Politics: Ray LaHood is getting sued (UPDATED)

May 16, 2008 in Local Tags: Ray LaHood

UPDATE: Before taking this too seriously, consider the source:

From a press release:

(CHICAGO)(May 16, 2008) Illinois Republican reformer Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Friday, May 16th to announce he has filed a lawsuit to stop corruption at the Illinois Republican Party’s 2008 state convention. ‘The behavior of most Republican Party leaders is disgraceful,’ Martin will state. ‘They are conducting an election for National Committeeman and National Committeewoman, and refusing to release the names of the voters for this office, who are the delegates. Why are delegate lists and members-of-committee lists being held in secret? In a word, LaHood and his coconspirators are trying to fix the convention to elect him.

A copy of the lawsuit is a part of this posting (below).

‘How can anyone justify an ‘election’ in which the names of the ‘voters’ are being concealed or a convention in which the names of members of convention committees are secret? If this is not a blatant attempt to rig the vote and elect Combine Candidate Ray LaHood I don’t know what it is.

We have to face the reality that the Republican Party is being mismanaged into the ground.’

Martin is the reform Republican candidate for National Committeeman.

Martin will be seeking an emergency court hearing.

‘At some point, Republicans are going to get sick of Combine control of their party. Ray LaHood was one of the cabal of leaders that forced U. S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald out of office-and paved the way for the election of Barack Obama. No wonder LaHood was salivating when Obama visited the U. S. House earlier this week; LaHood’s dirty tricks and backstabbing helped elect Obama by removing the incumbent Republican. If Obama is elected president, we will have LaHood and his hoods to thank.

‘Peter Fitzgerald was pilloried because he fought corruption. What does that tell you? The evidence to support these claims is in testimony in the Tony Rezko trial, where ‘Republican leaders’ were mired neck deep in corruption. The Combine is real and the Rezko trial testimony blew the lid off the Republican Party’s past and present ‘leadership.’

‘Most Illinois Republicans are honest, hardworking, law-abiding citizens. How did we end up with a party state committee and party leadership and party employees who are sickos and crooks? How? Who wins? We know who loses: Main Street, mainstream Republicans.

‘I am doing my best to fight corruption and to return control of the Republican Party to the people,’ Martin says.

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8 Responses to “Politics: Ray LaHood is getting sued (UPDATED)”

RomanII Says:
May 17th, 2008 at 7:53 am
This Martin sounds like a real jerk!!
Ramble On Says:
May 17th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Why, because he dared to say something negative about “King Ray”? Please explain why Martin is a jerk.
Why Says:
May 17th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Here’s a little something about Andy Martin that should explain why not to take him seriously:

In 1973, the Illinois Supreme Court refused to allow Martin admission to the bar, saying he lacked the fitness to be an attorney.

Federal courts have repeatedly sanctioned him for what judges said is his filing of hundreds of largely meritless legal actions.

In early January, a Cook County judge tossed a lawsuit Martin filed against the Tribune alleging the newspaper portrayed him in a false light, contending that his name was not surveyed in a poll of the GOP primary candidates for governor that showed he had less than 1 percent support.

Judge Stuart Palmer ruled Martin’s allegations about the poll appeared to be “simply wrong” in that Martin’s name was included in the survey.

Palmer also rejected the lawsuit, in part, because he said Martin had failed to adhere to a federal court injunction preventing him from initiating lawsuits in state courts without filing a document reciting his litigation history.

In his past, Martin also has expressed anti-Semitic views. When he ran for Congress in Connecticut in 1986, the name of his congressional campaign committee included the phrase “to exterminate Jew power in America,” Federal Election Commission records show.

In a 1983 personal bankruptcy case, he referred to a federal bankruptcy judge as a “crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race.” In a related court filing in the case, he also expressed sympathy to the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

That’s from a Tribune story which is no longer online, but you can find it referenced here.
Alan Francis Says:
May 17th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Anyone who heard Ray LaHood address the hardly-fanclub audience of at the ACLU’s state meeting at the Pere Marquette April 5 [see Elaine Hopkins' blog for more on this] knows that, whether one agrees with all his votes or not [I don't], he is a stand-up guy and a straight-talker.
Among other things, he said that he abandoned his bipartisan effort to abolish the electoral college because the White House pressured him. He was also frank and forthright about Guantanamo Bay. He will be sorely missed. Even the ACLU folks applauded his Q&A frankness.
postsimian Says:
May 18th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Actually, I agree with RomanII. The guy sounds like a major asshole.
RomanII Says:
May 18th, 2008 at 6:04 am
Ramble On: did WHY tell you enough?
Ramble On Says:
May 18th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Yep, saved me from having to do the research. I just like explanations. Thanks.