I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Residence: Andy Martin currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Born: Middletown, Connecticut

Education: Andy holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois (B.S. 1966, Juris Doctor 1969). He also attended the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, (1965) and while in high school attended Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut) for advanced study.

II. CONSUMER ADVOCATE: THE PEOPLE'S ATTORNEY GENERAL

In 2005 Andy Martin celebrates thirty-seven (37) years as a public interest lawyer at the national and state levels. A partial list of examples follow:

Antitrust Litigation:  Andy began a long association with antitrust litigation/legislation and the media when he filed the first antitrust lawsuit against the three major television networks to bar anticompetitive practices in network affiliation agreements in 1969. In 1998, he filed the first antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation as part of his efforts to protect cyberspace for the public.

Sex discrimination: Andy was one of the first advocates to fight wage discrimination against women in the workplace; in 1969 he was a party to and helped spearhead the first major attack on sex discrimination AT&T, at the Federal Communications Commission.

Water Pollution: In 1972, Andy filed the first federal court lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois challenging "impoundment" of federal spending for water pollution control by the President Nixon. The U.S. Supreme Court later upheld his legal theories.

Victims of Crime: In 1972, as head of the Illinois Consumer Council he was an expert witness before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee in early congressional efforts to protect victims of crime. These hearings formed the basis for subsequent federal legislation protecting victims of crime in the judicial process.

Financial Regulation: In 1973, he conducted the first administrative trial at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington seeking to force bank regulators to exercise strict supervision over bank holding company expansion. Over a decade before the 1980’s banking crisis, Andy was fighting for stronger regulation of financial institutions.

Racketeering Litigation: Andy was the first consumer litigant to popularize and publicize the "civil RICO" statute for use against politicians and white-collar crime in Chicago. As a result of his seminal efforts beginning in 1976, "civil RICO" became a revolution that has changed the face of federal jurisprudence.

Congressional Investigation: Andy helped lead congressional investigators in 1980 to one of the biggest real estate scandals in history, a corrupt financial empire in Chicago/nationally that was severely damaged as a result of legislative scrutiny.

Illinois Consumer Council: Andy formed the Illinois Consumer Council in 1970 and that organization remained active for decades, until it was gradually superceded by more specific consumer activist entities.

Upcoming: In 2005 Andy launched FightPulte.com, FightDiVosta.com and FightDelWebb.com, his newest public interest organizations to oppose corrupt practices by a national homebuilder and to advocate increased regulation of the financial activities of the real estate industry.

Summing Up: As a people's attorney general, Andy has had a significant impact on American law. His efforts to develop new legal theories are frequently misunderstood, because consumer advocacy by its very purpose seeks to change the system and to upset the status quo. Andy has been featured on the CBS Television Network's "48 Hours" [1993] as an indefatigable public interest litigator and also been a guest on the Phil Donahue Show [1994] and Fox News’ Hannity and Colmes and O’Reilly Factor.

III. MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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. He is currently the Independent Contrarian Columnist and chief national/foreign correspondent for Out2.com. He serves as the Managing Director of Andy Martin Worldwide Communications. 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. Beginning in April 2003, Andy became Baghdad Bureau Chief for Out2.com. He has been involved in the Middle East for thirty-four (34) years 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.

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 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 Illinois’ foremost public interest lawyer by being what a consumer advocate should be: Independent. Aggressive. And totally committed to fighting for all the people of Illinois, not the 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. 2008 ILLINOIS U. S. SENATE ELECTION

Andy is a candidate for U. S. Senator in 2008. 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.