Lee Whitnum Announced Her Candidacy For CT Governor - Quotes MLK

Candidate for Governor Lee Whitnum officially announced her candidacy for Governor on Martin Luther King Day – dedicating the campaign to educator Prudence Crandall, who was forced out of the State of Connecticut in 1834 for opening a school for African-American women. From a press conference in her home office in Danbury, Whitnum states her initial challenge is overcoming her poor public image born from the targeted character assassination by powerful Connecticut politicos and the Hearst Media Corporation. Whitnum blames her woes on her political stands against the political movement Zionism.

Whitnum’s two stated goals in this campaign are to cleanup the Connecticut Judiciary, (Whitnum has 15 bills already written), and for the right of all citizens to exercise their First Amendment right to speak freely without ramifications.

Excerpts from Whitnum’s 20 minute speech from January 15, 2018:

Hi I’m Lee Whitnum candidate for Governor. I have a lot of bad press to overcome. It all began in 2008 when as a candidate for the US Congress, I was outspoken against the US funding of Israel as counterproductive to the well-being of the United States. Since then I have been smeared over-and-over again, by the Hearst Media Corporation which is the dominant media voice in Connecticut. Hearst prints it, and the other publications just regurgitate it. I later encountered the lawlessness of members of the Connecticut Judiciary and my life will never be the same.

The Hearst Media Corporation has printed so many lies and, unfortunately, the public believes them. ...

...In Israel there are 3.5 million people who are not citizens of the country where they were born because they were not born Jewish and they are discriminated against in every possible way from equal protection under the law to the ability to dig a well for water. The discrimination includes routine collective punishment slaughter of a civilian non-Jewish underclass.

I believe Zionism is racial discrimination and contrary to our American values. The U.S. is hated world-wide for our hypocrisy as Israel is the largest recipient of US foreign aid – thanks to AIPAC, we literally pay-and-pay-and-pay to be made less safe. Connecticut’s portion: $50 million annually to Israel; every State gives Israel $50 million annually because of AIPAC’s power in our Congress. This very hypocrisy is the reason why America is no longer great and will continue to decline.

... My stated platform as a gubernatorial candidate is to clean up the Connecticut judiciary. Politically motivated people should not be able to abuse our court system to retaliate against individuals they disagree with politically.

As your Governor I’ll give impeachment power to the Judicial Review Council and restore the Grand Jury abolished in 1984. We need to clean up the filth at the top including the ability to fire bad judges and state employees as corruption has bankrupted our state and eroded our quality of life. Currently nothing is safe in Connecticut – not your freedom, not the custody of your own children, not your right to a fair and speedy trial.

I realize I have much to overcome. ... Please support me and help me fight. We are 3 million and the powerful at the top are only 300. It’s time for change in Connecticut. I'm Lee Whitnum and I'm running to be your governor.