Board of
Directors:
From 1978 to 1980, Andy served on the Board of Managers of
Olympic Tower Condominium in New York City. He helped supervise
a multi-million dollar budget involving the world's first
multi-use condominium and also spearheaded efforts to
successfully settle major legal claims with corporate interests
involving the condominium.
Broadcasting: Andy has also been a radio talk show host
with an international audience on the Internet. At age 23 Andy
became the youngest person ever authorized by the Federal
Communications Commission to control and operate a television
station, WTAF-TV in Marion, Indiana. He has managed both radio
and television stations and produced statewide political
programs (30 min.) in Illinois. He has been involved in
advertising sales and in-house advertising agency management.
Academic: Beginning in 1969, Andy lectured law students
in Washington, DC on "guerilla law," the ability of individuals
and small entities to oppose larger, more powerful legal
interests by fighting back with tactical and strategic mobility.
From 1985 to 1992 he was an adjunct professor of law for the
City University of New York, at LaGuardia Community College and
other campuses, teaching business law, legal advocacy, family
law, business management and related subjects.
International: Andy has traveled throughout the world,
including Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Hong Kong, Libya,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. He has been
involved in the Middle East for thirty-eight (38) years. He is a
frequent guest on cable and satellite TV stations and his
controversial investigative columns and opinions draw intense
attention throughout the world. He serves as Executive Director
of the Revolutionary War Research Center.
IV. JUDICIAL REFORMER
By fighting to clean up the courts, Andy is a controversial
figure in the legal system. He specializes in fighting judicial
corruption and is unafraid to attack corruption in both the
courts and legal profession. He began his career as a judicial
reformer in 1969 after he graduated from the University of
Illinois College of Law and joined efforts by the Chicago Daily
News to remove two corrupt Illinois Supreme Court judges who had
taken bank stock bribes.
His efforts to fight corruption in Cook County, Illinois courts
in the 1970's helped pave the way for Operation Greylord and
eventually resulted in the conviction of over 80 Illinois
judges, lawyers, and court personnel. His strident efforts to
reform the judicial system and legal profession are in stark
contrast with the "business as usual" manner in which judges try
to discourage public accountability.
In Florida,
his exposés of corrupt and incompetent judges have led to the
removal and retirement of numerous trial and appellate judges.
While his efforts to clean up the courts provoke wrath and
outrage from judges and lawyers, through it all Andy has
persevered and steadfastly adhered to the principle that the
legal system must be honest, be open and accessible, and be
accountable to the people and serve the public interest, not
special interests.
V. WASHINGTON EXPERIENCE
Andy served as an assistant to Illinois’ United States Senator
Paul H. Douglas in Washington in 1966. He remained close to the
Senator after Mr. Douglas' retirement from the Senate and
undertook special projects for the Senator.
Andy has been an expert witness and consultant on congressional
matters (see above) and worked closely with congressional staff
members over the years.
Although personally conservative on many issues, he has been
described by a Tampa Tribune newspaper columnist as "neither far
right nor far left." In short, Andy addresses each issue on its
merits and looks at the total picture before making a decision.
He has become one of America's foremost public interest lawyers
by being what a consumer advocate should be: Independent,
aggressive and totally committed to fighting for ordinary
citizens, not special interests.
VI. COMPUTER ADVOCACY
The First Consumer Advocate in Cyberspace Andy has become the
nation's first Consumer Advocate in Cyberspace through his
efforts to police the software industry and fight attempts to
monopolize computer markets. His computer industry reform
proposals have drawn worldwide attention. In 1995, Andy formed
the first computer-oriented public interest organization, the
Committee to Fight Microsoft (CTFM). The CTFM proposed new
statutes to regulate computer industry abuses, led a boycott of
Windows 95 and Windows 98 and has been vehemently attacked by
Bill Gates and Microsoft Corporation.
Andy's creative legal strategies are largely responsible for the
relentless governmental attacks on Microsoft. In 1995, Andy
created the concept of energizing state attorney generals to
fight Microsoft. He complained to all fifty (50) state attorneys
general to take action under their consumer fraud statutes,
thereby awakening the sleeping giant of state attorney general
litigation. He pressured the Department of Justice to file
antitrust charges. He lobbied on Capitol Hill for legislative
action. In sum, he personalizes in one man the opposition to
Bill Gates. Andy and his supporters continue to monitor the
computer industry for abuses.
VII.
CONTROVERSIAL INVESTIGATOR/AUTHOR/WRITER/EDITOR/COLUMNIST
Andy is the
author of the bestselling book "Obama: The Man Behind The Mask,"
(www.OrangeStatePress.com) which exposed the secret life of
Barack Obama to a national audience. Martin's appearance on
"Sean Hannity's America" in October, 2008 triggered a firestorm
of controversy over Martin's analysis of Obama's lifetime of
links to radical, anti-American influences. Martin's book and
ongoing disclosures probably cost Obama millions of votes and
held down his electoral victory.
Andy has been
an editor/investigator/author in most of the conflict zones of
the past half century, from Viet-Nam to Iran to Iraq, were he
served as a Baghdad bureau chief and triggered another firestorm
of controversy because of his accurate predictions about the
failed invasion and occupation.
Over the past
five decades, because of his aggressive search for the truth,
Andy has appeared on presidential and presidential candidates'
"enemies lists" in both parties. He is fearless in probing for
facts and exposing the truth to daylight.
Andy Martin
is Executive Editor of the Internet newspaper and investigative
publication ContrarianCommentary.com and its associated blogs,
www.ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com and
www.ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com.
VIII. 2010 ILLINOIS U. S. SENATE ELECTION
America's "Internet Powerhouse," Andy Martin
is a candidate for U. S. Senator in 2010. He wants to maintain
the Republican Party as a conservative party but modernize its
policy stands and open the party to full participation by every
American. Andy favors inclusive social policies and is a strong
supporter of the right to privacy. Andy will represent the
public interest, not the special interests, in Washington.
