Vote for Lee! She needs a job!

Lee Whitnum's 2008 Personal Financial Disclosure, filed with the House of Representatives, reveals that she is essentially unemployed.

A quick break-down of her 2007 earned income, in its totality (less than $4,200 in all):

• $2,414 Board of Ed-- (substitute teaching)
• $ 285 Great Stuff
• $ 815 Home Depot
• $ 665 First Choice Staffing

Granted another blogger points out Ms. Whitnum brought in somewhere between $10-15,000 in unearned income. But I'm curious as to how she manages to afford Greenwich on seemingly less than $20,000/year? Is Lee hypocritically living off of inherited family wealth, at the same time she labels Jim Himes, "out of touch".

The blogging community should place bets as to when the Greenwich Time, the Stamford Advocate, the Norwalk Hour, and the Connecticut Post will share with their readers and soon to be voters the following pertinent information about Ms. Whitnum:

• 1) She’s essentially unemployed.
• 2) The FEC has put her on notice for Failure to File her campaign finance reports. UPDATED: on Monday 7/28 Lee Whitnum filed her delinquent report, showing that she paid over $5000 to "volunteers" to help gather the 2500 signatures needed to make the ballot and force a primary.
• 3) She spent "a couple of thousand dollars" paying canvassers to help her collect signatures, (which explains #2, she’s hiding that ugly truth.)
• 4) In reality LeeWhitnum2008 is a one-woman show, plus a website.
• 5) Cycle-to-date she’s raised all of $200!

How can the 4th's print media continue to report as if Ms. Whitnam has genuine support and legitimacy?

Well, as we head into the final two weeks before the August 12th primary, we must hope that the district's journalists will come to their senses and let their readers know the truth. Whitnum isn't ready to be dog-catcher, let alone handle the job of Congresswoman.

If the papers don't snap to, we may need to do a call-in campaign, directly to the editors. I mean imagine if Jim Himes or Chris Shays were cited by the FEC for failing to file their finance reports. Or if it turned out Himes resume was sheer puffery! The dailies would be all over them. I think...