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June 3, 2020
Dear American:
I stand with President Trump. Period.
I might not have written this letter. But the disgraceful attacks of
the anti-Trump Episcopal Bishop of Washington, Mariann Budde, demonizing President
Trump for visiting St. John’s Church, compels
me to state where I stand and why.
My name is Andy Martin. I am a candidate for U. S. Senator from New
Hampshire. But in a broader sense, my life has been a lifetime of service to
the United States. I took the oath of enlistment at age 18 to support and defend
the Constitution. Mine is a very national experience, not just a Granite State
story.
In this letter I would like to explain three things: (1) why I am outraged
at the left-wing Episcopal Bishop, Mariann Budde, who attacked President Trump.
I will go into some detail concerning my family’s history with St. John’s church
that was torched by radicals. (2) I want to explain why I am best equipped to
assist President Trump in January, 2021. Finally, (3) I will explain why we are
once more involved in a civil war against domestic terrorism. The forces of
peace and constitutional commitment cannot afford to lose to the anarchists and
destroyers of civilization that have used the George Floyd murder to unleash an
attack on our social order.
1. The Episcopal Bishop of Washington is a disgrace
I am a member of the Episcopal Church. Over the past fifty years the national
church has become increasingly radicalized. The church of Bethesda By the Sea
(bbts.org) went so far as to endorse the disgraceful behavior of Bishop Budde.
Conservatives are not welcome in the Episcopal Church. The radical left
controls church leadership and is driving the institution into oblivion.
My mother, Helen Vasiliou, graduated from the University of New
Hampshire in 1940. She began as a teacher at Farmington High School in New Hampshire.
She could not have envisioned that she would soon join the war effort in Washington,
DC and later be sent overseas. She was the daughter of Greek immigrants.
Mom lived at a single women’s residence off Connecticut Avenue. She told
me she often walked down Connecticut Avenue and over to St. John’s Church a few
blocks away.
During the Viet-Nam era, I started staying at the Capital Hilton,
several blocks from St. John’s. Later, my office on Connecticut Avenue was a short
walk from St. John’s. I attended services there when I was in Washington.
I was deeply distressed to see the church burning. I was delighted to
see President Trump walk over to St. John’s Monday and pay his respects at the
torched structure. But I was amazed when the disorder-sympathizing Bishop Budde
attacked the president. Budde’s behavior was disgraceful. Bishop Budde is
indicative of the extreme left-wing, anti-American bias that increasingly
affects Episcopal leadership. Church membership has fallen in half over the past
decades and continues to decline. The bishop should have praised the president,
not condemned him.
Now you can see why I am enraged and why I am speaking out. My family
has been associated with St. Johns for over 75 years.
2. Ordinary New Hampshire citizens have no voice in Washington
New Hampshire today is “represented” by four radical-supporting left-wing
Democrats. Ordinary people have no voice. The left-wing Democrats put out endless
promises of “free” government handouts; they support trillion-dollar giveaways to
benefit their “boss,” the reprehensible Senator Charles Schumer of New York (who
recently attacked me). Ordinary taxpaying Granite State citizens have no voice
in Washington - but they are asked to subsidize handouts to deficit-spending states
such as New York, Illinois and California.
The New Hampshire Republican Party is a hollowed-out remnant of its glory
days. New Hampshire, once a leader in defending liberty, has become a pale relic
of its former commitment to “Live Free or Die.” Not even our beaches are free today.
I have known President Trump since I approved his application to move into
the Olympic Tower Condominium over 40 years ago (he was renting a condo in the building
and I was on the board). I have watched Trump for decades, and understand his
strengths and weaknesses. He is far from a perfect president. But he is our
president.
I followed the advice of Joe Biden and compared Joe not to the almighty,
but to the alternative. Joe Biden is not mentally and physically capable of serving
as president. There is no alternative to Trump. To paraphrase a patriot Carl
Schurz, “My president right or wrong; if right to be kept right, if wrong to be
set right.”
Donald Trump needs help. None of my GOP primary opponents can remotely
aid the president in January. The Democrats are out to destroy him. Trump needs
a supporter on Capitol Hill who understands him, who has known him from his
early days as a New York real estate promoter, and who can work with the president,
warts and all. I am that candidate.
3. We are engaged in a new “great civil war”
Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg of a “great civil war.” Today we are
engaged in yet another civil war over whether our society can survive. Our urban
centers have been taken over by radical socialists and even Maoists. Local
governing bodies from New York to Chicago to Los Angeles are intimidated by
radical members. Antifa is ascendant. The Democratic Party nationally is being held
hostage to radical elements. The “Democrats” of the 1960’s and 70’s and even early
1980’s no longer exist.
I have devoted my life to civil rights. I was at Resurrection City (Washington,
DC) in 1968, established by Martin Luther King before his assassination. I was
recruited to play football at the University of Illinois to foster civil rights.
I have defended the Constitution in countless lawsuits. And I have stood up to
corrupt local, state and federal officials who were contemptuous of civil rights.
My civil rights roots run deep.
That is why I am so angry at the murder of George Floyd. It was a
senseless killing by a depraved police officer. But Floyd’s murder has accomplished
something unusual: almost every American condemns the killing. Floyd’s outrageous
killing by a man sworn to uphold the Constitution has united the American People
in a way seldom seen, notably not since 9/11.
Our Constitution governs how we should proceed. We have robust federal
and state justice systems. They are not perfect but on an everyday basis they
usually work reasonably well. Are mistakes committed? Every day. In a nation of
330 million people, mistakes will be made. The vast majority of police efforts are
peaceful. The justice system is an honorable institution. The combination of
national outrage and decent systems of justice will lead to justice for Floyd.
So why is America burning?
Chicago is under siege. The transit system is being shut down. The central
business district, “The Loop,” was closed off by raising bridges on the Chicago
River, in an almost medieval symbol of a moat. Midtown New York? Under attack.
Downtown New York? Under attack. Hundreds of cities under attack. By whom and
for what? Luckily New Hampshire has escaped this mayhem.
Donald Trump endlessly blathers that he is a “historic” president. But
you do cannot order up history and declare yourself “historical.” History only
comes when you are called, not vice versa.
Ironically, Trump is perhaps the only official today that has the
strength and will to stand up to the radicals. History has called him when he
least expected it, out of the blue, because of a random act of murder by a
madman in a police uniform. We have a law enforcement apparatus to bring
arsonists, anarchists and rioters to justice; Trump will allow that system to
function. The man who dreamed of being historic has unexpectedly been called on
by history to be historic. It’s a twist of fate.
We cannot afford to lose this new civil war. We like to talk about the “coasts,”
and red and blue states. The divisions are increasingly evident. Our great
cities have come under radical, extremist domination. America as a nation must
stand up to the anarchic elements who seek to undermine our nation.
I grew up and went to Capitol Hill as a staffer in a “two party’ system
where both parties were committed to law and order. Both parties were committed
to social justice. (More Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act than
Democrats, a fact often forgotten). In Lincoln’s words, we need to bind up our
wounds and continue our national consensus of opportunity and equality for all.
Trump has been trying to do that. But he is cleareyed that there is no opportunity
in arson. There is no equality in anarchy.
That is why I stand with President Trump. You should too.
Please support me as your United States Senator from New Hampshire.
Sincerely,
Andy
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