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THE PENTAGON gave undisclosed government assignments to several conservative military veterans who used large social media platforms to promote Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s agenda and target critics of the Trump administration, *The Washington Post* reported.

Rob Maness, a retired Air Force colonel, and Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel, had active government email addresses assigned to the office of Anthony Tata, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, according to Pentagon records reviewed by the Post. Their addresses carried a “.civ” suffix identifying them as civilian employees.

Thomas Anderson, another retired Army colonel, appeared in Pentagon records earlier this year with a civilian email address and an assignment to Tata’s office. Anderson, an attorney who writes under the name Cynical Publius, was no longer listed late last week.

The three men command a combined audience of more than 1 million followers on X. Their government status remained absent from public commentary promoting Hegseth’s positions on Pentagon personnel, military education and other policy matters. The department has not said what responsibilities they received, when their assignments began or whether taxpayers funded their work.

Pentagon spokesman Joel Valdez declined to answer the Post’s questions about their duties, compensation and expected length of service. Tata did not respond. Maness and Schlichter did not respond to requests for comment. Anderson declined to comment by phone.

The men served as special government employees or highly qualified experts, according to people familiar with the assignments. Schlichter carried an “HQE” designation in a government database reviewed by the Post.

Federal law limits special government employees to 130 working days during any consecutive 365-day period and permits compensated or uncompensated service. Pentagon employment rules for experts and consultants allow full-time, part-time or intermittent appointments, with compensation decided individually. The financial arrangements involving Maness, Schlichter and Anderson remain unknown.

Their work included a visit to the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in May on behalf of the Pentagon’s Senior Service College Task Force. Hegseth established the task force in March to examine military colleges for ideology he characterized as “toxic” or “woke” and concentrate their curricula on developing warfighters.

Maness, Schlichter and Anderson met with students and faculty members over several days, according to two people familiar with the visit. They asked participants to assess Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Some students questioned how candidly they could respond and whether unfavorable answers could bring consequences. Task force members also raised concerns about a course covering communication between military officers and Congress.

The task force has completed its research and prepared a report that has not been released, according to one person familiar with the visit.

Maness continued publishing commentary on issues within Hegseth’s portfolio. In a July 30 column for the right-wing *Daily Caller, he urged the administration to remove *“disloyal” Pentagon employees and condemned “careerists who treat the Pentagon as their permanent fiefdom.” The author biography identified him as a retired Air Force colonel and omitted a current Pentagon role.

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Rob Maness as a colonel in the Air Force. He retired in 2011. (U.S. Air Force)

Maness later wrote in an Aug. 26 article that “Secretary Hegseth’s outrage is justified” over the Army’s retreat from tougher academic requirements for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps students. His government assignment was not disclosed.

A July letter defending Hegseth’s military-education policies described Maness as a retired officer. A Post spokesperson said Maness had not disclosed a Pentagon connection before publication.

Schlichter continued writing and posting about politics and military affairs without identifying a Pentagon role. Anderson defended Hegseth’s military overhaul and wrote in an April commentary for *The Federalist* that there is “a cancer in America’s military ranks, and it must be expunged before it’s too late.”

Scrutiny of the Pentagon’s influencer relationships intensified after the department and conservative commentator Jennica Pounds disclosed that she had become a special government employee in July. Pounds, known online as DataRepublican, had held a journalist credential in Hegseth’s revamped Pentagon press corps through June after receiving the pass in April.

Former Republican congressman and Air Force veteran Adam Kinzinger said on X that the Pentagon appeared to be using taxpayer money “to hire influencers on X to put out partisan talking points.”

The Pentagon has disclosed some outside appointments. In May, the department publicly named journalist Jerry Dunleavy to a panel reviewing the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Adam Kinzinger lashes out at Kevin McCarthy's 'complete lie' as the GOP leader tries to smear him - Alternet.org

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https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wires-michael-knowles-suggests-neo-nazi-patriot-front-front-federal-law

KNOWLES (HOST): This is Proud Boys met by a group, I think called Patriot Front.It's hard to tell exactly who these people are because they wear masks over their faces. And this is a group -- in recent months, maybe a year, you've seen this group Patriot Front come to the fore and they march and they seem really on the nose. And I think -- I don't -- I've never really heard of this group and I'm pretty in it. You know, it's my job to read about what's going on politically in the United States, and especially on the right.I don't really know anything about these guys. It seems kinda like a, well, it's right there in the name. It seems kinda like a front. You know? We know that federal agents infiltrate these supposedly right-wing grassroots groups. We've seen the memoranda from the FBI. We've seen these guys get caught.

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So we know this kind of stuff happens. And there's a video of the Proud Boys going up to these supposed American neo-Nazis and saying, get the hell out of here. You guys are not part of us. You're obviously Feds. Go away.

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Now, look, I don't know if those guys are Feds. I don't know if those guys are there just to try to make the right look bad or -- I -- I really -- I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, I don't really care. However, there is one good piece of evidence that these guys might have -- I'm not saying that they're actual employees of the federal government, but that they might have some kind of connection, you know, to the federal government. One piece of evidence here that they're Feds is from Adam Kinzinger, former Republican member of Congress, who's a total shill for the liberal establishment. He tweets out, he says, these people -- referring to conservative pundits who were laughing about this video -- these people, all blue checks, are celebrating a seemingly MAGA assault on federal officers. Now, I don't know what this really is, but take a gander at the comments of the patriots who love America. And reading that comment, you say, hold on. Wait. You're admitting that Patriot Front is a bunch of Feds? Did you -- Adam Kinzinger, who is not the swiftest politician out there,that's why he's no longer in Congress. Not necessarily the sharpest tool in the shed. He's -- he's out there, he's saying, this is outrageous. All these conservatives are laughing at an attack on federal agents. You say, no, man, you're supposed to pretend that they're not federal agents.

And, anyway, just a reminder that the --you really shouldn't believe everything you read in the liberal establishment papers. Because the -- the reality of what's going on on the right is not the way that it is portrayed. And I think people are beginning to wake up to this, and you're seeing it reflected in the polls and priorities of the real conservatives.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/adam-kinzinger/

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Discussing bomb threats recently called into his home, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) — one of two Republicans in the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack — told ABC’s “This Week” that “My party has utterly failed the American people at truth.”

“It makes me sad, but it’s a fact,” he added.

Kinzinger’s comment came as “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos asked Kinzinger why,in a recent poll, only 20 percent of Republicans said that former President Donald Trump should be prosecuted for his role in inciting the Capitol riots and trying to overturn the 2020 election. The same poll found that 90 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of American voters felt that Trump should be prosecuted.

“It is leadership, lack of leadership in the Republican Party,” Kinzinger explained. “If you have people that don’t trust what they hear on the media, and they don’t trust what they hear from certain leaders…. Everybody has people they trust and where they get their information, that whole segment of leaders that Republican voters trust… If you’re going to stand up to those people and lie to him and tell him Donald Trump’s right, the election was stolen… We could have no doubt that 80 percent of the country is going to believe what their leaders are saying.”

Kinzinger added that he is not personally worried about the bomb and death threats that were recently mailed to his house. The threats promised violence against his wife and their five-month-old child.

“I’ve never seen or had anything like that,” he said, adding, “It was sent from the local area.”

He also said he expects threats of violence to increase leading into the 2024 presidential election as Trump’s supporters have also gained control of political positions that will enable them to contest or sabotage the next election’s results.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/conservative-national-review-slams-the-rncs-cheney-kinzinger-censure-as-morally-repellent-in-a-blistering-editorial/

ENFORCER: how does he have infl on RNC?

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an RNC committee Thursday evening unanimously passed a resolution to censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. The resolution will be voted on by the full RNC, all 168 Republican National Committee members, Friday.

That resolution – submitted by Trump "dirty trickster" and GOP "shady partisan hit man" David Bossie – makes false claims about President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats,

"The Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress have embarked on a systematic effort to replace liberty with socialism; eliminate border security in favor of lawless open borders; create record inflation designed to steal the American dream from our children and grandchildren;neuter our national defense and a peace through strength foreign policy; replace President Trump's 'Operation Warp Speed' with incompetence and illegal mandates;and destroy America's economy with the Green New Deal."

The resolution also promotes the lie that participants in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol were merely "ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse."

It calls for the RNC to "immediately cease any and all support of them as members of the Republican Party for their behavior which has been destructive to the institution of the House of Representatives, the Republican Party and is inconsistent with the position of the Conference."

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Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is among the few Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives who isn’t afraid to vehemently criticize former President Donald Trump and his MAGA loyalists, and on February 2, the anti-Trump conservative slammed Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri as a “self-aggrandizing con artist” in response to the GOP senator’s comments on President Joe Biden and Ukraine.

Hawley has criticized Biden for ordering 3000 U.S. troops to Europe. Thousands of Russian troops are stationed on the Russia-Ukraine border, and the Biden Administration fears that Russia, under President Vladimir Putin, will invade Ukraine. Hawley also called for the Biden White House to block Ukraine from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

While Hawley is a major Trump apologist, Kinzinger is one of two Republicans on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee on the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The other is Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, another scathing critic of the former president.

On February 2, Kinzinger tweeted, “I hate to be so personal, but Hawley is one of the worst human beings, and a self egrandizing con artist. When Trump goes down I certainly hope this evil will be laid in the open for all to see, and be ashamed of.”...

https://www.alternet.org/2021/02/adam-kinzinger-2650737734/

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) is tired of Fox News host Tucker Carlson's attempts to confuse his views while failing to "accept reality" and make effective changes.

According to Newsweek, Kinzinger took to Twiter to fire back at Carlson for his baseless claims during the recent segment of his show which aired on Tuesday, Feb. 23. "Next step in the whitewash: 'who is this 'Q' of which you speak?' There is no website!' Deny, plead ignorance, misdirect ... is there any question why people are confused? Quit lying, accept reality and use your energy to make us a better country."

Kinzinger also included the hashtags #Country1st and #restoreourgop appearing to acknowledge the intraparty divisions the Republican Party is left battling in the aftermath of Trump's presidency. twt vid]

kinzinger's remarks came as Carlson attempted to downplay the dangers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. "We spent all day trying to locate the famous QAnon, which, in the end, we learned is not even a website. If it's out there, we could not find it," Carlson said during the segment.

He added, "Then, we checked Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter feed because we have heard she traffics in disinformation,CNN told us, but nothing there. Next, we called our many friends in the tight-knit intel community. Could Vladimir Putin be putting this stuff out there? The Proud Boys? Alex Jones?"

Carlson also appeared to suggest that the circulation of QAnon theories was the result of someone perpetuating lies with the intent of causing divisions in the United States.

"Who is lying to America in ways that are certain to make us hate each other and certain to destroy our core institutions?" Carlson asked. "Well, none of the above, actually. It wasn't Marjorie Taylor Greene. It was cable news. It was politicians talking on TV, they're the ones spreading disinformation to Americans. Maybe they are from QAnon."

Carlson also targeted CNN claiming the widely watched news platform is a "disinformation network more powerful than QAnon and far more destructive."

The Fox News host was one of Trump's devout supporters while Kinzinger voted to impeach the former disgraced president for inciting the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.

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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) faced heightened criticism as he attempted to push a false narrative of the U.S. Capitol riots.

Despite photos, footage, and even social media posts from Trump supporters admitting they'd stormed the U.S. Capitol to hinder the Electoral College certification, Johnson claimed "agent provocateurs" and "fake Trump protesters" were responsible for the deadly riots, according to the Washington Post.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle quickly fired back at the Wisconsin lawmaker's baseless claims. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) lambasted his colleague describing his spread of misinformation campaigns as "disgraceful."

"It's disgraceful for a sitting Senator to spread disinformation so blatantly," Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who has been an outspoken critic of Trump and his role in the insurrection, said on Twitter Tuesday evening. "It's a disservice to the people he serves to continue lying to them like this. It's dangerous and it must stop."

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Wednesday night, Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney survived a secret ballot vote in the House GOP caucus, allowing her to keep her position as third highest-ranking member of its leadership. Only 61 Republican members voted to remove her from her leadership role, with 141 voting in favor of her staying in place, a significant blow for the pro-Trump faction of the party that sought to punish her for voting to impeach the former president.

Among the most vocal of Cheney's critics was Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who had recently traveled to Wyoming to campaign against her. He had confidently boasted about having enough votes to oust her from leadership, suggesting the plan would only fail if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy blocked the effort.

"My concern is that though today, we have the votes to remove Liz Cheney, somehow the establishment's going to find a way to kick the question, avoid a vote," he had said....

After the vote, Ilinois Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who also voted in favor of impeaching Trump, mocked Gaetz's comments: "No we voted. You were just wrong by like, a huuuuuge margin."

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gotta be careful on timing? his 2nd offense?

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) on Monday tore into President Donald Trump for hosting a summit at the White House last week in which he was implored to declare martial law in a desperate bid to retain power.

Appearing on CNN, Kinzinger was asked what he thought of disgraced former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn floating a plan to declare the results of the 2020 election void and then deploy the United States military to do a re-do of the vote.

"I think it's nuts," he said. "I think there's a lot of people that don't necessarily understand what martial law is. They know it basically sounds ominous. Martial law is basically the federal military coming in and suspending the authority of state or local governments."

Kinzinger went on to demolish some of the other conspiracy theories being floated by the president's allies.

Watch the video below.

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/texas-secession/

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after the Supreme Court decisively shut down a lawsuit attempting to overturn the 2020 election, Texas GOP Chair Allen West issued a disturbing statement floating the idea of possible secession over the result.

The case was brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, though it was widely panned by legal experts. Some believed that Paxton, currently under investigation by the FBI, was using the lawsuit as a vehicle to win President Donald Trump's favor and obtain a presidential pardon. Despite the lack of merits, the president and his allies rallied behind the lawsuit, with Trump himself calling it "the big one" — apparently trying to distinguish it from the more than 50 additional failed election lawsuits filed on his behalf.

From the start, the lawsuit never had the chance. Paxton tried to exploit a feature of the constitutional system that allows states to sue each other before the Supreme Court. But Paxton's arguments that four key swing states had violated the Constitution in conducting their elections were specious, and there was no reason to take them seriously. The court concluded, unsurprisingly, that Texas didn't even have the standing to bring a challenge to other states on this ground and rejected the argument without it even being officially filed.[2 sorta dissent thomas and ----]

For West, this absolutely predictable and expected result was a galling affront.

“The Supreme Court, in tossing the Texas lawsuit that was joined by seventeen states and 106 US congressman, have decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law," he said in a statement. "Resulting in damaging effects on other states that abide by the law, while the guilty state suffers no consequences. This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable."

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this was mostly just a comical tantrum. But the ending became deeply disturbing, as he explicitly floated the idea of seceding from the United States.

He continued: "This decision will have far reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic. Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution."

This is exactly why many have argued that Trump's disinformation campaign against the election and attempts to overthrow the result are so dangerous. While there was no reason to expect the effort to be successful, it would clearly succeed in convincing millions of Americans, perhaps a majority of Republicans, that the constitutional order was fundamentally broken. That raises the possibility of violence, disorder, and conflict....here is no legitimate way for an American state or group of states to secede from the rest. That's why the American Civil War began. Suggesting secession is essentially threatening war.

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois was sharply critical of the statement:[twt] my man abe said no...

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Trump was interviewed by Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, November 29, he not only doubled down on his claim that he was the victim of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election — he also pointed the finger at the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice. And Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is calling him out for it.

Appearing on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Trump told Bartiromo, "This is total fraud. And how the FBI and Department of Justice — I don't know —maybe they're involved, but how people are getting away with this stuff, it's unbelievable."

In response, Kinzinger tweeted:

The @FBI did not rig the election. If you find yourself believing they did, please stop, and say it out loud, and… https://t.co/jYDEqS2T5e**

— Adam Kinzinger (@Adam Kinzinger)1606685695.0

The 42-year-old Kinzinger, who represents Illinois' 16th Congressional District, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 and was reelected on November 3, defeating Democratic challenger Dani Brzozowski....

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/08/conservative-writer-warns-the-gop-is-increasingly-embracing-the-utter-lunacy-of-qanon/

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Conservative writer warns the GOP is increasingly embracing the ‘utter lunacy’ of QAnon

Written by Alex Henderson August 14, 2020

On Tuesday, August 11, the QAnon conspiracy cult enjoyed a major victory when far-right QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene won a Republican primary in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District and was congratulated by President Donald Trump — who wasn’t the least bit troubled by her pro-QAnon views. And veteran conservative pundit/author Mona Charen, in an article published in The Bulwark on August 13, laments the willingness of prominent Republicans to endorse those who embrace the “utter lunacy” of QAnon.

The QAnon cult believes that Trump was elected president to combat an international pedophile/child sex ring that operates within the U.S. government and that an anonymous figure named “Q” is providing updates on Trump’s battle. Greene, in a 2017 video that has been posted on YouTube, expressed her solidarity with QAnon. And considering how deeply Republican her district is, Greene has a very good chance of defeating the Democratic candidate, tech worker Kevin Van Ausdale, in November and taking a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2021.

Charen explains: “Pizzagate morphed into the QAnon conspiracy in which Q followers wait for signals from their leader that a vast conspiracy of Satanic child abusers, run by the ‘Deep State,’ George Soros, the Supreme Court, and God knows who else is about to be unmasked. Did I mention that they think Beyoncé is only pretending to be black? It’s a hydra-headed thing, this conspiracy, and contains multitudes. But the one common thread is this: the great deliverer will be Donald J. Trump.”

QAnon, Charen writes, is a “paranoid conspiracy (theory that) has gathered momentum at the Republican grassroots.”

Greene is not an anomaly: support for QAnon has been growing in the Republican Party.

“No fewer than 60 current or former congressional candidates have expressed interest in or support for the QAnon conspiracy,” Charen laments. “One of them, Jo Rae Perkins, got the Republican nomination for Senate in Oregon. And now, Marjorie Taylor Greene seems almost certain to be going to Congress.”

Charen notes that although some prominent Republicans condemned Greene — including Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise — Trump and others have embraced her.

“Greene received backing from the House Freedom Fund, an arm of the House Freedom Caucus,” Charen observes. “Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and former Rep. Mark Meadows, now Trump’s chief of staff, also backed Greene.”

To make matters worse, Charen adds, Greene critics like Kinzinger are being slammed by Trump supporters for speaking out against her.

Voters in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, Charen points out, could have chosen her GOP primary rival, Dr. John Cowan — who she describes as a “gun-rights-supporting, anti-abortion Trump loyalist” — to run against Van Ausdale. Instead, they went with someone even further to the right: a QAnon extremist.

“It’s odd that Republicans, who pride themselves on their practical understanding of life — incentives matter, money doesn’t grow on trees, personal responsibility is essential to a well-ordered society — should display such a marked weakness for utter lunacy,” Charen laments. “I don’t offer an explanation, just a warning. This disordered thinking is no longer just a fringe phenomenon.”

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kinzinger

adam Daniel Kinzinger^[1] /:{ˈkɪnzɪŋər:(style="border-bottom:1px dotted"):}:/ (born February 27, 1978)^[2] is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 16th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was first elected to Congress in 2010, winning election to represent Illinois's 11th congressional district. After redistricting, he was re-elected to Congress in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020 to represent Illinois's 16th congressional district, which covers a swath of mostly exurban territory near Chicago, Rockford and Champaign-Urbana.

Early life, education, and early political career

Kinzinger was born in 1978 in Kankakee, the son of Betty Jo, an elementary school teacher, and Rus Kinzinger, a CEO of faith-based organizations.^[3][4] After spending part of his youth in Jacksonville, Florida, he was primarily raised in Bloomington, Illinois. He graduated from Normal Community West High School in 1996^[5] and earned a bachelor's degree from Illinois State University in 2000.^[6]

In 1998, while a student at Illinois State, Kinzinger ran for election as a County Board member in McLean County, Illinois. He won, and was one of the youngest serving county board members in McLean County history,^[7] defeating an incumbent County Board member. Kinzinger remained on the Board until his resignation in 2003.^[8]

Kinzinger worked as an intern for former U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald shortly after his graduation from Illinois State, as part of a program offered there.^[9]

Military service

Kinzinger resigned from the McLean County Board in 2003 to join the United States Air Force. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in November 2003 and later awarded his pilot wings. Kinzinger was initially a KC-135 Stratotanker pilot and flew missions in South America, Guam, Iraq and Afghanistan. He later switched to flying the RC-26 surveillance aircraft and was stationed in Iraq twice.^[10]

Kinzinger has served in the Air Force Special Operations Command, Air Combat Command, Air Mobility Command, and Wisconsin Air National Guard and was progressively promoted to his current rank of Lieutenant Colonel.^[11] As part of his continued service with the Air National Guard, Kinzinger was deployed to the US/Mexico border in February 2019 as part of efforts to maintain border security.^[12]

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2010

Main article: 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 11*

Kinzinger met Republican U.S. Congressmen Mike Pence, Mark Kirk, and Peter Roskam in January 2009 to discuss a possible run for Congress.^[13] Kinzinger decided to run in Illinois' 11th congressional district, held by Democratic U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Halvorson. He started campaigning full-time in May 2009, when he returned home from his 3rd tour in Iraq.He was endorsed by former Alaska GovernorSarah Palin. Kinzinger won the five-candidate Republican primary on February 2, 2010 with 64% of the vote.^[14]

He was endorsed by the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times in the general election. Kinzinger defeated Halvorson 57%–43% on November 2, 2010.^[15]

2012

Main article: 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 16

During his first term, Kinzinger represented a district that stretched from the outer southern suburbs of Chicago to Bloomington/Normal.

After redistricting, Kinzinger's district was eliminated. Much of its eastern portion, including Kinzinger's home in Channahon, near Joliet, was merged with the Rockford-based 16th District, represented by fellow Republican Don Manzullo, a 67-year-old politician first elected in 1992. Kinzinger had represented 31% of the district, while Manzullo had represented at least 44% of the district, prior to redistricting. In the March Republican primary, Kinzinger defeated Manzullo, 56%–44%.^[16] In the general election, Kinzinger defeated Democrat Wanda Rohl, 62%–38%.^[17]

2014

Main article: 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 16

Kinzinger was targeted by the Club for Growth in 2014.^[18] In the Republican primary, he faced David Hale, a nurse and founder of the Rockford Tea Party. Kinzinger won with 78% of the vote.^[19][20]

In the general election, Kinzinger faced Democratic nominee Randall Olsen; he won with 71% of the vote.^[21][22]

2016

Main article: 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 16

Kinzinger won the March 2016 Republican primary with 100% of the vote.^[23] No candidates filed for the Democratic primary for his seat.

Kinzinger announced publicly that he would not support GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on August 3, 2016. "I'm an American before I'm a Republican," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, adding that "I'm a Republican because I believe that Republicanism is the best way to defend the United States of America… [Trump] throws all of these Republican principles on their head." Kinzinger noted, however, that he also would not support Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, and was mulling other options.^[24]

Kinzinger introduced the U.S. House version of the bipartisan bill Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act.^[25] The United States Senate version was written in March 2016 by U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Rob Portman.^[26] After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, worries grew that Russian propaganda spread and organized by the Russian government swayed the outcome of the election, and representatives in the U.S. Congress took action to safeguard the National security of the United States by advancing legislation to monitor incoming propaganda from external threats.^[26][27] On November 30, 2016, legislators approved a measure within the National Defense Authorization Act to ask the U.S. State Department to take action against foreign propaganda through an interagency panel.^[26][27] The legislation authorized funding of $160 million over a two-year-period.^[26] The initiative was developed through the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act.^[26]

2018

Main article: 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 16

Kinzinger defeated Democratic challenger Sara Dady with 59.1 percent of the vote. After the 2018 midterm elections, which saw all of the Republican congressmen representing the Chicago area defeated, he was left as the only Republican representing northern Illinois.

2020

Main article: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois § District 16

Kingzinger defeated Democrat Dani Brzozowski in the 2020 election.

Tenure

Kinzinger speaking at Hudson Institute.

In 2010 Kinzinger signed a pledge sponsored by Americans for Prosperity promising to vote against any global warming legislation that would raise taxes.^[28]

Kinzinger sponsored the Veteran Emergency Medical Technician Support Act of 2013. The legislation, which would make it easier for veterans with emergency medical technician training in the military to get civilian licenses to perform the same job outside of the military, passed the House of Representatives by a voice vote but was not voted upon by the Senate.^[29]

On June 5, 2014, Kinzinger introduced a bill (H.R. 4801; 113th Congress) which would require the United States Secretary of Energy to prepare a report on the effects that thermal insulation has on both energy consumption and systems for providing potable water in federal buildings.^[30][31] Kinzinger argued that "with the federal government being the single largest consumer of energy in the country, doing our best to maximize the potential savings from improved insulation systems is a commonsense step I think everybody can agree on."^[31]

Kinzinger is a member of both the Republican Study Committee and the Republican Main Street Partnership.^[32]

Conservative Review gave Kinzinger's voting record a "Liberty Score" 35%,^[33] while the American Conservative Union (ACU) gave Kinzinger a Lifetime Rating of 59.60 out of 100.^[34] Kinzinger was ranked as the 40th most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 114th United States Congress (and the third most bipartisan member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois) in the Bipartisan Index created by The Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy that ranks members of the United States Congress by their degree of bipartisanship (by measuring the frequency each member's bills attract co-sponsors from the opposite party and each member's co-sponsorship of bills by members of the opposite party).^[35]

Kinzinger voted in favor of the 2017 Republican health care legislation, which would have repealed major parts of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).^[36]

Kinzinger voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.^[37][38]

During the Coronavirus Pandemic, Kinzinger faced criticism from Asian American leaders^[39] for blaming China for the pandemic at a time that anti-AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) hate crimes and Coronavirus-related discrimination are rising.^{[40][41][42][43]} Kinzinger authored and retweeted many tweets singling out China for blame.^{[44][45][46][47][48][49]} One such tweet was "Daily reminder: You are in your homes because #Chinahidthevirus."^[50]

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Congressional Cement Caucus
House Baltic Caucus^[52]
Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus^[53]
United States Congressional International Conservation Caucus^[54]
Climate Solutions Caucus^[55]

Political positions

Domestic issues

Gun law

Kinzinger is in favor of allowing concealed carry of firearms across state lines where concealed carry is legal.^[56]

Health care

Kinzinger supports the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare").^[56]

Economic issues

Kinzinger opposes the Dodd–Frank Act.^[56]

International issues

Iran

On Twitter, Rep. Kinzinger praised Donald Trump's decision to kill Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, Commander of the Quds Force, the second most powerful person in Iran.^[57] Reacting to news of the assassination, Adam Kinzinger Tweeted, "Mess with the bull, get the horns. If true, nice call, @realdonaldtrump."^[58] He continued Tweeting, saying "killed a man responsible for thousands of deaths in #Syria and elsewhere, including Americans. Let's see how long the #blameAmerica left takes to make him a poor victim."^[59]

Immigration

Kinzinger supports penalizing sanctuary cities.^[56]

Social issues

Abortion

Kinzinger opposes late term abortion and the use of federal funds for abortion or health coverage that funds abortion.^[56]

Cannabis

Kinzinger has a "B" rating from NORML for his voting history regarding cannabis-related causes. Kinzinger supports veterans having access to medical marijuana if recommended by their Veterans Health Administration doctor and if it is legal for medicinal purposes in their state of residence.^[60]

LGBTQ rights

Kinzinger voted against the Equality Act.^[61][62]

Donald Trump

Kinzinger has made headlines as a rare Republican office holder willing to criticize President Trump.^[63][64] In December 2020, he tweeted that it was time for Trump to delete his Twitter account.^[65][66] He also criticized the Texas GOP for floating the idea of secession after the Supreme Court rejected a bid to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election which Trump had lost. ^[67]^ ^[68]

Electoral histor

Political action

Club for Growth Action states that it is “dedicated to a single mission: beating big government politicians” of both parties. The group targets mostly Republicans in primaries and Democrats in the general election.^[2]

In February 2013, Club for Growth Action launched a website called “PrimaryMyCongressman.com." Club for Growth president Chris Chocola said the website would "serve as a tool to hold opponents of economic freedom and limited government accountable for their actions.” According to Club for Growth Action, the website will "rotate liberal Republicans through the website to highlight their failed records on limiting government." The first nine targets were Republicans Mike Simpson, Adam Kinzinger, Rick Crawford, Frank Lucas, Steven Palazzo, Martha Roby, Larry Bucshon, Renee Ellmers, and Aaron Schock.^[4][5]

http://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/adam-kinzinger

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Republican lawmaker blows up White House talking point claiming Turkey would have attacked US troops if they stayed in Syria

Tom Boggioni / Raw StoryOctober 13, 2019

Appearing on “Face the Nation” on SundayRep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) hammered Donald Trump’s decision to remove U.S. troops from Syria, saying the U.S. troops stationed at the border with Turkey would have…

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http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/dick-cheney-should-be-jail kinzinger endorse

It's so tempting to call the overwhelming majority of the 17 Republican members of the House Energy and Power Subcommittee dunces, doofuses, know-nothings, nincompoops, ignoramuses or cuckoo birds when it comes to climate change. If you watched even a brief part of Wednesday's hearing on the subject with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy testifying, you can see that this GOP crew most certainly qualifies for any and all those descriptors.

Indeed, 14 of them are outright climate change deniers. Total scientific illiterates. Or at least pretending to be by carrying water for the fossil fuel companies that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over two decades injecting disinformation into public discourse about climate change and smearing scientists whose research showed that it is happening and that it ishuman-caused. That was why several members of the audience donned tinfoil hats to mock those committee members when they asked questions. The 14:

Chairman: Ed Whitfield (Kentucky); Vice Chairman: Steve Scalise (Louisiana); Ralph Hall(Texas); Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (Texas); Pete Olson (Texas); Joe Barton (Texas); John Shimkus (Illinois); Lee Terry (Nebraska); Bill Cassidy (Louisiana); David McKinley (West Virginia); Cory Gardner (Colorado); Mike Pompeo (Kansas); (Virginia); andFred Upton (Michigan).

Three other Republican members on the subcommittee, Joseph R. Pitts of Pennsylvania, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Bob Latta of Ohio have not directly denied that human-made climate change is happening. But on related issues they vote just like the outright deniers.

These aren't the only deniers on the subcommittee. There's also John Barrow of Georgia, one of the few remaining Blue Dog Democrats in Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kinzinger

lots of PAc $

Leadership PACs	$147,248	$500	$146,748
Retired	$91,150	$91,150	$0
Building Materials & Equipment	$64,275	$53,275	$11,000
Securities & Investment	$62,437	$58,937	$3,500
Insurance	$46,500	$25,000	$21,500

LA Times; Koch on energy comms:

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/06/nation/la-na-koch-brothers-20110206

Koch brothers now at heart of GOP power

The billionaire brothers' influence is most visible in the makeup of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where members have vowed to undo restrictions on greenhouse gases.

February 06, 2011|By Tom Hamburger, Kathleen Hennessey and Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times

The billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch no longer sit outside Washington's political establishment, isolated by their uncompromising conservatism. Instead, they are now at the center of Republican power, a change most evident in the new makeup of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Wichita-based Koch Industries and its employees formed the largest single oil and gas donor to members of the panel, ahead of giants like Exxon Mobil, contributing $279,500 to 22 of the committee's 31 Republicans, and $32,000 to five Democrats.

Leadership PACs	$243,748
Securities & Investment	$153,737
Retired	$136,924
Insurance	$132,500
Health Professionals	$127,277
Building Materials & Equipment	$104,025
General Contractors	$99,100
Electric Utilities	$96,082
Real Estate	$87,950
Oil & Gas	$87,837
Lawyers/Law Firms	$74,721
Republican/Conservative	$74,450
TV/Movies/Music	$71,350
Lobbyists	$66,949
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products	$66,350
Crop Production & Basic Processing	$65,799
Misc Manufacturing & Distributing	$64,850
Automotive	$59,950
Chemical & Related Manufacturing	$59,700
Agricultural Services/Products	$58,699

Sector Totals

Sector	Total	PACs	Indivs
Agribusiness	$163,248	$89,049	$74,199
Communications/Electronics	$191,500	$143,350	$48,150
Construction	$256,935	$50,000	$206,935
Defense	$30,250	$30,000	$250
Energy & Natural Resources	$249,619	$170,125	$79,494
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate	$515,387	$182,050	$333,337
Health	$245,927	$163,500	$82,427
Lawyers & Lobbyists	$141,670	$8,500	$133,170
Transportation	$115,050	$62,000	$53,050
Misc Business	$322,327	$146,250	$176,077
Labor	$44,000	$40,000	$4,000
Ideological/Single-Issue	$424,648	$352,298	$72,350
Other	$195,774	$0	$195,774

Ozinga Brothers	$59,950	$59,950	$0
Exelon Corp	$43,082	$24,582	$18,500
Horton Group	$24,950	$24,950	$0
Duchossois Group	$24,600	$14,600	$10,000
Caterpillar Inc	$23,050	$3,050	$20,000
State of Illinois	$22,450	$22,450	$0
Every Republican is Crucial PAC	$20,000	$0	$20,000
GOP Generation Y Fund	$20,000	$0	$20,000
Fona International	$19,600	$19,600	$0
Greenback Holdings	$19,600	$19,600	$0
Blue Cross/Blue Shield	$18,000	$0	$18,000
Stark Construction	$17,350	$17,350	$0
Oak Lawn Toyota	$17,100	$17,100	$0
Comcast Corp	$17,000	$4,500	$12,500
AT&T Inc	$16,000	$0	$16,000
Deere & Co	$16,000	$0	$16,000
Home Depot	$16,000	$0	$16,000
Harris Assoc	$15,300	$15,300	$0
American College of Radiology	$15,000	$0	$15,000
Exxon Mobil	$15,000	$0	$15,000
Freedom Project	$15,000	$0	$15,000
Koch Industries	$15,000	$0	$15,000

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Republican lawmaker blows up White House talking point claiming Turkey would have attacked US troops if they stayed in Syria

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