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ILGP General Candidate Questionnaire ILGP Federal Candidate Questionnaire Please return this questionnaire to [email protected] or [email protected]__________. Please also provide, at your nearest opportunity, a professional quality, high resolution “head shot” digital photo of yourself and a link to your campaign website. (I will provide a picture and build a campaign website shortly) Name: _Ellen Corley______________________________________________________________ Complete Address: _1500 N LaSalle, 3D, Chicago, IL 60610_______________________________ Phone(s) and Email: cell 312-371-5078 landline 312-664-2631 [email protected]__________ Office you wish to seek: _Congressional Representative 5th District Illinois____________________ Are you a member of the ILGP? x Yes No Do you support each of the Ten Key Values—Ecological Wisdom, Social Justice, Grassroots Democracy, Nonviolence, Decentralization, Community-Based Economics, Feminism, Respect for Diversity, Personal and Global Responsibility, and Future Focus? x Yes No If you answered “No” please elaborate. Do you meet all of the legal qualifications for this office? x Yes No What primary ballot (if any) did you pull in the last general primary? _Democratic_____________ Why do you wish to hold this office? • I have come to understand that both parties have been captured by reactionary Deep State transnational security state complex in the Peter Dale Scott sense of the word meaning they have essentially vetted only “captured” political operatives who they control with “controlled opposition” crises which they react to by suspending our rights for their invisible empire. I have been researching this since my family of origin’s $22 million estate was taken over by a sweetheart scam orchestrated by New York Republican operative Betsy McCaughey who conned my senile stepfather into backing her run for office on neoliberal Ayn Rand issues, which I learned in hindsight and research was an orchestrated pattern employed by the corrupt Giuliani/ Trump wing of the New York Republican Party and the Wall Street/ Mafia/ Big bank/ NGO/ Manhattan Institute/ Media captured and controlled FBI and District Attorney’s office. • The bottom line is the reason I want to run for public office is that I want to be in the strongest position I can be in order to effectively challenge what honest investigative researchers and journalists like Peter Dale Scott have exposed is a hidden/ covered-up/ “classified”, covert, state-sponsored, counter-intelligence “coup d’etat” they have captured through their neoliberal, neoconservative, neoFederalist, neoFascist, neoFeudalist, anti- progressive, extremist Constitutional “reforms” that I see has resulted in our country becoming a neoFascist, plutocratic empire rather than a representative democracy that most of us think we are living under. • My goal is to put myself in the best position I can be in to effectively restore representative honest government regulations against privatization of our public estate and our planet before it is too late and global temperatures have warmed the planet up 1.5 degrees beyond which catastrophic global warming cannot be reversed. • Ultimately, my goal is to do everything I can to stop the New World Order from staying in power in both major parties. 1 • In order to cure our democracy and economy from the cancer of this culture of corruption, my primary focus if elected would be to organize Congress to work with the media to mobilize every citizen and all branches of government to be honest about how corrupt politics must be prohibited by effective regulatory oversight and accountability to the law and ethics policies. • Ultimately, my primary goal is to stop this fifth column of corrupt incumbent politicians from the mainstream parties like Trump and Biden and Quiqley from continuing to get away with avoiding the telling of the truth - which is that the US government security complex is the greatest threat to peace on earth and the survival of the planet itself. • My goal is to speak truth to power in a way that will be heard across the planet and all united nations which is that the US, the UK, Israel, Germany and NATO “deep state” intelligence agencies are and have been the true criminal orchestrators of the false flag “shocks” of the current pandemic, the financial 2008 crisis, 9/11, the forever wars on the Third World in violation of Geneva Convention and Nuremberg Laws prohibiting war on peace and crimes against humanity and UN treaties prohibitions ecocide, torture, genocide, wars of aggression. • The bottom line is that my goal is to counter current incumbent candidates like Quiqley from being yet another captured Manchurian Candidate that is allowing the Deep State puppet masters who really rule the world from using the “elected” politicians to bring about their evil ends. • My goal is to stop the Deep State from getting away with turning our world into the Fourth Reich brought about through their invisible empire built on Big Lies covering up the reality of their spending our hard earned treasury and labor on their geo-political neoFascist militarized police state “forever war”. Why do you feel you are qualified to run? • To be honest, I feel this is a “sword in the stone” kind of moment for me in terms of it being my time to take on the current establishment. I feel like it is almost as if everything in my life has led up to this moment both objectively and subjectively. • Objectively, this unique opportunity to be on the ballot as the Green Party candidate 5th District Congressional Representative against incumbent Democratic Congressman Mike Quiqley without having to mobilize a team to stand in the streets to get the thousands of signatures seems to be a miracle in itself in that I tried to run for Mayor and then narrowed my candidacy to seeking to be 27th Ward Alderman in the 2016 and yet I still didn’t get enough signatures to get on the ballot, but ran for Alderman anyhow, mainly because I believe that running against a corrupt entrenched candidates gave me the focus I needed to at least let them know there is a smart, progressive, honest, white lady from a privileged and prominent Southern and New York family background who is standing up for the estimated 30 thousand wrongfully convicted innocent men and women of color who are languishing in corrupt criminal justice system in Chicago where I have lived for the last 25 years. • I also officially submitted my application for Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department in January of this year because I wanted to be able to stand up and tell the men and women of the Police Board that I know and they should know that their process of selecting a new Chief of Police is not transparent or fair and is in fact an opportunity for them to put into power yet another Richard Daley/ Rahm Emanuel/ Lori Lightfoot Machine Puppet who they can count on to enforce the code of silence they need to continue their state-sponsored racist political crimes against the people of Chicago for the last hundreds of years • Specifically, my goal is to bring the light of transparency needed to officially expose the cover-up of the media and the government’s and the court’s and the police department’s failure to fairly investigate and stop their pattern and practice of wrongfully convicting their political opposition. They are basically using the power of the state to shore up their own 2 financial empire which, as a result, has become a Kleptocracy/ Mafia State like the Russian Ukrainian Mafia that is pulling our government’s strings. • The fact of the matter that is being covered up in our media-imposed revisionist history is that police departments and prosecutors offices and judges are being trained by the Israeli Defense Forces to treat minorities like they are the enemy or the “other” like the Zionists treat the Palestinians and the Nazi Fascist power elites treated the whistle-blowing communists that tried to expose them in the 20’s and 30’s up until today. • Subjectively, I am basically a “Progressive” in the model of Socrates, Rousseau, John Dewey, Jane Addams, Dorothy Day, Alice Paul, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Ghandhi, Tolstoy, Paul Wellstone, and those Green Party candidates I know of Ralph Nader, Chris Hedges (Nader’s speechwriter who I went to undergraduate college with at Colgate), Cynthia McKinney, Jill Stein and Howie Hawkins – who I got to know a little bit when they were lobbying for Green Party at the International Socialist Organization conference which I have attended for the last six years. • I have two Masters degrees - a Masters in Education (MED) from Georgia State University and an MBA in Marketing and E-Commerce from University of Illinois Chicago – where my primary focus has always been on pursuing an understanding of the truth about modern times and how to address our problems through a dialectic historical process of teaching and learning and integration of knowledge through honest, open public discourse guided by philosophy of science, social justice, sociology, historiography, and communications research, understanding of the healthy and destruction power of unregulated mass media in modern cultural history. • I just turned 65 on May 7 of this year. 2020, and now being lucky enough to have inherited enough money that I don’t have to work, I have spent the last five to ten years focusing my investigative research on trying to understand what is driving our social, economic and political problems and have come to the conclusion that our problem is that radical monetarist reactionary power elite puppet masters are literally and deliberately using our media, social media and government institutions to cover up evidence that they are allowing foreign criminal actors to steal our elections, privatize our public estate and cover-up the evidence of their own anti-humanitarian, unconstitutional treason, tyranny, and otherwise impeachable abuses of power.
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