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Monday, August 25, 2014

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin offers to help mediate a final settlement of Market Basket controversy

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a news conference today, Monday, August 25th to announce he has again offered to help mediate a final settlement of the Market Basket controversy. “I don’t think the governors are helping the resolution process, at all,” Andy says. “They are politicians and, in the case of Gov. Patrick, he has a glaring conflict of interest. I have actual experience settling family disputes, and I understand the underlying issues of Greek culture that has made this ongoing controversy so difficult to mediate. My TV ad and video are paid for and will continue to run. (The ad and video can be seen on Andy’s web site.) When people have fought so bitterly, for so many years it is difficult to work up a settlement over the weekend. That's the reality, not Gov. Hassan’s and Patrick’s rosy-colored news releases. I am the only Republican candidate who has stood 100% behind the employees and I continue to do so.”

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Republican for U.S. Senator

www.AndyMartin2014.com

you can call Andy:

Tel. (603) 518-7310

Cell (603) 289-0276

Toll-free (866) 706-2639

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andynewhampshire@aol.com

you can write Andy at:

fax (866) 214-3210, or

P. O. Box 742

Manchester, NH 03105-0742

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF MANCHESTER, NH NEWS CONFERENCE

ATTENTION NATIONAL, POLITICAL, NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK & ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin again offers to help the opposing Demoulas Family factions works towards a final resolution of their conflict

Andy says Govs. Hassan and Patrick are not helping the parties reach a settlement; Patrick has an egregious conflict of interest

Andy says his TV ads supporting Market Basket employees will continue to run on local television

(Manchester, NH) (August 25, 2014)

Dear Granite Stater:

Last week my campaign placed advertising with WMUR-TV supporting Market Basket workers. I wondered if the ads would run before the conflict was over. Of course, I should have known better. Govs. Hassan and Patrick were making rosy-colored predictions that the Demoulas Family conflict was over. Neither of them has any experience settling family disputes; I do. When people have been at each others’ throats for so many years it is very difficult for them to abandon their feelings over a weekend.

The potential “settlement,” moreover, appears to be a very complicated one involving family and non-family entities.

I would like to see Market Basket associates back at work as soon as possible. So I have renewed my offer to help mediate the conflict and sit down personally with the ”two Arthurs.” Here is my letter (with the masthead removed):

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Board of Directors and

Executive Offices

Demoulas Supermarkets, Inc.

875 East Street

Tewksbury, MA 01876

Renewed Offer to mediate

Dear Board Members and

DMB Executives:

On July 18th I offered to help mediate the conflict which has assumed national proportions.

This week (August 25th) I am starting TV advertising supporting the associates of Market Basket.

I don’t think the politicians (Hassan and Patrick) can be of much help because neither of them has any actual experience negotiating intractable family disputes.

While of necessity I support Arthur T because I want to see the associates back at work as soon as possible, I also appreciate and respect the honor inherent in Arthur S’s position. Because I grew up in a New Hampshire Greek-American family I understand the exceptional implications of “honor” in settling a Greek family controversy.

Yesterday I attended a church festival at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Manchester. My grandmother was one of the original founders who helped launch the parish 78 years ago. The church was started because of a “family feud” with the “other” Greek church (the priest was kicked out in a squabble, and started his own new church, Assumption). To this day, Manchester may be the only small city in

America

to support two (!) Greek Orthodox churches.

Obviously, my understanding of Greek-American culture runs deep.

I can help you reach a resolution. Often, once an agreement in principle is reached the parties often recoil from a final surrender of battlements they have long occupied.

I want the associates back at work ASAP. I think the “two Arthurs” and I could resolve the matter more expeditiously than having a table at which politicians are posturing and issuing premature reports on the settlement progress.

If I can be of any help, please do not hesitate to call me.

Sincerely yours,

ANDY MARTIN

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Loyally,

Andy

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News conference details: Manchester, NH August 25, 2014

WHO:

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin again offers to mediate a settlement of Market Basket conflict

WHERE:

Manchester, NH, Northwest corner of Elm and Webster Streets

WHEN:

Monday, August 25, 5:30 P.M.

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

http://www.andymartin2014.com/

ABOUT ANDY:

Andy is a legendary New Hampshire-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 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 has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the

USA

and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

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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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Market Basket employees receive support from TV advertising campaign by U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a news conference today, Friday, August 22nd to announce he has placed an order with WMUR-TV to run advertising supporting Market Basket employees. He will go on cable as well on Monday. “I think we may be making a small bit of political history,” Andy says. “We could not find any example where a candidate had come to the support of workers with TV ads during the course of a U. S. Senate campaign. Because I am concerned by the fate of thousands of employee careers and hundreds of thousands of satisfied shoppers who have temporarily lost their jobs and their shopping destination I am running TV ads supporting the MB associates. They need to know we stand with them. I have been attacked by Foster’s Daily Dingbat for doing so but that just shows you how out of touch and corrupt the media are in this state.” [Andy plans another major Market Basket announcement on Saturday, August 23rd.]

News from:

Andy Martin

Republican for U.S. Senator

www.AndyMartin2014.com

you can call Andy:

Tel. (603) 518-7310

Cell (603) 289-0276

Toll-free (866) 706-2639

you can email Andy:

andynewhampshire@aol.com

you can write Andy at:

fax (866) 214-3210, or

P. O. Box 742

Manchester, NH 03105-0742

Blogs/web sites (partial):

NewHampshireRepublicans.wordpress.com

AndyMartin.com

FirstRespondersOnline.us

ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com

To become a regular subscriber to our emails please send an email to AndyNewHampshire@aol.com and place “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject line.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MANCHESTER, NH NEWS CONFERENCE

ATTENTION NATIONAL, POLITICAL, NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK & ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin has placed an order with WMUR-TV to air ads supporting Market Basket employees

Andy says he is making political history by airing ads during a campaign which support local workers

Andy says an attack on him by Foster’s Daily Dingbat for supporting Market Basket associates shows how out of touch New Hampshire media are

(Manchester, NH) (August 22, 2014)

Dear Granite Stater:

Today I placed an order with WMUR-TV to run ads supporting Market Basket employees. Monday I hope to place a cable run.

You can see the ad and a short video (they are separate) at my web site: www.andymartin2014.com. (please see link below)

Ten thousand employees were recently laid off. The other Republican U. S. Senate candidates have turned a deaf ear to the Market Basket crisis. There is no money in it for them.

Republicans need to offer working families support if we ever hope to regain the majority in New Hampshire. Just mouthing the litany of platitudes about “job creators” (who don’t create jobs and only line their own pockets) and other welfare for the wealthy is simply not enough. I know Scott Brown speaks for the hedge fund billionaires; he invited them into New Hampshire to fund his campaign. He is apparently going on a paid speaking engagement in October. He won’t say who is paying or how much. Typical, evasive, Brown.

Loyally,

Andy

P.S. I may be an underdog in the primary but I am the only Republican candidate who has the experience and who is prepared to stand up for New Hampshire’s working families. It is not often a Republican candidate has a pro-worker orientation. But there are more workers in this country than there are Scott Brown-supporting billionaires. Please consider giving me your vote. Who is more qualified to fight for your values? Who is more qualified to stand up for New Hampshire’s working families? (Hint: It’s not Jeanne Shaheen or Scott Brown)

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News conference details: Manchester, NH August 22, 2014

WHO:

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin begins TV ads supporting Market Basket workers

WHERE:

Manchester, NH, Northwest corner of Elm and Webster Streets

WHEN:

Friday, August 22, 5:30 P.M.

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

http://www.andymartin2014.com/

ABOUT ANDY:

USA

and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.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).

UPDATES:
www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA
www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin

Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com

[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin explores the “greatness” of “ordinary” Market Basket workers

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin explains how today’s “ordinary” Market Basket workers can help us to understand the “greatness” of earlier generations.

News from:

Andy Martin

Republican for U.S. Senator

www.AndyMartin2014.com

you can call Andy:

Tel. (603) 518-7310

Cell: (603) 289-0276

Toll-free (866) 706-2639

you can email Andy:

andynewhampshire@aol.com

you can write Andy at:

fax (866) 214-3210, or

P. O. Box 742

Manchester, NH 03105-0742

Blogs/web sites (partial):

NewHampshireRepublicans.wordpress.com

AndyMartin.com

FirstRespondersOnline.us

ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com

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Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin reflects on his deeply moving meeting with Market Basket employees

Andy says Market Basket employees have reaffirmed his faith in the “greatness” of ordinary people

(Manchester, NH) (August 7, 2014)

Dear Granite Stater:

Before there was “The Greatest Generation” there was the “ordinary generation.” Tom Brokaw popularized the phrase “Greatest Generation” to characterize the “ordinary” people who participated in World War II. If you had gone around battlefields, or even the home front, blathering about the way they were fighting as being part of a “greatest generation” during World War II, most people would have thought you were nuts. They were millions of ordinary “G. I. Joes” trying to do their job and get home in one piece. It was only in retrospect that we saw how that war and that generation became a defining bunch of Americans for all times.

Today we live in an era which is the opposite of the “greatest generation.” Everything is overvalued and exaggerated. Everyone is a “hero” (tell that to the “Boys of Pointe Du Hoc” who landed on D-Day in Normandy). In the words of Garrison Keilor, everyone, and particularly everyone’s children, are “above average.”

As early as 1782 this nation recognized that we are “E Pluribus Unum,” “from the many, one.” And E Pluribus Unum the lesson I took to heart from a visit to a Market Basket store.

Wednesday morning my campaign set out to produce a TV commercial supporting Market Basket workers who are protesting efforts to permit Wall Street “private equity” pirates (who are supporting Scott Brown) to pillage their company. Today Market Basket associates enjoy good jobs, good benefits and good options for their futures. Tomorrow? Well, we don’t know. That’s why I am helping MB associates in their fight to defeat the Wall Street thieves who want to pilfer the prosperity of Market Basket workers in order to satisfy the insatiable greed of Wall Street parasites and swindlers.

My campaign is a poor one. We don’t have a lot of money; in fact we have a lot of very little. So we chose a Market Basket store to use as a backdrop based on its closeness to the production staff, trying to save time and money. It was an “ordinary” store.

After we had finished the shot in front of the store we walked over to a group of workers, perhaps twenty or thirty people, to shoot some “b-roll,” camera shots that can be used to fill in a spot or video. And it was then that I was struck once again by the “greatness” of “ordinary” Americans.

Market Basket workers did not ask for their fight. They are merely pawns in the battle between the “good Arthur” (Arthur T Demoulas) and the “bad Arthur,” Arthur S Demoulas (I don’t know what the “S” stands for so I have given it a provisional designation of “Arthur ‘Skata’ Demoulas”).

I looked into the faces of the protesting workers and I was humbled by their humanity. They are ordinary people in the godly sense of the word. They are caught up in something much greater than they can probably understand. And they have banded together as (what else?) a “Band of Brothers and Sisters” to fight for their “general,” Arthur T.

We live in a stratified world today. Outside of church, how often do we meet people from different socio-economic levels? Not very often. We brush past them in public places and usually take no notice of the people who are doing their individual jobs to yield our collective national greatness.

When I announced as a U. S. Senate candidate in May, 2013, over a year ago, I had no idea that I would, a year later, find myself in the middle of the Demoulas Family’s endless feud.

I started out fighting for ordinary people exactly half a century ago. It has enriched my life to be of service to people all while knowing that there no expectation of repayment. I have just tried to help those who are in need. Pro bono.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, I am the only Republican senate candidate who has taken up the cause of the Market Basket workers. Republicans love to preach about “jobs,” and “the economy” and of course the saintly “job creators” who must appear in apparitions but have not appeared recently in our own economy. But conservatives do not like to come face-to-face with people who are losing ground so that a handful of super-wealthy Americans can gain ground they don't need at the expense of their financially-challenged fellow citizens.

Democrats, of course, are also hypocrites. Labor leaders proclaim on behalf of their “workers” while paying themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars and even millions in salaries. The Hollywood liberals who have an outsized influence in the Democratic Party? Barry Obama? Don't ask. So we are a society saturated and marinated in greed. On all sides. There is no need to finger-point.

You see greed at work in every direction in our daily lives. Do we reach for an article “Made in America” and pay a few pennies more? Or do we reach for the “Made in China” product and try to save a few pennies, not thinking that if we don't buy our fellow citizens’ output how will they be able to afford our own?

I would like to be of service to each and every Granite Stater in Washington. I believe one man can make a difference. Saint Telemachus, a singe monk, walked into the Coliseum and demanded an end to the gladiatorial sacrifices of the Roman Empire. The emperor heard Telemachus’ cries and ordered an end to the spectacles. I can make a difference in Washington. My opponents won’t and they have a track record to prove it.

I am by no means a saint. Far from it. But ordinary people have impressed upon how they can come together to produce extraordinary results for every American. Together we can play a role for the greater good. I took strength today from meeting with Market Basket workers; I was humbled by their humanity and their sincerity of purpose. I hope you share my feelings.

Loyally,

Andy

P.S. The two ads (a Market Basket spot and a second commercial attacking Channel 9 WMUR News bias) are in production and will be available to seen in a day or two.

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U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin prepares to air a TV ad supporting Market Basket employees

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Wednesday, August 6th news conference in Manchester, NH to announce he is preparing to air a TV ad supporting Market Basket employees in their confrontation with a newly-installed, out-of-state “corporate raider” management. “We found that my radio ads boosted Market Basket employee morale,” Andy says. “So we are extending our support in a new TV ad backing the Arthur T. Demoulas team. While Market Basket is headquartered over the border in Massachusetts, the New Hampshire employees have shown real spunk in standing up to the corporate raiders that have been imported by Arthur T’s opposing relatives. The Market Basket ‘war’ opens a new chapter in American labor history. Workers are tried of being screwed by Mitt Romney-style bogus ‘job creators.’ Please join me in supporting our friends and neighbors who work at Market Basket. Hundreds of thousands of Granite Staters shop there and would be severely affected if Market Basket implodes. Let’s send the dirty dollar boys on Wall Street a message (Scott Brown invited them to come to New Hampshire). ‘Stay out of New Hampshire and New England with your dollar-crooked corporate manipulation.’”

News from:

Andy Martin

Republican for U.S. Senator

www.AndyMartin2014.com

you can call Andy:

Tel. (603) 518-7310

Cell (603) 289-0276

Toll-free (866) 706-2639

you can email Andy:

andynewhampshire@aol.com

you can write Andy at:

fax (866) 214-3210, or

P. O. Box 742

Manchester, NH 03105-0742

Blogs/web sites (partial):

NewHampshireRepublicans.wordpress.com

AndyMartin.com

FirstRespondersOnline.us

ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com

To become a regular subscriber to our emails please send an email to AndyNewHampshire@aol.com and place “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject line.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MANCHESTER, NH NEWS CONFERENCE

ATTENTION NATIONAL, POLITICAL, NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK & ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin is preparing to air a TV ad supporting Market Basket employees

Andy charges that the new management team at Market Basket, which fired Arthur T. Demoulas, is composed of wall Street raiders who want to strip the company’s assets in a “pump and dump” scheme

Andy says he is fighting to protect Market Basket workers because if the company implodes hundreds of thousands of Granite State shoppers would suffer

Andy says “Slippery Scott Brown” should take his private equity cronies back to Las Vegas and leave New Hampshire alone

(Manchester, NH) (August 6, 2014)

Dear Granite Stater:

I am excited to announce that this afternoon we will be taping a new TV ad supporting Market Basket employees and the Arthur T. Demoulas management team.

The “dirty dollar” operators, who were invited to “come to New Hampshire” by Scott Brown, have declared war on the employees of Market Basket. [You can see who Scott Brown really is by reading the two links below.]

The new management team of corporate scalpers at Market Basket wants to reduce employee pay, reduce benefits and cut quality as a means of setting up Market Basket for a Wall Street “pump and dump” scam endangering our local supermarkets.

I was attacked by the editorial page of the consistently ridiculous Fosters Daily Democrat for intervening in support of Market Basket employees. If someone miscalculates, Market Basket could implode. Hundreds of thousands of New Hampshire citizens would lose access to high quality, low price groceries and sundries. Isn’t a U. S. Senator supposed to stand up for the people of his state? The company may be privately owned but it is members of the public who would also suffer - hundreds of thousands of them - if the board of directors miscalculates and sinks the supermarket chain.

Scott Brown went to Las Vegas in May and told the “private equity” boys and girls they should come to New Hampshire to support him, because he would do their bidding in the senate. [Read Brown’s Las Vegas news stories at the “links” section below; you will want to vomit.] What a disgrace that Republican Party “leaders” are supporting this jerk. “Private equity” is just a polite term for the way Wall Street fleeces public shareholders or, in the case of Market Basket, a company’s loyal employees. Mitt Romney became notorious for buying companies and firing the employees. It cost him the election.

Today in the Republican Party we have the ultimate hypocrisy. Republicans talk about “the economy” and “jobs” but they don’t really want workers to have better pay and better benefits. Republicans in Washington are slaves to their corporate masters on Wall Street, who in turn are motivated by just one emotion: greed.

It is time for Main Street Republicans to stand up for ordinary citizens and not genuflect to the mythical “job creators,” who have seen a 25% increase in their wealth since Obama took over, but not created many new jobs out of the incredible booty they have stolen from ordinary taxpayers. You should not have to be a Democrat to stand up for common sense and common citizens.

My new TV ad will go into production this afternoon and will air as soon as we obtain funds to do so. In the meantime notwithstanding the inane media criticism, I will continue to fight for Market Basket employees and stand up for the hundreds of thousands of Granite Staters who depend on Market Basket for their food.

Let’s tell “Slippery Scott” Brown we don’t want his slimy kind of politics in New Hampshire. Brown can take his “private equity” parade and march of his “big dollar” donors all the way back to Las Vegas.

We’ll have a link to the TV ad as soon as it is ready to air. In the meantime we are attaching a copy of the radio ad which is still running.

Loyally,

Andy

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News conference details: Manchester, NH August 5, 2014

WHO:

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin prepares TV ad to support Market Basket employees

WHERE:

Manchester, NH, Northwest corner of Elm and Webster Streets

WHEN:

Wednesday, August 6, 10:00 A.M.

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

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/19/scott-brown-senate-_n_5351623.html?view=print&comm_ref=false

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20140516-NEWS-140519774

ABOUT ANDY:

USA

and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.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).

UPDATES:
www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA
www.Facebook.com/AndyMartin

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ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com

[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in our stories; find the latest version on our blogs.]

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Monday, August 4, 2014

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin asks newly-arrived corporate “managers” to stop threatening Market Basket employees

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Tuesday, August 5th news conference in Manchester, NH to announce he is asking newly-arrived Market Basket corporate management to stop threatening the company’s employees. “What we have is a situation that could escalate out of control and shut down the company,” Andy says. “Management is trying to use terror tactics against employees who are protesting the company’s change in leadership. What we are seeing is American business history-in-the-making. While I support employee protests I have also offered to mediate this family feud. I am concerned by the fate of thousands of employee careers and hundreds of thousands of satisfied shoppers who are now endangered by out-of-state corporate ‘managers’ who have no ties to the Granite State. Let’s sit down and talk this out, the ‘New Hampshire way.’’ [Andy will have another major Market Basket announcement on Wednesday.]

News from:

Andy Martin

Republican for U.S. Senator

www.AndyMartin2014.com

you can call Andy:

Tel. (603) 518-7310

Cell (603) 289-0276

Toll-free (866) 706-2639

you can email Andy:

andynewhampshire@aol.com

you can write Andy at:

fax (866) 214-3210, or

P. O. Box 742

Manchester, NH 03105-0742

Blogs/web sites (partial):

NewHampshireRepublicans.wordpress.com

AndyMartin.com

FirstRespondersOnline.us

ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com

ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com

To become a regular subscriber to our emails please send an email to AndyNewHampshire@aol.com and place “SUBSCRIBE” in the subject line.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MANCHESTER, NH NEWS CONFERENCE

ATTENTION NATIONAL, POLITICAL, NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK & ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin is asking Market Basket corporate executives to stop threatening the company’s employees

Andy is trying to stop the corporate/employee confrontation from spiraling out of control

Andy says Market Basket workers have a right to manifest their loyalty for the former management team that provided above-average compensation for workers and below-average prices for shoppers

Andy says he is ignoring media attacks on him for supporting Market Basket associates

(Manchester, NH) (August 5, 2014)

Dear Granite Stater:

I have come under attack in the media for supporting Market Basket employees. What are these self-styled media majordomos thinking? Or, maybe, what are they smoking?

Market Basket is a crucial part of New Hampshire’s and New England’s economy. The company’s New Hampshire stores alone generate over a billion dollars in revenue. Thousands of our neighbors work there. Tens of thousands of persons depend on Market Basket paychecks.

And hundreds of thousands of New Hampshire residents, myself included, depend on Market’s Basket’s low prices and high-quality products to balance their family food budgets.

When a dispute threatens the economy of our state that matter is not an entirely “private” matter. Yes, the private parties will ultimately come to a settlement. But as a conservative I do not want to see the Market Basket confrontation spiral out of control and damage either the company or the employees, and certainly not the customers who depend on the company to deliver high quality and low prices.

What the media do no not like is that I am demonstrating the same type of public leadership I have shown for almost fifty years. Their favored candidates are doing nothing and one candidate, Scott Brown, is collecting millions from Wall Street pirates who have built their fortunes on scab labor (Market Basket is not unionized, but management has threatened associates with mass firings). These Wall Street raiders are drooling at the prospect of cutting wages, eliminating benefits, lowering quality and stripping Market Basket down to the bone.

It is interesting to see my primary opponents blathering about the “economy” and “jobs,” but when it comes to actually standing shoulder-to shoulder with ordinary working folk, they retreat to their private meeting rooms and ban media coverage of their remarks. When push-comes-to-shove, I am the only genuine “New Hampshire conservative” who is standing up for ordinary citizens.

If you are a millionaire, maybe you don’t need my help. But most New Hampshire citizens struggle to make ends meet. What are my Republican opponents offering these people? Absolutely nothing. The rest of the bunch of senate candidates are Mitt Romney-type stock speculators (Rubens) or Mitt Romney wannabes (Brown).

We can’t win back the confidence of the public if we do not stand up for public morality and public integrity. The Market Basket dispute, like all other disputes, will eventually be settled. They always are. But I do not want to see the company destroyed in the process. Thousands of New Hampshire residents make their livelihoods working for the economic engine that Arthur T. Demoulas has created for his staff and his customers.

I stand with Mr. Demoulas and with his thousands of employees; I am asking the out-of-state managers who parachuted into the Market Basket corporate offices [in Massachusetts] to stop threatening employees with dismissals and other disciplinary sanctions. These threats will boomerang and cost the company dearly. But then these out-of-state managers really don’t care about New Hampshire. They were brought here to remove Arthur T and then to start dismembering the company. How many times have we seen these tactics used in the past?

As your U. S. Senator I will put New Hampshire workers first, not the interests of corporate raiders and Wall Street campaign contributors who profit from closing plants, paying low wages and exporting jobs to China (those people are all supporting my opponents). If you believe in New Hampshire First and America First I am the only genuine article in the U. S. Senate election - in either party.

As you are aware, my campaign has been running radio advertising supporting Market Basket employees. Wednesday we will have another exciting announcement in my continuing efforts to protect good jobs for New Hampshire residents and good prices for New Hampshire grocery shoppers. Aren’t you proud that at least one Republican has his priorities straight?

Please join me in telling the newly-arrived, out-of-state Market Basket corporate hucksters to respect New Hampshire/New England values or go back where they came from.

Loyally,

Andy

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News conference details: Manchester, NH August 5, 2014

WHO:

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin asks Market Basket management to stop threatening employees with dismissal

WHERE:

Manchester, NH, Northwest corner of Elm and Webster Streets

WHEN:

Tuesday, August 5, 4:00 P.M.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin begins an advertising campaign backing Market Basket employees

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will hold a Tuesday, July 22nd news conference in Manchester, NH to announce he is beginning a statewide advertising campaign backing Market Basket employees in their conflict with a rapacious new management team. “I am putting my campaign solidly behind Market Basket employees that are fighting to protect their jobs, their paychecks, their benefits and the corporate culture that has been created by Arthur T. Demoulas,” Andy says. “The new ad should be ready by news conference time, and it will begin airing Wednesday morning across New Hampshire. Corporate greed and executive greed, of the type Scott Brown supports, is destroying America. I am a conservative who stands shoulder-to-shoulder with working families. The Market Basket conflagration is a defining moment for New Hampshire and for America. Will conservatives stand for rebuilding the American economy so that everyone shares in the fruits of their labors, or will conservatives surrender to greedy executives and private equity pirates as they continue to steal a bigger and bigger piece of our national economic pie? Arthur T. Demoulas and I are on the right side of history.”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANNOUNCEMENT OF MANCHESTER, NH NEWS CONFERENCE

ATTENTION NATIONAL, POLITICAL, NEW HAMPSHIRE DAYBOOK & ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

Republican U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin will announce a statewide advertising campaign supporting Market Basket workers

Andy calls the Market Basket battle a “defining moment for New Hampshire and for

America

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Andy says Market Basket workers are “fighting back against the corporate pirates that now what to destroy their jobs and are destroying our economy. Scott Brown stands for ‘private equity,’ which endorses the plunder of publicly and privately owned assets. I stand with working families that deserve a decent job with a decent paycheck and decent benefits”

“Arthur T. Demoulas and I are on the right side of history,” Andy says.

(Manchester, NH) (July 22, 2014)

Dear Granite Stater:

Today, July 22nd, I am announcing my statewide advertising campaign supporting Market Basket employees. I am also announcing my full support for Market Basket employees and the restoration of Arthur T. Demoulas as chief executive of the shopping giant. If I am elected to the U. S. Senate I will support Market Basket workers and every Granite Stater that wants to work.

The Republican Party today is composed of two conflicting groups of participants. On the one hand you have the Wall Street billionaires who what to plunder the economy to satisfy their own insatiable greed. Scott Brown is a valet to these economic pirates. A vote for Scott Brown is a vote to destroy Market Basket as we know it.

On the other hand we have millions of ordinary Main Street Americans, many of them Republicans, who are struggling in the endless recession created by an economic collapse triggered by the bipartisan greed of Wall Street billionaires. Making ends meet is not easy for ordinary citizens. Private equity speculators swallow up companies and export local (New Hampshire) jobs to low-wage countries such as China. I have literally walked the highways of this state and seen the devastation created by corporate greed.

One hundred years ago, at the same time as the Demoulas family reached America, my own family came to Manchester seeking better opportunities. Like Arthur T. Demoulas, my mother’s parents, my grandparents, came from Greece and eventually opened a business. These immigrant families also brought with them their ancient Greek principles of respect for their fellow citizens and respect for the dignity of every individual.

Arthur T. Demoulas has probably accomplished something close to impossible in corporate America. He has managed Market Basket in a manner that grew the firm, maintained the highest quality standards, and provided associates with a decent standard of living, decent benefits and a decent future. That's why so many associates have stayed so long and you see familiar faces at Market Basket. Now all of that decency is under attack by Demoulas’ greedy cousins.

We can only speculate on what the “cousins” have in mind, but I can tell you I have seen this movie before. Personal greed is causing the Demoulas “cousins” to attempt to cut quality, cut salaries, cut benefits and eventually shop Market Basket to a “private equity” group of robber barons who will strip the firm of its assets and leave the corporate carcass for the courts to administer.

What exactly is “private equity?” It is the way a handful of insiders get rich on Wall Street by impoverishing the companies they purchase. Corporate equity speculators destroy the communities they serve. They take wealth owned by common shareholders (which includes pension trusts) and strip away any extra value, while leaving ordinary shareholders with virtually nothing in return.

From 2010 to 2013 Scott Brown genuflected to the private equity barons while he served in the U. S. Senate and voted to preserve their rapacious practices. Now Brown wants to go back to the senate and he has asked “private equity” thieves to bring their dollar-crooked presence “to New Hampshire" to help elect him as their servant. In May Brown even went to Las Vegas to personally grovel at their feet; he desperately asked them to finance his latest campaign. Dirty dollars started flowing into New Hampshire.

Private equity speculators destroy community economic value and enrich themselves with billions mulcted from the stock market. They want bigger mansions, bigger yachts, more power and control over Congress, more greed, and more manipulation. The public be damned.

Scott Brown served these robber barons while he served in the senate for three years. Why would you send him back? Why would any New Hampshire worker or New Hampshire voter want more of Scott Brown’s type of duplicity? (Brown was handsomely rewarded for betraying the people of Massachusetts; he received millions of dollars from Wall Street thieves and manipulators in campaign cash.)

I stand for Main Street Republicans and traditional mainstream New Hampshire conservatism.

Our economy is not recovering as it has in past recessions because corporate and executive greed is robbing ordinary citizens of their economic futures. Young families and young graduates have been particularly hard hit by Wall Street greed and the machinations of the finest Congress that dirty dollars can buy. Senior citizens also suffer.

Ironically, ordinary working class Republicans have been intimidated by the “private equity class” that really controls nominations. A vote for Scott Brown is a vote to continue present practices. Senators today are equally corrupt for taking compromised cash and for being under the thumb of Wall Street thieves.

During the last presidential campaign, how many of Mitt Romney’s employees spoke up to support Romney as an enlightened and generous owner? Exactly none. [Compare Romney’s employees with employee support for Artie T.] Romney’s employees despised him. Amazingly, Romney’s minions were looting a Freeport, Illinois firm even as he was running for president. Romney personally is a decent man. But the evil he committed as a corporate raider far exceeded the good he gave back to stranded communities.

Now Romney is endorsing Brown. We all know where that leads. More greed, more self-aggrandizement and more poverty for New Hampshire’s ordinary citizens.

Do you stand with Market Basket workers who are fighting for their jobs and their very lives, or do you stand against them? You know where I stand. Where do you stand?

Before you reply, ask yourself a simple, stupid question. Why are all of these Wall Street billionaires coming to New Hampshire to support Scott Brown? To improve your economic future, or theirs?

Please join me in fighting to save Market Basket.

Loyally,

Andy

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News conference details: Manchester, NH July 22, 2014

WHO:

New Hampshire U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin begins statewide advertising campaign supporting Market Basket workers

WHERE:

Manchester, NH, Northwest corner of Elm and Webster Streets

WHEN:

Tuesday, July 22, 3:00 P.M.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Andy Martin (603) 518-7310; CELL (917) 664-9329 E-MAIL: AndyNewHampshire@aol.com

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

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/opinion/editorials/1042243-465/market-basket-war-over-culture-brand.html

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140721/NEWS02/140729788

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140720/NEWS02/140729927

ABOUT ANDY:

USA

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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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