Eagle Forum Press Release: Eagle Forum has removed Ed Martin from the Board

The Board of Eagle Forum, a 501(c)(4) corporation, held a Board meeting in accordance with and pursuant to the Eagle Forum By-Laws and Illinois State Law at 2 pm CDT on April 11, 2016.

Pursuant to the By-Laws, Eagle Forum First Vice President, Eunie Smith, presided over the meeting. Eagle Forum Founder, Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly, the Chairman of the Board, was present during the entire meeting, including expressing herself on all seven votes. In Schlafly’s opening statement she said she has spent her life building Eagle Forum as a unique organization of volunteers. She also said that paid staff cannot order volunteers around. Mrs. Smith said, “The purpose of the meeting was to ensure that Eagle Forum will continue long into the future as a viable force for all the causes we have addressed in the past, for God, family and country.”

The Board of Eagle Forum voted to remove Mr. Ed Martin as President of the corporation; effective immediately. Mrs. Eunie Smith is serving as President until a new President is elected pursuant to the Eagle Forum By-Laws. Mrs. Smith appointed Eagle Forum Board Vice Chairman, Anne Schlafly Cori, daughter of Phyllis Schlafly, as Executive Director of Eagle Forum. Anne Schlafly Cori has worked with our state organizations and worked alongside Phyllis for some time.

Anne Schlafly Cori said, “I am honored and excited to be working with our wonderful state volunteer leaders from across the country. We are continuing the incredible legacy of our Founder Phyllis Schlafly.”

Dr. Shirley Curry was directed to lead a Search Committee for a new president of Eagle Forum.

I just googled Ed Martin Prez of Eagle Forum Corporation.

There are several stories up that he and Phyliss asked six women to resign from the board ONE including Phyliss’ daughter Anne, for reason of trying to oust Phyliss Schlafley (sp) her mother.

The two, Ed and Phyliss, accuse in another story excerpt of trying to take over the bank accounts.

ED Martin was the MO state Republican Party chairman in 2015. Apparently the two are for TRUMP, and the board is bitterly opposed.

Ed Martin's Political Career from Wikipedia which he never told Phyllis about his email scandal which cost the taxpayers of Missouri 2 million dollars:

In 2005 Governor Matt Blunt appointed Ed Martin as chairman of the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners .[5] He also headed the leadership team[citation needed] that designed and implemented the Missouri Accountability Portal, an Internet search engine developed by the Blunt administration to track state government spending in order to increase transparency.[11]

In 2006 Governor Matt Blunt appointed Martin as his Chief of Staff.[12] While serving as Blunt's chief of staff, Martin was linked to the controversial firing of Scott Eckersley, then Deputy General Counsel for Blunt. In the summer of 2007, Martin's office had resisted providing his emails to an investigative reporter from the Springfield (MO) News-Leader, who was investigating whether Martin used his office to influence outside groups against political opponents. Martin claimed there were no emails that pertained to the issue. A Blunt spokesman said the administration did not have a policy of retaining emails, although the state Sunshine Law requiring retention for 3 years is widely known.[13]

The administration claimed it had fired Eckersley because he had violated internal policies. He filed a lawsuit against Martin and Blunt for his firing, saying he had been trying to enforce the state law for retention of emails.[14] Several major media outlets filed suit to gain access to Martin's and other emails of the administration. Martin resigned as Chief of Staff in November 2007, followed by Blunt's General Counsel, Henry Herschel.[13]

After a year-long battle to gain access, in November 2008, the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch analyzed and reported on 60,000 pages of emails obtained from the administration. They found that Martin had used his state office in 2007 improperly to encourage opposition to Attorney General Jay Nixon among anti-abortion groups, as the Democrat Nixon was likely to oppose Blunt in the next election.[13] He had also pressured political appointees of state agencies to criticize Nixon's handling of some issues as AG. In addition, the newspapers reported that Martin had encouraged outside groups to oppose the nomination of Patricia Breckenridge to an open seat on the Missouri Supreme Court, although Blunt supported her.[13] On May 22, 2009, the Missouri Attorney General's office announced that Eckersley's lawsuit against Blunt and others had been settled for $500,000.[15][16]

-- ED Martin was the MO state Republican Party chairman in 2015. Apparently the two are for TRUMP, and the board is bitterly opposed. --

Yep. I think your take on this is correct, as is af_vet_1981. The eagle Forum board, which endorsed Cruz, has taken over.

Martin was critical of NRO, calling it a joke; and Eagle Forum definielty endorsed Cruz, weeks before Schlafly endorsed Trump.

So, another twit on the twitlist, Mr. Slyfox.

Certainly poor timing, to say the least. And Phyllis was calling them out earlier today by name, because they’d disconnected her from a BoD conference call when she pushed back, and previously were not returning her calls, emails, etc.

She commented in an earlier statement that they had no authority to dismiss paid staff, so this sounds like it had been brewing.

Seems like they could have handled Ed Martin without treating their founder so shabbily.

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