Bill Kintner
Bill Kintner | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Nebraska Legislature from the 2nd district | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Lambert |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 22, 1960 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
Bill Kintner (born November 22, 1960 in Cincinnati, Ohio)[1] is an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. He represents the 2nd District in the unicameral Nebraska Legislature.[2] Kintner is a member of the Republican Party.[3]
Early life
Kintner "was born and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio." His adoptive parents raised him in a conservative, Republican, frugal, "common sense" household, along with his younger sister, who is also adopted. In an interview with the Lincoln Journal Star, Kintner said he's not interested in knowing about his birth parents; he considers his adoption to be a "blessing".[2]
He graduated from Colerain High School in 1979.[1]
He attended Wright State University, playing college baseball until an injury ended his amateur career.[2] He also was a writer for the college newspaper and was a member of the college's marketing club and the College Republicans. He said that his election to be president of the student government "paid for my fifth year of college."[2] He graduated from Wright State University with a "B.S.B. in marketing and financial services".[1]
He started as a volunteer for the presidential campaign of Ronald W. Reagan and worked for a year for the Louisiana Republican Party in Baton Rouge, before moving back to Ohio and, after he married, to Nebraska. He worked several years as a sports writer and salesperson.[2] He is currently occupied in the marketing research field.[1]
Nebraska Legislature
Kintner was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in 2012, and serves on the Appropriations committee.[1]
He represents all of Cass County and parts of Sarpy County, as well as half of Nebraska City.[4]
Kintner describes himself as a "Reagan conservative" and not a "Christian conservative".[5] Kintner has said that "moral absolutes of Christianity" informs his views including on abortion.[3] In the Lincoln Journal Star he is quoted as saying "My parents taught me the moral absolutes of Christianity, and I just applied those to everything. They didn't tell me I had to be pro-life. They gave me the belief system that I used."[2]
In July 2016, it was revealed that the Nebraska State Patrol was investigating allegations that Kintner had kept sexually explicit videos of himself on his state computer, possibly contravening a state law forbidding the use of state computers for non-essential personal activity. Governor Pete Ricketts stated that if the allegations were true, then Kintner should resign his seat in the legislature.[6][7]
Personal
Kintner is married to the former Lauren Hill,[1] who is director of policy research for Governor Dave Heineman and a former assistant attorney general under Don Stenberg.[2] They met in the 1990s at a Young Republican convention, when he was state chair of Ohio and she was state chair of Nebraska. They started dating in 2000,[2] and married on October 3, 2009.[1] He described his marriage as "a separation of powers. The legislative is downstairs and the executive is upstairs."[2] In a Journal Star newspaper interview he said, "Biggest mystery? Women. No one understands them. They don't even understand themselves. Books and books and books have been written about it, and no one understands it."[2]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Sen. Bill Kintner, District 02, Biography". Nebraska Legislature. n.d. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Young, JoAnne (May 28, 2013). "Sen. Bill Kintner: In his own words". Lincoln Journal Star. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
- ^ a b McDonough, Katie (May 28, 2013). "Anti-choice lawmaker: No one understands women, women "don't even understand themselves"". Salon.com. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
- ^ "Legislative District 2 LB 703 – (2011)" (PDF). Nebraska Legislature. May 18, 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
- ^ Winter, Deena. "Minister calls on Nebraska lawmaker to apologize, give contribution to charity" Nebraska Watchdog. June 27, 2013 http://watchdog.org/92813/minister-calls-on-kintner-to-apologize-give-contribution-to-charity/ Retrieved July 2
- ^ Nohr, Emily, and Martha Stoddard (July 29, 2016). "Ricketts calls on Kintner to resign if allegations about sexually explicit video on state computer are true". Omaha World-Herald. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
- ^ Pluhacek, Zach, and JoAnne Young (July 29, 2016). "Ricketts calls for resignation amid allegations Sen. Kintner had explicit video on state computer". Lincoln Journal Star. Retrieved July 29, 2016.
- "District 2: Sen. Bill Kintner". Nebraska Unicameral Legislature. Retrieved May 30, 2013.