudulent elections,” Andy says. “But today’s election is a close one, and the temptation is always there. We are establishing a Statewide Toll-free Vote Fraud Hotline to accept reports of vote fraud or voting irregularities.

“I am also announcing that I am prepared to go to court and to assemble a legal team if an unusually close election results in contested election practices or ballots. Once again, other areas of the nation have egregious records of vote fraud and manipulation. New Hampshire thankfully does not have such a tradition. But we aim to keep it that way.

“I have been fighting in court to uphold a new law which seeks to prevent out-of-state citizens from voting in New Hampshire elections. The Democratic Party’s stalking horses sued in Strafford County to allow temporary residents to vote in New Hampshire, and Bill Clinton announced his support for such drive-by voting, which makes me suspicious Obama and Axelrod and their Chicago dirty tricksters may have plans for a little vote fraud in New Hampshire. So I am on the lookout for evidence of any voting irregularities.

“Because of same-day registration, New Hampshire is particularly vulnerable to vote fraud,” Andy notes.

Andy will also cast his own vote before his news conference.

Anyone wishing to report vote fraud voting irregularities can call (866) 706-ANDY.

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November 6th Manchester, NH news conference details:

Who:

Republican Party corruption fighter and Mitt Romney supporter Andy Martin

What:

Andy Martin will announce a statewide toll-free vote fraud hotline and legal defense effort to challenge any voting irregularities in the presidential election

Where:

Outside/sidewalk Carol M. Rines Center, 1528 Elm Street, Manchester, NH (the location is a polling place, which necessitates an outside, public sidewalk news conference)

When:

Tuesday, November 6th 11:00 A.M.

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

ABOUT ROMNEY’S RANGERS:

Romney’s Rangers, an independent political action team, is led by Andy Martin, 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, where he now makes his home. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” 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 local, regional, 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 New Hampshire, Illinois and 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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Labels: Andy Martin, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, David Axelrod, GOP legal defense team, Manchester New Hampshire, Mitt Romney, Romney’s Rangers, vote fraud

Andy Martin renews his September 12th prediction that Benghazi is the “neutron” issue that will defeat President Obama for reelection

On September 12th Republican national security and foreign policy expert Andy Martin predicted “Benghazi-gate” would “doom President Obama’s reelection.” While “Washington Republicans” were undermining Mitt Romney on September 12th, Andy Martin stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the governor and predicted that the “Benghazi-gate” controversy would defeat Obama. In his provocative pre-election analysis, Andy now explains why “Benghazi-gate” is the “neutron” issue in the presidential campaign. Andy also defends Mitt Romney’s nimble decision to let surrogates and third parties carry the banner on Benghazi-gate. Andy says his prediction on September 12th was the “call of a lifetime.”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Republican Party national security and foreign policy expert Andy Martin says his September 12th prediction that “Benghazi” would defeat President Obama is on schedule

Andy is a strong supporter of Governor Mitt Romney

In his latest detailed analysis, Andy explains why Benghazi has been a “neutron” issue and how Benghazi will bring down the Obama presidency

Andy says “Benghazi” has seeped into the election narrative without becoming a visible issue in the presidential campaign

Andy defends Mitt Romney’s decision to downplay Benghazi in Romney’s debate prep and closing arguments

Andy calls his Benghazi analysis the “call of a lifetime”

(Manchester, NH) (November 5, 2012) Republican Party national security and foreign policy expert Andy Martin was the first Republican to defend Governor Mitt Romney on September 12th and to predict the impact the attack on the U. S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya would have on the presidential election. His views:

I. The background to my September 12th prediction

I first went to Libya in 1971, soon after the Gaddafi regime took power. Over the decades since then, I have kept a close watch over developments in Libya. When the consulate was attacked on September 11, I immediately “connected the dots” and issued my presidential election prediction and public support for Mitt Romney on September 12th.

II. The criticism that the “media” are not paying attention

Partisans for an issue often believe they are receiving insufficient attention for their cause. That appears to be the case with regard to reporting on Benghazi-gate. But while others have criticized the “lack” of coverage I have kept my mouth shut.

I have been monitoring the spread of Benghazi-gate through the ether of the Internet. The spread of Benghazi-gate has been pervasive and ultimately lethal for the Obama campaign. If an issue has genuinely “not been covered,” then people should not know about it. But the people who need to know about Benghazi know all too well about the incident (see Part V below).

Benghazi has been both a highly visible issue and a “neutron bomb” that is exploding President Obama’s reelection without living any visible impact. Fox News has led the charge in exposing Benghazi-gate but other media have followed (see links in part [2] below for a small sampling). Jeanine Pirro has been leading the charge. Disputes with the CIA's version of events have been reported, as well as criticism of the “cover-up.”

A story does not have to be “front-page news” to have a dramatic impact, particularly when an issue has an esoteric appeal to a specific group of voters such as military personnel and veterans and voters focused on foreign policy. That’s why I now label Benghazi a “neutron” issue. I predicted on September 12th that the story would doom Obama’s reelection; that was the “call of a lifetime” for its prescience.

Since September Benghazi has seeped into every area of the presidential campaign. The attack and the aftermath and cover-up are mentioned constantly and, apart from the campaign itself, and the candidates’ own tactics, Benghazi has been a focal point of the last weekend of the election. What more can anyone ask?

III. Romney’s decision not to focus on Benghazi-gate

Governor Romney has come under considerable criticism for not making “Benghazi” an issue in the final debate, and for not raising the issue of Benghazi in his speeches during the closing days of the campaign. Instead, surrogates such as John McCain and Kelly Ayotte and others have continued to attack the Obama administration for its Benghazi cover-up.

Media often want a “fight.” That is why there were endless predictions Romney would fire back at Obama in their final debate after the confusion generated by Candy Crowley at the second debate.

But Romney proved a more nimble and disciplined campaigner than anyone expected. Romney has stuck to his positive views, and his economic arguments. In my opinion, Romney’s closing days of the campaign have been brilliant.

Benghazi would have diluted Romney’s economic message and muddled the stream of positive comments Romney is delivering. As a clear example of shrewd marketing and candidate “positioning,” Romney’s team was totally correct and the media and others were completely wrong. In fact, Romney’s clear and consistent positive message, when juxtaposed with Obama’s negativity and querulousness, is a prime justification for my belief Romney will win on November 6th.

In retrospect, Romney’s team’s counterintuitive strategy of assigning Benghazi-gate to surrogates will prove to have been a brilliant decision. Benghazi-gate will be on November 6th what I predicted on September 12th, the issue that doomed President’s Obama’s reelection campaign.

Indeed, Benghazi has infiltrated the media to such an insidious extent that people ignore the obvious. Saturday’s New York Post “Page Six” had a cartoon that showed President Obama pursued by a Frankenstein “Benghazi.” (I can’t find a hyperlink to the cartoon; if you find one, please send it to me.) All aspects of the controversy have received more than adequate analysis (see links below in part [2]).

But the article that crystallized the pervasiveness of the Benghazi issue for me was an editorial written by Jac Versteeg raising doubts about Obama’s handling of the Benghazi aftermath (see link [3] below). The Palm Beach Post is a liberal newspaper in a very liberal part of a liberal region (South Florida).

Any Democrat should know that when Obama’s judgment is being challenged in the Palm Beach Post, the president “has a serious problem.” Anyone and everyone for whom Benghazi would be a decisive issue in voting is now fully aware of what happened and how Obama evaded responsibility for his feckless behavior in allowing besieged Americans to be denied any relief.

IV. Andy Martin’s lifetime of national security predictions

Dan Balz, who is now the national political correspondent for the Washington Post, was my editor at the Daily Illini at the University of Illinois. At the beginning of 1968 I walked into Dan’s cube and handed him a commentary based on my knowledge of Viet-Nam. I predicted Khe Sanh would be a critical battlefield in 1968, and that the A-Shau Valley would become a renewed focus. Both predictions proved to be correct. Balz did not run my column because he did not trust my expertise. Balz was not the last person to ignore my work.

During the 1979-1980 Iran hostage crisis I was the only American allowed into Iran in 1980. President Carter’s staff ignored my analysis then.

In the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I predicted the invasion would weaken Israel and strengthen Iran. While living in Baghdad I became an early, if not the first, critic of Paul Bremer. I predicted the insurgency when the opposite view in Washington was that the capture of Saddam Hussein ended the conflict. So while my September 12th Benghazi analysis was the “call of a lifetime,” I have made many similar “calls” during a national security and foreign policy career that goes back to the 1960’s. Now you know why my views and analysis are respected around the world. I have a proven track record of getting the call right.

[Andy has over forty years of national security experience with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future.

Andy first went to Asia in 1967 and since then he has been in Israel, Jordan, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and Hong Kong. He was in Iran and Afghanistan in 1979-80, and has regularly returned to Southwest Asia since then. Most recently he lived overseas in Iraq in 2003.]

V. The bottom line: Benghazi undermines Obama’s reelection

President Obama thought his “killing Osama” meme would encourage military veterans and retirees to vote for him. Benghazi has turned the military and the veterans’ community against the president. Retired veterans are concentrated in swing states such as Florida, New Hampshire, Nevada and Ohio. The manner in which besieged Americans in Benghazi were callously denied any rescue efforts has disgusted our military personnel and veterans. Veterans’ votes will prove to be the margin of victory for Mitt Romney in several swing states. Count’em. Ironically, and surprisingly for many, Benghazi “grew” into a lethal weapon against Obama, a self-inflicted fatal wound to his reelection. And I predicted that on September 12th.

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

[1]

http://www.pr-inside.com/foreign-policy-expert-

andy-martin-mitt-r3374591.htm

https://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/

2012/09/12/foreign-policy-expert-andy-martin-

mitt-romney-is-right-to-criticize-obama/

[2]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/03/

exclusive-security-officials-on-ground-in-

libya-challenge-cia-account/?test=latestnews

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-

57536611/could-u.s-military-have-helped-

during-libya-attack/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/01/benghazi-documents_n_2059220.html

http://beforeitsnews.com/terrorism/2012/11/

judge-jeanine-hammers-obama-clinton-on-benghazi-

on-last-nights-show-mr-president-your-check-just-

bounced-2444554.html

Differing view

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/

post/obamas-legacy-the-blunder-in-benghazi/2012/

11/05/6ab73818-275f-11e2-b2a0-ae18d6159439

_blog.html?hpid=z3

[3]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/opinion/editorial-obama-administration-ignored-warnings-be/nSsYZ/

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WHAT OTHERS SAY:

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

ABOUT ROMNEY’S RANGERS:

Romney’s Rangers is led by Andy Martin, 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, where he now makes his home. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” 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 local, regional, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world.

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Labels: Andy Martin, Barack Obama, Benghazi-gate, CIA, Libya, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, Republican national security expert, Romney’s Rangers

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Mitt Romney Memo #1: Andy Martin explains how Mitt Romney bungled his response to Obama’s lie that “Romney wants to bankrupt the auto industry”

Romney’s Rangers, The Independent Mitt Romney Political Action Team led by Republican activist Andy Martin, is beginning a series of “Debate Prep” memos for Governor Mitt Romney. In “Mitt Memo #1” Andy exposes Barack Obama’s lies about Romney’s 2008 proposal to rescue the auto industry. Andy explains what Romney actually said in 2008. Andy critiques Romney’s response to relentless accusations that Romney wanted to “bankrupt the auto industry” in 2008, perhaps the wildest and most bogus attack that Barack Obama has hurled at Romney. Andy explains to Romney what Romney actually said, and compares what Romney actually said with what Obama actually did. More memos will follow. Andy exposes Obama’s “Romney wanted to destroy the auto industry” “Big Lie” with the facts, since Romney himself has never made an effective response to Obama’s fraudulent accusations.

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816 Elm Street #251

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Romney’s Rangers, led by Republican Party activist and New Hampshire corruption-fighter Andy Martin, begins a new series of “Debate Prep” memos for Governor Mitt Romney

Andy was and is a strong supporter of Governor Mitt Romney

Andy says Romney has never effectively answered Barack Obama’s bogus accusation that Romney wanted to “bankrupt” the auto industry in 2008

As usual, Andy is completely tethered to the facts, which the media have studiously ignored while endlessly repeating Obama’s “Big Lie” about Romney’s 2008 proposals

Andy Martin begins his new series of “insider memos” for Mitt Romney, since Romney’s own staff has failed to adequately advise the governor

In effect, Andy has become Mitt Romney’s own “management consultant”

(Manchester, NH) (October 16, 2012) Republican Party activist Andy Martin announced today that he is producing a new series of “Mitt Memos,” in which he guides the candidate on how to deal with problems in Romney’s campaign.

Mitt Memo #1: Romney never proposed “bankrupting” the auto industry

1. The background to Barack Obama’s false accusation

A. In 2005 I published a column proposing that General Motors file for bankruptcy (the column is not independently online but you can read it at the bottom of footnote/link [2] below. My column created a stir in the auto industry and received considerable attention for its dramatic conclusions and proposal, see link/footnote [3] below. What made my observations particularly trenchant is that I consider myself a friend of the UAW (United Auto Workers), not an enemy, and it was a painful analysis to present to GM workers.

B. In 2008, during the fall financial crisis, Mitt Romney published an op-ed column on the auto industry, see footnote/link [1] below. The New York Times, not Romney, gave the article the misleading headline “Let Detroit go bankrupt.” Romney’s column may be the least read and most misconstrued op-ed remarks in history. Barack Obama uses the column to suggest that Romney is anti-auto and wanted to “bankrupt” the industry. Nothing could be further from the facts, all of which are contained within Romney’s own column. (Read the full column and judge for yourself whether my characterization is a fair one.) Ironically, Romney proposed in 2008 the exact approach which I had recommended in 2005!

C. What Romney said was the following:

“The American auto industry is vital to our national interest as an employer and as a hub for manufacturing. A managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs…The federal government should provide guarantees for post-bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk.”

Romney also said:

“I believe the federal government should invest substantially more in basic research…The federal government should also rectify the imbedded tax penalties that favor foreign car makers.”

Do any of Romney’s remarks sound “anti-auto?” Thank you. Then why has Romney allowed Obama to lie and lie and lie about Romney’s proposal to rescue the auto industry in 2008?

D. So what is a “managed bankruptcy?” There are two types of bankruptcy proceedings. In Chapter 7, failed firms are liquidated and their assets are sold off. The business ends. In Chapter 11, firms are reorganized under court supervision, labor contracts are usually modified, excess assets are sold and the business is placed on a sound financial footing. Over the years, skillful lawyers created “managed bankruptcy” proceedings, where the financial deals were cut before the bankruptcy case was actually filed, and the creditors knew what was going to happen and what they were going to get in advance. Managed bankruptcies are used to avoid the uncertainty and delay that can sometimes take place in an unstructured proceeding.

E. What President Obama did in early 2009 is to exactly and precisely follow Mitt Romney’s suggestions, and arrange managed bankruptcies for GM and Chrysler, with one major exception. Instead of protecting creditors and auto workers as a whole, Obama only protected UAW workers. GM auto workers that were not UAW members were thrown on the street. Workers from other industries who had invested their pension money in the auto industry saw their pension assets diminished so that the UAW could receive special compensation and indemnity. In other words, Obama rewarded his friends, and stole from people who didn’t know the president was raiding their pocketbooks.

2. The problem Romney faces

Governor, you have badly bungled Barack Obama’ accusation that you wanted to “bankrupt” and destroy the auto industry. Perhaps more than any issue Obama’s auto industry accusation accounts for your inability to take a strong lead in the race against the president. Obama’s accusation that you were anti-auto and wanted to bankrupt and destroy the auto industry is perhaps one of the biggest lies, if not the biggest lie, in the history of American politics. And yet you have let Obama and his stooges get away with their nonsense, and allowed the lie to be propagated over and over again by the media.

3. My proposed answer for Romney at the debate

Thank you for your question. In 2009, President Obama did exactly what I proposed to rescue the auto industry in my column in 2008. Since then, President Obama and his supporters have lied (“misrepresented?”) my 2008 proposal to rescue the auto industry, and have lied about what I proposed and what they did, because my 2008 proposal precisely tracked what the president did in 2009.

I proposed “managed bankruptcies” for GM and Chrysler. What did Obama do? He arranged managed bankruptcies for GM and Chrysler. Obama’s attempt to suggest I wanted to destroy or dismantle the auto industry is a Big Lie, perhaps the Biggest Lie ever in American politics. The “managed bankruptcy” which I proposed is exactly what the president did. The financial agreements were worked out in advance of filing the proceedings in the bankruptcy court, and both GM and Chrysler were saved exactly as I had outlined. I wish Barack Obama would start telling the truth abut what I proposed and what he did, and stop lying about me and stop lying about what I proposed in 2008. Obama’s claim that I was “anti-auto” is a disgrace to him personally and to his supporters that constantly repeat the big lie. You can read my column and see for yourself how Obama has distorted the truth. Only a desperate candidate lies about his opponent. What does that say about the president? How can you trust someone who distorts the truth and the facts the way the president has?

4. Closing observations by Andy

Romney can prepare his response to make it slightly softer, but the facts are the facts. Both the liberal media and Obama and his stooges have blatantly lied about Mitt Romney’s 2008 proposal to rescue the auto industry. They have used a misleading headline which Romney did not write, and ignored what Romney actually did write. Romney has allowed himself to be a punching bag for Obama’s lies. When is Romany going to call out the president and expose Obama’s lies? Maybe tonight.

Mitt Romney is a decent man who made the same auto industry proposal in 2008 that I had made in 2005. Romney has been vilified by the media, none of whom have read his original remarks. The media have failed to expose Obama’s lies and distortions. What does that tell you about the media?

Tuesday night, take off the gloves Mitt. Memo # 2 will soon follow. And then #3.

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

[1]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/

opinion/19romney.html

[2]

http://contrariancommentary.blogspot.com/

2008/11/general-motors-should-file-for.html

[3]

http://www.leftlanenews.com/gm-bankruptcy-

not-a-good-option-market-share-25-year-low.html

http://www.leftlanenews.com/coulmn-general-

motors-should-file-for-bankruptcy.html

http://edu.cqdx.gov.cn/bmw/24683.html

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WHAT OTHERS SAY:

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

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

ABOUT ROMNEY’S RANGERS:

Romney’s Rangers, an independent political action team, is led by Andy Martin, 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, where he now makes his home. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” 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 local, regional, 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 New Hampshire, Illinois and 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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Labels: Andy Martin, auto industry, bankrupt, Barack Obama, debate, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, New York Times, Romney’s Rangers

Nevada Bulletin: Andy Martin: Romney's Rangers expanding in Nevada October 27th

Romney’s Rangers, The Independent Mitt Romney Political Action Team led by Republican activist Andy Martin, will expand its Nevada presence on October 27th. Andy announced the formation of Romney’s Rangers on September 21st and disclosed the group will focus its independent pro-Romney activities on two crucial swing states, New Hampshire and Nevada. Andy’s plans for Nevada and New Hampshire also include outreach to the Latino community.

NEWS FROM:

Romney’s Rangers

The Independent Mitt Romney

Political Action Team

Andy Martin

Executive Director

you can call Andy:

(603) 518-7310

you can email Andy:

andynewhampshire@aol.com

you can write Andy at:

fax (866) 707-2639, or

816 Elm Street #251

Manchester, NH 03101-2105

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ATTENTION NATIONAL AND NEW YORK DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Romney’s Rangers, led by Republican Party activist and New Hampshire corruption-fighter Andy Martin, will ask Mitt Romney to fight for American workers

Andy says Mitt Romney should declare a “divorce” from Bain Capital by supporting Sensata workers

Andy says “the road to the White House runs through Freeport, Illinois”

Andy Martin, Mitt Romney’s de facto “management consultant,” asks Romney to be bold and seize the potential for a landslide victory

(Manchester, NH) (October 20, 2012) Republican Party activist Andy Martin will hold a New York City news conference Saturday, October 20h to ask Romney to join Andy in going to Freeport, Illinois to call on Bain Capital to suspend efforts to close the Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport. Andy says “Sensata is Mitt Romney’s opportunity for a ‘Sister Souljah moment’ that will ensure Romney wins the White house by a landslide.”

Andy’s letter to Governor Romney, which Andy will discuss at his news conference, follows below:

October 20, 2012

Governor Mitt Romney

PO Box 149756

Boston, MA 02114-9756

Re: Sensata Technologies

Dear Governor Romney:

You are no doubt aware of the controversy involving your investment in Sensata Technologies (“Sensata”). In this letter I would like to invite you to join me in a “Sister Souljah” moment that I believe will ensure your election to the presidency by a landslide margin, by challenging Sensata’s corporate management.

1. Background of my strong support for your candidacy

On September 12, 2012, when you came under attack by other Republicans for your correct criticism of the Obama administration, I stepped forward to support you and to predict that “Benghazi-gate” would end up being the issue that defeated President Obama for reelection. On September 23rd I again stepped up, while you were again under attack by “doubting” Republicans, and strongly endorsed your candidacy.

There are many, many people working hard to elect you. But I am surely among the most loyal and hardest working. I have given great thought to winning strategies for your candidacy (because I publish a blog I have a public record you can study). Next week I will be working in Nevada, and the final week of the campaign I will be home in New Hampshire, working for your election. I am completely committed to electing you as president.

I also have forty-six years of both Washington and grass roots political experience. While the late Governor Lawton Chiles used to tease me as his “dry cleaners” Republican I wash my own clothes. Moreover, unlike many in our party, I am comfortable with and have a high regard for the men and women who work on the “shop floors” of America. My family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago and they worked in the Amoskeag Mills under arduous conditions. Thus, my advice comes laminated with practical experience about working families.

2. Origins of the term “Sister Souljah” moment

Sister Souljah was a racist performer. In 1992, then-candidate Bill Clinton went to a meeting where Souljah spoke. Clinton criticized Souljah for her racist remarks. By criticizing Souljah, Clinton separated himself from the inability and unwillingness of the Democratic Party to condemn African-American racism. Clinton established his credibility as a “New” Democrat. “Sister Souljah moment” has entered our political lexicon.

But the original Sister Souljah moment may have come in 1960. Up until 1960, the African-American vote was still very sympathetic to the Republican Party, and with good reason. The Southern Democratic Party was the home of racism and repression. Senator John Kennedy called Coretta Scott King when her husband Reverend Martin Luther King was jailed. Kennedy’s gesture may have won him the presidency by giving him urban votes across America.

3. Your Sister Souljah moment

Right now the trend line is in your favor. I predict you will win the presidency. But you may not win a mandate. You need a mandate. You need to establish yourself as the unquestioned leader of the Republican Party and the American people. This is your Sister Souljah moment. I believe as you continue reading you will agree with me you have a Sister Souljah opportunity to act decisively, to solidify the support of American workers and to win the presidency with a real mandate.

4. Your election problems in Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin

A. Let’s be honest, working people don’t trust you. And President Obama and his minions are doing everything they can to stir the distrust. You need a game-changing gesture to solidify the confidence of working families. Right now the Heartland is up for grabs: Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin. A bold gesture to working families would win these states and with them the presidency. The road to the White House, by winning Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa, runs straight through Freeport, Illinois.

B. One of your investments, Sensata Technologies (“Sensata”) has come back to haunt you. Sensata has announced a plant closing and brought in Chinese workers to take away American jobs by exporting them to China. That’s not a pretty picture and it conflicts with your stated policy of reclaiming American manufacturing. By all appearances Sensata employees are loyal, solid, hardworking Heartland workers. They do a good job and produce quality products; So why take their jobs away?

Bain Capital and its investors are simply wrong, flat wrong, totally wrong. Profits gained at the expense of loyal workers are tainted. I personally condemn any American firm, including Apple, that profits from slave labor conditions in China. I personally try to boycott such products.

Obama is exploiting your Sensata investment to fan doubts about your “divorce” from Bain Capital. But Obama’s attacks offer an opportunity for a Sister Souljah moment.

C. I ask you to join me in Freeport, at the Sensata plant gates, to call on Bain Capital and the Sensata management to reverse the Freeport plant closing. Later on in this letter I will explain why you should do so. But I am absolutely convinced that if we turn up at Sensata’s gates and ask Bain to suspend and reverse the plant closing, that gesture will be your Sister Souljah moment and ensure your election – by a landslide – to the presidency.

I am asking you to take a bold step. But the rewards for boldness will be immense. You will not only win the White House but you will receive an independent mandate as a leader.

5. Why you must act on the Sensata tragedy

A. By staying silent while Obama attacks you – and I don’t doubt that Sensata will appear as an issue on Monday evening’s “foreign policy debate” – Obama will ensure the question is raised – you hand the Democrats a lever to fan fears and to encourage voters to stay safely in Obama’s embrace on November 6th. If you show working families you are independent of Bain Capital as a candidate, and will be independent as a president, you will “close the deal” with America’s workers and win the presidency.

B. Your response to Sensata questions has been that you left Bain in 1999. That is not a sufficient response. It is a self-defeating response. Investors do not surrender their free speech rights when they invest in a firm. On the contrary, you have a duty to act when managers in a firm where you are a stakeholder are acting contrary to your policies or America’s self-interest. Every investor, passive or active, has free speech rights to criticize management.

You have every right to comment publicly on Bain's disastrous public relations in poisoning our economy by exporting Illinois jobs to China. There is absolutely no barrier to your commenting - as an investor – about your desires as an investor concerning corporate policy.

Your blind trust argument doesn’t work as an excuse either, because the Sensata investment is apparently part of your tax returns.

Looking for excuses to remain silent on the Sensata situation is the wrong approach. Be bold. Tell Bain the old ways will no longer be your ways. Ask Bain to suspend the plant closing and to reinstate the workers. Declare your independence from the “burdens of Bain” that are weighing down your candidacy.

C. President Obama criticized you at the last debate for exporting jobs to China and he will no doubt criticize you again (look at my “Mitt Memo #1,” in which I correctly predicted Obama would raise the issue of the automobile industry last week). I do not believe President Obama is a competent president, but he is a more-than-competent candidate and rabble rouser. He has tied Bain Capital around your neck; you need to cut the noose and free yourself from Bain.

Is maintaining misguided loyalty to Bain worth losing the presidency? You get the point.

If you really left in 1999 you should have no hesitation to criticize management even if you are only a limited partner or passive investor in Bain/Sensata.

D. I am absolutely convinced that if you speak out against Bain’s unwise management policies you will reap immediate “dividends" from working families across America. You have a right to say that what was acceptable in the 1990’s is no longer acceptable in the 2010’s. If we stand at the plant gate and you tell people you will do everything you can to save their jobs, overnight you will become a hero to working Americans. You will gain their trust. Don’t be afraid of working people or union members; embrace them.

So how about it? I admire you and Ann immensely. I don’t have any personal dislike for President Obama but we simply can’t stand “four more years” of stagnation at home and retreat abroad. I want you to win. And I want you to win in a way that makes you the president of all the people, an independent leader who is not beholden to either party or parochial interests. America needs a president. A president of all the people.

I’m busy working for your election every day. But I am ready to drop what I am doing and head for Freeport as soon as you call. The Heartland wants to support you; give them a Sister Souljah moment to close the deal.

Let’s roll!

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

AM:sp

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September 23rd New York City news conference details:

Who:

Republican Party activist and Mitt Romney supporter Andy Martin

What:

Andy Martin asks Mitt Romney to join Andy in condemning the closing of a Freeport, Illinois plant owned by Romney’s investor partners at Sensata Technologies

Where:

909 Third Avenue, public sidewalk in front of FDR Station post office entrance, New York (under the “909” canopy in case of rain)

When:

Saturday, October 20th 4:00 P.M.

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

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-15/news/

vw-329_1_coretta-king

http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/10/19/live-from-bainport-

sensata-workers-protest-bain-and-its-corporate-values/

http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/08/15/

freeport%E2%80%99s-sensata-workers-

continue-fight-against-outsourcing/

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/

Quinn-Visits-Workers-Losing-Jobs-at-Bain-

Owned-Company-164097336.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/17/

us-usa-campaign-bain-idUSBRE86G1BP20120717

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

ABOUT ROMNEY’S RANGERS:

Romney’s Rangers, an independent political action team, is led by Andy Martin, 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, where he now makes his home. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” 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 local, regional, 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 New Hampshire, Illinois and 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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Mitt Romney’s “Sister Souljah” moment; Andy Martin’s New York News Conference on Sensata Technologies

Romney’s Rangers, The Independent Mitt Romney Political Action Team led by Republican activist Andy Martin, will hold a New York City news conference Saturday, October 20th to ask Governor Mitt Romney to seize a “Sister Souljah moment” by coming out against the proposed closing of a Freeport, Illinois plant owned by one of Romney’s investment partnerships, Sensata Technologies.

Andy says “the road to victory in Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa” runs through Freeport, Illinois.” Andy offers to join Romney at plant gates in Freeport, and says Romney has a duty to speak out when his business partners are taking anti-American action.

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE

ATTENTION NATIONAL AND NEW YORK DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Romney’s Rangers, led by Republican Party activist and New Hampshire corruption-fighter Andy Martin, will ask Mitt Romney to fight for American workers

Andy says Mitt Romney should declare a “divorce” from Bain Capital by supporting Sensata workers

Andy says “the road to the White House runs through Freeport, Illinois”

Andy Martin, Mitt Romney’s de facto “management consultant,” asks Romney to be bold and seize the potential for a landslide victory

(Manchester, NH) (October 20, 2012) Republican Party activist Andy Martin will hold a New York City news conference Saturday, October 20h to ask Romney to join Andy in going to Freeport, Illinois to call on Bain Capital to suspend efforts to close the Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport. Andy says “Sensata is Mitt Romney’s opportunity for a ‘Sister Souljah moment’ that will ensure Romney wins the White house by a landslide.”

Andy’s letter to Governor Romney, which Andy will discuss at his news conference, follows below:

October 20, 2012

Governor Mitt Romney

PO Box 149756

Boston, MA 02114-9756

Re: Sensata Technologies

Dear Governor Romney:

You are no doubt aware of the controversy involving your investment in Sensata Technologies (“Sensata”). In this letter I would like to invite you to join me in a “Sister Souljah” moment that I believe will ensure your election to the presidency by a landslide margin, by challenging Sensata’s corporate management.

1. Background of my strong support for your candidacy

On September 12, 2012, when you came under attack by other Republicans for your correct criticism of the Obama administration, I stepped forward to support you and to predict that “Benghazi-gate” would end up being the issue that defeated President Obama for reelection. On September 23rd I again stepped up, while you were again under attack by “doubting” Republicans, and strongly endorsed your candidacy.

There are many, many people working hard to elect you. But I am surely among the most loyal and hardest working. I have given great thought to winning strategies for your candidacy (because I publish a blog I have a public record you can study). Next week I will be working in Nevada, and the final week of the campaign I will be home in New Hampshire, working for your election. I am completely committed to electing you as president.

I also have forty-six years of both Washington and grass roots political experience. While the late Governor Lawton Chiles used to tease me as his “dry cleaners” Republican I wash my own clothes. Moreover, unlike many in our party, I am comfortable with and have a high regard for the men and women who work on the “shop floors” of America. My family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago and they worked in the Amoskeag Mills under arduous conditions. Thus, my advice comes laminated with practical experience about working families.

2. Origins of the term “Sister Souljah” moment

Sister Souljah was a racist performer. In 1992, then-candidate Bill Clinton went to a meeting where Souljah spoke. Clinton criticized Souljah for her racist remarks. By criticizing Souljah, Clinton separated himself from the inability and unwillingness of the Democratic Party to condemn African-American racism. Clinton established his credibility as a “New” Democrat. “Sister Souljah moment” has entered our political lexicon.

But the original Sister Souljah moment may have come in 1960. Up until 1960, the African-American vote was still very sympathetic to the Republican Party, and with good reason. The Southern Democratic Party was the home of racism and repression. Senator John Kennedy called Coretta Scott King when her husband Reverend Martin Luther King was jailed. Kennedy’s gesture may have won him the presidency by giving him urban votes across America.

3. Your Sister Souljah moment

Right now the trend line is in your favor. I predict you will win the presidency. But you may not win a mandate. You need a mandate. You need to establish yourself as the unquestioned leader of the Republican Party and the American people. This is your Sister Souljah moment. I believe as you continue reading you will agree with me you have a Sister Souljah opportunity to act decisively, to solidify the support of American workers and to win the presidency with a real mandate.

4. Your election problems in Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin

A. Let’s be honest, working people don’t trust you. And President Obama and his minions are doing everything they can to stir the distrust. You need a game-changing gesture to solidify the confidence of working families. Right now the Heartland is up for grabs: Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin. A bold gesture to working families would win these states and with them the presidency. The road to the White House, by winning Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa, runs straight through Freeport, Illinois.

B. One of your investments, Sensata Technologies (“Sensata”) has come back to haunt you. Sensata has announced a plant closing and brought in Chinese workers to take away American jobs by exporting them to China. That’s not a pretty picture and it conflicts with your stated policy of reclaiming American manufacturing. By all appearances Sensata employees are loyal, solid, hardworking Heartland workers. They do a good job and produce quality products; So why take their jobs away?

Bain Capital and its investors are simply wrong, flat wrong, totally wrong. Profits gained at the expense of loyal workers are tainted. I personally condemn any American firm, including Apple, that profits from slave labor conditions in China. I personally try to boycott such products.

Obama is exploiting your Sensata investment to fan doubts about your “divorce” from Bain Capital. But Obama’s attacks offer an opportunity for a Sister Souljah moment.

C. I ask you to join me in Freeport, at the Sensata plant gates, to call on Bain Capital and the Sensata management to reverse the Freeport plant closing. Later on in this letter I will explain why you should do so. But I am absolutely convinced that if we turn up at Sensata’s gates and ask Bain to suspend and reverse the plant closing, that gesture will be your Sister Souljah moment and ensure your election – by a landslide – to the presidency.

I am asking you to take a bold step. But the rewards for boldness will be immense. You will not only win the White House but you will receive an independent mandate as a leader.

5. Why you must act on the Sensata tragedy

A. By staying silent while Obama attacks you – and I don’t doubt that Sensata will appear as an issue on Monday evening’s “foreign policy debate” – Obama will ensure the question is raised – you hand the Democrats a lever to fan fears and to encourage voters to stay safely in Obama’s embrace on November 6th. If you show working families you are independent of Bain Capital as a candidate, and will be independent as a president, you will “close the deal” with America’s workers and win the presidency.

B. Your response to Sensata questions has been that you left Bain in 1999. That is not a sufficient response. It is a self-defeating response. Investors do not surrender their free speech rights when they invest in a firm. On the contrary, you have a duty to act when managers in a firm where you are a stakeholder are acting contrary to your policies or America’s self-interest. Every investor, passive or active, has free speech rights to criticize management.

You have every right to comment publicly on Bain's disastrous public relations in poisoning our economy by exporting Illinois jobs to China. There is absolutely no barrier to your commenting - as an investor – about your desires as an investor concerning corporate policy.

Your blind trust argument doesn’t work as an excuse either, because the Sensata investment is apparently part of your tax returns.

Looking for excuses to remain silent on the Sensata situation is the wrong approach. Be bold. Tell Bain the old ways will no longer be your ways. Ask Bain to suspend the plant closing and to reinstate the workers. Declare your independence from the “burdens of Bain” that are weighing down your candidacy.

C. President Obama criticized you at the last debate for exporting jobs to China and he will no doubt criticize you again (look at my “Mitt Memo #1,” in which I correctly predicted Obama would raise the issue of the automobile industry last week). I do not believe President Obama is a competent president, but he is a more-than-competent candidate and rabble rouser. He has tied Bain Capital around your neck; you need to cut the noose and free yourself from Bain.

Is maintaining misguided loyalty to Bain worth losing the presidency? You get the point.

If you really left in 1999 you should have no hesitation to criticize management even if you are only a limited partner or passive investor in Bain/Sensata.

D. I am absolutely convinced that if you speak out against Bain’s unwise management policies you will reap immediate “dividends" from working families across America. You have a right to say that what was acceptable in the 1990’s is no longer acceptable in the 2010’s. If we stand at the plant gate and you tell people you will do everything you can to save their jobs, overnight you will become a hero to working Americans. You will gain their trust. Don’t be afraid of working people or union members; embrace them.

So how about it? I admire you and Ann immensely. I don’t have any personal dislike for President Obama but we simply can’t stand “four more years” of stagnation at home and retreat abroad. I want you to win. And I want you to win in a way that makes you the president of all the people, an independent leader who is not beholden to either party or parochial interests. America needs a president. A president of all the people.

I’m busy working for your election every day. But I am ready to drop what I am doing and head for Freeport as soon as you call. The Heartland wants to support you; give them a Sister Souljah moment to close the deal.

Let’s roll!

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

AM:sp

----------------

September 23rd New York City news conference details:

Who:

Republican Party activist and Mitt Romney supporter Andy Martin

What:

Andy Martin asks Mitt Romney to join Andy in condemning the closing of a Freeport, Illinois plant owned by Romney’s investor partners at Sensata Technologies

Where:

909 Third Avenue, public sidewalk in front of FDR Station post office entrance, New York (under the “909” canopy in case of rain)

When:

Saturday, October 20th 4:00 P.M.

--------------------------

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639; CELL (917) 664-9329

E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com

--------------------------

Please Donate:

You can help support our independent Internet journalism by going to:

http://www.committeeofonemilliontodefeatbarackobama.com/

and making a contribution by mail or on line.

--------------------------

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

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/1988-12-15/news/

vw-329_1_coretta-king

http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/10/19/live-from-bainport-

sensata-workers-protest-bain-and-its-corporate-values/

http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/08/15/

freeport%E2%80%99s-sensata-workers-

continue-fight-against-outsourcing/

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/

Quinn-Visits-Workers-Losing-Jobs-at-Bain-

Owned-Company-164097336.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/17/

us-usa-campaign-bain-idUSBRE86G1BP20120717

--------------------------

WHAT OTHERS SAY:

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

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

ABOUT ROMNEY’S RANGERS:

Romney’s Rangers, an independent political action team, is led by Andy Martin, 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, where he now makes his home. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” 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 local, regional, 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 New Hampshire, Illinois and 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).

UPDATES:

www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA

www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin

Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com

andymartinusa.posterous.com

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

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© Copyright by Andy Martin 2012 – All Rights Reserved

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Labels: Andy Martin, Freeport Illinois, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, Romney’s Rangers, Sensata, Sister Souljah

Andy Martin: Contrarian Commentary

About Me

Tuesday, November 06, 2012

New Hampshire news conference: Andy Martin announces a statewide vote fraud hotline, GOP legal defense team ready

Andy Martin renews his September 12th prediction that Benghazi is the “neutron” issue that will defeat President Obama for reelection

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Mitt Romney Memo #1: Andy Martin explains how Mitt Romney bungled his response to Obama’s lie that “Romney wants to bankrupt the auto industry”

Nevada Bulletin: Andy Martin: Romney's Rangers expanding in Nevada October 27th

Mitt Romney’s “Sister Souljah” moment; Andy Martin’s New York News Conference on Sensata Technologies