Manchester, NH News Conference: Congressional candidate Andy Martin says Kelly Ayotte must make full disclosure

 

New Hampshire Republican congressional candidate Andy Martin will hold a news conference Monday, July 24^th to challenge former U. S. Senator Kelly Ayotte to make a full disclosure of her past, current and future relationship with disgraced GOP chairman Jennifer Horn before Ayotte announces her candidacy for governor. “Ten years ago, Kelly was the ‘dummy’ to Jennifer Horn’s ventriloquist,” says Andy. “They were a two-person demolition team that went around the state attacking and defeating Republicans and finally defeating Ayotte herself, and delivering us into the hands of Red Maggie Hassan. Ayotte owes New Hampshire voters a full disclosure of her relationship with Horn.”

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

July 23, 2023

 

Dear Granite Stater:

I will not be active in the upcoming gubernatorial election, other than to vote for the GOP candidate in November, 2024. I will stay sharply focused on my own campaign, and on congressional issues, with one exception. As probably New Hampshire’s only truth-telling Republican, I owe voters the benefit of my experience and wisdom over my many years in state and national politics.

The background of one potential gubernatorial candidate raises serious questions that I believe need to be addressed before she announces for governor.

Monday I will hold a news conference to suggest that before she announces for governor, Kelly Ayotte should apologize to New Hampshire Republicans and disclose her current relationship with Jennifer Horn as well as any role Horn world have in an Ayotte administration.

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Here are the News conference details:

 

Who: U. S. House candidate Andy Martin

 

What: Andy says that before Kelly Ayotte announces for governor, she should apologize to New Hampshire Republicans and explain her past, present and future relationship with Jennifer Horn

 

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

 

When: Friday, July 24, 2023 – 10:00 A.M.

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

(MANCHESTER, NH) (July 20, 2023) --- New Hampshire Republican U. S. House candidate Andy Martin will hold a Manchester news conference Monday, July 24 to challenge potential gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte to “come clean” about her relationship with Jennifer Horn.

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First, let’s clear the air on one issue: I am not an Ayotte-hater. I endorsed her in 2016 and I voted for her. But I believe Kelly has shown abysmal political judgment; that bad judgment doomed her senate reelection. If Ayotte cannot give credible answers about her current and future relationship with Jennifer Horn, Ayotte’s gubernatorial campaign is dead on arrival.

 Let me take you on a trip down memory lane. In 2011 Jennifer Horn attacked me for exposing the truth about Barack Obama. Horn defended Obama and ignored the facts about his questionable life story. (see link to my book, below). I was amazed. Horn went on the radio and excoriated me for writing my tell-all book about Obama. I could see Horn was really not a Republican.

 Later, it became known, when the IRS filed liens against her home, that Horn had misappropriated employment and income taxes she withheld from her employees. Horn diverted the money to her congressional campaigns. Tax fraud anyone?

 Despite the fact that Horn had shown she was not a Republican and had misappropriated tax withholding funds from the IRS, the GOP nominated her for state chairman. I opposed Horn’s efforts to become state chairman and predicted that if she was elected, Horn would wreck the Republican Party. The rest is history. My evidence was ignored and Horn became state chairman, to the enduring ignominy of New Hampshire Republicans.

 Horn and Ayotte were close friends. The two women became a tag team attacking New Hampshire Republicans. Ayotte and Horn began by launching attacks on former Speaker Bill O’Brien.

 One of the basic tenants of serving in federal office is that you do not stick your nose in local fights. Ayotte ignored that rule.

 Ayotte and Horn went on to attack Congressman Frank Giunta, the last Republican elected to congress from New Hampshire; again, Ayotte had no business attacking Giunta for what was at worst an esoteric technical violation of election law.

 Horn used Ayotte as her dummy. Having Ayotte as her partner in crime made Horn’s crackpot behavior appear reasonable to many Republicans. But all the while Ayotte was undermining her own reelection. In 2016 Ayotte lost by a thousand votes. Over thirty thousand conservatives voted against her. Ayotte’s poor judgment had defeated her and given us Red Maggie as our senator.

 During 2016 Ayotte kept attacking the presidential candidate, Donald Trump, though she was under no duty to attack someone on the same ticket. Ayotte could hardly expect party loyalty when she was manifesting party disloyalty. What on earth was Kelly thinking? (She also had a sex pervert working in her congressional office; check it out.)

 Is eight years in purdah (2016-2024) enough time to rehabilitate Ayotte? You be the judge.

 Republicans need to know what the current relationship is between Ayotte and Horn, and whether Horn would be welcomed in the governor’s office. I have created a preliminary list of questions which are at the end of this letter.

 I hope you agree with me that Ayotte owes Granite Staters an explanation before she announces for governor, not later. I will certainly keep on top of this one issue.

 Ayotte will not be able to use “political consultants” to muddy the waters on her connections to Horn. The two women were one of the most toxic combinations ever in American politics. No Republican has been elected to congress since Ayotte and Horn attacked Giunta, the last Republican elected to congress over a decade ago. That speaks to the damage they inflicted on the Republican Party and on our state. Forgive and forget is not an option. We need an apology, and we need detailed information and explanations.

 

Best wishes,

 Andy

 PRELIMINARY LIST OF QUESTIONS KELLY AYOTTE MUST ADDRESS BEFORE ANNOUNCING AS A CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR--

 

1. What is your current relationship with Jennifer Horn?

 

2. When did you last speak with Jenifer Horn and if you do speak with her, how often do you do so?

 

3. Would Jennifer Horn be welcome in your gubernatorial campaign?

 

4. Would Jennifer Horn be welcome in your office if you are elected?

 

5. Have you ever spoken critically of Jennifer Horn; if so when and where?

 

6. Do you think your relationship and actions/activity with Jennifer Horn during 2013-2016 should be relevant to your campaign for governor?

 

7. When did you become aware that Horn was diverting employment taxes from her employees into spending on her congressional campaigns? Did you ever advise or counsel Horn on her diversions?

 

8. Do you think you owe Republicans an apology for your actions with Jennifer Horn?

 

(list of questions to be supplemented)

 

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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.

 

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.

 

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