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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Manchester, New Hampshire News Conference January 18th: GOP presidential candidate Andy Martin explains Part One of “Why Ted Cruz is unfit to serve as president”

GOP presidential candidate Andy Martin will hold a Manchester, New Hampshire news conference today, Monday, January 18th, to explain Part One of “Why Ted Cruz is unfit to serve as president.” Andy’s “unfitness” series will deal with Cruz’ financial deficiencies as a candidate and not his Canadian birth status. “Donald Trump is a super-successful businessman,” Andy says. “But he is a very inexperienced, unprepared and often disorganized candidate. Trump is attacking Cruz for his prior failure to file financial reports. Unfortunately, Trump is missing the ‘forest for the trees.’ Trump, in real estate terms, is ‘leaving a lot of money on the table.’ Ted Cruz’ family situation is such that he simply is unelectable because of his wife’s career at Goldman Sachs while that firm was looting Middle America. The disqualification is not that Cruz overlooked his Goldman Sachs loan; the real disqualification is that Cruz’ career was financed by his wife’s tainted Goldman cash.

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Republican presidential candidate Andy Martin will hold a Manchester, New Hampshire news conference today, to explain why Ted Cruz’ links to Goldman Sachs disqualify him as a potential president

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(Manchester, NH) (January 16, 2016)  Republican presidential candidate Andy Martin will hold a Manchester, New Hampshire news conference today, Monday, January 18th to explain Part One of “Why Ted Cruz is unfit to serve as president.” Part Two will follow later this week.

“I accept Ted Cruz’ explanation that he may have ‘overlooked’ disclosure of his Goldman Sachs loan in running for the Senate, even though the oversight is very suspicious,” Andy says. “But the real issue is not the non-filing. The disqualifying issue for Cruz is that electing him would place a Goldman Sachs employee in the White House as first lady. That is simply unacceptable to the American people. If it looks as though Cruz might be nominated, that will put Bernie Sanders on a short track to the Oval Office.

“The Cruz situation raises interesting issues concerning the modern definition of ‘family’ for presidential campaign purposes. Traditionally, spouses and children wee ‘off-limits.’ But that was in the Bess Truman-Mamie Eisenhower era. Heidi Cruz is an integral part of the Cruz campaign. Heidi recently sent me an appeal for money:

It’s getting bad.

Time is running short before the
Iowa Caucus and we are being attacked from every angle by the liberal media.

Look no further then the obscenity featured on this morning’s cover of the New York Daily News telling Ted to “Drop Dead!”

Did you see this?

It’s getting bad.

Time is running short before the Iowa Caucus and we are being attacked from every angle by the liberal media.

Look no further then the obscenity featured on this morning’s cover of the New York Daily News telling Ted to “Drop Dead!”

This is the lowest attack against Ted to date and the troubling fact is it’s not going to stop.
Ted and I expect an all-out assault from the media elites and we don’t have much time before Iowa to let these attacks go unanswered.

I am asking you personally to stand with Ted and me in defense of our conservative values.

Ted fought back and WON the debate last night, but the liberal media has now made it personal. The message has been sent loud and clear to anyone watching, they will stop at nothing to prevent Ted from becoming the next President of the United States.

That is why we need your support more than ever before.

Will you help us fight these attacks today with an immediate gift to the campaign?

Help Ted defend the Constitution and protect the conservative values we all hold so dear, we’re counting on you.

Warmly,
Heidi Cruz

If Heidi is in the thick of the campaign, then her financial history with Goldman Sachs is fair game. If Cruz’ spouse was a bank robber, no one would doubt that the Cruz ‘family’ was unfit to be First Family. Well, Heidi Cruz got rich working for a firm that robbed Main Street and Middle America and helped precipitate the financial collapse of America's economy, all while profiting from its own insider connections.

“Not surprisingly, Ted Cruz has not released his tax returns and Heidi’s tax returns. But it is obvious if he and Heidi could borrow half a million dollars from Goldman Sachs, and another half a million from Citibank, Heidi was making millions while working for a firm that was fleecing the very evangelical Americans that Cruz is now soliciting with pious pronouncements. Why is a bank robber any different than a corporate robber that destroyed our financial markets and got richer in the process?

“Just days ago, Goldman agreed to pay billions more in penalties for its financial fraud. I have lost track of all of the fines and penalties Goldman paid for fraud and trickery on Wall Street while Heidi Cruz was working for the firm.

“Electing Cruz would put a Goldman Sachs ‘robber’ right in the White House. Is all forgiven? Was Goldman’s greed and fraud just a mirage? Sunday night Bernie Sanders used Goldman’s speaking fees to Hillary Clinton as a disqualifying factor for her. Because Clinton cannot attack Cruz for Goldman cash while taking some for herself, the more likely Cruz becomes as a nominee the better the chances Sanders could win for the Democrats.

“Republicans are cocksure they can defeat Sanders. I am not so sure. When has the foreclosure fraud crisis, and the way hedge funds and Wall Street firms are still foreclosing on innocent homeowners, been an issue in the so-called ‘debates?’ Never. Hillary Clinton says she is for African-Americans. But Hillary has taken cash from Goldman and other Wall Streeters at the same time as hedge funds and other financial firms continue to file phony forecloses on minorities. What hypocrisy. Except that the Cruz’ are just as big hypocrites as the Clintons.

“The day is coming when I will ask presidential voters to focus on the continuing crisis of foreclosure fraud, and to seek promises from candidates that they will reach back and prosecute the villains who destroyed our cities and small towns with fraudulent foreclosure lawsuits. I am preparing to focus on Wall Street foreclosure fraud as a pox on both parties. Their silence is deafening.

“While Ted Cruz was rising in politics he was surreptitiously relying on his wife’s income to foster his political career. Heidi Cruz was in effect a ‘Mafia Princess’ of Wall Street. Do we want to reward Goldman Sachs by placing one of is employees in the White House? Absolutely not. Millions of Americans lost their homes because of the financial trickery of Goldman and Wall Street firms and hedge funds. That trickery is still going on. Putting a Goldman employee in the White House would be a slap in the face to the millions, probably tens of millions, of victims of Goldman Sachs' greed and gross abuse of our free markets.

“Heidi Cruz obviously wasn’t paid millions of dollars to lick envelopes at Goldman. She had a job that provided lavish compensation, for using financial legerdemain to steal from the American people. For a private citizen such behavior may be lawful; for a president’s spouse? For shame. I believe Heidi Cruz and every Goldman employee is guilty even if they did not personally engage in trickery. They knew they were profiting from the firm’s perfidiousness.

“I bear Ted Cruz no ill will. If he is nominated, I will vote for him. In many respects his life is a testament to the American Dream which I honor. But in rising through the ranks he and his wife profited from the misery of millions or ordinary Americans, the very Middle American Evangelicals he is now trying to trick again, into voting for him. Cruz used his wife’s blood money from Goldman to help finance his senate campaign. This time, his scheme will not succeed.

“Republicans should wake up to the reality that Ted Cruz’ wife’s relationship to Goldman Sachs is a disqualifying factor. We do not need a ‘Bonne and Clyde’ of Goldman Sachs in the White House.

“If Ted wants to stay in the race, he should release both his and his wife’s tax returns going back fifteen years (the way Jeb Bush did) and release all of the paperwork disclosing his wife’s career and compensation from and relationship with Goldman Sachs that allowed them to receive a $500,000 loan. Once that information has seen the light of day, voters can make up their own minds concerning his fitness to be nominated and serve. I have my opinion. What’s yours?”

Tuesday or Wednesday: Part Two of Why Ted Cruz is unfit to serve as president.”
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January 18th Manchester, NH news conference details:

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GOP Presidential candidate Andy Martin

What:

Andy Martin explains why Ted Cruz is unfit to serve as president - Part One

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Sidewalk at NW corner of Elm Street and Webster Street, Manchester, NH

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Monday, January 18, 2016; 11:00 A.M.

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Friday, March 16, 2012

“Poor Little Rich Boy” Tom Smithburg tries to buy his first Republican Party office in Chicago

Independent Republican Presidential candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin moved into Chicago’s 42nd Ward forty years ago. The Forty-Second had been home to the notorious crime syndicate hoodlum “Botchie Connors” and contained the heart of Chicago’s honky tonk district. Today the 42nd Ward hosts the “Viagra Triangle.” From his base in the 42nd Ward Andy has consistently fought local and state corruption. The latest insect on the political horizon is “Tommy Smithburg,” who is trying to buy the Republican Party’s 42nd ward Committeeman’s position with the deep pockets of his dad Bill Smithburg. And, in typical Chicago/Illinois political corruption style, craven politicians are lining up with their hands out for more Smithburg cash, all while supporting little Tommy. Charges of money-laundering are flying. Voter fraud is alleged. Welcome to Chicago, America’s “Capital of Corruption.”



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On March 20th, Republicans will go to the polls in Illinois; Andy Martin will focus from time-to-time on interesting races taking place “below the radar” in the sewers of Illinois politics



Republican Presidential candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin explores the peculiar political career of former Quaker Oats executive Bill Smithburg’s son, “Little Tommy” Smithburg



“Little Tommy” is in a heated race to purchase the Republican Party’s 42nd Ward Committeeman post in Chicago



Andy says Smithburg’s robo-calls and nasty mailers are taking politics in a seamy ward to a new low in sliminess



Even senile Republican “Warbucks” Jack Roeser has a bit role in this farce



(CHICAGO) (March 16, 2012) Independent Republican Presidential Candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin opens the back doors of seamy Chicago politics to a national political audience with his latest column on the “campaign” of “Little Tommy Smithburg.”



Forty years ago I moved into Chicago’s 42nd Ward (you can check the deed for 1200 N. Lake Shore Drive). I have seen famous nite spots such as Mr. Kelly’s change hands and change names. (The Original Pancake House has somehow survived all of those years.) Politicians have headed to the graveyard or federal prison, not always in the same order. I have lived at several addresses in the ward.



The 42nd Ward Democratic Committeeman and Cook County Board President, George Dunne, and I became polite friends. Dunne was always trying to recruit me to become a “machine” politician. Politely I declined. Dunne once accused Dick Kay, WMAQ-TV’s political reporter, of being my “campaign manager.” Kay is now a flack on Chicago radio. I saw George Dunne at the Greek Islands restaurant and sent him a bottle of wine shortly before he died. In his bed.



The Crime Syndicate once tried to end my political career prematurely, if you know what I mean. But that’s a story for another day.



I have been a colorful part of a colorful ward but I have always maintained my corruption-fighting independence and integrity. That's not an easy thing to do in Illinois politics. Not for 47 years.



The latest circus in the 42nd Ward revolves around a wealthy retired Quaker Oats executive, Bill Smithburg, and his son “Little Tommy” Smithburg. Little Tommy’s sole claim to fame at the age of 24 is that while serving as the president of a Northwestern University fraternity he arranged for the “Half Pint Brawlers,” a performing dwarfs show, to appear at his fraternity during “rush” (recruitment) season. You can read the links and decide how much weight to give to Tommy’s bad judgment four years ago. Tommy claims the dwarf incident was a “learning experience.” (Isn’t that the phrase Obama is always using?)



Little Tommy’s daddy has given nearly a third of a million dollars to Illinois Republican candidates and “committees.” When the checks mount up into the hundreds of thousands, Illinois politicians take notice and start paying rapt attention. Then they get their hands out and start asking for more. So it is no surprise that a long line of Republican luminaries, palms out, are “endorsing” Little Tommy for Ward Committeeman.



There are even charges of “money-laundering” involving Little Tommy’s dad and senile Republican Daddy Warbucks Jack Roeser. (The details of all of these allegations can be found in the long list of links below which accompany and document this reporting.)



Today I got my first robo-call for Little Tommy. Hapless and incompetent former gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady of Bloomington, Illinois phoned me to endorse Little Tommy. Bloomington is a long way from Chicago but Bill Brady knows a 45 cent stamp can still carry a campaign contribution check between the two cities. There are governors and other luminaries who have “endorsed” Little Tommy. Daddy apparently isn’t embarrassed. Money can buy you anything in Chicago, and it has certainly purchased a long line of endorsers for Little Tommy.



What makes Little Tommy a complete joke is that he exemplifies everything that is crass and corrupt and just plain wrong about politics, both in Illinois and nationally. Tommy is also an embarrassment to his “generation.” Little Tommy “interned” at Goldman Sachs, the notoriously corrupt Wall Street investment Bank that helped bring down our economy and destroyed millions of working family jobs. I am sure Little Tommy didn’t “share the pain” or “feel the pain” of his malignant and malevolent co-workers at Goldman Sachs. When you steal from working people you can’t have a conscience. The work is just too dirty.



Earlier this week, a senior Goldman executive resigned—by publishing a resignation letter in the New York Times calling the firm utterly corrupt and mendacious (link below-“Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs”). So Mr. Smithburg doesn’t really have the kind of job “experience” that would commend him to his neighbors.



Tommy says he is now working at a “healthcare-focused lower middle market private equity firm in Chicago.” Oh, yah. Tommy is trying to figure out ways to profit from the medical misery of others. That’s what they teach you when you intern at Goldman Sachs.



But perhaps I’m being unfair to Little Tommy. Maybe he really is an earnest young man that wants to “serve” 42nd Ward Republicans. As they say in the midnight TV infomercials, “but wait, there’s more.”



Little Tommy’s robo-callers tell me Tommy has “new ideas” and that he wants to “grow the Republican Party.” Grrreat. There’s just one problem. All of the people Tommy’s daddy has been giving money to in the Republican Party are the same people that have devastated the party and created the current “Combine” of Republican and Democratic corruption. Tommy’s lead “endorser” is Corrupt-Republican-in-Chief State Chairman Pat Brady. Brady serves as the affable and innocuous front man for all of the Republican Party’s current sleaze.



So the obvious question is, how is Little Tommy going to make “changes” that would disenfranchise all of daddy’s political contacts who endorsed Little Tommy in the first place? It appears that Little Tommy’s words are just hollow claims that bear no connection to the tawdry reality of who is bankrolling and endorsing his candidacy.



Sadly, Little Tommy is no more than a front man for his father’s political cronies. Little Tommy is a fraud, a phony and a pitiful excuse for what passes for reform in the Illinois Republican Party. The political crooks are now so arrogant they run their own “reformers” to undermine legitimately independent candidacies.



Little Tommy’s web page says “It's time for a new day.” Maybe it’s “time for a new way.” Bill and Tommy Smithburg should take their millions elsewhere, and stop trying to pretend they are political reformers when they are only stooges for the worst elements in Republican Party politics.



On the other hand, Little Tommy would be a fine successor to crime syndicate hoodlums such as the late 42nd Ward Committeeman “Botchie” Connors, who ran one of the most successful gangster organizations in Chicago history. Come to think of it, Little Tommy lives only a stone's throw from a park memorializing the Crime Syndicate hoodlum who controlled the ward. Yes, it's Botchie's park. Maybe Little Tommy takes his inspiration from sitting in Botchie Connors’ Park. They would get along just fine together. Botchie would collect his “vig” and put Bill Smithburg’s “kid” up for something.



Hey, it’s the Chicago way. If you don’t believe me just ask Barack Obama and David Axelrod. They know all about “The Chicago Way.” And now so do you.



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ujntsman wasd reelected in November, 2008. A few monrths later he resigned to serve
his president,” Barack Obama. SDo whyh was it so terrible that Palin resigned and Hutsman served evenless of his secondterm? Can I say “double standard” again.



What os this show us? Whetyher thessue s resigfnaitonsor religion,th emedia shamlessly create double standards tgo favr theiiberal medioa pets (fulldisclosure; I am ot aliberalmedia pet).


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



www.SmithburgforChicago.com



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/


why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?scp=4&sq=


Goldman%20sachs&st=cse



http://kellytruthsquad.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/


brady-smithburg-caught-lying-about-kellys-


voting-record-see-the-records-here/



http://republicannewswatch.com/wp/?p=11903


http://kellytruthsquad.wordpress.com/


2012/03/13/kelly-takes-legal-action-against-


smithburg-rose-for-lying-about-voting-record/



http://www.chicagonow.com/publius-forum/


2012/03/william-j-kelly-hosts-visit-by-


fox-news-dick-morris/



http://illinoisobserver.org/2012/03/10/


saturday-late-night-chicago-gop-party-


alleges-fellow-republican-jack-roeser-


launders-campaign-cash-and-more/



Smithburg’s midget adventure:



http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/2.13894/


rush-event-under-investigation-1.1922358#.T0PvKnJSS4o?compArticle=yes



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e46Xp3e1_Ms



http://www.eastfieldnews.com/2.6683/


northwestern-rush-event-under-investigation-1.974637#.T1wOgYH4KWE



http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/story/


new-asg-officers-excited-to-be-here-and-bring-outs/



http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/story/


asg-names-student-businessman-former-du-head-to-ne/



http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/forum/


du-not-at-fault-no-broken-university-rules-


letter-to-the-editor-1.1922328#.T1wPBYH4KWE



42nd Ward “history”:



http://books.google.com/books?id=eZWxYHslbQEC&lpg=


PA241&ots=YhaisIVF9v&dq=%22Botchie%20Connors%22%20


%2B%20Chicago&pg=PA241#v=onepage&q=%22Botchie%20


Connors%22%20+%20Chicago&f=true


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Andy has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois and American politics and courts for forty-seven years. [www.AndyMartin.com] He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org



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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Republican Presidential candidate Andy Martin will join Wall Street protesters

Corruption-fighting independent Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin is flying to New York to join the growing national protest movement against corporate arrogance, corruption and abuse of the American people. As president, Martin would ban the export of American jobs to China. He would take steps to protect America’s economy, not the paychecks and bonuses of Wall Street executives. Martin says young people are angry; Andy’s angry at what corporate executives and crooked politicians have done to destroy our economic future.



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Andy Martin says he will support the “Wall Street Protests” as long as they remain peaceful and law-abiding



Andy has a question for the protesters: “What took you so long to wake up and fight back?



Andy says Republicans are missing an opportunity to market their economic message to young people who are suffering because of the “Barack Economy”



Andy says there is no reason for conservatives to forfeit frustrated young people and abandon them to the left and New York’s rapacious public employee unions



Andy is in Honolulu completing the current phase of his research and writing on Barack Obama’s family life and character; Andy will be flying directly to New York to join the protesters and trying to switch their loyalties to “progressive conservatism”





(HONOLULU, HI)(October 4, 2011) Corruption-fighting Independent Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin announced today, October 4th he is winding up his current research on Barack Obama in Hawai’i and flying directly to New York to support the “Occupy Wall Street” protest movement.



“I think Republicans and conservatives are missing a classic opportunity,” Andy says. “They have simply branded the Wall Street protesters ‘leftists’ and handled them over to New York City’s rapacious public employee union leaders. That is short-sighted on the part of Republican/conservative leaders. (Shortsighted Republican leaders? No surprise there.)



“These young people, and some who are not so young, are growing up in a Barack Economy.



“There are no jobs; people can’t earn a living.



“Without a job, young men and women can’t start families. Why aren’t my pro-family conservative friends joining the protests?



“Obama’s incompetent financial management has choked off the home loan industry. No one can borrow to buy a home. Young people can’t move into their own homes; adults are being infantilized by having to bunk with parents. Don’t Republicans and conservatives want to support and encourage home ownership?



“Obama has made ‘children’ of 26 year-old adults, and made them dependent on their parents.



“Young people today, and not-so-young-people who have lost their jobs and been victimized by the Barack Economy, have no ‘hope’ and no future. Things look bleak; we are probably already in a second recession.



“I have this question for the Wall Street protesters: what took you so long to wake up and fight back?



“What is wrong with my party that we are not standing up with the protesters and trying to sell our message of economic opportunity? Why are we allowing municipal labor union racketeers to steal this ‘Lost Generation” for their own?



“No jobs? Obama put Jeffrey Immelt at the head of his economic advisory committee; Immelt’s firm, GE, is exporting as many jobs as it can to foreign countries, and fattening Immelt’s own corporate bonuses and perks in the process. GE is stealing the future of our college graduates. Individually, young people are helpless to stop this national suicide.



“I am a progressive conservative who believes conservatives have a leadership role to play in ‘righting’ the economy and renewing economic opportunity. Have Republicans forgotten that the progressive movement in the last century began in the Midwest, in the Republican Party? Well, it did.



“I am not a stooge of Wall Street. I would vigorously prosecute all of the fraud artists who destroyed our economy. Why is Obama afraid to do something? Maybe because Obama collected $1 million in campaign cash from Goldman Sachs. Obama is back in 2011, asking Goldman Sachs for more cash for 2012, trying to raise $1 billion in corporate contributions and dirty dollars to campaign for reelection. In 2008 Obama got more Wall Street money than John McCain.



“The housing industry has been destroyed by hundreds of thousands of fraudulent foreclosure lawsuits. How many lawyers have been prosecuted for filing fraudulent foreclosure cases? How many bankers for filing fraudulent affidavits and robo-signing? None. One scumbag lawyer, David J. Stern, left 100,000 bogus foreclosure lawsuits pending when his Florida law firm collapsed. The new Republican Attorney General of Florida, Pam Bondi, is trying to derail an investigation into foreclosure fraud. Whose side is Bondi on? Are Republicans powerless and helpless to condemn fraudulent foreclosure litigation?



“Chase Bank was stealing homes from our men and women in uniform while they were serving overseas and defending America. If that’s not Wall Street greed, what is? Chase didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for violating the law.



“We live in an increasingly lawless society, where the fruits of our national economic labors are being misappropriated to a handful of individuals, while our nation as a whole is impoverished by exporting jobs to China and other countries, all to create more profits for overpaid and corrupt corporate executives.



“You can count me as one Republican presidential candidate whose heart is with the American people, with young people, with struggling families and the unemployed, not with the corporate thieves and the corrupt brokerage houses that bankrupted this prosperous, wealthy nation and have paid no penalty for their perfidiousness.



“The Republican leadership in Congress sees a ‘job-creator’ every time a job is exported by GE and created in China. I do not. I believe in economic opportunity for Americans first. I believe in an honest economy and a level playing field. We don’t have them today. Corporate crooks are winning.



“I am convinced that Barack Obama can never lead us back to prosperity. That’s why I am a candidate for president and why I am going to stand up and be counted as someone who thinks Republicans are on the wrong track when they jump into the back pockets of the corporate executives that are destroying our economy.



“I am usually a follower of the New York Post’s editorial page. But I think the Post has got it wrong this time. Progressivism, conservatives, these are all just labels. We need to give people jobs. Jobs are real. We need real jobs. Yes to lower taxes, yes to adopting ‘smart’ regulations. But we also need to stop turning a blind eye to businesses that export jobs, damage communities and allow executives to enrich themselves at the expense of their shareholders and employees. Obama is not creating jobs. His corporate cronies are exporting jobs. What are we going to do about it?



“The Republican Party by-and-large is the party of Main Street, of middle class families striving for success and prosperity, of the ‘small businesses’ we hear so much about. My ‘plan’ for America: bring the jobs home, encourage family formation and home ownership, and get rid of the ‘crony capitalism’ that Sarah Palin talks about.



“As long as the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement is peaceful and law-abiding, I will do what I can to help Americans focus attention on the fact that not one corporate executive has gone to jail for the massive fraud that laid low our nation over the past several years. There is a certain amount of irritation and disruption when mass protests take place. But people are angry; they should be able to demonstrate their anger at the failed leadership in both parties. As long as protesters remain peaceful and respectful I’m with them. We don’t need Bill Ayers pouring gasoline on the streets.



“While Barack Obama is trying to harvest campaign contributions from corporations and corporate executives his contributors are exporting jobs and enriching a handful of executives. The executives in turn are firing their American employees. What’s in Barack Obama’s wallet? Dirty corporate cash.



“So why shouldn’t Republicans be out in the streets joining the protesters, trying to persuade them? Instead of abandoning them to craven municipal union leaders?



“Aren't Republican families suffering from unemployment? Don’t Republican parents have children living at home that can't find work, can’t start a family, can’t buy a home?



“Barack Obama’s corporate state is not the America I grew up in. The Republican congressional leadership’s America is not the America that gave me an education, two college degrees, and economic optimism. I want to recreate the America that offered me opportunity, not the America that is oppressing the futures of our young people and depressing the futures of the unemployed and underemployed.



“Who are we kidding? We’re only fooling ourselves if we Republicans repudiate protests against economic abuses. Of course, Republicans don’t like to be reminded that both parties are responsible for the current mess. Obama has made it much worse; but the downturn began with Bush.



“Well, I’m reminding Republicans. I am not stupid, and the protesters are not stupid. They have valid grievances. I will do what I can to channel those complaints and concerns, and to let them know there is one presidential candidate in the two parties that stands with them and understands their anger and frustration.



“Come on, Republicans, wake up. Join the protests. Don’t ridicule them,” Andy says. “I may be a dark horse Republican candidate, but in the event I am elected I will be the president of all the American people and, yes, even those who voted against me. I even want Democrats to have jobs, families, homes and futures. I want to create shared prosperity, not a future of corporate dictatorship and executive aggrandizement.”



Andy Martin expects to join the Wall Street Protests no later than Sunday, October 9th.



ujntsman wasd reelected in November, 2008. A few monrths later he resigned to serve
his president,” Barack Obama. SDo whyh was it so terrible that Palin resigned and Hutsman served evenless of his secondterm? Can I say “double standard” again.



What os this show us? Whetyher thessue s resigfnaitonsor religion,th emedia shamlessly create double standards tgo favr theiiberal medioa pets (fulldisclosure; I am ot aliberalmedia pet).


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