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To: icwhatudo

I can’t disagree with your assessment of Martin as a kook, but PLEASE don’t use Wikipedia as a reliable authority on anything.

Sure, Wiki is fun and informative, but anyone can post or edit anything there, and much of the data there is completely skewed.

Even Martin deserves better.


91 posted on 10/22/2008 6:26:00 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: Jedidah
Agreed on using wiki, but as a roadmap to original sources its pretty good:

On Martin

His 1996 run for the Florida State Senate came unraveled when it was revealed that he'd named his campaign committee for his 1986 congressional run "The Anthony R. Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in America." The revelation led the state Republican Party to renounce him.

Just before the election, he assaulted two cameramen from WPTV, the NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach. He was convicted of criminal mischief and sentenced to a year in jail. He was freed pending appeal, but made personal attacks on the judge while on the way out of the courtroom. The judge held Martin in criminal contempt of court and sentenced him to seven months in jail. However, he was mistakenly let out of jail after only a month. Martin never returned, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. If he is ever arrested, he will have to serve 16 months in jail.[5] The warrant was still outstanding at least as of the time of Martin's 2008 Senate run, but he said the issue is being "resolved."[9]

During his 2000 run for president, he accused George W. Bush of using cocaine. In 2003, several months before Saddam Hussein was captured, he claimed to have found the former Iraqi dictator's hideout.[5]

97 posted on 10/22/2008 6:28:47 PM PDT by icwhatudo (PALIN VID=========>>>>>http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=n1ronxelmtin<++++++++)
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