Jonathan Gillibrand, the husband of New York’s junior Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, is alive and kickin’, we are pleased to report.
Sunday talk show viewers might have come away with a different impression following Democrat Lee Whitnum’s appearance on “Face the State” with Dennis House.
Whitnum, who is running for Senate here in Connecticut for the second time, confused Kirsten Gillibrand for Long Island Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy on the program.
Discussing her motivations for seeking public office, Whitnum told House that women usually feel compelled to enter politics for reasons that are quite personal to them.
“I liken it to Kristen (sic) Gillibrand who ran after her husband was killed. She ran on a gun control platform,” Whitnum said at the 1:42 mark of the video.
McCarthy, in fact, lost her husband Dennis in the 1993 Long Island Railroad shooting massacre that also severely injured her son.
Whitnum told House that she is running because she wants to see an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Kirsten Gillibrand
Carolyn McCarthy
Are you calling me a Joe Lieberman supporter? Bwahahahahahaha! Shows how involved you are in CT politics!!
I see we have Joe Lieberman supporters here slamming a candidate who would, as Senator, act in the interests of the people of the United States, rather than the government of Israel, as Lieberman does.
More than $3 Trillion in US tax dollars have evaporated in support of Israel. Congress is currently sending $8 million per day to Israel, about $3.2 billion per year (about the cost of a new US elementary school every day for eternity, at the current rate).
http://ifamericansknew.org/stats/stauffer.html
This is money that our corrupted Congress, in many cases led by Lieberman, has devoted to Israel, as Israel refuses to obey international law by implementing racist apartheid policies, including multiple war crimes against its neighbors as it illegally (under Geneva Convention IV, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and scores of UN Resolutions that Israel violates with impunity) expands its colonies onto Arab lands. Not only has support for Israel strained relations with allies abroad, it has generated millions of enemies of the US which we now need to defend against.
The following links will add clarification:
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/mapstellstory.html
http://www.al-nakba-history.com/
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/09/02/the-best-congress-aipac-can-buy/
Lee Whitnum will lead the charge to hold Israel accountable to international law by pushing to withhold these funds unless Israel ceases its belligerence which has cost us so much.
Lieberman will just continue putting Israeli Zionist’s illicit interests above the interests of the people of United States.
My vote is for Lee Whitnum.
David Evans
Former Sergeant, USMC
Member of Veterans For Peace
Israel/Palestine Working Group
Are we really surprised by any of this? On top of her lawsuits against the town of Greenwich, Governor Malloy and the Norwich Bulletin, Ms. Whitnum has been threatening and harassing members of the CT press and their families. There are two harassment complaints on file against her, one with Stamford PD and one with Bloomfield PD. Frankly, I find it astonishing that she was given airtime on a legitimate and respected news show.
She also thought CT AG Blumenthal could prosecute AIG and other Wall Street firms under the Martin Act, which is a New York State law – not a CT law or a federal one that state AGs could use.