Illinois GOP Rebukes "Bizarre" birther Andy Martin

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http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/Illinois-GOP-rebuke-any-martin-80230557.html

No longer recognized as Republican candidate

By STEVE BRYANT
Updated 6:43 PM CST, Mon, Dec 28, 2009

A perennial political candidate with a history of ant-semitism and legal troubles was rebuked today by the Illinois GOP after he launched a radio ad insinuating that a more popular candidate for Senate was a homosexual.

"{Andy Martin's} statements today are consistent with his history of bizarre behavior and often times hate-filled speech which has no place in the Illinois Republican Party," said Pat Brady, chairman of the Illinois Republican Party, in a statement disavowing Martin's ad. "Mr. Martin will no longer be recognized as a legitimate Republican candidate by the Illinois Republican Party."

The ad, launched today, said that there’s “solid rumor that Mark Kirk is a homosexual” and that he’s part of the "Republican Party homosexual club."

North Shore U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk is the current frontrunner by a wide margin in the race for the Feb. 2 Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat once held by Obama.


http://www.wbbm780.com/Who-is-Andy-Martin--WBBM-takes-a-look/5985132

Who is Andy Martin? WBBM takes a look

<snip>His own Web site calls him "a leading corruption fighter in Illinois," that he "exposed corruption in the local courts while still a student at the University of Illinois College of Law."

But the New York Times reports that even though Martin "is a law school graduate... his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of 'moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.'"

The New York Times says Martin has run for president twice.

Some people may know Andy Martin as the person accused of starting false rumors that President Obama is secretly a Muslim.

Or the rumor that Barack Obama's real father was not Barack Obama Sr., but a man named Frank Marshall Davis.

Martin, who also goes by the name Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona, once ran for Congress and called his committee the Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in America.

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1. I don't get it.

He sounds like the ideal Republican candidate, bat-shit insane.

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2. Somebody (far more creative than myself) needs to create a scale of rightwingnutters.

From the likes of Boner, through O'rly and Bachmann right on to Palin and this freak.

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3. i`m afraid kirk just might win....

he`s going to take a lot of moderates and those fed up with the democrats in this state.

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4. Edit: hiccup or something. nt