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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Edward R. "Ed" Martin Jr. |
| Address | 6427 Devonshire Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 63109, United States |
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| Info | Ed Martin is a community leader with a commitment to public service and assisting those in need.
Ed is running for Congress to stand up for the people of Missouri’s 3rd District and return common sense to Washington. An advocate of leaner and more efficient government, Ed has pledged never to vote to raise taxes. He is committed to making government work better on its core principles – particularly national defense and public safety – and to slowing down the frantic pace of the United States Congress in its efforts to enact radical change in so many facets of our lives.
A dedicated public servant, Ed has served the state of Missouri as chief of staff to former Governor Matt Blunt (2006-2008), and as the chairman of the St. Louis Board of Election Commissioners (2005-2006). In 2007, Ed was appointed to the Missouri State Parks Advisory Board, of which he remains an active member.
As chief of staff to Governor Matt Blunt, Ed was instrumental in helping to pass a major tax cut for seniors, increasing and expanding education funding, while decreasing the size of government. Ed headed the leadership team that designed and implemented the Missouri Accountability Portal, an Internet search engine that tracks state government spending in order to increase transparency and better identify and eliminate government waste and abuse.
Ed is a fighter for his community and causes he believes in. In 2008, he founded SaveAB.com and led an 85,000 citizen-strong, grassroots effort to stop the sale of Anheuser-Busch to a foreign corporation. Ed focused this effort on the real prospect – that has sadly come to pass – of American jobs being cut and slashed by the new owners racing to pay off their debt from the purchase. An avid St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan, Ed operates the website WhiteyHerzog.com, which is promoting Whitey for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Ed is the immediate past Executive Director of the Missouri Club for Growth, the low-tax, small government advocacy group and has been president of the Missouri Roundtable for Life, a pro-life, non-profit group. Ed is the founder of Term Limits for Missouri and has assisted that group in its effort to term limit all state-wide elected officials.
Ed has hosted regular radio shows on KSLG (1380 AM) with Zip Rzeppa, KTRS (550 AM) with Crane Durham, as a guest host on KFTK (97.1 FM), and is a frequent guest on KMOX (1120 AM). He has appeared on broadcast and cable news, including the O’Reilly Factor, the Lou Dobbs Show, Neil Cavuto Live, and KETC’s Donnybrook. Ed was a member of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Readers’ Advisory Panel in 2004 before the paper disbanded the panel. He has written regular columns in the Arch City Chronicle, the St. Louis Sentinel, and the St. Louis Metro Evening Whirl and provided commentary for the Internet site PubDef.net. Ed also hosted a political television show, Midwest Talking Points, on Charter Cable with prominent liberal Mindy Mazur.
After graduating from college, Ed spent a year in Indonesia researching how water supply can impact infant mortality especially after state and U.N.-sponsored development. His research took him from one end of Indonesia (Banda Aceh) to the other (Irian Jaya), and numerous communities in between; the experience reaffirmed his belief that entrepreneurship and opportunity benefits communities more than bureaucrats, central planning, or international experimentation.
Due in part to the suffering he saw in Indonesia, Ed enrolled in law school at St. Louis University to focus on health law and health care ethics. While in law school, Ed volunteered with his church, which led to his appointment by Pope John Paul II as the representative for youth at the Synod for the Americas. He spent parts of November and December of 1997 at the Synod in Vatican City advocating for young people and working with church leaders.
Immediately after graduate school, Ed bypassed higher paying legal jobs to serve as Director of the Human Rights Office for the Archdiocese of St. Louis. As the youngest director of his kind in the United States, Ed re-focused the office on the needs of families, neighborhoods, and the vulnerable members of the community: the unborn, the incarcerated, the marginalized and senior citizens. Highlights of his tenure included his role in the Pope’s January 1999 visit to St. Louis, during which he escorted civil rights legend Mrs. Rosa Parks to her historic meeting with the Pope.
After three years with the Human Rights Office, Ed worked for the Institute for Justice for the summer, the Washington, D.C. public interest law firm, researching Supreme Court filings under the guidance of legendary public interest lawyer Clint Bolick. Ed then spent one year clerking for Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Pasco M. Bowman, II in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ed’s wife, Carol, is a physician specializing in Geriatrics who has worked with seniors in area nursing homes, as well as at Washington University and Saint Louis University.
Ed and Carol live in south St. Louis with their daughter and two sons.
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