Saturday, January 21, 2006
Andy Martin Describes Saturday GOP Gubernatorial Appearances
Here is Andy Martin's complete press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 21, 2006
ANDY MARTIN RIPS JUDY TOPINKA A NEW ONE AS T-GIRL PROMISES A LAUNDRY LIST OF NEW PROGRAMS FOR INNER CITY STUDENTS
A "SISTER SOULJAH" MOMENT IN CHICAGO
(CHICAGO)(January 21, 2006) Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Martin leveled a broadside response on Judy Topinka Saturday afternoon after the State Treasurer made a laundry list of promises to inner city students. Martin, the following speaker, derided Topinka for making promises she could not keep.
Martin responded with a “Sister Souljah moment” and told the inner city group that families should be responsible for their children, not the state of Illinois. The largely African-American audience booed Martin for suggesting parents were responsible for their children.
“I told this audience, that had been virtually drugged with promises of state aid by Topinka and other candidates, that there was no money in the state treasury (a fact Judy seems to forget when she is in a promising mode) and that they should go to the City of Chicago Mayor’s office for improvements in running inner city schools, not the state government.
“Mayor Daley asked for the power to control the schools, but he is still telling liberals to bellyache and ask for more money from Springfield. It ain’t happening. The ‘children’ did not want to hear the truth, and they erupted in boos.
“Topinka told the children if they had a better mousetrap, she wanted it. I told them the State Capitol was full of mice, human mice, and Judy had not been able to see any mice in over twenty years. Judy discovered ‘reform’ every two years at reelection, and otherwise was AWOL from any effort to clean up the government.
“I have taken a pledge not to engage in personal attacks, but when someone distorts their public record, that is fair game for response,” Andy told startled listeners afterwards. “If she tells the truth, she’s safe. If she gets up and lies abut her record, she has to answer for it.
“I challenged the students to ‘Google’ Topinka and see if they could find any stories on her fighting corruption. There aren’t any. In the ten years she served in state office, Ryan & Company looted the state, the Republican Party withered and became a joke and Judy slated Alan Keyes. And she tells people she is doing a ‘great job.’
“What great job? Topinka has proven herself a hopeless manager and an incompetent political leader. She caved in to the Keyes movement, and saw her party humiliated at the polls.
“It is interesting that Topinka would not appear before Republican groups earlier in the day, and only alighted on a group of inner city students where she could bribe them with promises of new financial aid.
“The sooner Judy faces up to the reality of her disastrous record in public service and attempts to explain her failures of the past decade the sooner we can move on to an intelligent discussion and debate over Illinois’ future.”
MEDIA CONTACT: Andy Martin Campaign (312) 440-4124
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS:
Web: AndyforIllinois.com;
Blog: AndyontheIssues.blogspot.com;
E-mail: AndyforIllinois@aol.com;
Web: StopKenoinIllinois.com
Blog: StopKenoinIllinois.blogspot.com
Contributions: AndyforIllinois.com
[A “Sister Souljah moment” refers to the time in 1992 when candidate Bill Clinton confronted an African-American audience on the campaign trail, including singer Sister Souljah, and told them to stop demonizing whites and to stop race baiting. It has come to mean any time a candidate or official stands up to an interest group and delivers an unpopular truth.]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 21, 2006
ANDY MARTIN RIPS JUDY TOPINKA A NEW ONE AS T-GIRL PROMISES A LAUNDRY LIST OF NEW PROGRAMS FOR INNER CITY STUDENTS
A "SISTER SOULJAH" MOMENT IN CHICAGO
(CHICAGO)(January 21, 2006) Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Martin leveled a broadside response on Judy Topinka Saturday afternoon after the State Treasurer made a laundry list of promises to inner city students. Martin, the following speaker, derided Topinka for making promises she could not keep.
Martin responded with a “Sister Souljah moment” and told the inner city group that families should be responsible for their children, not the state of Illinois. The largely African-American audience booed Martin for suggesting parents were responsible for their children.
“I told this audience, that had been virtually drugged with promises of state aid by Topinka and other candidates, that there was no money in the state treasury (a fact Judy seems to forget when she is in a promising mode) and that they should go to the City of Chicago Mayor’s office for improvements in running inner city schools, not the state government.
“Mayor Daley asked for the power to control the schools, but he is still telling liberals to bellyache and ask for more money from Springfield. It ain’t happening. The ‘children’ did not want to hear the truth, and they erupted in boos.
“Topinka told the children if they had a better mousetrap, she wanted it. I told them the State Capitol was full of mice, human mice, and Judy had not been able to see any mice in over twenty years. Judy discovered ‘reform’ every two years at reelection, and otherwise was AWOL from any effort to clean up the government.
“I have taken a pledge not to engage in personal attacks, but when someone distorts their public record, that is fair game for response,” Andy told startled listeners afterwards. “If she tells the truth, she’s safe. If she gets up and lies abut her record, she has to answer for it.
“I challenged the students to ‘Google’ Topinka and see if they could find any stories on her fighting corruption. There aren’t any. In the ten years she served in state office, Ryan & Company looted the state, the Republican Party withered and became a joke and Judy slated Alan Keyes. And she tells people she is doing a ‘great job.’
“What great job? Topinka has proven herself a hopeless manager and an incompetent political leader. She caved in to the Keyes movement, and saw her party humiliated at the polls.
“It is interesting that Topinka would not appear before Republican groups earlier in the day, and only alighted on a group of inner city students where she could bribe them with promises of new financial aid.
“The sooner Judy faces up to the reality of her disastrous record in public service and attempts to explain her failures of the past decade the sooner we can move on to an intelligent discussion and debate over Illinois’ future.”
MEDIA CONTACT: Andy Martin Campaign (312) 440-4124
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS:
Web: AndyforIllinois.com;
Blog: AndyontheIssues.blogspot.com;
E-mail: AndyforIllinois@aol.com;
Web: StopKenoinIllinois.com
Blog: StopKenoinIllinois.blogspot.com
Contributions: AndyforIllinois.com
[A “Sister Souljah moment” refers to the time in 1992 when candidate Bill Clinton confronted an African-American audience on the campaign trail, including singer Sister Souljah, and told them to stop demonizing whites and to stop race baiting. It has come to mean any time a candidate or official stands up to an interest group and delivers an unpopular truth.]
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