New Hampshire GOP U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin has
asked U. S.
Senator Kelly Ayotte to join in the fight to end dirty tricks and candidate
harassment by Jennifer Horn in the 2014 senate primary. Ayotte herself is up
for reelection in 2016. “I am committed to supporting the winner of a free,
open and fair primary,” Andy says. “I am not committed to respecting the
results of a fixed and rigged primary, particularly one corrupted by Chairman
Jennifer Horn who, due to her IRS liens and
problems, is under the virtual control of Obama’s IRS.
Scott Brown is increasingly viewed as a sure loser and everyone recognizes that
fact. So why rig the primary in Brown’s favor? Let’s have an open and fair
primary and everyone can then get behind the winner.” Andy’s letter to Senator
Ayotte follows as both an email and attachment [a couple of minor editing
changes have been made to the original letter].
Andy Martin
Republican for U.S. Senator
www.AndyMartin2014.com
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June 24, 2014
Senator Kelly Ayotte
United States
Senate
Washington, DC
20510
Re: Unlawful actions of Jennifer Horn damaging my
campaign
Dear Senator Ayotte:
I have been thinking about sending this letter for several
weeks. What precipitated actually writing the letter was the contretemps last
week generated by Jennifer Horn’s latest ploy to promote Scott Brown: a letter
demanding a “loyalty oath” from his opponents. Initially two candidates refused
to sign. I went to the mailbox to look for my copy of Horn’s loyalty letter and
there was none there. Horn does not recognize me as a Republican Party
candidate.
Who is Jennifer Horn to tell people I am not a Republican?
What empowers her to seek to degrade a candidate for the same office you hold?
Before Horn further endangers New Hampshire Republicans and
ultimately drags your own office into the cesspool of her activity I wanted to
offer you an opportunity to intervene for the good of the party.
Let me state what is not involved. Private citizens and
ordinary Republicans are free to “endorse” whom they want. I have no problem with
that. But the party By Laws preclude Horn from using either her office or the
party or the party’s staff to promote a candidate in a primary election. Horn
has egregiously violated both the By Laws and also New
Hampshire state law.
1. What the Republican
Party By Laws provide
This is what
the Party’s By Laws provide
No officer of the State
Committee as defined in Article II,
Section 2, shall participate
in any primary contest on behalf
of any candidate for a Republican nomination. They shall remain
strictly neutral in any such primary contest.
http://nhgop.org/about/by-laws
Jennifer Horn has shamelessly been promoting Scott Brown for
months. She has actively supported Brown and she has actively endeavored to
destroy my campaign by seeking to deny I am a Republican. She has also used the
Executive Director to bully local committees into refusing to recognize my
candidacy.
Horn’s actions, as well as those of Matt Mowers, had the
direct intention of hurting my campaign and benefiting Brown’s. The party’s use
of the term “strictly neutral”
in the By Laws embodies a clear and unequivocal commitment to fair and open
primaries.
There is no question Horn is violating the party’s By Laws.
Apparently she is trying to provoke a lawsuit. But lawsuits, while useful, are
not the only means of payback for corrupt party officials.
2. My history
as a Republican
I have been a
Republican corruption fighter for decades. My work over the years has taken me
around the U.S.A.
Everywhere that I lived I became active with the Republican Party. Despite the
fact that I have always sought to encourage the party to live up to its stated
ideals, Republicans have always treated me fairly:
A. In 1998 I
almost won the U. S. Senate nomination in Florida.
I carried the state’s largest county, Miami-Dade with 68% of the vote. I held
the winner of the statewide race, Charlie Crist, to a draw with the exception
of Crist’s home TV market, Tampa. Until
Crist was later elected governor, no Republican ever received more votes against
Crist than I did.
B. In
Illinois I exposed Mark Kirk as a military fraud. Kirk was forced to admit he
had fabricated much of his military career. My political opponents have posted
clips of me debating in Chicago,
unlike New Hampshire a major
national market. Obviously, I was also treated reasonably by the media. Look at
note 1 below if you want to see the clips.
C. I was the
first Republican to investigate Barack Obama’s family history, and to expose
his fabrications. I played a major role in the 2008 presidential election,
particularly after your friend John McCain collapsed and all but surrendered
the campaign to Obama, see note 2 below.
My biography, credentials and accomplishments rival or
surpass those of any other candidate in the senate primary. And, unlike the
senate candidate you are currently supporting, who has an extensive history of
sleazy business activity, I have always been devoted to public integrity, not
public corruption.
3. Horn’s harassment
campaign against me
Beginning in 2011 Jennifer Horn has exhibited
an obsession with attacking me. Acting as Jack Kimball’s poodle, she went on
the radio in February, 2011 and attacked me for exposing Barack Obama’s lies.
That bizarre attack confirmed for me that Horn was not very intelligent and not
very tightly wound. For Horn to attack a Republican for writing a book telling
the truth about Obama was strange behavior on her part.
I am enclosing a copy of my book. Have a staff member read
it for you. They will be as mystified as I was why Horn attacked what I wrote
about Obama. My opinions and predictions have all been proven correct. Who put
up Horn to lie about my book?
But there is more to Horn’s bizarre history. When I ran
against her for party chair in 2013, Horn’s IRS
tax problems were exposed. In the next few days I will be doing an updated
check on Horn’s refusal to pay her income taxes. Horn committed a federal crime
when she diverted her federal income tax payments into her political campaigns.
Candidates are not allowed to use the IRS as
a piggy bank.
Because the IRS can
prosecute Horn at any time, Horn is effectively under the thumb of Barack
Obama’s IRS. If Horn steps out of line the IRS
could charge her with income tax evasion whenever a political decision to do so
is made. I don’t think that’s a proper situation for a Republican State
Chairman to be in. Despite respecting your right to support any person you
wanted to, I thought your support for Horn as Chair was misguided and short-sighted.
4. Horn tries
to erase my candidacy
Horn and Matt
Mowers have importuned Republican committees to deny me participation in local
activities and candidate debates. Since April, party committees, some of which
have state committee party members on their local committee leadership, have
been conducting “debates” from which I am excluded. Apparently I was good
enough for Florida Republicans and Illinois Republicans but I am not good
enough for New Hampshire Republicans. Given Horn’s sworn adherence to the
party’s By Laws, she is violating the By Laws and making a joke of the
neutrality required of party officials and employees.
Can you imagine that Horn sent a “loyalty letter” to some candidates
last week (apparently orchestrated by the Scott Brown campaign, see below) but
not to me? Why didn’t Horn send me a loyalty request? What does that mean? I am
a candidate. Doesn’t she what me to be loyal? Or what? Horn’s behavior is very
juvenile and very self-destructive.
When a candidate becomes the victim of Horn’s type of
political harassment inevitably the victim strikes back and the party can
suffer in the process.
5. Horn is now attacking
Bob Smith
I am not for
or against Bob Smith. But Horn is not satisfied with only attaching me. Horn
has now started attacking Bob Smith. In one poll Smith was listed as #2 in the
primary where Scott Brown is the #1 candidate. Obviously, Horn is trying to
undermine all of Brown’s opponents. Smith says he has good evidence that Horn orchestrated
the “loyalty letter” to embarrass him. In a sleight-of-hand which is so bizarre
it is almost unbelievable, Horn is biasing the state party in favor of Scott
Brown and then attacking Brown’s opponents if they do not agree in advance to
support Brown. Is Horn being “strictly
neutral?” Or is she making a joke of the party’s By Laws?
Let me be clear. If the party conducts a free and open
primary, and obeys the neutrality mandated by the By Laws, I have no problem
supporting the ultimate winner. The result of a fair and open primary should be
respected. I have always supported the winner of every free and open Republican
primary in the past.
But when the party tries to rig the primary and to destroy a
candidate’s campaign, why does the victim of such perfidiousness owe any
loyalty to his obvious enemies?
Last week Smith made a couple of convoluted remarks. Candidates
often say things that are discombobulated when they are on the campaign trail. Horn
has now set herself up as the censor of Smith’s utterances. Horn started
chirping to her favorite media shill John DiStaso that “questions” were raised
about what Smith said. In other words, Horn turned Smith’s gaffes into a media
issue to make Smith look bad. The beneficiary of Horn’s legerdemain? Scott
Brown, of course. Obviously, she was trying to undermine and embarrass Smith.
Another violation of the By Laws.
6. So why am I
writing you about Horn’s misconduct?
When Horn was
confronted with her diverted income taxes, which she used to fund her political
campaigns and not to pay her taxes, you provided “cover” for Horn by endorsing
her in 2013. You have been turning a blind eye to Horn’s corruption of the
state party, presumably because she is supporting your candidate, Mr. Brown. But
whether you play a formal or informal role in the primary, you are a de facto leader of the party.
I have a very clear path ahead, and I have thought out my course
of action.
A. If Horn
reverses course and stops harassing my campaign, and starts obeying the By
Laws, I will support the winner of the primary, even if it is Scott Brown.
B. If Horn
persists with her current course of action seeking to destroy my campaign, then
I will consider the primary result to have been corrupted by Horn’s misconduct
and regard the primary results as an invalid exemplar of voter intentions.
C. As a result
of part (B) above, I will campaign in the general election to defeat Scott
Brown because his selection was the product of a corrupt and unethical primary process.
D. If Brown
wins the primary, I do not expect him to win in November. If he does, I wish
him well. If he loses, then Horn and her cabal of faithful acolytes have to go.
I will seek to have her removed when she runs for reelection.
E. If the
core leadership of the party persists in blinding itself to Horn’s abuse of
office and corruption of the party and reelects her in 2015 I will take my case
to the 2016 primary.
So the party can either obey the By Laws and start
respecting and recognizing my campaign or the party leadership can reap the
rewards of their misconduct and malfeasance.
7. What would I
like you to do?
I would
respectfully request that you take the following steps. You are an attorney and
you can read the By Laws and study the public record of the way Horn has
treated me since last year. You can’t just engage in ostrichism and pretend you
don’t know what is going on in New Hampshire.
A. I would
ask that you individually and independently issue a public statement condemning
efforts by Horn to violate the By Laws and stating clearly that the party’s
primaries are free and open elections, and the party’s local and county
committees should hear all voices in a primary, and not just the voice of a
candidate who is being endorsed by some party leaders.
B. I would
suggest that you urge Horn to issue an apology for her past misconduct and
agree publicly to start treating me on a fair and equal basis with other
candidates for the same office. She should agree to end her campaign of dirty
tricks against my candidacy.
C. I would suggest
that you convene a meeting with me, Horn and anyone else who you may deem
appropriate, to see if we can avoid a lawsuit against the state party. I think
it would be far preferable if we worked matters out without litigation.
Lawsuits are not easy to prosecute, but sometimes they work.
I have both won and lost cases in the New Hampshire
courts and overall I have a very high national batting average winning
lawsuits. Take a look at my legal bio, see note 3 below.
D. I think
that you need to admonish the candidate you have endorsed, Mr. Brown, that his
efforts to control and manipulate the state party through behind-the-scenes
activity, as is probable in the case of the “loyalty letter,” are hurting the
party and hurting himself. Brown should want to face all candidates. If he can’t
face me, he will never be able to face Shaheen.
In closing, I am a reasonable person with an extensive
national reputation for working both towards party unity and public integrity. You
can work with me.
Because Mrs. Horn is violating her oath by violating the By Laws,
I am compelled to take an escalating series of actions to defend myself and my
candidacy. Does Horn think she can conceal her hostile behavior by ignoring the
By Laws and trying to hide behind a veil of secrecy? It won’t wash. Horn’s
misconduct can only backfire and boomerang on the party.
After July 1st I will lay out my cause in court, and let a
judge examine the facts and the law. If that doesn’t work, there is always the
general election after the primary in 2014, her reelection in 2015, and a new
round of elections in 2016. I am committed to making the Republican Party of
New Hampshire a moral party and an honest party even if it means removing the
existing leadership.
Please join me in fighting for an open and honest party. No
more dirty deals and no more dirty tricks by Jennifer Horn and the people she
supports and who support her.
New Hampshire
is ready for reform.
Best wishes,
Andy
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