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Ed Martin’s “Presponse” to President Obama’s Jobs Speech

Webmaster — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:48:16 +0000

Ed Martin offers this video “presponse” to the jobs speech President Obama is giving Thursday, September 8th to a joint session of Congress. There is at least one thing the president can do to get job growth going again.

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Why We Must Have a Balanced Budget Amendment

Webmaster — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:44:33 +0000

The current debate over debt limits, deficits and spending cuts are important, but we cannot lose sight of the fact that the budget that will be agreed upon is only binding until the next budget is passed. Though Senators and Representatives speak loftily about trillions cut over ten years, the fact remains that Congress cannot bind its future hands. The next fiscal year is a clean slate, and once the heat is off it is back to mortgaging our children’s future to pay off well-connected interests.

Almost every state in the union has a balanced budget requirement in their constitution. Some are weak, some are strong, some are easily gamed by legislators, but they are there to protect the fiscal health of the state.

Only the constitution of a state can bind a future state legislature to fiscal responsibility. Only the constitution of the United States can bind future Congresses to the will of the States, a fact made all the more critical since the Federal government can print money whereas the States cannot.

Neither party has had the stomach to balance the nation’s books save for one short period in the 1990s. The latest spell of runaway spending has terrified the nation and roiled the people who see their children born with obligations in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Yes, we must stop spending more than we receive, but I have no faith that we will see fiscal discipline over the long haul without a balanced budget amendment. It is a shame that our political class must have such a sword dangled over their heads, but 70 years of profligate spending and half-hearted attempts at restraint have proven utterly that it is desperately needed.

Freedom Week Countdown – My Pledge to YOU – Jobs

Webmaster — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:09:33 +0000

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!

(ST. LOUIS, MO.) Oct. 26, 2010 – Jobs are without a doubt Ed Martin’s main focus. His dedication to creating shovel ready jobs is evident from his grassroots effort Shop Local-Hire Local to his determination to stop Cap and Trade, his Agricultural Advisory Group, lowering the regulatory burden on small businesses, to simply where he buys his shoes.

Ed Martin’s pledge today is: “I will work tirelessly and do everything possible to create shovel-ready jobs for Missouri’s 3^rd district. I will fight Cap and Trade and work to lower the regulatory burden on our small businesses. And I will not vote on a stimulus plan that simply benefits my family and does not create jobs.” – Ed Martin

Congressman Carnahan voted for the bailout of Chrysler. The auto company closed its Fenton plant and moved the jobs to Mexico and Canada. He never demanded any accountability in his bailout bargain vote. Carnahan also voted for spending billions on a stimulus bill that only created 568 jobs in Missouri’s 3^rd district. That stimulus funneled a $107 Million cash payment to his brother, Tom Carnahan’s wind mill farm. His brother’s wind farm may be why he also voted for Cap and Trade – which would be crippling for everyone from farmers, small businesses and families. Carnahan’s vote for the government takeover of health care also proved to be job-killing in this district.

For more information about Martin’s background and the campaign, visit EdMartinforCongress.com, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter @ed4congress.

Theresa Petry
Press Secretary
“Ed Martin for Congress”
(314) 807-7077 (cell)

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Russ Carnahan’s “One Minute Speech” on Chrysler Bailout

Webmaster — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:11:13 +0000

What did Russ Carnahan do to keep Chrysler from taking taxpayer money and closing down the Fenton Plant? Former Chrysler workers will have to pay the taxes to cover the bailout, as will their children.

Symbol in Shoes

Webmaster — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:25:51 +0000

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Ed Martin Leads by Example

(ST. LOUIS, MO.) October 14, 2010 – Ed Martin recently bought a new pair of shoes. Why do you care? It’s the story surrounding these shoes that sends a message. For years Ed Martin has shopped solely at Hampton Shoe, located at 5101 Hampton Ave in St. Louis, for his footwear. While we all have our favorite stores – Hampton Shoe sells only American made shoes. Ed Martin’s new shoes are Neil M. Footwear which is located in Wynne, Arkansas and employees hundreds of American workers.

“I’ve worn out several pairs of my American made boots and shoes hitting the streets of Missouri’s 3^rd district meeting with constituents,” said Ed Martin. “Each worn sole on my shoes serves as a symbol of my commitment to American jobs. Every day we lose more and more American manufacturing jobs. We can and must do better. Through small steps like this and my grassroots Shop Local – Hire Local effort we can change the American job outlook. I plan to wear my new Neil M. Footwear dress shoes on the floor of the U.S. Congress as a message to the American people that I am committed to doing better for American jobs – no matter how many shoe soles I must tread bare to do it.”

Hampton Shoe is one of many small businesses in MO’s 3^rd district to have signed onto Ed Martin’s Shop Local – Hire Local effort to improve our local economy. Shop Local- Hire Local is a plan with proven positive results that will help energize the local economy and spur job growth by supporting local businesses. The Shop Local -- Hire Local campaign debuted in June and continues to grow as word spreads. The mantra of Shop Local -- Hire Local is “when small businesses thrive…small businesses hire!” For more information log on to www.shoplocalhirelocal.com.

For more information about Martin’s background and the campaign, visit EdMartinforCongress.com, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter @ed4congress.

Theresa Petry
Press Secretary
“Ed Martin for Congress”
(314) 807-7077 (cell)

theresa.petry@edmartinforcongress.com
www.edmartinforcongress.com

NFIB Endorses Ed Martin

Webmaster — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:30:04 +0000

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Recognizes Candidate’s Dedication to Small Business and Jobs

(ST. LOUIS, MO.) September 27, 2010 – The National Federation of Independent Business is endorsing MO’s 3^rd district candidate Ed Martin. NFIB is a business association which provides discounts, research, online forums, networking, state and federal lobbying for small businesses across the US.

“I’m honored to have the support of the NFIB. It is well documented that small businesses are the mainstay of Missouri and that two-thirds of jobs are created by small businesses. Yet our current Congress is stifling their growth and threatening their futures with an abundance of costly restrictions and regulations, like Cap and Trade. We need to stop threatening their future and instead encourage their growth.” said Ed Martin.

What: Announcement of NFIB Endorsement

When: 10am, Monday, September 27th

Where: Kenrick Design/Construction Services 2727 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis 63118

Kenrick Design/Construction Services, owners -Bill and Maureen Elliott, is just one of more than 500 small businesses in the NFIB in Missouri’s 3^rd district. The NFIB is a proud supporter of Ed Martin and his dedication to job growth and helping cut the government regulations stifling small business.

Ed Martin created the grassroots plan, Shop Local- Hire Local. It is a plan with proven positive results that will help energize the local economy and spur job growth by supporting local businesses. The Shop Local – Hire Local campaign debuted in June and continues to grow as word spreads. The mantra of Shop Local – Hire Local is “when small businesses thrive…small businesses hire!” For more information; log on to www.shoplocalhirelocal.com.

For more information about Martin’s background and the campaign, visit EdMartinforCongress.com, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter @ed4congress.

Theresa Petry
Press Secretary
“Ed Martin for Congress”
(314) 807-7077 (cell)

theresa.petry@edmartinforcongress.com
www.edmartinforcongress.com

Labor Day, 2010

Webmaster — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:06:49 +0000

Labor day is a day first established to celebrate ”the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations.” Today all of America’s workers enjoy the holiday, both those who are and are not organized. The interests of both categories of workers have converged and in most ways we are all in the same boat. As we enjoy the lovely weather and take the day off from our labors, I think it is important to look at where we are when work resumes on Tuesday.

Too many Missourians are out of work. Recessions are part of the cyclical life of an economy. I have lived through at least three, depending on how you count them, and while it is frustrating and worrisome, America has always bounced back, stronger than before.

This recession has enjoyed a great deal of “help” from the Federal government, or at least what has happened has been billed as help. As the various schemes to “help” the average worker have unfolded, we find the only folks helped were the politically connected.

Consider the Chrysler bailout, ostensibly to help stabilize the job situation for auto workers. First, the deal shut-down hundreds of dealerships. Sales staff were laid off at these firms, along with union service workers, disproportionately in areas away from an urban center. The decisions to shut down one dealership over another had nothing to do with the long-term economic health of the company, but rather was done under an airy rubric of “shared sacrifice.” In reality, the closures brought no measurable improvement to Chrysler’s bottom line, and may be a long-term detriment as buyers switch to other makes that have a local presence.

Fenton workers certainly shared in the “sacrifice” as they watched their tools, equipment and jobs packed up and shipped to Mexico and Canada. Their children and grandchildren will be paying the taxes that cover the cost of Chrysler’s bailout with no job to show for it. The Chrysler bailout fiasco is an unfortunate example of this congress’s incompetence.

The stimulus, another attempt by Congress to borrow enormous sums of money to shore up the economy is proving to be a colossal failure. Among the few types of projects we can all agree create jobs that benefit us all are “infrastructure” projects. How many times did we hear “shovel ready” jobs. The River Des Peres was built during the Great Depression era and benefits St. Louis to this day. However, in nearly a trillion dollars of borrowed money that we will have to pay back, only about 5% is going toward those sort of long-term infrastructure jobs. What of the other 95%? Did Russ Carnahan tell us only 5% will be going toward “shovel ready jobs? Who do we blame for this bald-faced lie?

Any reasonable person would see spending 300 million dollars in our district to make 561 jobs as an insulting waste of resources America simply does not have, but that’s what we have done here in Missouri’s 3^rd District. Millions of dollars have evaporated into the pockets of the politically astute. Congressman Carnahan’s brother Tom is in line to receive $90 million stimulus dollars for his wind farm, one example among thousands of insiders getting their “fair share” at our expense, with no accountability whatsoever, and no jobs as promised.

America’s workers are the most productive in the world, and we love to work. Our government has been overtaken by nannies bent on regulating every aspect of our lives and greedy politicians who cloy and grasp at every dollar they can send to their friends who in return send pennies on the dollar in campaign contributions for favored treatment. 55% of Russ Carnahan’s campaign war chest comes from political action committees who want to keep their place at the trough he fills with borrowed money.

The private sector is being strangled with red tape and robbed with high taxes, wrecking jobs that exist and preventing job growth that would normally occur naturally after an economic correction. It is Congressmen like Russ Carnahan tightening the collar.

These days, what we need in Congress are men and women with a conscience. One of my ancestors is James P. Mitchell (my grandmother’s father’s cousin, though we called him our “great uncle”) who served as Eisenhower’s Labor Secretary. Secretary Mitchell was well-regarded by both labor and business owners for his fairness and obvious concern for the workers of America. As I have come to understand my uncle’s career and approach, I see a man who knew that business owners and their employees need each other to succeed. This congress is punishing business owners without regard to the effect on the tens of thousands who are being thrown out of work, or kept off payrolls all over the country. I will work to be a leader like Secretary Mitchell, who provided commonsense leadership and put the needs of the people first.

No more wealth redistribution, giveaways to family members and campaign donors. Stop the takeover of health care, energy, and finance. Congress needs to change direction and chip away at the taxes and regulation that are creating uncertainty in the business community and destroying growth.

No more bailouts. No more regulatory burdens and stifling taxes for small business. I mean to go to congress and get the IRS and the bureaucracy off the neck of small business. From this new, free environment will flow jobs, jobs, jobs. Congress just needs to get out of the way.

Farmers’ Market Initiative

Webmaster — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:37:02 +0000

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Ed Martin Launches Grassroots Program to Grow Jobs

(ST. LOUIS, MO.) September 1, 2010 – Ed Martin continues to help spawn jobs in Missouri’s 3^rd district. On the heels of earning the Missouri Farm Bureau’s endorsement; he is growing his Shop Local-Hire Local grassroots program to include area farmers and agricultural businesses. Today Ed Martin will be visiting with local farmers and small businesses at the Maplewood Farmers’ Market at 4pm.

Ed Martin’s action plan for jobs, Shop Local-Hire Local, was created back in June after holding a number of roundtables with small business leaders and some 150 “Ask Ed Anything” meetings. Business owners and leaders continue to tell Ed Martin the so called “tax breaks” and “incentives” being offered to them are not being received and are not smartly targeted; they simply need customers. More customers will lead to the need for more employees. Shop Local-Hire Local focuses on publicly encouraging all Missourians to look to local businesses and local workers first.

With agriculture being a major driver of the state and regional economy it makes good business sense to promote Shop Local-Hire Local. The sale of agriculture products contributed $37 million to the economy of Missouri’s 3^rd District in 2007. A 2009 report by the Missouri General Assembly highlights that agriculture adds more than $12.4 billionannually to the Show-Me State economy and employs more than 245,000 people in our state.

Ed Martin’s tireless outreach to farmers and businesses is just one of the many reasons why he earned the Missouri Farm Bureau’s endorsement. It was an honor bestowed on Congressman Carnahan in 2008 but Carnahan has not bothered to be engaged with farmers since then. Despite Congressman Carnahan, in a last ditch desperate attempt, trying to tout he’s working on legislation to try and create jobs; his constituents can’t be fooled. Congressman Carnahan voted in favor of the Cap and Trade bill – the very thing most small businesses and farmers all agree would be the most devastating to them. He is in essence working against them – not for them. And no one is soon to forget that he also gave his rubber stamp approval to the Auto Bailout which did nothing more than close the Chrysler plant in Fenton, put thousands out of work, and ship the jobs to Mexico and Canada. Congressman Carnahan has turned his back on the very people he is supposed to represent.

“In order to create jobs you have to be willing to work hard yourself. This is why I am actively engaging in open dialect with farmers and small businesses and spreading the message of Shop Local-Hire Local. To find a good solution for the unemployment plaguing our district; one must first truly understand the problem and be involved. This is not the time to play bureaucratic games – people’s livelihoods are at stake. And I want to assure the people of Missouri’s 3^rd district that I’m hitting the streets and farms working hard for them,” said Ed Martin.

Ed Martin will be at the Maplewood Farmers’ Market at Schlafly Bottleworks located at 7260 Southwest Avenue at 4pm today.

For more information about Martin’s background and the campaign, visit EdMartinforCongress.com, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter @ed4congress.

Theresa Petry
Press Secretary
“Ed Martin for Congress”
(314) 807-7077 (cell)

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Lowlight of Carnahan’s Reign; Highlighted in New Ad

Webmaster — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:22:19 +0000

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Congressman Carnahan Bailed Out Auto Industry – Jobs Moved to Mexico

(ST. LOUIS, MO.) August 16, 2010 – Jobs! Missourians need them and Congressman Carnahan is working against them. That is the focal point of the newest ad “Lost” from the Ed Martin for Congress campaign. The ad kicked off and began circulation today.

Congressman Carnahan approved Billions for an auto bailout, then sat and watched as Chrysler closed its Fenton plant and shipped the jobs to Mexico and Canada. The hard working people of Carnahan’s district want to know why $550 Million, of their tax dollars, was spent on stimulating jobs across the border. (Bloomberg Businessweek, Thomas Black, June 24, 2010) While 700 Chrysler dealers were closed in the U.S., five new Chrysler plants were built in Mexico – creating 1600 jobs…in Mexico. (Southeast Missourian, Melissa Miller, April 21, 2010) (IndustryWeek, Agence France-Presse, Feb. 9, 2010)

Where was Congressman Carnahan? He was busy jet-setting around the world on lobbyists’ dollars and rubberstamping Nancy Pelosi’s bills that he admittedly didn’t even bother to read. A short list of Congressman Carnahan aka Congressman Bailout’s wasteful spending votes are as follows:

$700 Billion Wall Street Bailout

$787 Billion Stimulus Plan

$1.1 Trillion Obamacare Plan

$1.1 Trillion Earmark Spending Bill

$846 Billion Energy Tax Plan

Enough is enough! Congressman Carnahan is obviously out of touch with his constituents. It’s time to say “No” to Rubberstamp Russ.

Congressional nominee Ed Martin, even while never having served in office before, has a proven track record of fighting for jobs. In 2008 he took on a David and Goliath fight and founded SaveAB.com. It was a grassroots effort to help save local jobs at Anheuser Busch. Even with 85,000 supporters the sale went through, but Ed’s determination to save jobs has not and will not waiver. He is willing to go up against the biggest Goliath of all –b ig government.

“Every day I am out traveling the district meeting with families and small business owners and spreading the word about my grassroots efforts “Shop Local – Hire Local.” There is such a sense of desperation and uncertainty among people. We need someone in Congress who will work in their best interest. The government can be described as a blanket for businesses, it can provide a small bit of comfort however wrapped too tight it becomes constricting and can smother small business. The intrusive regulations of cap and trade for example that Congressman Carnahan supports would be devastating to small businesses and smother them into non-existence. That is not how you create jobs,” said Ed Martin.

Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is in St. Louis today meeting with Ed Martin and lending his support. Congressman McCarthy knows what it takes to create jobs and keep small businesses in business. “Before his 21st birthday, McCarthy successfully opened and operated a small business, Kevin O’s Deli. Owning a small business gave McCarthy important experience about the difficulties that entrepreneurs face from burdensome regulations and onerous taxes.” (kevinmccarthy.house.gov)

For more information about Martin’s background and the campaign, visit EdMartinforCongress.com, or follow him on Facebook and Twitter @ed4congress.

Theresa Petry
Press Secretary
“Ed Martin for Congress”
(314) 807-7077 (cell)

theresa.petry@edmartinforcongress.com
www.edmartinforcongress.com

TV Ad – “Lost”

Webmaster — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:39:36 +0000

The Campaign is releasing a new commercial this week. Check out “Lost”

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Freedom Week Countdown – My Pledge to YOU – Jobs

Russ Carnahan’s “One Minute Speech” on Chrysler Bailout

Symbol in Shoes

NFIB Endorses Ed Martin

Labor Day, 2010

Farmers’ Market Initiative

Lowlight of Carnahan’s Reign; Highlighted in New Ad

TV Ad – “Lost”

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