Andy Martin for U S Senator/New Hampshire: Don Bolduc

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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says that a TV ad being broadcast by U. S. Senate candidate General Don Bolduc in which Bolduc refers to “Pansies” is unacceptable and disqualifies Bolduc from leading New Hampshire Republicans in November

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin questions whether retired General Don Bolduc is a complete screwball or whether Bolduc just plays one on the campaign trail. Andy says that Bolduc’s use of the term “pansies” in a Bolduc TV ad is unacceptable in 2020. Bolduc cannot represent the Republican Party in November

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Dear Granite Stater:

How we feel in private has no correlation to how we are expected to behave in public. Ordinary citizens are given a lot more freedom, though not unlimited, in comparison with candidates for public office and public officials.

The term “Pansy” has always referred to a homosexual man in my many decades as an adult. Not so long ago, references to homosexuality in politics were acceptable. And while the Republican Party has been slower than the Democratic Party to welcome homosexuals, our greatest and recent Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”) Rick Grenell was--. Well, you know what. (Only 8 years ago the Romney campaign had dumped Grenell because of his sexual orientation.)

Unlike some conservative regions, New Hampshire is an exceptionally tolerant state. The Log Cabin Republicans, a gay organization, is accepted in the GOP today, when it was less widely accepted a decade ago. Times change, sometimes slowly, sometimes overnight.

LGBT Republicans are welcome in my campaign. Even I have much to learn about human sexuality. But as a conservative Christian, I can state unequivocally that we are created by our Creator; we do not create ourselves. What we make of our lives is our responsibility; how we are born is not.

You don’t have to agree with everything the courts say, or your priest or pastor says, to accept the unyielding principle that homosexuals should not be demonized in public or politics. No American should live in fear of being verbally or physically attacked or discriminated against in a political campaign.

That is why Bolduc’s TV ad attacking “pansies” is so bizarre and outrageous.

Bolduc suffers from PTSD. He has my highest respect and, yes, love, for his unbelievable service to our nation. I have a personal sense of what he has endured on the battlefield. But neither PTSD nor military service are a blank check for bizarre behavior, especially as a candidate for the U. S. Senate. I will be analyzing PTSD at a later date. But PTSD is clearly not an excuse to act unhinged. Bolduc is free to believe what he believes in the privacy of his own home; he is not free to broadcast his beliefs on TV if he expects to lead the party in 2020.

During the campaign, Bolduc has made several strange statements. I have exposed some of them, and there are more exposés coming in the days before the primary election.

The total bad judgment Bolduc has exhibited by running a “pansy” TV ad disqualifies him to lead the Republican Party ticket in November. Whatever your personal views on homosexuality, and I fully accept that there is still a broad spectrum of opinion in our party, public attacks on homosexuals or the use of slurs such as “Pansy” are not acceptable. There is no way he can win in November. Period.

I hope you agree.

Andy Martin

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

Link 1: - contains video link to Bolduc commercial

https://www.metroweekly.com/2020/08/gop-senate-candidate-slammed-for-homophobic-ad-calling-people-pansies/

Link 2:

https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-bolduc-blasts-liberal-socialist-pansies-in-new-15-second-tv-ad/33590304

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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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Manchester News Conference: New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Manchester News Conference Sunday, August 2nd to demand that Bryant “Corky” Messner withdraw as a candidate to avoid further embarrassment to the New Hampshire GOP; the Washington Post has exposed Messner’s bogus “Messner Foundation”

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Manchester news conference Sunday, August 2nd to demand that Porky Messner withdraw as a U. S. Senate candidate. “Messner’s latest scandal, a bogus foundation that awarded one scholarship in ten (10) years, while donating to a school where Messner’s children attended, is probably a tax fraud but it is certainly a charity fraud,” Andy says. “During the past several months we have collected a series of scandals involving Messner, and we haven’t even started really digging yet. But Messner’s phony ‘scholarship’ foundation scandal is the worst, because at a minimum it skirts IRS law and at worst it reflects Messner’s contempt for inner city youth. Messner is a disgrace, and embarrassment to the New Hampshire GOP. He is a sitting duck for the Democrats.”

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

News conference details:

Who: U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

What: Andy says Bryant “Porky” Messner must withdraw as candidate due to Messner’s bogus charity scandal

Where: In front of Manchester City Hall, One City Hall Plaza

When: Sunday, August 2, 2020 – 2:30 P.M.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(MANCHESTER, NH) (August 2, 2020) --- New Hampshire Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Manchester news conference Sunday, August 2 to demand that Bryant “Porky” Messner withdraw as a senate candidate due to Messner’s latest financial scandal with his “Messner Foundation.”

“The Washington Post has done an exhaustive investigation of the so-called ‘Messner Foundation’” Andy says. “Messner’s foundation is a scam. (Please see link [1] below). Over the past several months we have accumulated a series of scandals about Messner, large and small, including his drunk driving conviction which I discussed several days ago (please see link [2] below).

“Why Messner thinks he can be a credible opponent for Jeanne Shaheen is beyond me. Perhaps because all of his financial trickery has made him a rich man, with a $45 million fortune, he thinks he can buy people in New Hampshire. But why did he come to New Hampshire to run when his business and home are in Colorado? Wyoming would have been a lot closer place for him to run.

“Is scandal-plagued Messner the candidate who New Hampshire Republicans really believe can defeat Shaheen? Shaheen has been wiping out Republican candidates for over 30 years. With all of his scams and scandals, Messner is simply not a credible candidate for U. S. Senate. Democrats are salivating at the prospect that a buffoon like Messner would be their senate opponent.

“Rather than go through the Washington Post story line by line, I think Republicans should click on the link below and read the facts for themselves.

“In closing, I have two major opponents, both of whom have shown they lack the experience to mount a serious campaign against Shaheen. Each has been found guilty of deceptive activity. They have no experience and they lack the ability to run against a well-entrenched incumbent. Bolduc and Messner are delusional.

“People know where I have been for the last decade, not in Colorado but right here in New Hampshire fighting corruption and working to enhance and Rebuild the Republican Party. I may not be everyone’s ‘favorite,’ but I do have the experience to run a serious campaign. The Chicago Tribune once called me an ‘absolutely brilliant campaigner,’ and I have only improved since then.

“Messner’s candidacy is a joke. Take away his $45 million and it would be laughable for him to run for senator from New Hampshire. Republicans say they want to defeat Shaheen. Then why are they encouraging a Colorado huckster to represent them? Why don’t they consider me, an experienced candidate whom everyone acknowledges as a hard-nosed campaigner with the tools to attack Shaheen relentlessly?

“Why is it that the most pertinent reporting about New Hampshire political scandals is coming out of Washington, DC? New Hampshire’s fake news media (Kevin Landrigan and John DiStaso) just print handouts from the candidates. They have not done any investigation of Bolduc or Messner.

“I can promise my GOP friends that August is going to be very ‘hot’ for my primary opponents. We have more scandals and investigations that even we can publish in five weeks. But we will bring the truth to the Granite State, even if the local media refuse to do so.

“After the latest embarrassment of the ‘Messner Foundation,’ how can any Republican in good faith and with a straight face continue to endorse Messner’s candidacy?” Andy asks.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/31/gop-senate-candidates-claims-about-his-foundation-inner-city-kids-dont-add-up/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_factchecker-755am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans

Link 2:

https://andymartin2020.blogspot.com/2020/07/new-hampshire-u-s-senate-candidate-andy.html

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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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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

After the Washington Post awards Don Bolduc’s campaign “two Pinocchios” for seeking to mislead and defraud the public, New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says it is time for Bolduc to withdraw as a candidate for Senator

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says one of his primary opponents, former General Don Bolduc, must withdraw as a candidate to save New Hampshire Republicans from further embarrassment. The Washington Post exposed on July 9^th that Bolduc’s “campaign” had created misleading video suggestions that Bolduc was one of the “Horse Soldiers” in Afghanistan, when that was not true. “Bolduc’s campaign has been a train wreck since he announced,” Andy says. “The finding that his ‘campaign’ deserves ‘two Pinocchios’ for misleading campaign videos that suggested Bolduc was part of a specific military operation, the Horse Soldiers, when he was not, is a campaign killer for the ailing general.” Andy says the Bolduc campaign fraud also exposes the corruption and incompetence of the Union Leader newspaper and the Hearst-owned WMUR-TV, who failed to report on Bolduc’s exaggerations.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(MANCHESTER, NH) (July 15, 2020)

Dear Granite State Voter:

It looks like Don Bolduc is the most incompetent, or devious, U. S. Senate candidate in New Hampshire history. When he announced his candidacy, I pointed out Bolduc used a convicted stock swindler to narrate his announcement. (Please see link [1] below.) Last year Bolduc suggested Senator Mitch McConnell’s operatives were supporting Bolduc. Where’s Mitch? Mitch dumped Bolduc like a hot potato. (More phony reporting form New Hampshire’s media.)

Earlier this year Bolduc showed a total lack of awareness of the Civil War, a fatal flaw for a retired soldier. (Please see link [2] blow.)

Now the Washington Post, using an exquisite distinction, has awarded two “Pinocchios” (liar’s points) to Bolduc’s “campaign” for using a video associating Bolduc with a military operation, the “Horse Soldiers,” when Bolduc never participated in that operation.

The “Horse Soldiers” were men who fought in northern Afghanistan; a movie was made about them. Bolduc was in southern Afghanistan. He was never part of the actual Horse Soldiers. Yet his campaign issued videos suggesting he was part of the group when he was not.

The Washington Post says Bolduc’s “campaign” has been trying to mislead voters about his service.

You can read the Washington Post for yourself (link [3]). No reasonable person can deny that Bolduc has allowed his “campaign” to mislead the media. In the military, fine distinctions between operations mean everything when it comes to claiming credit for service in actual battles. The men who landed on Normandy Beach on D-Day were unique. If you landed on Normandy Beach two days later, you could not say you landed on D-Day.

To be clear, and as I have said before, I honor Don’s service to the nation and admire him. I have been shot at and targeted in various war zones. I know what Don went through. But his honorable service is not a blank check to be a senate candidate. And no one can hide behind military service to commit campaign fraud as Bolduc’s “campaign” did. The Washington Post distinguished between lies made by Bolduc’s “campaign,” and lies by Bolduc himself. Voters will not make the same fine separation.

Bolduc has no idea how to be a candidate, or run a campaign. In some sense, I feel sorry for him. He is being misused by his supporters and advisers. I warned this would happen, and it is.

Here’s the sad part. Or the shocking part. Neither the Union Leader nor WMUR took notice of the embarrassing national story in the Washington Post exposing their professional gullibility and incompetence because they failed to report on Bolduc’s misleading campaign. The effort by the Union Leader to cover-up the UL’s own journalistic incompetence about Bolduc’s exaggerations speaks for itself about that newspaper’s failure as media.

WMUR’s John DiStaso merely shuffles press releases on his desk and computer; he rarely does any original reporting. DiStaso fell for the Bolduc’s “Campaign” fraud hook, line and sinker.

Can you trust New Hampshire’s home-grown media liars? Hell no. They do more to hide the truth than report it.

As I have said so often. New Hampshire’s media are a disgrace. Over and over again national media have had to come in to New Hampshire to expose local media fraud. Likewise, the efforts by a Bolduc supporter in the Union Leader, Brendan Finn, to rouge up Bolduc’s campaign dishonesty was an ongoing effort to mislead New Hampshire voters. It will not succeed.

Can Bolduc continue his campaign as a retired military hero when his “campaign” has now been exposed as a political fraud? Doubtful. Bolduc has refused to make a full disclosure of how the misleading images in his campaign videos, suggesting he was a Horse Soldier, were photoshopped. Bolduc’s refusal to make the producer of his campaign videos available for searching examination is circumstantial evidence he knows he has been caught in a fraud. But then he also had a convicted stock swindler as a narrator when he announced his candidacy (link [1] below). Bolduc hopes the scandal will blow over. It won’t.

There is a military term for what Bolduc did: stolen valor. Bolduc has a distinguished military career. Why exaggerate his record by claiming credit for an operation where he never served? Because for Don Bolduc, too much is never enough. He can tap dance around the topic all he wants, but he never was a Horse Soldier; his campaign video efforts to suggest he was do an injustice to the many people of New Hampshire who are supporting him. His “defense” claim now that they also used horses in southern Afghanistan is pathetic. They also used asses.

Don Bolduc should apologize and withdraw before he further embarrasses himself. Bolduc’s “campaign” has made Bolduc a later day “Tail Gunner Joe,” another senate candidate who exaggerated his military career.

Is Don Bolduc a serious candidate for the senate? Don’t make me laugh. Are New Hampshire’s media crooked and incompetent? Don’t make me cry.

For shame.

Sincerely,

Andy

P.S. We have more research on Bolduc to come out in the days ahead; we are behind schedule on our promised “Bolduc Week” exposés. You may be surprised by what we know; Bolduc will be embarrassed.

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https://medium.com/@andymart20/new-hampshire-news-conference-gop-u-s-senate-candidate-andy-martin-demands-that-his-primary-18758ab307bf

[2]

https://andymartin2020.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/new-hampshire-u-s-senate-candidate-andy-martin-says-donald-bolducs-claim-that-the-civil-war-was-fought-because-of-gridlock-disqualifies-bolduc-from-being-a-serious-senate/

[3]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/09/campaign-nh-senate-hopeful-uses-photo-trickery-hoodwink-reporters/

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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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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says that President Trump’s endorsement of “Porky” “Corky” Messner, a convicted drunk driver, indicates that once again Trump was betrayed by his own insiders

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin exposes how President Trump, who abhors alcohol, was induced to “endorse” a candidate in the September primary, “Porky” “Corky” Messner, despite the fact that Messner has a history of drunk driving. Andy explains how the corrupt “Fake News” media of New Hampshire have withheld the Messner story so they can use it to defeat Messner if he wins the primary. “The media in New Hampshire are Democratic Party stooges and pro-Jeanne Shaheen in November,” Andy says. “Using decades-old alcohol problems to tarnish Republicans is a tried and true Democratic strategy. Trump is endangering his reelection and doesn’t even know it. Someone should ask Trump on Saturday in Portsmouth why he would endorse a candidate with a drunk driving conviction.”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(MANCHESTER, NH) (July 8, 2020)

Dear Granite State Voter:

“Colorado Corky,” a/k/a “Porky” Messner is a drunk driver. The media have ignored and not reported Messner’s drinking problem, with one exception, Tony Schinella of Patch.com (please see Link [1] below).

Am I just airing dirty linen by writing these remarks? Not by a long shot. I will connect up the dots so you see where I am coming from and where I am going. Media corruption and political incompetence and corruption are endemic in New Hampshire.

First, I will show you how President Donald Trump was betrayed by his closest advisers in the White House.

Second, I will explain how the corrupt “Fake News” New Hampshire media will work in concert with the Democratic Party if Messner wins the primary. John DiStaso of WMUR and Kevin Landrigan of the Union leader are puppets of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.

Third, I will produce a list of questions for President Trump to ask Messner before Trump highlights Messner at next Saturday’s Trump rally. Tragically, Trump is almost certainly setting himself up to lose New Hampshire by ham-handedly intervening in the September primary, as I have suggested before.

Trump the non-drinker:

President Trump does not drink, not socially, not “just a little,” not just at all. So, for Trump, alcohol abuse is a serious matter, almost a phobia. A brother died from alcoholism. It left a lasting scar on the president.

1. President Trump the dupe and Messner the Drunk Driver

a. Trump was betrayed by his own staff

If someone had walked into the president’s office and asked if he was willing to endorse a wealthy candidate he didn’t know, in a state he had to win, but the candidate had a drunk driving conviction in his past, what would Trump have said? Probably “Hell No.”

But Trump’s staff maneuvered and engineered the fateful endorsement of Messner because Trump is easily and often fooled by his “advisers” where political matters are concerned. Trump has the weakest political operation of any president in recent history. That is why he regularly makes decisions and issues tweets that jeopardize his own reelection. So, Trump was played by his insiders, and now he is stuck with a drunk driver as a candidate he has endorsed and who can only cost him votes in New Hampshire if Porky Corky wins the primary. Sad. My guess: someone somewhere along the pipeline got paid off to get Trump’s endorsement.

b. Messner’s drunk driving is a legitimate issue

Almost no one who is arrested for drunk driving has had only “one too many” on only one occasion. By the time you are driving drunk outside the white lines on a street, the way Messner was, you have a serious alcohol problem. Drunk drivers do not suddenly appear, and then disappear after a single arrest. They usually get smarter and may insulate themselves from their alcohol abuse by using chauffeurs, designated drivers and car services. But they are doing so because they drink too much to be safe on the road.

Messner has apologized and said he only got arrested once. Good for him. But we are not concerned with his alcohol “bust;” rather, we are concerned with whether he is a candidate whom the Fake News media, DiStaso and Landrigan, will blow up just before the election to reelect Jeanne Shaheen.

2. Media whores in New Hampshire are Democratic Party puppets

a. Am I exaggerating? Hell no!

In 2000, just before the presidential election, the media ginned up an old drunk driving charge against Governor George W. Bush, please see Link [2] below. The Bush drunk driving matter was 25 years old. Messner’s drunk driving conviction? Almost twenty-five years ago. The Bush drunk driving kerfuffle is almost a template for 2020.

Do New Hampshire Democrats use old mud to smear candidates in 2020? You betcha. Please see Link [3] below. They are already doing it. They are masters of the craft.

b. Local New Hampshire media corruption

In 2016, I exposed before the September primary that a Republican candidate for congress in the Second District was a fraud. DiStaso and Landrigan held back my information until just before the November election, when they suddenly “discovered” my research and exposed/defeated the GOP candidate.

While the Union Leader pretends to be a “conservative” newspaper, it hasn’t been conservative since the end of Loeb family ownership. The current owners have to exist in an increasingly liberal, if not leftist, New Hampshire and so the owners and writers at the Union Leader accommodate the needs of the state Democratic Party.

WMUR is owned by the liberal descendants of the original “Fake News” publisher, William Randolph Hearst, and they are a bunch of liberal trust fund babies. WMUR is immensely profitable, unlike the Union Leader. WMUR’s Manchester employees follow diktats from their liberal midtown-New York bosses.

The state Republican Party’s leadership has been living in the past, when Republicans really ran the state; often leaders are not aware they are being “played” by the local media. But Democrats keep winning and Republicans keep losing and on and on it goes.

New Hampshire’s print media are either dead or dying; in such a state corruption always seeps in to prolong the survival of a newspaper.

DiStaso and Landrigan are obviously aware of Schinella’s story. But they are pretending the Patch story does not exist. Then, when Democrats unveil Messner’s drunk driving charge in October, WMUR and the Union Leader will report Messner’s conviction as “news.”

3. What questions should President Trump ask Messner before showcasing his toxic “endorsement” next Saturday?

Trump questions to Messner:

a. What is your current level of alcohol consumption?

b. Did you ever attend or seek assistance for an alcohol or substance abuse problem?

c. Did you ever attend Alcoholics Anonymous?

d. Have you ever used a car service or “designated driver” (not yourself) when you were attending an event where alcohol is served?

e. Are there people in Colorado, where you live, who are potential witnesses to your drinking habits? (Andy Martin will be investigating.)

The Bottom Line:

If Messner wins the primary, he will be exposed by the Fake News media, and he will in all probability take President Trump’s campaign down with Messner’s own loss. Messner is a ticking time bomb, and he will be exploded when the Democrats want him to explode. It is as straightforward as that.

Because Trump’s ill-advised endorsement of Messner undermined Don Bolduc’s campaign and credibility, I have said Bolduc is a “carcass, not a candidate.” But with his drunk driving conviction, Messner is also a dead man walking in the days before the November election.

I am the only candidate with the political experience to smash back at the Democrats and take on Shaheen. That is why DiStaso and Landrigan follow their Democratic marching orders to constantly undermine my campaign. DiStaso and Landrigan will try their darndest to nominate a Republican loser and reelect Shaheen. Wait and see.

Sincerely,

Andy

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

[1]

https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/nh-u-s-senate-candidate-arrested-dui-1995-colorado

[2]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001103/aponline112738_000.htm

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/jan/27/ann-coulter/coulter-fox-news-broke-bush-drunk-driving-story-20/

[3]

https://www.unionleader.com/news/politics/statehouse_dome/state-house-dome-nh-dems-focus-attack-on-nine-gop-lawmakers/article_82fa72f4-4fd4-5683-b8f0-33115d736e17.html

ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

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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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin says that President Trump’s endorsement of “Porky” Messner effectively ends the senate primary campaign of General Don Bolduc. “Bolduc is a carcass, not a candidate,” Andy says

On June 8^th, New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin announced “Bolduc Week” would start June 15^th, with a series of columns on why General Don Bolduc was not a viable senate candidate. On June 12^th, President Trump endorsed one of Andy’s and Bolduc’s opponents, effectively ending Bolduc’s campaign. Trump’s action has no effect on Andy’s campaign. Andy begins today with the “end” of his series of commentaries on Bolduc as the first installment, explaining why Bolduc’s campaign is “no more.”

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Republican for U. S. Senator

New Hampshire

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(MANCHESTER, NH) (June 16, 2020)

Dear Granite State Voter:

Last week I outlined a schedule of future reports on why my two principal primary opponents were not viable U. S. Senate candidates and why their efforts to unseat incumbent Jeanne Shaheen were doomed to failure. On Friday, President Trump endorsed one of my opponents (please see link [1] below), effectively ending General Don Bolduc’s campaign.

I will still go forward with the commentaries this week as promised for “Bolduc Week,” because Bolduc has not withdrawn and he will linger on as a candidate. But make no mistake; Bolduc is toast.

The candidate Trump endorsed is also an ineffective opponent for Shaheen. He is a wealthy Colorado businessman, Bryant “Porky” Messner, whose connection with New Hampshire is so tenuous it is laughable. But Messner has money, no doubt gleaned from a career as a greedy and unscrupulous lawyer, and he is willing to spend piles of cash to win the dubious nomination.

Unseating an incumbent senator of either party is a herculean task. Over the past thirty (30) years Republicans have deluded themselves into believing Shaheen was easy prey. They beat her once. In thirty years. Defeating an incumbent when you lack experience and have no idea how to proceed except by spreading cash in every direction, as Messner is doing, is a doomed approach.

President Trump’s endorsement will effectively cut off Bolduc’s campaign contributions. But the president’s endorsement may also prove costly to Trump himself in the long run.

New Hampshire is an increasingly difficult state for a Republican to win. The Democrats are hyper-organized, with millions of dollars of resources and a well-oiled machine. The Republicans are just the opposite. State Republican leaders have few resources and are not well organized. The party is a shadow of its former strength. There are more GOP “insider” weaknesses that I will disclose in week 3 of my series of comments on the campaign.

There is a track for the “establishment” candidate in every primary. Bolduc and Messner were competing for that lane. There is also a track for the outsider, the challenger, the maverick party member who has an independent vision of how to defeat the Democrats. That’s my track.

Men, perhaps more than women, fall victim to a middle-age delusion that money conquers all. You can buy an expensive car, a boat and even a summer residence in New Hampshire, which is what Messner did. Unlike in his home state of Colorado, Messner also thinks he can buy an election in New Hampshire. But New Hampshire voters are smarter than that.

Bolduc was a soldier who came home to New Hampshire to heal. Bolduc always attaches “General” to every mention, “The General this,” or “The General That…” My own experience has been that military men are not very good politicians, particularly West Pointers. There are exceptions: Secretary of State Pompeo has been successful and appears to harbor presidential ambitions. But for the most part generals do not do well in contested elections.

Trump is very popular with GOP primary voters. He has a very decent-to-outstanding list of accomplishments; but mostly because of his Twitter comments he is still in a close race with a mummified opponent. Trump has a posse that surrounds him; this coterie of supporters influences his actions, not always impartially. It was this inside posse that engineered the Messner endorsement; they will probably come to regret it. Trump in 2020 will probably lose New Hampshire again in a close race, partially due to the negative feedback from the Messner endorsement.

There is a general rule in politics: national officials do not try to pick candidates in state races. You lose as many votes as you gain. Bolduc has supporters, and they will not be happy with the way the Messner endorsement was handled. In recent election cycles, statewide candidates have been separated by a relative handful of votes. In a close race, a few disgruntled Bolduc supporters may hold the balance.

So, while Bolduc is a “dead man walking” as a candidate, his presence may yet have an ongoing, negative influence on the senate race in November.

Bottom line: because he is still in the primary, I will write about Bolduc as I originally planned. But I would say that the president, without even being aware of what he did, has ended Bolduc’s candidacy.

I hope you will find the commentaries on my opponents thought-provoking. I offer experience and wisdom as an alternative, not a fat wallet. As President Trump would say, given the GOP’s record of repeatedly losing to Shaheen, “what do you have to lose” by nominating me as an unconventional candidate to attack her?

But in the case of Bolduc this week, thanks or no thanks to President Trump, I will be writing about a carcass, not a candidate.

Sincerely,

Andy

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[1] https://www.wmur.com/article/trump-endorses-messner-tweets-hell-be-fantastic-us-senator/32854490

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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