Lee Whitnum biography

(in progress)

Contents

·         1. Overview

·         2. Early life, education and family

·         3. Politics

·         4. The Establishment Clause

Overview

Lee Whitnum (born June 23, 1960) is an American peace activist and politician. She is a long-term outspoken critic of AIPAC (the Israel Lobby), and the U.S. funding of Israel as counterproductive to peace and American best interests. She ran on those issues and others for Congress in 2008, Senate in 2010, Senate in 2012, Governor in 2018 and now Governor in 2026. As a Congressional candidate she took a hard stand against "White Collar" H1-B immigration status. In the past she has taken a stand for judicial reform. As a gubernatorial candidate, she is committed to cleaning up the Connecticut judiciary which is described as penultimate to Rhode Island as the most corrupt in the country.

Whitnum experienced corruption first-hand. Whitnum claims, in court documents, that for her outspoken criticism of Israel she was horribly discriminated in the Court System and preyed up by highest law enforcement agency in the state at the urging of Zionists. “It is a sad day when a politician espousing well documented facts is browbeat into quietude by powerful, biased community.”

Whitnum claims in court documents that the Statewide Prosecutor’s Office in Connecticut criminally framed her. She sought justice in three court cases with one case going up to the United States Supreme court, but Whitnum never saw justice to the lawfare she endured. “It is a sad day when politicians and law enforcement break the laws of fairness, and the vows of their positions to do the bidding of a wealthy constituent.” What was tied up in legal knots for years in Connecticut, including force to make 41 criminal court appearance for “crimes, I did not commit, could prove I did not commit, but no judge would listen” says Whitnum.

. Whitnum finally got out from under their harassment against them by filing in federal district court two cases against the statewide prosecutors office and a politically motivated judge who claims Whitnum rang her bell and ran.  “I never rang anyone’s bell and ran, I was in Manhattan that night and my phone records proved it.” Despite, the powerful judge had charges piled on. Whitnum fought for years before successfully having all dismissed. Whitnum believes she is uniquely qualified to clean up the Connecticut judiciary because she spent years fighting false charges.

Whitnum has been a champion of the Establishment Clause, and she filed a lawsuit against the town of Greenwich in 2011 for allowing the Bar Mitzvah of Aner Shofty in the Greenwich Town Hall. Whitnum asked twice to book the venue for a Christian confirmation and was denied. “I don’t believe in preferential treatment for any ethnic group in our local governments, nor in our foreign policy.”

Early life, education and family

Whitnum received a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland University College and attended Harvard University to graduate with a Master's Degree (Ed.M..) in Administration, Planning and Social Policy, specializing in non-profit accounting. 

For twelve years Whitnum worked as a contract software engineer. Later, she worked as an accountant. Whitnum also worked as an instructor teaching computer science and accounting.

Whitnum is Presbyterian and lives in Greenwich, CT and is unmarried but has a long-term boyfriend.

The Establishment Clause

In 2026 Whitnum requested that the Town of Greenwich to cease and deist the holding of Hanukkah Minora lighting on municipal property, at the World War I memorial. Whitnum claims it is not only a violation of the Establishment Clause, but also horribly disrespectful especially considering the Balfour Proclamation of 1917. “Those 26 Greenwich boys died because the deal made between Rothschild and Lord Balfour – for Zionism. Having a menorah on their memorial is like dancing on their graves, it is disgusting. Zionism, based on the United Nations death toll, has caused the death of more than 5 million people since Israel became a country. That miserable, greedy, ever -growing country is not worth even one of the millions of lives murdered.”

Whitnum also complained in 2023 to the Town of Greenwich for the posting at the front desk a 3-foot sign that read “We stand with Israel” during the Gaza Massacre.  “I don’t stand with Israel, and I resent the town speaking for me or taking a side at all,” said Whitnum. At her urging the sign was removed.

In 2011 Whitnum filed against the Town of Greenwich for allowing the holding of a bar mitzvah of Aner Shofty in the town hall. They first argued that it was part of tradition flag raising but then through the deposition of Senator Richrd Blumenthal and others Whitnum proved it was a separate, invitation only, behind closed doors event. Nonetheless Federal Judge Stephan Underhill dismissed the case after four years of litigation stating that since Whitnum had not seen the widely publicized event, she had no standing. Whitnum says that Underhill’s ruling was an impossible benchmark, and that Underhill ignored the fact that Whitnum had provided two affidavits, one from a friend and the other an employee, who both tried to book the same venue for Whitnum for a Christian Confirmation at the same venue. Whitnum says it is yet another example of bias in the Connecticut Court system. Whitnum appealed but the Appellate Court Second Circuit upheld the decision.

Political career

CONGRESS 2028 - In 2008, Whitnum ran for Congress in the Fourth Congressional District of Connecticut. She lost in the primary to Congressman Jim Himes who has been the congressman there for 17 years and counting. During the campaign in a televised debate, she exposed Jim Himes on his recent trip to put his arm around then Israeli Prime Minister Olmert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJ_ZI25B4M

Whitnum says these “indoctrinating trips” are the problem. Many of the members of Congress go on the indoctrination trip and then AIPAC’s member organizations shower money. Whitnum says to break the lobby’s stranglehold on the United States election process, she would create legislation to prohibit any Connecticut politician from attending.

Whitnum filed a lawsuit against Governor Dan Malloy. In 2008, while mayor of Stamford, Malloy appeared at a televised press conference and called Whitnum "anti-Semitic", "motivated by hate" and “deranged.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJ_ZI25B4M

Whitnum originally filed suit against Malloy for slander on June 15, 2010. She later amended her complaint because Whitnum claims Malloy continued to state disparaging and inaccurate remarks about her in the Jewish Ledger on June 23, 2010. Whitnum allowed the case to be dismissed by failing to respond to a motion to strike. Whitnum says she later regretted dropping the case because Malloy went on to become the governor.

“It’s a sad day when a candidate can’t talk about relevant foreign policy and the cause and effect of war without a butt-kissing politician egged on by biased members of the Jewish community calls you an antisemite and ‘deranged.’ I’m not deranged, I just read a lot and I stand up and fight for what I know to be true. I read and I form my own opinions. Malloy has dyslexia, by this own admittance, which means he can’t read at all,” Whitnum says. “No wonder he was so easily manipulated by a powerful minority.”

SENATE 2012 - In 2012 Whitnum was a candidate for senate, during a televised debate Whitnum blamed Israel for the endless bloodshed in the Middle East stated that the death toll in the Middle East proves who the real victim is. “Israel is and has always been the aggressor, not the victim.” Then Congressman Chris Murphy, who was also in the debate running for the senate seat, stated that it was not true. “I couldn’t let him get away with lying to the People said Whitnum, Whitnum called Murphy “a whore who sells his soul to AIPAC.” It was a statement that made international news.

Whitnum, who was once a Democrat but no longer is, states that she has a long list of being treated abominably by the Democrat establishment in Connecticut, including tricks and games. Whitnum stated, "It is not the role of the Democratic Chair to decide who is a worthy candidate, it is the role of the delegates and the Democratic constituents.”

GOVERNOR 2018 - In 2018, Whitnum, a candidate for Governor, was not invited to the debate of all the other candidates. She enquired at Democratic State Central and she was told that the Brookfield township had no legal right to exclude her as it was a public venue. Whitnum attended the debate and a member of the committee in Brookfield demanded that she be removed. Whitnum refused and was dragged off the stage by a police officer. Immediately after the debate Nick Baletto of the Democratic State Central Committee stated that Whitnum clearly “didn’t have the temperament” to be Governor.

“So there you have it. The Democratic State Central tells me in the morning I have every right to be there and encourages me to go and that same night they are criticizing me for attending,” said Whitnum. She also said there is a long history of poor treatment and preferential treatment for candidates Nancy DiNardo, former Democratic chair, and other party leaders.