Andy Martin for U S Senator/New Hampshire: May 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says his primary opponents Don Bolduc and Bryant Messner are “Cowardly Candidates” who are afraid to stand up for liberty and conservative values and reopen New Hampshire

GOP U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says his primary opponents Don Bolduc and Bryant Messner are “Cowardly Candidates” who are afraid to stand up for liberty and freedom. Andy draws attention to a column by Ed Mosca, who says Bolduc and Messner have failed to stand up for reopening New Hampshire. Mosca is a veteran of New Hampshire GOP politics who criticized both men in a GraniteGrok.com column.

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ANDY MARTIN /2020

Republican for U. S. Senator

New Hampshire

www.AndyMartin2020.com

www.AndyMartin.com

www.FirstRespondersOnline.us

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E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

P.O. Box 742

Manchester, NH 03105-0742

Cellphone: (347) 960-9593

Fax (866) 214-3210

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May 31, 2020

Dear New Hampshire Republican:

Ed Mosca is a veteran of New Hampshire Republican politics. When he speaks, it is worth listening. (I don’t always agree with Ed’s views, but I agree with him a lot.) Last week Mosca took two of my senate primary opponents to the woodshed on the Granitegrok.com blog (please see link [1] below).

Mosca accused Messner and Bolduc of being afraid to take a stand on reopening New Hampshire. Messner and Bolduc have been afraid to stand up for liberty during the lock-down crisis. New Hampshire’s economy is being asphyxiated because of a tragic handful of deaths in nursing homes. Our public property, beaches, are absurdly locked down.

Bolduc and Messner talk in generalities because they are “Cowardly Candidates” who have no experience standing up for controversial political issues. To be a conservative in America today is to be controversial.

I have extensive experience openly supporting conservative causes. My life’s work is committed to liberty and freedom. And basic common sense.

On May 8^th I sent a letter to Governor Chris Sununu (please see link [2] below) demanding that he end the lockdown. My plan to challenge the lockdown in court may have motivated Sununu to move up his reopening of New Hampshire. Sununu has been a follower, not a leader, in reopening the state.

On May 1^st I issued a statement opposing the New Hampshire lockdown (please see link [3] below).

On March 21^st I urged President Trump to expedite an end to the lockdown. I presented a coherent analysis to support my view, (please see link [4] below).

Most importantly, when the fake news national media were attacking Georgia Governor Brian Kemp for reopening his state, I sent Kemp a letter of support. (The letter is below in the text of this email.) President Trump was not being kind to Governor Kemp, but I stood up for liberty and freedom and backed Kemp.

In other words, I took a clear stand in support of ending the financial tyranny imposed on the people of New Hampshire.

My primary opponents were silent. In my opinion, President Trump was betrayed by the Deep State. Dr. Faustus, excuse me, Dr. Fauci, and others led Trump to flawed policies (please see link [5] below). The lockdown of America will one day be seen as an unnecessary, Deep State-induced disaster (please see link [6] below). The truth is slowly emerging. Do either Bolduc or Messner have the guts to take this case to the people of New Hampshire?

When it comes to generalities, both Messner and Bolduc pretend to be “conservatives.” But they have no track record of conservative action; one of my opponents is an out-and-out RINO who is openly supporting Barack Obama’s agenda. How’s that for a Republican? (Stay tuned for my exposure of that opponent.) Both of them are cowardly candidates. They may have manifested exceptional bravery at earlier points in their careers, but in the “heavyweight championship” of national politics and a U. S. Senate campaign they are neophytes without any experience to enter the boxing ring. Neither one has any history of active conservatism.

Jeanne Shaheen, on the other hand, is a heavyweight champion who has been knocking out Republicans for decades. Why would anyone believe that a rookie GOP candidate with debilitating baggage and no experience in the ring can be an effective opponent for Shaheen?

In the days ahead I will be demolishing Bolduc and Messner in the primary. They are paper mâché candidates fueled by Messner’s personal fortune and Bolduc’s military record, neither of which have any relevance to defeating Shaheen. Because the media (Union Leader and WMUR) support liberal candidates, the fake news New Hampshire media will support my opponents through the primary, solely to deny me a chance to take on Shaheen. Then the media will reverse course and use the research and issues which I developed during the primary to cut down the winner of the GOP primary. (It happened in 2014, 2016 and 2018, go back and see for yourself.)

I am running to save the New Hampshire Republican Party from itself. It has an unparalleled history of self-destructive behavior. The New Hampshire GOP is not a serious opponent for the New Hampshire Democratic Party machine.

I promise you a tough primary as I knock out Messner and Bolduc. If I win the primary I will go on to defeat Shaheen. Finally, New Hampshire will have a GOP U. S. Senator.

If you don’t believe me, just read what Ed Mosca has to say. He understands conservatives. Mosca knows Bolduc and Messner are losers in November.

Why should anyone indulge the vanities and fantasies of Messner and Bolduc that they are serious opponents for Shaheen?

Best wishes,

Andy

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My letter April 25^th to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp:

April 25, 2020

Hon. Brian Kemp, Governor

Suite 203, State Capitol

206 Washington Street

Atlanta, GA 30334

Dear Brian:

I don’t usually send fan mail to public officials but you deserve kudos for opening up Georgia. I agree with everyone who says it is a risky step. But it is the only step to save millions of Georgians from poverty. You are indeed a brave man and I hope you become a national hero.

Here in New Hampshire we are “infected” with the paralysis of Republicans trying to be “good democrats.” It is a mess. The state refuses to acknowledge the reality that we face economic chaos.

In Georgia, you gave taken a very courageous lead. I am sure the bureaucrats at the White House have their explanations for why the president is criticizing you. He’s in a classic pickle between common sense and bureaucracy. None of them have to meet a payroll or face people who have lost paychecks. They live in their “public health” silos, divorced from reality. In the real world, if we don’t pull out of this dive, and fast, Republicans will be decimated in November.

Obviously, you will be watching for any flare up of the virus. That’s what a careful plan would so. But watching and waiting is better than sitting on your hands while millions stumble and starve.

If you have not seen it, the enclosed column from the NY Times may be interesting. Outside of New York, the nation has weathered the crisis well, and conditions are improving. Would you take a cruise on a ship where Cuomo and DeBlasio were the captain and first mate?

Be brave.

With best wishes,

Andy

AM:sp

W/encl.

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

[1] https://granitegrok.com/blog/2020/05/time-for-bolduc-mayberry-messner-and-mowers-to-pick-a-side

[2] https://andymartin2020.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/u-s-senate-candidate-andy-martin-opposes-any-further-wuhan-virus-lockdown-in-new-hampshire-vows-to-challenge-any-attempted-extension-by-the-state-government-andy-says-free-the-beaches/

[3] https://andymartin2020.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/new-hampshire-u-s-senate-candidate-andy-martin-says-he-will-oppose-an-extension-of-a-lockdown-order-for-new-hampshire-andy-says-there-is-no-emergency-and-the-lockdown-is-unconstit/

[4] https://andymartin2020.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/new-hampshire-u-s-senate-candidate-andy-martin-says-president-trump-will-be-defeated-for-reelection-unless-he-ends-the-coronavirus-shutdown-at-the-end-of-the-current-15-day-period-any-indefinite-ex/

[5] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-coronavirus-response-is-a-massive-policy-screwup-but-not-donald-trumps-fault-niall-ferguson-121627244.html

[6] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-response-caused-a-much-bigger-economic-shock-than-necessary-151003164.html

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ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin is a legendary New Hampshire-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. With over fifty (50) years of background in radio and television and with decades of intelligence, investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, military and intelligence matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over fifty years and is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com.

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).

He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind the Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” blogging at www.contrariancommentary.wordpress.com and www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester, New Hampshire over 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He is New Hampshire’s leading corruption fighter and Republican Party reformer.

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Saturday, May 23, 2020

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says President Trump must silence Dr. Anthony Fauci’s opposition to reopening America or Fauci and the CDC will undermine the president’s policies and defeat Trump for reelection

GOP U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says President Trump should “bite the bullet” and silence Dr. Anthony Fauci. Andy says Fauci is a deadly political operative who pretends to be “just a scientist” but is sabotaging Trump’s reelection. If Fauci is allowed to maintain his current high visibility, Trump’s reelection will be in doubt.

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ANDY MARTIN /2020

Republican for U. S. Senator

New Hampshire

www.AndyMartin2020.com

www.AndyMartin.com

www.FirstRespondersOnline.us

Headquarters:

E-mail: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

P.O. Box 742

Manchester, NH 03105-0742

Cellphone: (347) 960-9593

Fax (866) 214-3210

Blogs:

www.AndyMartin2020.blogspot.com

www.AndyMartin2020.wordpress.com

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May 15, 2020

President Donald J. Trump

The White House

Washington, DC 20500

Dear Donald:

I am committed to doing everything I can to ensure your reelection.

I am writing to ask you to restrict access to the media and public platforms of Dr. Anthony Fauci of your Coronavirus Task Force. Fauci is undermining your reopen and recovery policy. I also suggest you clean house at the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”). The CDC is also not being helpful.

Unless you take strong and decisive action, Fauci and the CDC will ensure your defeat in November.

In January and February and really into early March, Fauci failed to warn you of the coming Covid-19 tidal wave. As they say in sports, “let’s go to the tape.” Fauci’s repeatedly misleading analysis is on tape.

Once the seriousness of the Coronavirus situation was unavoidable, Fauci reversed himself and started calling for quarantines and shutdowns. He was way too late. But the media tried to blame you, not Fauci, for his belated realization of the virus threat.

Sweden took protective action but never shut down the Swedish economy. My belief is that history will find the national shutdown in the United States was a colossal error. Luckily, the American people will not blame you. You were clearly the victim of bad advice and incompetent management at the CDC.

Fauci says he is only a “scientist” and does not give advice “about economic things.” But the recommendations he has made have devastated our economy and jeopardized your reelection.

On masks, Fauci was a no-mask man before he was a yes-mask man. Cruising? Fauci saw no danger until March. But the doctor seems to endorse online sex. Who knew? Distancing? That is probably the only policy that everyone agrees on.

You were ridiculed when you left reopening to the governors. Some governors have done a good job with the task, and others have continued their mismanagement and incompetence. A hundred years ago Justice Brandeis spoke of the states as “laboratories of democracy.” New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262 (1932). Your approach has shown us which governors know how to manage, and which can only mismanage.

When we met forty years ago at Olympic Tower, I was already a seasoned political analyst. You were an up-and-coming developer. You developed the skill set to survive in New York City, not the ability to necessarily prevail in the shark tank of Washington. Based on my decades of political experience I can recognize a sabotage operation where others do not. Fauci has been sabotaging your coronavirus response at least since March. He has offered diktats, not opinions; when, if ever, for example, did Fauci discuss the Swedish response to Covid-19 as an option?

Fauci has extraordinary political skills. You do not survive in the bureaucracy for almost 40 years without knowing how to maneuver and manipulate.

Federal bureaucrats have fed you a steady diet of shutdown, shutdown, shutdown. They even convinced you to attack the Georgia governor when he tried to reopen several weeks ago. Georgia seems to be doing pretty well.

Significantly, your home state of Florida has done markedly better than New York and the Northeast in defending against the virus. What did Florida do that New York didn’t?

No one knows what will happen in the fall, or next year. The virus may come back, or it may disappear. And yet, despite the lack of certainty and predictability about the future course of the virus, yesterday we had another belching bureaucrat talking about a “darkest winter” unless you submit to his demands.

There is still time for you to recover if you take decisive action and assume control of your Coronavirus policy without kowtowing to the so-called “experts” and scientists.

The media will flay you, but the American people will recognize that you are a strong executive, not a dupe of the deep state.

The first step is to restrict Fauci to his laboratory and end his access to the media. Fauci has used his perch at your news conferences to contradict you and to devastate your efforts to get America open again. Earlier this week Fauci was at it again, contradicting your policy and conducting his own Covid-19 policy. That is not acceptable.

If Fauci wants to speak freely, he can retire. Government employees do not have free speech rights to contradict their bosses. Fauci has decades of seniority but he is spending most of his time as a political operative and media playboy, not as a serious scientist conducting actual research on the virus.

You cannot allow Fauci to speak for you or your administration.

I am not a fortune teller but I can predict the future where your reelection is concerned. If you do not restrain Fauci now, and limit his accessibility to the media and public platforms, he is going to be undermining your reopen and recovery policies with his own views all summer long, right up to the election. You have given him a mega-platform and so long as he has that platform your reelection is endangered.

So, please restrict Fauci right away.

I also suggest you consider a housecleaning at the CDC. Several years ago, the CDC had a poor response to the Zika virus. After the Zika breakdown, CDC adopted a policy to avoid future breakdowns. But in January the incompetents at CDC refused to use a simple Roche test, and insisted on creating their own defective test. The resulting CDC incompetence led to many weeks of delay while the virus metastasized.

Who has been fired for the CDC’s committing the same mistake with Covid-19 that they promised not to commit after the Zika failure? No one. In other words, after blowing the Zika virus response and promising not to sin again, CDC went right back and made the same mistakes all over again this year!

No one has been punished for incompetence and mismanagement at the CDC. When an organization repeatedly makes the same mistakes people should be held accountable. As someone with vast experience in the private sector you understand what I am saying. I would recommend a massive housecleaning at the CDC. The CDC, moreover, is much quieter than Fauci at undermining your efforts to reopen America. But the CDC’s agenda is painfully obvious, namely to sabotage your administration and your reelection.

I have wanted to send this letter for over a month. In fact, I sent you a letter in March warning of the consequences if you allowed an endless shutdown to continue.

The Covid-19 virus is a serious public health emergency. But as the Swedish approach has shown, there is not just one way to approach a response. The insanity, from New Hampshire to California, of closing public beaches, which are the safest refuges from the virus, show that many so-called “public health” experts are incompetent and operate with closed minds.

I urge you to restrict Fauci’s access and to order a housecleaning at the CDC; the media be damned. Whatever you do, the media will attack you and seek to undermine your reelection. So, in reality there is no price to be paid for shutting up Fauci and cleaning house at the CDC. Right now, by keeping Fauci, you are getting the onus without the bonus. If you limit him you will get the bonus while receiving the same onus.

“Just one more thing,” as Columbo would say. You need to appoint a reopening czar, a Peter Navarro-type to supervise reopening. Then let him run your operation. Tell him “no press conferences,” and just let the man or woman do their job. You’ll get better results without the hassles that attended your Coronavirus Task Force. Keep it simple.

We need you to win. Don’t blow it.

With sincere best wishes,

Andy

AM:sp

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ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin is a legendary New Hampshire-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. With over fifty (50) years of background in radio and television and with decades of intelligence, investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, military and intelligence matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

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, May 11, 2020

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin opposes any further Wuhan Virus lockdown in New Hampshire, vows to challenge any attempted extension by the state government. Andy says “Free the beaches!”

GOP U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says Governor Chris Sununu should end what Andy says is now an unconstitutional “emergency” that is strangling the quality of life in New Hampshire. Andy will take legal action to block any extension of the current “emergency” declaration and may engage in civil disobedience to test the constitutionality of the state’s burdensome and intrusive regulations.

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ANDY MARTIN /2020

Republican for U. S. Senator

New Hampshire

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P.O. Box 742

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May 8, 2020

Governor Chris Sununu

State Capitol

107 N. Main Street

Concord, NH 03301

Dear Chris:

I am writing to ask you to end the purported “state of emergency” in New Hampshire and to reopen the state for the use and enjoyment of its citizens. I also write to ask that you retract your proposed regulatory scheme and allow businesses to resume normal operations.

Because I am one of your strongest supporters this is a difficult letter to write. I voted for you in the past and I will vote for you in November. I want you reelected at all costs. But I believe the coronavirus course you are following is dangerous to your reelection as well as dangerous to the future of the state.

There is no emergency at this time; end the “emergency”

A. In early March there was a genuine emergency. The confused nature of the coronavirus misled many officials, both Democrats and Republicans, to be surprised in early and mid-March. The so-called “models” were a sham and predicted millions of deaths. We had no idea what would happen nationally, or locally in New Hampshire. Therefore, I do not question the declaration of an emergency in March. It is what it was, a decision based on flawed facts.

B. Our Democratic Party opponents never tire of telling us to follow the “science” and “facts.” Well, what are the science and facts? Fact number one: According to NHPR, approximately 75% of New Hampshire coronavirus deaths were in nursing homes and care facilities (please see link [1] below), NOT in the general population. The number of non-nursing related deaths is infinitesimal. Governor Andrew Cuomo likes to say every life is “priceless.” But every life is not priceless. People are killed and injured all the time. Courts and insurance companies have little difficulty monetizing the price of life. No one can rationally suggest that the entire state should be imperiled to protect a single life.

Right now, 1.3 million people are suffering economically in New Hampshire, in order to possibly avoid a handful of deaths that occur outside nursing homes. Children are hungry, rent and mortgages are behind, and property owners have difficulty paying property taxes to run the state. State government is constantly trying to talk down New Hampshire’s tourism business.

I do not believe you can or should ethically endanger the lives of 1.3 million people to save a handful of otherwise endangered lives. On the contrary, by diluting the anti-coronavirus effort and applying it to all 1.3 million people, you fail to concentrate protective efforts on saving the most vulnerable. The state’s current policy has the perverse impact of endangering the vulnerable while destroying the lives of 1.3 million people without any justification for that approach. (The moronic TV ads saying you are “killing your grandparents” just by trying to live a normal life are just that, moronic ads.)

C. The emergency which existed in March no longer exists. In fact, the lockdown has endangered New Hampshire’s medical system and cost hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars in lost income, much of which will never be recovered. So, once again the lockdown policy has the perverse effect of destroying hospital and medical resources, not protecting them, for future use.

D. The coronavirus situation is a serious public health crisis. But we deal with public health controversies on a regular basis without shutting down the state. How many viruses has China sent us in recent years? We don’t know. But our state medial system clearly has adequate medical resources to deal with the minimum impact of the coronavirus in New Hampshire. Thus, as a matter of “fact” and “law,” there is no basis for emergency action at the present time. Therefore, the emergency declaration should be allowed to expire in a few days.

II.

When is a beach not a beach?

A. The state’s proposals seem to create a distinction between beaches. If you want to use a beach at a lake, that’s apparently OK. But if you want to use a beach at the ocean, that’s illegal. What is the constitutional basis for the distinction? What is the factual basis? (I much prefer the ocean to lakes.)

B. The Hampton Beach situation is pathetic. People showed up last weekend – great – and the police want to shut down parking and limit access to a great state resource (please see link [2] below). Ocean beaches may be among the safest places to be. There is the salt air, the salt water and the bright sunshine which helps kill the virus. There is not a scintilla of evidence to suggest beaches are dangerous and yet Hampton Beach Police want to limit parking and limit access to the beach. It’s hysteria unbound. It’s stupid. Barney Fife policing.

My family has been going to Hampton Beach for over 100 years. The beach has never been closed that I am aware of. There is no basis to close ocean beaches now. When I go, I often see out-of-state license plates. So what? Is the whole world presumptively infected? That’s simply not the case. Ocean beaches are perhaps the healthiest places for people to park, picnic and enjoy themselves in the sun. Free Hampton Beach!

III.

When is a restaurant not a restaurant?

My understanding is that restaurants will only be allowed to seat people outside and on a limited basis. Is the state trying to ensure that the restaurant industry in New Hampshire goes bankrupt? What if it rains? What if it gets dark? Or what if, as we have next week, a cold front slides in? New Hampshire in late August also starts getting chilly at night. The state’s proposals limiting restaurant operations will destroy jobs and undermine our economic future. It’s a nonsense approach.

IV.

A “goofy government” approach could be toxic in November.

A. Right now, the “polls” (which I doubt) show you doing very well. But if the state stays locked up with a cockeyed approach to business over the summer, I can guarantee you that you will be very unpopular in October and November. There is no way the public will accept much more lockdown lifestyle. The stay-at-home approach worked for a while, but that gig is over.

You are going to face serious hostility if you try to implement your latest set of proposals. I can’t predict what the virus will be doing on the 4^th of July but I can guarantee you what the public will be doing on 4^th of July: cursing you out for destroying their state and denying Granite Staters a chance to visit a beach.

B. Please don’t fall into the Kelly Ayotte trap. Kelly Ayotte was a decent senator. I endorsed her and voted for her. But she was ham-handed in her relationship with voters, and especially Republicans. She lost a race she should have won, and she may have also dragged down Trump with her. Ayotte had a way of irrigating Republicans and conservatives which led a few thousand GOP voters to reject her. She had a decent record. But she fumbled away her reelection for no good reason (I will write more about her next week).

Please do not fumble away your reelection through a false sense of complacency that the complicated proposals and regulations you seek to impose on 1.3 million Granite Staters will remain popular, because those rules are based on a nonexistent “emergency” and will only worsen conditions in the state, not improve them. You will be demonized by the Democrats before you know it and, like Ayotte, you will have lost Republican votes by unnecessarily imposing an illogical regulatory scheme on the state.

The Swedish model has yielded a much better outcome than the USA one; why not study it and try to adapt it?

Sweden is an advanced society, comparable in many ways to the United States. But Sweden did not lock down, and has an economy that is the envy of the world. Sweden adopted reasonable regulations, ending large sporting events and public gatherings, but leaving groups of up to 49 people alone. Bars and restaurants did not close. Children stayed in school. The result is that while the United Kingdom and the United states brutalized their populations and devastated their economies, Sweden did not. Sweden did not avoid all deaths but the results there approximate USA conditions without the self-induced economic collapse.

In New Hampshire, a huge percentage of the coronavirus cases are along the Massachusetts border. Why punish the entire state for a highly localized problem in a small slice of Southern New Hampshire? Once again, current state policy makes no sense. How is impoverishing 90% of the state because of an unhealthy situation in 10% of the state a sound policy?

CONCLUSION

In summary:

A. I respectfully request that you not renew the nonexistent emergency when it expires in a few days.

B. I respectfully request that you trust New Hampshire institutions and individuals to make their own decisions. We are a state with an unusually intelligent and highly practical population. Institutions such as hospitals and businesses will make sound decisions to adopt their enterprises to necessary procedures. People do not want to get sick; they can adopt approaches that protect them.

C. If the emergency declaration is renewed, I am planning to launch a civil disobedience campaign to challenge the constitutionality of the emergency and the draconian policies the state is proposing. Please don’t make me do it. I want to be able to cheer you on, not challenge your decisions.

D. No plan can cover everything and mine does not. But I am only proffering a sensible and practical analysis of what can be done to help people, not drag down the state any longer. The great minds in state government are trying to kill a mouse with a machine gun. Do everything that can be done to protect our vulnerable population, where the illnesses and death are concentrated. But do everything you can to roll back the state’s burdensome and often contradictory approach to regulation for healthy, low-risk citizens. End it, don’t mend it.

Let’s meet at the beach and have a ceremony burning the emergency declaration. You’ll be glad you did.

With sincere best wishes,

Andy

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[1] https://www.nhpr.org/post/more-three-four-nh-covid-deaths-occurred-long-term-care-homes#stream/0

[2] https://www.unionleader.com/news/health/coronavirus/proposal-to-reopen-hampton-beach-calls-for-limited-parking-turning-ocean-boulevard-into-walking-mall/article_35dd1476-d9e5-526f-adbc-9e4e70bb1151.html?

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ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin is a legendary New Hampshire-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. With over fifty (50) years of background in radio and television and with decades of intelligence, investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, military and intelligence matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

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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Friday, May 1, 2020

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says he will oppose an extension of a lockdown order for New Hampshire. Andy says there is no “emergency” and the lockdown is unconstitutional. Liberate New Hampshire! Free Granite Staters!

GOP U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says a proposal to “reopen” New Hampshire to be released on Friday, May 2 is, on the contrary, a death wish for the state and will entomb the state’s economy for years. Andy strenuously opposes and objects to the “bureaucratic and regulatory state” that is being imposed on Granite Staters. Andy will soon begin a campaign of civil disobedience to help lift the yoke of enslavement from state residents.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Attention, New Hampshire, Washington, National daybook/assignment and Political editors

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Andy Martin says New Hampshire officials have a “death wish” going forward to destroy the state’s economy while saving only a handful of lives

Andy says that protecting the medically vulnerable does not mandate impoverishing a million New Hampshire residents

Andy says he will defy the state government’s orders and soon launch a campaign of civil disobedience against the new regulatory state imposed by New Hampshire officials

Andy predicts that if the latest proposals are enacted and enforced, New Hampshire Republicans will be wiped out in November; this is a case of blatant and incompetent political suicide

“They are destroying our New Hampshire,” Andy says. “Why aren’t we following the ‘Swedish model’ instead of the ‘Chinese model?’”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(MANCHESTER, NH) (May 1, 2020) --- New Hampshire Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says that he objects to the bureaucratic regulatory state that is being imposed on New Hampshire residents. The state is to announce new and continuing regulations, as well as a continuing lock-down of state residents, on May 2nd. An “emergency” declaration has also been renewed by the state. Andy opposes the systematic destruction of New Hampshire, its traditions and its economy.

“It is time for New Hampshire Patriots to stand up and oppose the Stalinist bureaucracy that is about to be dumped on New Hampshire’s residents and businesses,” Andy says. “I not only oppose the continuation of the nonexistent and bogus ‘emergency,’ I oppose the bureaucratic codes that are being used to straightjacket citizens and businesses.

“Public safety and public health are paramount concerns, but when these legitimate concepts are pursued to illegitimate ends, the state is going to collapse. The Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the National Industrial Recovery Act in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495. The NRA was a regulatory scheme similar to the Covid-19 schemes being imposed on Americans by state officials.

“I would like to present the basis for my opposition and forthcoming civil disobedience:

1. The Deep State and incompetent CDC bureaucrats betrayed the American People

“Americans generally, and Granite Staters, have been betrayed by a mindless Washington bureaucracy and Deep State. When the virus is gone and cooler heads review the history of this medical and economic disaster, the public will be outraged at how the American people were betrayed by incompetent bureaucrats, starting at the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”). The history of how the incompetent CDC refused to use a simple virus test, developed in less than a week in Germany, and initially created a defective test and then a series of delays before a workable ‘test’ was developed, is a disgrace to our democracy. Germany’s test would have worked fine. But the CDC’s ‘not invented here’ arrogance deprived the medical system of testing ability for weeks and allowed the crisis to get out of hand. The CDC deprived the president and others of meaningful information when it was most needed. If I get to the U. S. Senate, I will work to see the CDC head is fired. He was an incompetent leader and administrator.

2. Of necessity, I support and endorse the state’s prior actions

“When the State of New Hampshire eventually declared an ‘emergency’ and lock-down, it was proceeding blindly. A ‘model’ from Imperial College in London was useless. A similar model from the University of Washington was almost as useless. But government bureaucrats such as Anthony Fauci used these defective models to scare the president and the American people by initially predicting millions of deaths and stampeding our society to adopt a nationwide lock-down approach.

“Nevertheless, in the classic computer expression, ‘garbage in garbage out,’ New Hampshire state officials had garbage from the federal government to work with and developed a plan that was garbage. Thus, because state officials were duped by federal bureaucrats, I give New Hampshire a ‘pass’ on their initial lock-down and ‘emergency.’

3. Why was the Swedish model not used; why was it ignored?

“Sweden is a civilized society. Swedish leaders saw the hysteria enveloping the world and chose a different approach. No, the Swedish model did not completely avoid loss of life or illness. But Sweden never closed its restaurants and bars, never locked-down the people. Instead, Swedish authorities enacted sensible restrictions: groups larger than 50 were banned, large events such as athletic events were barred, and Swedes were asked to exercise common sense. The result: Sweden has a death rate similar to that in the United States. But Sweden’s economy is intact, primary schools are open, and the nation is moving ahead.

“There were and are risks in any approach, including the Swedish system, but Fauci-led statist bureaucrats would not consider anything but medieval quarantines, knowing full well the quarantines would destroy entire industries and might trigger a depression.

“Why is the New Hampshire state government now not looking to Sweden as a model, and insisting on imposing a Fauci-Chinese dictatorship on the Granite State?

4. Today, May 2, there is no “emergency” and no basis for New Hampshire bureaucrats to impose their imperial rule on residents

“In my opinion, the claim that there is a basis for an emergency declaration today, May 2, is an insult to the intelligence and grossly unconstitutional. In my opinion, a bona fide ‘emergency’ should (1) involve a sudden or surprise act; (2) a situation that is out of control or difficult to control; (3) a lack of an established protocol or resources to address the situation.

“In March, the people were incited by the scare tactics broadcast by the national media and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s hysteria that 140,000 ICU units and and 40,000 ventilators were needed immediately. Cuomo also tried to scare the nation by saying ‘You’re next. Tomorrow, you’re New York.’ Well, time has passed, and Manchester is not New York. New Hampshire is not New York.

“Nevertheless, New Hampshire bureaucrats, without much critical thought, declared the original ‘emergency.’ I accepted that action when it was imposed, because the state was given defective modeling information by Washington. My three-factor emergency approach (above) reasonably applied.

“But today there is no coronovirus emergency. There are a handful of corona patients in New Hampshire hospitals.

“But there is a genuine, non-corona virus emergency. New Hampshire’s health care system is begun destroyed by the false emergency, doctors and nurses are being let go. Hospitals are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a month. This money will never be recovered. There is an emergency because sick people with cancer and heart ailments have been deprived of medical care for months. But the ‘emergency’ that was recently renewed is nonexistent. It is a political fraud on the people of the state. Bureaucrats are ignoring the real emergency, the unemployment and critical state of health systems that are being destroyed, while they develop plans to regulate state lakes and beaches. Disgraceful.

5. The scatter-shot approach has killed our senior citizens

“Ironically, while failing to protect the ‘vulnerable,’ on the contrary the emergency and lock-down destroyed the vulnerable. While there are a handful of cases in every age category, the vast majority of deaths were of people over 60 and, proportionately, of nursing home and care home residents. So, by locking down the entire state and pretending the entire state was equally at risk from the virus, we neglected to protect the very groups of people that were in reality vulnerable. The deaths in nursing homes were entirely expected. Nursing homes were neglected; they were the stepchildren of the medical system. So vulnerable seniors were ignored, and died, while state bureaucrats lavished attention on groups that were at minimal risk, claiming they were ‘protecting everyone’ when in reality they were protecting no one.

“The scatter-shot approach not only failed, it is a disgrace to our humanity that we abandoned our most vulnerable citizens to neglect and death. Had competent officials sat down and reviewed input from hospitals and nursing facilities, the anti-virus efforts would have been concentrated on seniors and the critically ill and not on the blunderbuss scattershot approach of imprisoning on 1.3 million New Hampshire residents, almost all of whom were not ill and faced no serious risk. Dr. Benjamin Chan, the state’s ‘epidemiologist,’ proved to be an incompetent bureaucrat. Why hasn’t Chan been fired? Because state government is afraid to admit that Concord officials botched the corona virus response. Fire Chan! He’s worthless.

6. New Hampshire’s economy will not survive the latest regulatory proposals

“State government proposes to impose an extended regulatory regime on state businesses starting Friday. A nonexistent ‘emergency’ is used as the pretext to enslave over a million people and lock them in their homes, deprive their children of an education and impoverish the citizenry.

“Restaurants can’t survive with Concord bureaucrats running their establishments. Salons are being regulated as what services they can and can’t provide. And so on.

“There are probably 150,000 unemployed people in New Hampshire, and many more under-employed. The state’s economy will soon collapse and Democrats will gleefully proclaim Donald Trump the new Herbert Hoover.

7. Civil disobedience is the inevitable outcome

“New Englanders are a pretty law-abiding and civil people. But the Boston Tea Party is also in our history. I foresee massive civil disobedience starting this summer, as Concord bureaucrats try to deprive the people of access to their property, yes, the people own the state, the state does not own the people.

“When the American Revolution began, most people opposed the patriots and there were only a handful of people willing to confront the King of England. So, don’t be fooled by the claim that the vast majority of New Hampshire residents want to be ruled and regulated by Concord bureaucrats. They don’t. As President George Bush once said, ‘[You] will hear from us.’

8. The current rule-and-regulate regime will decimate Republicans in November

“If Republicans as a party do not rise up and oppose the imposition of draconian regulation and restrictions on New Hampshire residents, by the time the virus has passed voters are only going to remember their endless and continuing economic pain, and will take revenge on so-called ‘conservatives’ who refused to open their mouths to oppose the craziness that is/was being imposed on them.

9. The polls are being manipulated to deceive the people

“It is obvious that many people are afraid, especially senior citizens. But the idea that the vast majority of New Hampshire residents want to remain entombed at home, while their jobs disappear and they become impoverished, is nonsense. We are closing county fairs and events, out in the sun and fresh air? Why?

“The motto of this state used to be ‘Live Free or Die.’ Are the bureaucrats going to change the motto to ‘Live Enslaved and Like it?’ President Reagan warned us our freedom and liberty are always endangered by power-hungry bureaucrats. Today, the combined threat posed by the tech titans (Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, etc.) and the Deep State is an even more insidious than the Cold War. President Trump talks of an ‘invisible enemy.’ The virus may not be visible, but the politicians and malefactors of great wealth are the real enemy and they are increasingly powerful and visible.

10. The battle for the beaches will be a “beetch”

“My family has been going to Hampton Beach for 100 years. Hampton Beach has never closed. There is no reason to close the state’s ocean beaches now. The mantra that New Hampshire will be overrun by hordes of diseased Massachusetts residents is disgraceful and insulting (should Bay Staters just send a check in the mail?). The safest place to be may be a beach. Fresh air and sunlight are virus-killers. But yet the state’s bureaucrats want to kill an entire beach season, and deprive the people of access to the safest place in the state. On what meat do these Caesars feed? We must begin a ‘battle for the beaches’ and liberate our shores from the invaders and Chinese-thinking regulators in Concord.

11. The usurpation of power by “emergency” is unconstitutional

“Government bureaucrats, even elected officials, do not have the power under either the New Hampshire or U. S. Constitutions to rule by government ‘order,’ and control the table seating of restaurants, the access to public property such as shores and lakes, and in general to control every aspect of our daily lives based on a nonexistent ‘emergency.’ The proposed plans to be released Friday are unconstitutional.

“Well, what do you think?” asks Andy Martin. “Live free or live under the bureaucratic/regulatory state being imposed by Concord?”

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ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin is a legendary New Hampshire-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. With over fifty (50) years of background in radio and television and with decades of intelligence, investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, military and intelligence matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

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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