New Hampshire Republican
U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin has challenged two of his primary opponents
to a series of twenty-four (24) statewide debates before the September 9, 2014 primary.
Andy Martin
Republican for U.S. Senator
www.AndyMartin2014.com
you can call Andy:
(603) 518-7310
(917) 664-9329
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you can write Andy at:
fax (866) 214-3210, or
Blogs/web sites (partial):
NewHampshireRepublicans.wordpress.com
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FirstRespondersOnline.us
ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com
ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com
Jim Rubens
Bob Smith
Dear Jim and Bob:
Bob has been bellowing
again that he wants to debate Scott Brown. Unfortunately, the New Hampshire
Republican Party has rigged the primary to protect Brown and to - as the
Concord Monitor recently stated - deny your campaigns “oxygen” so you never
become serious threats to Brown. Face reality. The primary is rigged and fixed
in advance. Brown is not going to debate you any more than he has already
agreed to do so.
But I am fully prepared
to debate both of you. This letter is a challenge to both of you to a series of
two dozen debates across the state of New Hampshire in August and early
September.
You may have thought
that when Jennifer Horn stabbed me in the back, your campaigns would benefit.
That is not the case. By trying to undermine my campaign she has also undermined
your own campaigns.
But if you have the
courage to do so, you can strike back at Brown and his fixers.
Candidates can conduct
their own debates. So let’s do it.
If you reject this
offer, you have a couple of more staged appearances scheduled with Brown, and
then nothing. Your primary campaigns will be dead in the water.
The three of us have serious differences on the issues. I’d like to rip both of you a new one on the
The there of us can take
our respective policy differences to voters by staging a series of twenty-four
town hall meetings where we make brief opening statements (5 min.) and then
take questions from all comers. A very simple and people-friendly format. The
only requirement I would impose is that all three of us have the opportunity to
respond to any question which comes to the floor. Otherwise, let's rumble.
I am sure many towns
would make their town halls available for our debates. Hampton Beach
I want to warn you in
advance I am confrontational and I will go on the attack. I am not like Brown,
a coward in politics and a crook in private life. I am a fighter. If you
insist, I will not only appear as myself, I will also appear as Brown, so
someone (me) can at least read into the record Brown’s convoluted political
history. Or we can use a cardboard likeness of Brown to demonstrate his absence.
I think we could both inform
and entertain the public and provide a grand service to the voters of New Hampshire . That’s what politics
should be about. In the process, we could really strike a combined blow against
Brown and his slimy tactics. Jennifer Horn is destroying the state party by
converting the state party into a tool of a singe candidate. By your silence,
you are letting her get away with it.
Our debates might not be
a fair fight. Unlike both of you, I have a national record in TV and radio and
have debated in major markets (see links below). I am not a New Hampshire GOP
weakling (how did the GOP lose their majority over the decades?). Bob is a
little rusty after all those years lying on the beach in Florida , so he needs to get up
to speed. Jim has had a fourteen year “vacation” from politics. Ironically, it
is only the fact that Brown has avoided debates that has allowed Bob to
masquerade as a serious candidate. Again, this is 2014, not 1994.
Based on my forty-six
years of radio and TV experience I think the there of us can benefit our
campaigns and enhance the political process. If you follow your current
approach of “Waiting for Godot,” I mean, “Waiting for Brown,” nothing will
happen and your primary campaigns will quietly expire on September 9th. [I have
already tipped my hand to Senator Kelly Ayotte as to my own post-primary
policy.]
We three have a chance
to take back the primary from the political fixers, and to “mix it up” across
the state. By rigging the primary in favor of Brown, Jennifer Horn and her cabal
of wealthy crooks have also destroyed your own campaigns by rendering them
irrelevant. To date, other than Bob Smith’s weak protests, you have not fought
back. But by trying to campaign as GOP weakling “Obama-style” candidates and
surrendering to Horn’s dirty tricks - which are really directed against the
process and against the voters and not just against me personally - you are not
going to get yourselves visibility or votes. Stop pretending the state party is
treating you fairly. It is not.
If you have the guts to
debate me, let’s roll. You know where to find me. Let’s make New Hampshire history.
Cordially,
Andy
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