Ed Martin (Missouri politician)

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In 2010, Martin challenged Democratic incumbent Russ Carnahan. Carnahan defeated Martin.

2012 Attorney General election

Martin decided to run for the U.S. Senate in 2012 against incumbent Democrat U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill. After U.S. Congressman Todd Akin and former state treasurer Sarah Steelman filed to run, Martin dropped out of the race to run from the newly redrawn Missouri's 2nd congressional district, Akin's congressional seat. [30] On January 26, 2012, Martin announced he was dropping out of the Congressional race, and filed to run for Missouri Attorney General against incumbent Democrat Chris Koster. [5] [31]

Republican Chair

On January 5, 2013 Ed Martin was elected as the new chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, replacing David Cole. [6] Martin was elected in the second round of balloting by the Republican State Committee, defeating Cole 34 votes to 32. Former Missouri State Senator Jane Cunningham was also a candidate for the party leadership. [6] Noting that state Republican Party officials were often more conservative than most of their members, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorialized that Martin was an unfortunate choice for the GOP. They commented on his having cost the state "taxpayers about $2 million for an investigation spurred by his destruction of public records when he was chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt." [24]

As party chairman, Martin criticized advertising in the Republican primary campaign for the United States Senate election in Mississippi, 2014, which was marked by race-based ads appearing to encourage Democrats to vote in support of candidate Thad Cochran, as well as robo-calls to African-American voters thought to be made by his opponent Chris McDaniel's campaign, which were derogatory to President Barack Obama. [32] It was reported that Cochran and allies were "looking to increase voter turnout across the state, particularly among African Americans and Democrats who had not voted in the June 3 primary." [32] Martin criticized any race-based advertising by Republican candidates. "I don’t know how that can be allowed in the Republican party," Martin says. "If it is, we have no credibility, we have no moral standing." [32]

McDaniel lost the primary by 7,000 votes but refused to concede, marring party efforts to prepare for the general election. [32] [33] In addition, Martin made a motion to censure Barbour at the annual RNC August summer meeting in Chicago. This effort fizzled, but the issue was discussed in member meetings. [33] Henry Barbour is the nephew of former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.

Electoral history

Ed Martin
Chair of the Missouri Republican Party
In office
January 2013 –February 2015
2010 Race for 3rd District Representative of Missouri
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Ed Martin94,75746.7
Democratic Russ Carnahan 99,39848.9
Libertarian Steven R. Hedrick5,7722.8
Constitution Nicholas J. (Nick) Ivanovich3,1551.6
Independent Brian Wallner3.0
2012 Race for Attorney General of Missouri   (2012 MO SoS Election Report)
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Chris Koster1,482,38155.81+2.98
Republican Ed Martin1,081,51040.71-6.46

Personal life

Ed Martin is married to Carol Martin, a physician who works in St. Louis County.

Ed's younger brother James T. Martin is a career Marine officer, promoted to Lt. Colonel in 2013. [34] He wrote The Development of Marine Corps Junior Officers during the Interwar Period and its Relevance Today. [35]

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