Leonard Hull Jr.

Affiliations

• Citizens Organized to Restore Rights (CORR)

Background

Leonard (“Lenny”) Hull Jr. is a candidate in the April 12, 2025 Dighton town elections for a three-year term on the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School Committee. He was previously the Chairman of the Dighton, MA Board of Selectmen (Dighton, Massachusetts, n.d.) from 2021 to 2024. He also previously served as a member of the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School Committee for 16 years and worked as a social studies teacher in the Taunton Public Schools for 30 years. Hull is associated with Citizens Organized to Restore Rights (CORR), a New England Christofascist/Christian nationalist formation committed to organizing various unaffiliated groups to support extremist candidates for local seats of government.

In September 2022, the Taunton Daily Gazette published an article about Hull’s ties to CORR. In the article Hull denies being an official member (Schemer, 2022). Yet at a CORR meeting in February 2022, CORR founder David Steinhof said, “Lenny’s been with us from the beginning. We watched him rise [and] win office after a lot of hard work… And we want our CORR members to keep working even harder to help somebody like Lenny…” (CORR, 2022, February 21). At a CORR meeting just ten days prior to the publication of the article, Hull said, “I will not hide from my affiliation with CORR.” (CORR, 2022, September 12).

At a CORR meeting in March 2022, Hull decried “CRT, and what those liberal Democrats will do to your educational systems, if you allow it to happen” (CORR, 2022, March 7). In other words, he opposes schools teaching students about race and racism.

In Their Own Words

“[I’m gonna] talk about the state of the Republican Party in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Fall River, Dighton, over an issue with…the library that involved me. Taunton right now, big time infighting between Republican Parties that is dividing the party. This is not a coincidence. We should have learned a big lesson, what happened to Tommy Hodgson in the last election, when guys like Soros and Bloomberg get involved in local elections. If the party does not come together…guess who wins in the end? The Democratic Party. And guess what comes with it? The Democratic agenda. Maybe people will be OK with ‘genderfication’ at the elementary level. Maybe people will be OK with critical race theory being taught in their schools.” 6/19/23 CORR meeting

“Tomorrow is a watershed moment, not only for Donald Trump…but for the Republican Party…a party that is split…as MAGA Republicans and RINOs. If we continue this division the Democrats will win. …you’ve heard me mention about antifa over and over again. Who is funding antifa? George Soros. George Soros isn’t concerned about this country, George Soros is concerned about himself and part of a new world order.” 4/3/23 CORR meeting

“You know Pastor Mike, you are right that there’s a grand scheme behind this. Unfortunately there [are] a lot of people in this country that do not understand that we have become puppets to the Communist Party of China. When you take a look of the globalists’ major influence it’s the Communist Party of China. When you take a look at the pandemic, who was behind the pandemic? The People’s Republic of China. The Communist Party. [T]hey’re atheist…they understand that once religion falls the nation and its moral fiber begins to fall…[W]hy would somebody like George Soros spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat Sheriff Hodgson*? Why? Because there is an agenda. An agenda that is pushing CRT, that is pushing a breakdown of the church, that is pushing unbelievable, almost abusive stuff on little children, whether it be ‘genderfication’ or CRT. This is all part of a plan.” 7/24/23 CORR meeting

*Sheriff Hodgson is the former sheriff of Bristol County that housed 13% of Massachusetts inmates but had 25% of prison suicides. His tenure as sheriff was marred by a series of inmate abuses.

“We have the issue of the illegals, we have the issue of the sanctity of life, we have the issue of millions of illegals entering this country every year… the Democrats are now offering them free license, free health care free housing. All we want in return is for you to vote Democrat. We have to save this nation.” 8/22/22 CORR meeting

“I heard something…from a parent…she pulled her kindergarten child out of the Taunton Public Schools for something that happened in the classroom. Her kindergarten child came home and said, ‘Mommy, I thought you said I was a boy.’ She said, ‘you are. What are you talking about, where did that come from?’ ‘My teacher told me I am too young to know whether I am a boy or a girl.’ That boy will never be in the Taunton schools again. That is what we are fighting for this November. This is about preserving the values that we have all grown up with: God, family, country.” 8/22/22 CORR meeting

“Look what’s going on in our libraries. Look what is going on in our schools. We’re having a problem in Dighton right now over the open display of ‘genderfication’ books for young children…I’m sure some of you witnessed the protests in Fall River over the drag queen situation. Parents: they’re your children. Protect them, stand up for them.” 2/6/23 CORR meeting

“I attended the Taunton Republican Town Committee meeting this evening, and the main speaker was Aidan, a.k.a. Turtleboy*. And I listened to him talk about how the left has tried to drive him out of the media. How GoFundMe has banned him. How Twitter has banned him. How he’s had to change his Facebook page multiple times because they’re trying to put him out of business because he is a threat. I come before you this evening as a marked man. And as you’re about to hear, there are many people who are members of CORR who have been called out… Why, you ask? Because we belong to CORR. I will not hide from my affiliation with CORR.” 9/12/22 CORR meeting

*Aidan Kearney, who Hull defends in this quote, is behind Turtleboy Daily News, a notorious Far Right doxxing blog that drives its followers to harass people online and in person.

“[George] Washington once said that the reason why God is so important to this country is the very fact that without God the family would begin to crumble. And once the family begins to crumble, the nation will begin to crumble. His words are very prophetic. The issue of abortion could explode this summer. It has already been a threat to the nation. God, Family, Country. Those are the values of the GOP. They’re just words. We have to live the values and principles that many of you believe in, the Christian values. That is [a] very important part of what America was, and still must continue [to be] if we are going to continue to be the beacon on the hill that our early ancestors, our early, first governor John Winthrop said about Massachusetts and this nation. It is America first, but the rest of the world looks upon us, and we are the strength of the world, and we get that strength through the Lord.” 5/16/22

Sources

CORR – Citizens Organized to Restore Rights. (2022, September 12). CORR Mtg 9-12-22 Movie.  [Video].

CORR – Citizens Organized to Restore Rights. (2022, March 7). Mtg 3-7-22 Movie. [Video].

CORR – Citizens Organized to Restore Rights. (2022, February 21). Mtg 2-21-22. [Video].

CORR – Citizens Organized to Restore Rights. (2023, April 3). Mtg 4-3-23. [Video].

CORR – Citizens Organized to Restore Rights. (2023, June 23). Mtg 6-19-23. [Video].

CORR – Citizens Organized to Restore Rights. (2023, July 24). Mtg 7-24-23. [Video].

DeCicco, M. (2021, March 17). Meet the candidates vying to be Dighton’s next selectman. Taunton Daily Gazette.

Dighton, Massachusetts. (n.d.). Leonard E. Hull, Jr. Retrieved October 31, 2022.

Schemer, D. (2022, September 21). Taunton-area officials with ties to ‘alt-lite’ group say they are not members. Taunton Daily Gazette.