Andy Martin in Survey of 2014 Senate campaign websites

On Civil Rights: Early advocate against women's wage discrimination

Sex discrimination: Andy was one of the first advocates to fight wage discrimination against women in the workplace; in 1969 he was a party to and helped spearhead the first major attack on sex discrimination [against] AT&T, at the Federal Communications Commission.

On Environment: Challenged impoundment federal spending for water pollution

Water Pollution: In 1972, Andy filed the first federal court lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois challenging "impoundment" of federal spending for water pollution control by the President Nixon. The U.S. Supreme Court later upheld his legal theories.

On Foreign Policy: 48 years of experience in Asia, with "over-the-horizon" view

Andy was in Iran and Afghanistan during the hostage crisis in 1979-80, and has regularly returned to Southwest Asia since then. He lived in Iraq in 2003. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during 1979-80, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future. Andy's worldwide sources give him an "over-the-horizon" view of America's national security.