Andy Martin for President: November 2011

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Andy Martin comments on the New Hampshire Union Leader’s shameful endorsement of Newton Gingrich for president

Independent Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin calls the New Hampshire Union Leader the “Cheshire Cat of presidential politics. “The smile is all that remains,” Andy says. “Any political influence is long gone.” The Union Leader’s “endorsement” of Newton Gingrich for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination may actually backfire and doom the Gingrich candidacy. Andy says the Union Leader’s endorsement of a crook like Gingrich for president embarrasses New Hampshire residents.

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Andy Martin says the Union Leader’s endorsement of Newt Gingrich for president shames the people of New Hampshire

Andy says Union Leader executives are out of touch with reality, and incompetent journalists who did no meaningful research and analysis before backing Gingrich

Andy says the Union Leader’s arrogance and contempt for New Hampshire voters may backfire

(NEW YORK) (November 30, 2011) I call myself the “Favorite Son” candidate for New Hampshire Republicans and there is a reasonable basis for this claim. My mother was born in Manchester, my grandparents are buried there and I have spent my entire life coming to New Hampshire for vacations and family events. My memories of Manchester go back to 1951 when I attended he funeral of Father Emilianos Paschalakis at Assumption G. O. Church. So unlike the other presidential candidates who breeze in and breeze out, I was raised with New Hampshire values in my veins.

I have also grown up for the past sixty years listening to ridicule and complaints about the New Hampshire Union Leader (then the Manchester Union Leader). While the rest of the journalism and media world moved on to responsible reporting and commentary, the Union Leader has retained its crackpot orientation as a “voice” without any roots in rationality or reason.

I have been campaigning across the state for almost a year and I find no evidence the UL has any measurable influence. Rather, the newspaper’s reputation has become like a “Cheshire Cat” situation where only the smile remains. To provide local “color” the national media report on the UL's activity. But New Hampshire residents completely ignore the newspaper. The Union Leader's circulation (40,000 - 60,000 newspapers, six days a week) has shrunk to the point of irrelevance.

The UL’s latest outburst also confirms why the print media are dying in America. Print editors tend to be pompous, self-important asses. While all news coverage is to some extent slanted, the UL glories in presenting biased and unbalanced coverage of both its perceived friends and enemies.

Unfortunately for the Union Leader’s writers, the real world exists alongside the parallel delusional universe of the UL and its editors.

That is why the “endorsement” of Newton Gingrich for president shames New Hampshire residents and to some extent shames legitimate journalism as well.

TAKE ONE: The Union Leader is entitled to its opinions. I do not for one minute suggests that the newspaper should support someone they don’t believe in, or that we have anything more than a “buyer’s veto” of the paper by ignoring the UL as so much of New Hampshire does today.

TAKE TWO: Just as the UL is entitled to its opinions, I am also entitled to my opinion. My opinion is based on extensive research and analysis of both Newt Gingrich's past and, more importantly, his current methods of operation (2000 – 2011). In my opinion Newton Gingrich is a professional political crook whose whole career up to the present day and present month has been characterized by unethical conduct and corrupt activity. Political crooks don’t go to jail as often as ordinary burglars and muggers; perhaps that is why American government is in such a sad state today.

TAKE THREE: By endorsing Gingrich, the Union Leader is shaming the state and suggesting that New Hampshire residents are ignoramuses and sympathizers with corruption and ethical misconduct. On the contrary, New Hampshire is a state that has traditionally held to the highest standards of public integrity. There is a complete disconnect between Newton Gingrich’s sleazy political career and the ethics and values of New Hampshire residents.

Take Four: Is the Union leader endorsement likely to sway many votes? It is more likely to backfire, by forcing voters to look behind the endorsement and consider the reality of Newt Gingrich's sordid political career. If Joe McQuaid and his self-styled conservative weenies have any influence on the primary they may create an unintended anti-Gingrich backlash. (Reminder: when I am not a presidential candidate I am the executive editor of an Internet newspaper called www.ContrarianCommentary.com.)

TAKE FIVE: Why do I think the Union Leader’s endorsement of Gingrich is not merely wrong but actually “shameful.” Because the UL’s analysis of why it is supporting Gingrich is not anchored in factual reality or political reality.

TAKE SIX: In addition to making a laughingstock of New Hampshire, the Gingrich campaign is also likely to humiliate evangelical Christians. Especially in Iowa where conservative Christians are an influential part of the Republican base, the “explanations” that are being given for Gingrich’s immorality and his habitual traducing of his marital vows are a disgrace to conservative Christianity. “Forgiveness” is Christian. But just because you forgive someone’s transgressions does not mean you then ignore the past and promote the transgressor into an even higher level of temptation.

Gingrich has admitted he could not handle the stresses and temptations of high office. In fact, he gave his official duties and his “love for America” as excuses for committing adultery. Do Republican Christians now propose to support Gingrich so he can be temped again, and fail again? Bill Clinton was a moral failure in Arkansas. Moving him into the White house did not improve his morals. The same is true for Gingrich.

TAKE SEVEN: Recently, in denying that he had served his first wife with divorce papers in a hospital, Gingrich admitted he had taken a check list for their divorce to the hospital for her to sign while she was still recovering from surgery. While a check list may not be a legal document, the callous disregard for his wife's illness was confirmed, not denied, by Gingrich’s latest round of excuses. Who takes a divorce checklist for a hospital patient to sign? Newt Gingrich. It is commendable that Gingrich's daughters have forgiven their father and established a strong relationship with him. But the fact that Gingrich is a “grandfather” has no logical connection to his fitness to serve in the Oval Office. Conservative Christians are undermining their own moral authority by flirting with Gingrich for president.

TAKE EIGHT: I began exposing Gingrich’s corruption was back in March:

http://andyforpresident.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/

atlanta-news-conference-republican-andy-martin-

says-newt-gingrich-violates-federal-laws/

The facts about Gingrich’s contempt for the law are well known if not yet widely circulated. I am not suggesting I have “secret” reasons for exposing his criminality.

In a nutshell, what Gingrich does is collect money from “little people,” through his blathering self-important tax exempt organizations and then siphon those tax-exempt contributions into his private, profit-making operations so he can live the life of Washington royalty. Gingrich spent millions on jewelry and millions more on private jets, all courtesy of the little people who are duped into supporting his lifestyle by making small donations to “Newt, Inc.”

Gingrich is famous for issuing bogus invitations to people, trying to get recipients to donate $5,000 to him so they can be recognized as “leaders.” Gingrich targets senior citizens with his blarney, because seniors are especially vulnerable to his form of mail order flattery and seduction.

When I call Gingrich a crook, I mean crook.

So why did the Union Leader endorse a crook for president?

Well, if you read between the lines of Joe McQuaid's commentaries, Union Leader writers seem to “know” and “like” Gingrich. In other words, Gingrich's flattery works. Is “liking” and “knowing” a sound basis to endorse someone for the presidency? I think not.

All of the presidential candidates (with the possible exception of Herman Cain) come to New Hampshire on their “best behavior” (including present company). We aim to please, we aim to promise and we aim to profit from our pleasing and promising. That’s politics.

But the presidency is not about “politics.” The presidency is where the rubber hits the road. The presidency is a crucible where leaders are tested beyond the limits of expectation and endurance. Barack Obama thought it would be nice to live in “public housing” for four or eight years, living la vida loca in the White House, enjoying the benefits of the presidency and cementing his financial future some day as a former president. Obama is learning that the White House is not a resort hotel and, in Gingrich’s case, it is not a retirement home.

Did the Union leader look into the way Gingrich siphons cash from tax-exempt organizations into his own profit-making pockets? No. Did they look into how Gingrich “makes his money?” No. (McQuaid apparently accepted Gingrich’s nonsense that Newton is a “job-creator.”) Did the Union Leader do any investigative journalism before issuing an endorsement? No. In effect the Union Leader just casually tossed off an endorsement in the presidential primary with no meaningful research and reflection.

The Union Leader manifested contempt for its conservative New Hampshire roots and values, and contempt for the American people that look to New Hampshire for guidance in presidential politics.

None of the current presidential candidates have led perfect lives. (In Obama's case we don't even know yet who he really is.) I have been involved in controversy from time to time, usually as a result of exposing corruption. The New York Times’ dirt diggers ran a fine tooth comb over my life in 2008 and were forced to use thirty and forty year-old smut to schmutz me up as best they could (the effort failed).

Gingrich on the other hand has led an official life, a public life that is essentially one ongoing ethical violation and corruption of the tax laws. Gingrich’s corruption is a time bomb waiting to explode at the Republican National Convention.

And guess what? I knew David Axelrod way back when he was a beat reporter for the Chicago Tribune, back when Barack Obama was still living in Honolulu. Axelrod is probably salivating at the prospect of goofy Republicans and two-faced evangelic Christians nominating a crook for the presidency. Axelrod is a master dirt-digger. When Ax reads these remarks he will be smiling. The Ax knows I have been investigating and exposing crooked politicians in Illinois since the 1960’s. Axelrod knows that he would cook Gingrich's goose in a heartbeat if Gingrich won the nomination. Republicans would be humiliated.

Can this country really take four more years of Barack Obama? McQuaid and his coterie do not seem to have thought of the implications of their casually tossing off a presidential endorsement of a Republican crook to lead the party. That’s why the Union Leader’s endorsement of Newton Gingrich is a humiliation to New Hampshire residents and a disgrace to the honorable traditions of New Hampshire’s presidential primary.

With all due respect, I became a candidate for president because I had the qualifications necessary in a conservative candidate. My record of corruption-fighting is unique in national politics. My foreign experience and my experience in Washington have trained me how to do right, not how to do wrong. Nevertheless, being a second-tier presidential candidate as I am is a thankless task. It’s not easy. But I will continue to campaign for myself and campaign against Newt Gingrich because a President Gingrich would represent evil incarnate for the American people.

The Union Leader ought to be ashamed of its endorsement. I am not ashamed to tell the truth abut Gingrich and to continue the battle against this bold-faced liar and crook.

Watch for my anti-Gingrich TV and radio ads which have been prepared and which will begin airing in New Hampshire next week.

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

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20111127/NEWS/711279999

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

post/gingrichs-endorsement-and-the-failings-of-

the-conservative-media/2011/11/27/gIQAPIc81N_blog.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-

2012/post/new-hampshire-union-leader-endorses-

newt-gingrich-will-it-help-him/2011/11/27/gIQAlISI2N_blog.html?hpid=z11

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin’s family immigrated to Manchester, New Hampshire 100 years ago. His mom was born in Manchester. Growing up, Andy spent summers in New Hampshire. That’s why he’s New Hampshire’s “Favorite Son” presidential candidate in the 2012 presidential primary election.

Today Andy is a legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” He has over forty 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 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 Illinois and American politics and courts for over forty 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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Monday, November 28, 2011

Independent Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin examines how Texas Governor Rick Perry was “double-Crossed” by U. S. Senator Mark Kirk

How Mitt Romney’s homosexual hucksters outgunned Rick Perry’s Texas Cowboys

Independent Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin has forty-seven years of experience in fighting the corruption and back-stabbing of Illinois politics. In the following comments Andy analyzes how Texas Govenror Rick Perry was “gunned down” by Illinois’ two-faced, homosexually-dominated Republican Party

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Andy Martin wonders whether closeted gay U.S. Senator Mark Kirk has “sent a signal” that Mitt Romney is the Republican “gay” candidate in 2012

Andy says Kirk has “a posse” of homosexuals who control the Illinois Republican Party

Andy says senile industrialist Jack Roeser was used as a “pigeon” by Tom Cross, Dennis Hastert and Mark Kirk to embarrass Texas Governor Rick Perry

Andy says Mitt Romney’s Illinois hucksters hornswoggled Rick Perry’s Texas cowboys

(CHICAGO) (November 29, 2011) I first went to the Illinois General Assembly as a college intern in 1965. When I tell conservatives across the United States that “Illinois Republicans are different” no one can quite believe what a zoo the Republican Party has become in the Land of Lincoln. Texas Governor Rick Perry is the latest victim to learn how double-crossing Republicans have undermined the Republican brand in Illinois and have made the party a permanent minority in what was formerly a highly competitive, two-party swing state.

Take One. The Illinois Republican Party may be the only state Republican Party under the total domination and control of homosexuals. Closeted homosexual U. S. Senator Mark Kirk removed any pretense of the party’s independence when he recently moved the party’s headquarters into his own political offices. The Illinois Republican Party is Mark Kirk.

Kirk is the most prominent homosexual politician in the United States today. Kirk remains almost completely closeted, even to the point of engaging in sham marriages and, most recently, claiming that the woman who allegedly destroyed his “marriage” is now his new “wife.” Kirk’s ex-wife called Dodie McCracken (“McCrackers” in my columns”) a “Svengali.” (link below). Recently a Chicago publication referred to McCrackers as Kirk’s “wife.”

Kirk is a protégé of former U. S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Hastert created a gay colony in the Speaker’s office including disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley, Mark Kirk, staffer John McGovern and others. Today (2011), despite remaining closeted, Kirk is the majordomo of gay politics in America. Gay leaders allow Kirk to remain closeted as long as he carries water for the gay agenda in Washington.

Take Two: Illinois has elected more statewide homosexual officials than any other state. State Treasurer Dan Rutherford and Kirk lead the gay parade (both men are closeted). State Controller Judy Topinka might as well be gay.

Take Three: Illinois has three (3) political parties: Republicans, Democrats and the “Combine.” The Combine is an amalgam of Republicans and Democrats who share the spoils and divvy up the boodle regardless of which party is in power. Until recently, the Combine was led by someone reverentially called “The Pope.” (The Pope was recently convicted of federal crimes linked to his Combine activity.)

The “Combine” moniker has been popularized by Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass. Kass says that the Combine Party is always in power irrespective of the “D” or “R” after the name of an elected official. Mark Kirk is a combine senator who, while nominally a Republican, also represented former Chicago Mayor Ritchie Daley’s interests in Washington. The “Combine ‘Uber Alles.’”

Take Four: Dan Rutherford is Mitt Romney’s Illinois Chairman. Also supporting Romney are former Speaker Hastert and, subcutaneously, Illinois State House Leader Tom Cross; in other words the Illinois gay Mafia and its fellow travelers are backing Mitt Romney. You read it here first.

Take Five: Here is where it gets interesting. Jack Roeser is a wealthy but senile 88 year-old political wannabe who used to rail that Kirk was part of a “gay club.” Roeser’s remarks became a national scandal when I drew attention to them in 2009. After excoriating Kirk for years in 2010 Roeser switched sides, made a 180 degree change in his views and became a Kirk stalwart. Roeser now helps fund the Illinois Republican Party.

In August of this year (2011) Roeser went to Austin, Texas to recruit Governor Rick Perry to become a presidential candidate. Roeser was reportedly carrying a letter of introduction from Tom Cross. Cross, of course, is subservient to Hastert (see a series of hyperlinks below which cover all aspects this comedy). Roeser then began to style himself as “Perry’s Illinois leader;” Roeser and Cross agreed to sponsor a fundraiser for Perry at Roeser’s corporate headquarters.

Cross did appear at the fundraiser but subsequently went skidoo from the Perry campaign.

When Lynn Sweet, a Kirk bag lady, tried to find out if Cross was still supporting Perry earlier this month, a typically-Illinois comedy of errors began. Perry’s people initially said Cross was their Illinois leader. Cross had obviously fooled the Perry people into thinking he was on their side. Cross then told Sweet he did not have any link to the Perry campaign. Perry then backed off and told Sweet that Cross was not heading up the Illinois effort. Poor old Jack Roeser was left in the cold. Roeser was led to believe he was a Perry “leader” until being hung out to dry as Hastert, Cross and Kirk moved to betrayed Perry and back Romney.

Kirk travels around the state with a posse of gay men surrounding him, known locally as the “Praetorian Guard,” (except when Mc Crackers is posing as his “wife”). Kirk’s hangers-on are one-by-one “endorsing” Romney while Kirk continues to be the invisible God-king in the shadows, waiting to make his own dramatic show of support for Romney. In due course Kirk will appear and “crown” Romney’s nomination. Will Kirk’s “endorsement” be a “signal” to Republican gays?

Perry’s Illinois prospects were devastated when Dan Rutherford led a fight to prevent proportional statewide allocation of national convention delegates, thereby rendering the Illinois presidential primary hopelessly complicated and unnecessarily expensive to participate in. (Illinois requires individual delegates to file separate nominating “petitions” in each of nineteen congressional districts, essentially transforming a “statewide” primary into 19 mini-primaries and significantly increasing the expense and complexity of seeking delegates, all of whom become subject to "petition challenges" by opposing campaigns.)

With Rutherford’s and Kirk's “organizations” behind him, Romney will sweep Illinois and Perry will likely be left out in the cold.

Rick Perry may have begun his presidential race with encomiums from Jack Roeser and Tom Cross. But it is clear that in Illinois’ homosexually-manipulated Republican Party the Texas governor was “outgunned” by Kirk, Rutherford and Hastert.

Mark Kirk & Co. manipulate and control internal Illinois Republican Party proceedings to dominate and neuter more conservative Republicans across the state. The “state central committee,” for example, is a self-perpetuating Combine organization that operates with no direct voter participation and simply Kirk’s bidding).

Now you know why Illinois Republicans have become a permanent minority in Illinois. Mitt Romney’s run for the White House is being powered by this collection of Combine/Kirk-related pirates. As for Rick Perry’s Texas gunslingers? They were outgunned by Tom Cross & Co. The “double cross” is alive and well in Illinois.

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

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/

Felsenthal-Files/August-2010/Kimberly-Vertolli-

on-Mark-Kirk-and-Dodie-McCracken/

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20110901/

BLOGS02/309019987/perry-wooing-tom-cross-for-

illinois-presidential-campaign

http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/6390

Hosted by Cross:

http://www.niuzer.com/Illinois/Picture-this-

Snapshot-with-Rick-Perry-in-Carpentersville-

costs-2500-7688087.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-

races/183235-perry-to-hold-fundraiser-near-

obamas-hometown

http://www.pr-inside.com/national-bulletin-andy-

martin-on-jack-r2823781.htm

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2011/11/

contrary_to_perry_campaign_rep.html

http://republicannewswatch.com/wp/?p=11636

http://capitolfax.com/2011/11/15/cross-distancing-

himself-from-perry-while-romney-picks-up-support/

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

MANCHESTER, NH/ THANKSGIVING NEWS CONFERENCE: Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin resumes his statewide march against Northern Pass

Independent Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin will hold a Manchester news conference today, Thursday, November 24th to announce he is resuming his statewide march against Northern Pass on Thanksgiving Day. Andy will then head to Whitefield where will “start walkin’.”

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN NEWS CONFERENCE

ATTENTION NATIONAL AND NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

Andy Martin resumes his New Hampshire statewide march against Northern Pass on Thanksgiving Day

Andy will hold a Manchester news conference, head for Whitefield for a second news conference, and then start marching south on Route 3 towards Twin Mountain, all on Thanksgiving Day

Andy says it is time for Northern Pass opponents to “grow up and stand up,” or “shut up and sit down”

“Granite State tough” Andy Martin resumes marching against Northern Pass on a chilly Thanksgiving Day

BULLETIN: Late Wednesday afternoon Andy Martin filed suit in NH Superior Court to expose corruption by NH Governor John Lynch and AG Michael Delaney concerning fraud and corruption involving tens of millions of dollars of the Neil Tillotson Trust and “The Balsams” hotel in Dixville Notch. The lawsuit will probably not be formally entered on the record until Monday or Tuesday due to holiday closings. A more detailed release will follow Friday.

(MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE) (Thanksgiving, November 24, 2011)

Independent Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin will hold Manchester and Whitefield news conferences today, Thanksgiving morning at 9:00 A.M., Thursday, in Manchester and at noon in Whitefield, November 24th to announce he is heading to the North Country and dedicating his Thanksgiving Day to resuming his march against the Northern Pass high voltage transmission line. Andy will hold his news conference in Whitefield and then resume his march against Northern Pass.

“Thursday morning Thanksgiving Day I am delighted to announce in Manchester that I am resuming my march against Northern Pass,” Andy says. “I will resume marching at noon at the town green/center in Whitefield (the gazebo) and then march south on Route 3 towards Twin Mountain.

“I am dedicating my holiday to marching against Northern Pass because I strongly and sincerely believe the proposal is bad for New Hampshire, though Northern Pass deal-makers may enrich a handful of power brokers in Manchester, Boston and Hartford. They will also be passing out ‘peanuts’ to New Hampshire landowners.

“I note the same people who promise Northern Pass will be ‘problem free’ could not repair their existing electrical network last month and had to fire their chief executive because of service delays in Connecticut.

“But I also have some ‘tough love’ for local Northern Pass opponents. It is time for local opponents to grow up and stand up, or sit down and shut up. I have seen over the past several months an almost childlike innocence among NP opponents, as though the purity of their motives would automatically triumph over powerful economic interests and lobbyists in Washington. Even ‘Harry Potter’ knows that’s naïve. ‘It ain’t happening.’ The reality: either fight hard against Northern Pass or fry under the high voltage towers.

“Wake up, New Hampshire!

“The ‘big money’ supporting Northern Pass now has a presidential candidate who is going to support Northern Pass (more on this cash conflict in the days ahead). This candidate is drawing massive financial support for his presidential race from Northern Pass interests. Northern Pass also has a gubernatorial candidate operating inside the Northern Pass law firm in Manchester.

“Northern Pass opponents have told me they ‘don’t get involved in politics,’ and that they are ‘nonpolitical.’ But billion dollar business projects are totally political undertakings. That’s why President Barack Hussein Nobama temporarily cancelled the Midwestern Keystone XL pipeline, a proposal similar to Northern Pass generating similar controversy. Pure politics.

“To say you are not going to be vigorously involved in the political process is to confess you are forfeiting your position to corporate power brokers who will do whatever it takes to make the deal and cash in, despite the misery they inflict on ordinary Granite State citizens.

“I saw somewhere that someone wants to enlist corrupt Washington lobbyist Newton Gingrich as an opponent of NP. Gingrich will say and do anything to get votes, and he will sucker the gullible with his windbag promises before he puts his hands on his backside to collect clandestine cash and give ‘strategic advice’ to the developers of Northern Pass. That’s the way the crooked influence peddling game is played in Washington, and Gingrich is a master player. He has corralled tens of millions of dollars from special interests to promote their agendas while simultaneously pretending to speak for ordinary folks on the same subjects. Sucker.

“Fighting powerful corporations isn’t easy, isn’t cheap and takes a lot of energy and a lot of hard work and a lot of shoe leather. I know, I have successfully been fighting powerbrokers for decades. And I don’t take cash on the side to give private ‘strategic advice’ to people who are fighting the groups I am supporting in public. I am no Newton Gingrich. If people are dumb enough to fall for the Gingrich spiel and vote for a thief like him, they deserve what they get. A stab in the back.

“If people want to fight Northern Pass, they can rest assured I am not giving strategic advice to NP or its lawyers at the back door the way Gingrich does. I don’t have my hand out behind my back.

“We’ll celebrate ‘Thanksgiving’ along Route 3 as we walk down from Whitefield towards Twin Mountain. We have cold cut turkey, rolls and even a pumpkin pie.

“On this wonderful holiday my heart will be with the people of New Hampshire who would suffer if Northern Pass succeeds. The time to make decisions and take action and stop shadow boxing has arrived. I know where I stand. Where do you stand on fighting Northern Pass? Are you real, or surreal?” Andy will state at his Manchester and Whitefield news conferences.

NOVEMBER 22ND MANCHESTER, NH CONFERENCE DETAILS:

WHO:

Independent Republican Party Presidential Candidate Andy Martin

WHAT:

Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin will resume his march against the proposed Northern Pass high voltage transmission line

WHERE:

Hilton Garden Inn, Manchester, NH (Andy Martin suite #213)

WHEN:

Manchester, Thursday, November 24th, 9:00 A.M.

WHITEFIELD NEWS CONFERENCE:

Town Green/Center, gazebo, noon, November 24th (just before Andy resumes his march against Northern Pass)

Note: We usually try to march against the Northern Pass route in sequential segments. We ended our last marching segment in Lancaster. But we believe the road between Lancaster and Whitefield is too difficult to walk on a day when snow may be a factor. We will go back and eventually march from Lancaster to Whitefield when the weather improves. Safety first.

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